Michael Hios

@JamesonCamp This is the equivalent of the asshole in the middle seat on a flight who reaches over the person in the window seat to raise the shade.

$5,000 an hour. for sunlight. from space. a startup putting 50,000 mirrors in orbit to sell sunlight anywhere on earth I thought this was the dumbest idea Ive ever heard then it clicked - firefighting aircraft get GROUNDED every night at sunset. pilots cant see terrain. fires burn unchecked for 10 hours straight. and heres whats wild - water drops are 60% more effective at night. cooler temps. less wind. but nobody can fly. light up the fire line from orbit. let them work. the US spends $3-5B a year fighting wildfires. this is a rounding error. - a single late frost in Napa or Florida citrus can wipe out an entire season. $854M in frost losses last year alone. but the crazy part - the real buyer isnt even the farmer. its the crop insurance company trying to avoid a $500M payout by spending $50k on a few hours of orbital sunlight - fog costs London Heathrow over $100M a year in delays. fog burns off when sunlight hits the ground. you speed that up by 30 minutes and the value per hour is $500K-$1M. $5k/hour is pocket change - military forward operating base at night? forget night vision goggles. just light up the whole compound from space and go get it - 4 million people above the Arctic Circle live in MONTHS of total darkness. depression. productivity drops. everything slows down. you could give entire communities twilight during polar night - 150,000 babies die or get brain damage every year in developing countries from jaundice because the cure is literally just light and they dont have electricity for it. beam it down from orbit. no power grid needed. I went down this rabbit hole for an hour and every use case is more insane than the last 260,000 people from 157 countries on the waitlist. each dropping $1,000-5,000. Sequoia backed them - first space investment since SpaceX. the Air Force already signed a contract. mirrors weigh 35 lbs and theyre the size of a basketball court. 4-10x brighter than a full moon. built by a 28 year old ex-SpaceX engineer. this went from "dumbest thing Ive ever seen" to holy shit in about 10 minutes...

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@4thOfJuly365 And you can guarantee that a good 30% of commenters are asshole dads too. All these clowns who don’t understand a force play.

I guarantee that kid's dad is an asshole.

@northwestblazer @mattvanswol So the kids can safely cross the road to get home? You think the bus stops at every home on both sides of the street? Did you really need to ask this?

@mattvanswol why would cars on other side of road need to stop?

I don't know about you, but I've been seeing just a general disregard for kids in society. >Not stopping for school busses >Refusing to let families with kids into restaurants >Getting angry when kids are just being kids in public When did this start happening?

@RheinAmacher @mattvanswol The shift occurred when a generation of disrespectful, spoiled and undisciplined humans were unleashed upon a public comprised of folks who were disciplined and respectful when they were children.

To be honest, I am not exactly sure when this shift happened, but there’s been a noticeable shift toward zero tolerance for normal childhood energy in public spaces. Kids aren’t perfectly quiet mini-adults — they’re kids. A little noise, movement, and occasional chaos is part of raising the next generation. We’ve gone from “𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘢 𝘷𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘨𝘦” to “𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘷𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘺 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦.” Time to push back and normalize patience and grace again. 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘥𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘧𝘭𝘪𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘤𝘩?

@Jnjokovic @mattvanswol This isn’t a public school. It’s a road that half the kids have to cross, where there are real physical dangers, like speeding vehicles. Retarded take, man.

@mattvanswol School buses can go fuck themselves. Making cars stop for kids getting out on the other side and never going in the street to begin with? Fuck. You. Kids are fine. Arbitrary governmental rules for public schools?? Fuck you.

@CKline4377 @Acommunaltable @mattvanswol We were disciplined harshly for the things we did wrong as kids in the 80’s. Today, a parent will fight you if you call out his kid for a transgression. Too many kids today suck because their parents do too.

@Acommunaltable @mattvanswol Children where everywhere in the 80s! People just hate kids now. Plain and simple! It’s really bad cause everyone used to be a kid!

@illphated336 @mattvanswol To be fair, you’re ignorant. The number of lanes is irrelevant. The only mitigating factor is a physical divider between the opposing lanes. A painted stripe on the road isn’t a divider. It’s not “whatever the cop feels like.”

@mattvanswol To be fair if it’s a double line and four lanes do you have to stop on the other side? What if it’s an 8 Lane Highway like in Houston or 16 lanes supposed to stop for one bus I don’t even know what the law is here myself…. I guess it’s just whatever the cop feels like.

@coachlou35 @KevinKileyCA Things that a Groomer might say…

@KevinKileyCA So minors shouldn't be allowed to become emancipated either? Parents shouldn't have the right to TRY to control their children's gender identity.

I warned Newsom that requiring schools to keep secrets from parents about the name and gender used by their child was a clear violation of federal law. He signed the bill anyway. Sure enough, it was just blocked by the Supreme Court. Parents' rights are finally being restored.

@Mr_RainHard @elonmusk 🤘🏻

@elonmusk We live under the same satelie 🛰🛸🚀

Cute

@edenstanwarr @Electroversenet That would be concerning if you didn’t believe in adaptation and evolution.

@Electroversenet People think that small temperature changes don't matter because humans can live in highly varied temperatures. However lots of species can't, e.g., many fish and plants. If temperature change doesn't directly kill them, it may mess with reproduction or some other aspect of life.

MIT atmospheric physicist Dr. Richard Lindzen has said "there will be no climate catastrophe." "When someone says half a degree more and it's the end of the species, that's not science, that's theatre," says Lindzen. Every apocalyptic prediction, from famine, to ice-free poles, to snowless winters, has failed. And they'll keep failing. "2030 will pass. 2050 will pass. 50 years will pass. There will be no climate catastrophe." Lindzen isn't a fringe voice. He's a leading atmospheric scientist, author of nearly 250 peer-reviewed papers, and a member of the US National Academy of Sciences. Today's climate agenda, he argues, isn't about data, it's about power. "It's about controlling policy, controlling economies, and reshaping society under the guise of a crisis that doesn't exist." The real threat isn't climate change. It's climate policy.

@jstubbings1970 @ChGefaell If you read his follow ups, you’ll see that the WHO data is likely less accurate.

@ChGefaell The WHO data is more relevant as it is a representation of actual mortality data captured at the state level. The WHO data is more complete as it ACTUAL data based on reporting by member states. The GBD data is modelled ESTIMATES. There is no conspiracy.

What happened in 2021?

@SuccessWithJake 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

My wife just passed her US citizenship exam. She moved here from Canada 7 years ago, raised 3 kids, and passed it on the first try. Meanwhile I’ve been here 41 years and couldn’t tell you half of what she studied. Couldn’t be more proud. Welcome home, babe. 🇺🇸

@1Nicdar All of these things is perfectly normal except for that car camped in the leftmost lane. That car is also always the cause of accidents in that lane. If that car wasn’t AlWAYS there, nobody would need to pass on the right or weave in and out of lanes.

WTF! - Welcome to Florida! 😎 70 MPH speed limit in Florida is less of a rule and more of a polite suggestion that nobody agreed to follow. Too slow? You’re getting tailgated by a lifted Silverado with LED headlights bright enough to interrogate you. Too fast? Doesn’t matter, there’s already a guy in a beat up Altima doing 95 weaving through traffic like he’s late for something extremely illegal. You try to hold a respectable 75. Immediately passed on both sides. One car has no headlights. Another has its hazards on for no reason. Somehow both are going faster than you. And then, out of nowhere, Brake lights. Not gradual. Not polite. Just a full interstate wide decision to stop all traffic flow for 30 seconds. No accident. No construction. No explanation. Just vibes. You finally get moving again and think, "Okay, we’re good." Wrong. It starts to rain. Not normal rain. Florida rain. (IYKYK) The kind that erases the road, your mirrors, your sense of direction, and any belief you had in visibility. Wipers on max, still losing the fight. Meanwhile, someone flies past you doing 85 like they’ve got sonar. And just when you think you’ve seen it all, there’s a gator in a retention pond right next to the highway, watching traffic like it’s judging your driving choices. No toll booth warning. No buildup. Just vibes and consequences. Your GPS says "arrive in 2 hours." Florida says, "Depends, you surviving the storm or the drivers?" And somehow, through all of this … There is STILL someone camping in the left lane going exactly 70 like they’re honoring the Constitution. Welcome to Florida highways. Where speed limits are optional, weather is aggressive, and every drive feels like a group project with people who did not read the instructions.

@1730 @4nt1p4tt3rn It’s a patient-specific treatment. Control groups don’t matter.

@4nt1p4tt3rn You can't know if it works, there's no control group.

So, a word on the whole "guy uses AI to cure his dog's cancer" story that's going around: I don't know if it's true or not. It's somewhat irrelevant to what I'm about to say. What I do know is this: My wife and I are friends with a couple a few towns over. We buy duck eggs from them. The husband, a very alert, physically capable engineer in his 70s, got cancer. They are absolutely avoiding the accepted treatments. Instead, they're pursuing a therapy that mirrors what the guy with the dog dig: They paid a lab and got the tumor sequenced, and paid a company to develop a vaccine targeted specifically at the tumor's gene sequence. And it's working. Spectacularly. This isn't a novel approach. It's out in the world, and there are companies, doctors, and labs offering it. But the medical industry won't tell you about it. Your doctor isn't going to offer it to you as an option. You have to go looking for it. It's not cheap, but it's cheaper than a course of chemo. And it actually works.

@HowardRoark90 @IterIntellectus @GeringerAdam It’s more likely they’re in a boardroom right now trying to figure out how to squash this.

@IterIntellectus @GeringerAdam You’re mistakenly concluding that Big Pharma gives a fuck about patient health and ‘curing’ anything Of course they’re not working on it Human sickness is their recurring revenue model Why the fuck would they give that up? They’re literally disincentivized from doing so

this is actually insane > be tech guy in australia > adopt cancer riddled rescue dog, months to live > not_going_to_give_you_up.mp4 > pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA > feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold > zero background in biology > identify mutated proteins, match them to drug targets > design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine from scratch > genomics professor is “gobsmacked” that some puppy lover did this on his own > need ethics approval to administer it > red tape takes longer than designing the vaccine > 3 months, finally approved > drive 10 hours to get rosie her first injection > tumor halves > coat gets glossy again > dog is alive and happy > professor: “if we can do this for a dog, why aren’t we rolling this out to humans?” one man with a chatbot, and $3,000 just outperformed the entire pharmaceutical discovery pipeline. we are going to cure so many diseases. I dont think people realize how good things are going to get

@esotericHendrik @paul_conyngham @IterIntellectus Yea they are.

@paul_conyngham @IterIntellectus Why are all these bots harping on the dogs name Are they retarded or something?

@paul_conyngham @IterIntellectus 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 well done, Sir!

@IterIntellectus Hi mate, there are a few people here claiming this is fake news. Rose and I were on Aussie national television this morning: youtube.com/watch?v=COYSRb…

@SaraForTexLege @Bonniefontes Keep moving the goalposts after your BS story had 1,000,000 holes punched in it.

@Bonniefontes For free?

@SaraForTexLege @FinalBossDating You’re a perfect example.

@FinalBossDating It never ceases to amaze me how many people are so confidently wrong on this app.