I’ve never let looking like a dork stop me from doing fun stuff. Shit, ten years ago the VR experience consisted of being tethered by a fat cabled dreadlock to a PC surrounded by massive towers in all four corners of the room, and there was lots of dorky fun to be had. While the price point definitely gives me pause,…

The whole evaporation thing seems to confuse people with the swamp cooler idea. This actually relies on a whole different principle. If you ever used one of the instant cool packs, this is closer to the the idea. When you break the water pouch and it mixes with the salt in the package (usually ammonium nitrate), it’s…

It is not a swamp cooler. I’ve seen this tech demoed. The salt solution is not water, and in fact, desiccates the air by absorbing water. The process loop then extracts the water during the condensing cycle leaving the moisture hungry evaporative liquid to be cycled through again and absorb more moisture from the air.

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The big scam is that there’s nothing inherent to the NFT which gives you any rights whatsoever. You are NOT buying artwork, you are buying a receipt that says you paid money for artwork.

Now, it is theoretically possible for artists to bundle licenses or rights transfer of some kind WITH their NFT, but there is…

It’s a scam because an NFT is not actually selling the artwork; it’s selling a receipt that absolutely nobody is legally obligated to acknowledge or respect. It’s like if I tried to buy the Mona Lisa, but instead of giving me the Mona Lisa they show me a slip of paper that says “you now officially own the Mona Lisa”…

It literally took me 15 seconds to find the recording. It’s all here. He knew it was far more deadly that the flu. Knew it didn’t just affect old people. And he consciously decided to play all of this down and go out day after day and spew his self-serving bullshit about how it was all going to disappear and how it is…

Our phones are just trying to filter out the bias from the sky pushing its liberal climate change narrative. 

A person hospitalized for COVID-19 could be in the ICU for weeks. Then they could be in a rehab facility for weeks. That is hugely expensive.

I actually have more faith in the pledge of a cabal of pharmaceutical companies than I do in the federal govt. That’s where we are now. 

It took a few minutes to read the entire article. Do you even care how stupid you look?

Fucking Americans. Just fucking vote. If you want to get rid of Donald Trump, vote and don’t piss it away on a third party candidate.

They rescinded the suspension after all of the media attention.

According to the CDC (https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-estimates.htm) this last flu season, a total of six months, they estimate 39M-56M people caught the flu and 24k to 62k died. Even if we pick the combination that maximizes the rate of deaths per infection, that’s about 0.16% (and that’s…

“E Ink displays take only a fraction of energy to power compared to other displays.”

Inconvenience isn’t oppression. You cheapen real sacrifice with your false equivalency.

You can easily have that opportunity. Feel free to go volunteer to do one of the many high risk essential jobs. We can send your family a picture of the freedom trench where you’re buried.

If nobody gets sick, that means that the county public health people have done their job. Nobody getting sick is kind of the goal, there’s no penalty for achieving it

I’m sure there were workers who were eager to return, earn full pay, escape from their children (seriously.... Teachers should all make 7 figures...). However, the point here is that workers may have been coerced into unsafe working conditions in willful violation of a lawful order.

“...their benefits would be terminated and they would be ineligible to receive unemployment...”

That’s a link to Provisional deaths. The people that the CDC says died of the virus but there is no lab test to verify it.