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jcampbell1 — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 16:44:28 +0000

This sounds like they have a vendetta against Tesla and are going through the trash and processing fines for empty brake fluid bottles. People are defecating in the streets but that is just part of the culture and not an environmental problem.

New comment by jcampbell1 in "Why are so many EV charging stations broken in California?"

jcampbell1 — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 18:22:10 +0000

What is the role of the 4th estate if not to hold the government accountable for how they spend forcibly taken money from the citizenry.

New comment by jcampbell1 in "Solar will supply almost all growth in U.S. electricity generation through 2025"

jcampbell1 — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 20:04:15 +0000

We currently have 40 million acres of corn dedicated to ethanol production. All our energy needs can be met by 15 million acres of solar panels. The same set of facts that make you sad make me happy.

New comment by jcampbell1 in "Amazon receives FDA warning letter for supplements with undeclared ingredients"

jcampbell1 — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 17:10:00 +0000

They are practically OTC everywhere in the world. A huge pain in the add to get in the US where the MD cartel engages in rent seeking by claiming every pharmaceutical is dangerous and they need $200 every quarter to let you buy the meds at hyper inflated prices.

New comment by jcampbell1 in "A bullying scandal closed a historic astronomy department"

jcampbell1 — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 20:28:17 +0000

I once heard a joke that the reason academia is so hostile is because the stakes are so low.

New comment by jcampbell1 in "A rural post office was told to prioritize Amazon packages. Chaos ensued"

jcampbell1 — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 09:05:39 +0000

Recently the postal service awarded vehicle replacement to a defense contractor (Oshkosh) who knows how to win government contracts but absolutely nothing about building reliable fuel efficiency vehicles. They are fine for the military when making things like trucks which can haul tanks around but an insane choice for building delivery vehicles. The post office could have easily gone with something like the Ford transit which has a known warranty profile and existing history and endless engineering put into it. Instead the post office is going to end up with a low volume turd made by a defense contractor with no experience making daily use vehicles. Government decision making is bonkers because they put ridiculous requirements in contracts, rather than just thinking logically about the most cost effective way to deliver Americans their mail.

New comment by jcampbell1 in "Widespread drastic reduction of brain myelin upon prolonged endurance exercise"

jcampbell1 — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 03:18:29 +0000

Did you ever experience feelings or have thoughts that were overwhelmingly lovely? Like only you can see the true beauty of the path you are on? I dabble in combining sleep deprivation with multi day fasting. Dream processes start to kick in, and sometimes the copying from the brain’s 1 day RAM to the brain’s long storage happens while awake. This process is only supposed to happen during REM sleep, but when it happens in awake real-time it feels like a spiritual experience. You look at a bird and all the sudden that bird is integrated with all prior knowledge in a way that makes it feel like a religious vision. This brain race condition feels like being one with the great spirit or something.

New comment by jcampbell1 in "The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People"

jcampbell1 — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 17:42:49 +0000

I didn’t take away the same message. To me it was a decent attempt to explain that offensive liberal bourgeois foodies have been sold a bill of truthy sounding bullshit because that is how free markets work. If you want to help someone tell them the truth, if you want to help yourself then tell them what they want to believe. There is a whole market of selling expensive things and claiming it will save the planet or the poor or stop colonialism or some other lie which is designed to enrich the seller.

In terms of peak bullshit, I personally think the absurd stupidity of vertical farming is what caused most people to realize the ideas coming out of one camp are mostly bullshit.

New comment by jcampbell1 in "US immigration enforcement used AI-powered tool to scan posts derogatory to US"

jcampbell1 — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 17:07:00 +0000

The terminology around illegal is a political act. It is illegal to cross a border without authorization everywhere. The goal is prey on social grace to get people to use words like “undocumented” which means policy can be controlled via documentation. The idea is to subvert the law by changing terminology. I can’t tell if you are a sheep or a wolf from your post.

New comment by jcampbell1 in "Finding that lead emissions from aircraft engines contribute to air pollution"

jcampbell1 — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 15:32:59 +0000

Half the story is the lead acts as a octane booster, but raising the octane without lead chemicals is trivial. MTBE works, so does just selling pure toluene. The issue is that in addition to raising the octane, some metal lead deposits around the valves which maybe makes them seal better and switching away from lead could cause engine failures unrelated to octane.

New comment by jcampbell1 in "CVS ditches common cold meds after FDA advisers say they're useless"

jcampbell1 — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 23:20:56 +0000

Enantomeric imported Mexican meth goes for $40 a gram. No way you can buy pseudoephedrine and shake’n’bake for less. You have to buy expensive lithium batteries and cold packs.

New comment by jcampbell1 in "OpenAI just replaced its core values with completely different ones"

jcampbell1 — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 15:18:58 +0000

Brave works well enough for me.

New comment by jcampbell1 in "California to require firms to reveal carbon emissions in first law of its kind"

jcampbell1 — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 19:37:05 +0000

What is wrong with the Republican Party? Texas produces more renewable energy than California. The redneck attitude of do whatever you want on your land, and anti-regulation attitudes are far more important than political grandstanding.

New comment by jcampbell1 in "Insurance companies fill their networks with ‘ghost’ therapists"

jcampbell1 — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 23:36:25 +0000

Medicaid for all, free markets for those who hate queues.

New comment by jcampbell1 in "Show HN: Classic Video Poker"

jcampbell1 — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 23:15:01 +0000

That is a bug :)

New comment by jcampbell1 in "Why don’t Americans eat mutton?"

jcampbell1 — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 02:21:54 +0000

Your 9% number is impossible as at least 10% comes from purely beef production. 25% of ground beef is old cow meat, and it isn’t sold at grocery store meat sections. It ends up in processed foods and fast food. It is legally beef, but that is about all you can say about it.

New comment by jcampbell1 in "Why don’t Americans eat mutton?"

jcampbell1 — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 18:35:49 +0000

What? Cow meat is about 25% of the ground beef supply, with half being dairy culls and the other half being beef cows that fail to get pregnant. It ends up at McDonald’s, Taco Bell, and Beef hotdogs.

New comment by jcampbell1 in "Why don’t Americans eat mutton?"

jcampbell1 — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 17:48:09 +0000

Veal is male dairy calves.

New comment by jcampbell1 in "Why don’t Americans eat mutton?"

jcampbell1 — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 17:46:47 +0000

You can taste it. Fast food ground meat has that signature old dairy cow flavor.

New comment by jcampbell1 in "Ultra-processed food linked to higher risk of depression, research finds"

jcampbell1 — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 22:35:11 +0000

What if the deep subconscious keeps track of sweetness in the mouth and nutritional requirements (conscience hunger and cravings)? Artificial sweeteners would break the biological programming and cause all sorts of problems including depression and inappropriate hunger.

Edit: I hadn’t fully thought this through, but in my experience sometimes looking at a clock causes the physical hunger sensation. I have also been painfully starving which immediately stopped after the first swallow of a chugging a coke. Artificial sweeteners would have thrown a monkey wrench in my biological machinery.