Side question: How much more space junk do we need to have orbiting our planet before Earth is on of the ringed planets. Because if we are close I’d be willing to start a Kickstarter or something to buy a few (trillion+) bags of glitter and get it into orbit...

It depends on whether the vehicle doesn’t fire the fuel injectors during extended no throttle periods. On my 2012 Ford Fiesta it stopped using fuel after a couple seconds of completely letting off the throttle, observable via the torque app. Fuel mileage shot up to 99mpg, as high as the gauge could read, until I…

Another video from this guy that gets the answer mostly right, but fails on the details. Engine braking doesn’t convert kinetic energy into heat, like friction brakes do. It converts kinetic energy into pumping work, ie work to create a vacuum in the intake manifold, not creating heat. If anything you are…

You got it! Carl was explaining that while it had the size of an enormous moon like Titan, the density (& subsequent impact on the rings) was much, much smaller. That Peggy also has an unusual orbit means that ring-disturbance is highly variable.

LaCroix is trendy? I was unaware of this development. I guess because I’m not trendy. In hindsight, its newfound trendiness is probably why it’s easier to find in chain stores now than it used to be. My mom has always been a fan, and I used to have to go to the “right” grocery store to find it if she was going to…

What I want is an expensive pressing device, with internet and Bluetooth, an online tank-like, internet enabled pressing, or squeezing device, where I can create my own La Croix essences in my home.

Truth in clickvertising.

Not really.

Is everyone happy now? :)

Ugh. I’ve been spending way too much time in this space and ranting to people about algorithmic bias for at least a year and a half now (in meatspace. at networking events.), but THIS DOES NOT REQUIRE A COMPUTER SCIENCE DEGREE TO GRASP.

Joy Buolamwini gives great examples of this.

Yeah, all the time. We get ad reps, we talk to them once or twice to determine we know more than they do, and then they disappear. Months later we go through the exact same process with someone new. The old email addresses we are given to contact these people stop working, phone numbers dead end, it’s all very weird.…

So you’re saying the Earth has been cooling since then

I’m guessing this is just a (typical) case of missing qualifiers. Something like, the hottest naturally occurring temperature on the surface of the Earth. So we can count out man-made weapon and fusion tests, as well as deep core temperatures.

Gizmodo makes it sound like the racism is a lot more rampant than it actually is. Facebook actually rejected Pro Publica from purchasing ads for “Jew Haters”. They needed to widen their net just to purchase the ads.

Wait... you were able to get support from Facebook?

No they don’t disagree. In the part you left out, Pro Publica just needed to add other groups to the buy, like “Nazi Party” in order to meet the threshold.

Good point. Also, “light drinking” varies from person to person. A college student’s light drinking is not the same as my light drinking. That’s why when medical and mental health professionals ask about substance intake, they ask for specific amount, type, and frequency.

Counterpoint: Hyper-conservative recommendations, like “no drinking” when there really isn’t evidence to support such a recommendation, just breeds distrust in the entire medical field. It’s better to educate people to enable them to make informed decisions than it is to try to make a decision for them on a subject…

On Thursday, Pro Publica uncovered that Facebook’s ad targeting system, which groups users together based on profile data, offered to sell ads targeting a demographic of Facebook users that self-reported as “Jew Haters.”