Darrell
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@darrellprograms
Recovering pointless argument vegetable.
Iran fired a pair of intermediate-range ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia, a joint U.S.-UK base in the Indian Ocean. One missile failed in flight, and another was engaged by a US Navy destroyer using an SM-3 missile.
I’ll say it a million times if i have to but nobody who believes this has experienced real winter
@Ted__ted_ If someone gave me $200 billion I'd buy a mercenary army and start invading African countries for fun
f Money is Infinite, Why Do We Still Have Poverty? | Prof. Jiang Xueqin If money is infinite, why does poverty still exist.
“If your $500K engineer isn’t burning at least $250K in tokens, something is wrong.”
@GMShivers There is absolutely no way strapping down your body every day is healthy. This is just a less extreme form of footbinding
Oil is the real root cause of all the geopolitical trouble. Time to go 💯 Electric.
Ubiquitous price discrimination is going to be extremely annoying, especially for relatively affluent people who are also lazy and inattentive (ie me personally) Possibly good for the poor, who will be internalizing their own thriftiness more. slowboring.com/p/the-racial-j…
It's only nuts if you have zero understanding of anatomy or how animals evolve. You mentioned working out earlier, so you might be aware that working out weak muscles makes them stronger. Repeated stressing of bodily tissue generally makes the tissue stronger, so long as it is done gradually
A hugely underrated aspect of the Dune universe's appeal is how Frank Herbert built a world where people zip around the galaxy in spaceships but then fight each other with swords and knives. It makes everything 50 percent cooler than a world of ray guns and robots.
FUN FACT—helium cools the superconducting magnets in more than 14,000 MRI machines used in hospitals worldwide. We lost the largest helium extraction plant in the world in Qatar. US reserves running low. Helium cannot be produced de novo. Any helium escape is permanent.
I desperately need to learn more math. Recently I invented "lerp" from first principles. Would have saved some time if I knew its industry-standard name :/
FYI, this is what 20 years worth of safely stored nuclear waste looks like. You can fit it in a third of an average convenience store parking lot.
This is not good: People have learned that GLP-1s are really effective, so if they're not losing weight, they know they're in the placebo group. So these people getting placebos are getting mad and leaving the trials.
