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You might have cold-induced asthma?

We have arms control and embargoes to prevent Iran from gaining fissile material but we don't give a fuck when nations that have proven themselves capable of regulating their biome…

Is there a way to like emit energy in a narrow beam from a bunch of different angles around a central target such that they only overlap in the center/target and the frequencies re…

Really confused to see your comment flagged. The parent comment basically says "copyright is not a physical good or law, therefore we may disregard it". As if the same couldn't be …

Website isn't loading, we are all probably driving up her views way beyond normal. Hope she doesn't have traffic-based pricing.

why series-type? (from a bit of research, seems these are also called EREV (extended-range electric vehicles, in the context of autos) simpler engine since you can have an electric…

gasoline has a shelf life of 3 to 6 months. and diesel 12 months in low temps. might want a battery EV with ability to plug deployable solar module amd/or hydropower module and/or …

This is where a hybrid powertrain / PHEV is superior to EV. In an ideal system you want redundancies, especially redundancies that cover for each other's weaknesses.

Community colleges are great for knocking out general requirements that are pretty standard across most degrees for cheaper than a full blown university (and then transferring to a…

I'm aware, and I think that climbing it should be banned.

The parent asked why they cared, I'm not making an argument I'm answering the question. My answer is that it's distasteful to them and their belief system / worldview. I happen to …

The answer is you're going to a shit university (or at least a shit program at your university, maybe they are great at Journalism or something).

It's a matter of taste and an offense to nature. Would you like it if a cryopreserved embalmed 10 foot tall pile of human feces was permanently enshrined atop Everest or on a buoy …

What industry?

You need a Plastic Emissions Index for measuring which products are responsible for the broad environmental pollution upstream, with textiles, tires, packing, and other contributor…

I for one welcome the coming libido wirehead mods: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirehead_(science_fiction)

Sounds like you should be spending your Sundays on trying to make it so that some future Sundays aren't so bad.

See also: https://mynoise.net/

So much of the problem of extermination is due to SEO and misinformation, agree or disagree? If a poorly educated, stressed mom working two jobs googles "cockroaches in kitchen", w…

also known in industry as Account Takover

And I'm sure somewhere else, there's a person in their 60s in the US who'd push a button that made all life on earth that uses sexual reproduction infertile and unable to continue …

Because living in a world where every bad behavior is prevented through enforcement mechanisms and bureaucratic procedure sucks ass, compared to a world where people generally spea…

"Investors want rent-paying tenants" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking

We absolutely could live like the 1920s/50s but with a bit more high-tech and better healthcare sprinkled in. But our entire financial system (including having the ability to retir…

I think you could perhaps say that Japanese are extremely highly sensitive to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switching_barriers in indusrial and administrative processes relative to…