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New comment by mjanx123 in "Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil war', say researchers"

mjanx123 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:25:36 +0000

As this article shows, it already started in the chimp-human common ancestor.

New comment by mjanx123 in "Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists"

mjanx123 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 12:17:38 +0000

Whip them to the hamster wheel...

New comment by mjanx123 in "The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday"

mjanx123 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 07:51:26 +0000

The refined form is unstable, a hair from an objective reality observation fluke collapsing it.

The system that persists in practice is where everybody knows how things are, but still everybody pleads to a fictional status quo, because if they did not, the others would obliterate them.

New comment by mjanx123 in "Why is the sky blue?"

mjanx123 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 19:28:35 +0000

Oxygen is blue actually. That only contributes to the sky blueness a little tho.

New comment by mjanx123 in "Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?"

mjanx123 — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 10:08:33 +0000

A sticker with your password to the monitor, like everybody else

New comment by mjanx123 in "Cells use 'bioelectricity' to coordinate and make group decisions"

mjanx123 — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 07:37:10 +0000

Electricity is the core of a single cell functionality as well, most biomolecules are on the exact boundary between a conductor and an insulator (and likely switch the state based on other molecules binding, pH, etc). A group of cells electricity is a higher level abstraction of that.

https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/the-origin-of-life...

New comment by mjanx123 in "Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon"

mjanx123 — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 08:39:42 +0000

In practice the US could already do whatever it wanted in Greenland/Canada etc. The options for the motivation behind the theatrics I see. 1. Instill fear in the vassals->support for militarization rises there->they become more useable as proxies against RF/China 2. Just another Trump silliness

New comment by mjanx123 in "An Illustrated Guide to Hippo Castration (2014)"

mjanx123 — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 10:31:37 +0000

Males are expendable. In humans, only about a half of males does reproduce. More 'experiments' are run on males by the nature, the phenotype variance is higher and includes more of excelent and more of detrimental variations, while females stick to the stable functional baseline.

New comment by mjanx123 in "Europe’s next-generation weather satellite sends back first images"

mjanx123 — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 09:58:55 +0000

I use windy.com for its 'compare models', the models can differ by ~2C sometimes

New comment by mjanx123 in "People who know the formula for WD-40"

mjanx123 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 12:58:58 +0000

In artillery and similar massive pressure applications are used chlorine based lubricants. These have the ultimate performance as the chlorine firmly attaches to the metal, but it also destroys the surface immediately (which is not a problem in an one shot application). Would you argue that these are not lubricants because of that?

New comment by mjanx123 in "People who know the formula for WD-40"

mjanx123 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 11:56:18 +0000

That does not make WD40 a non lubricant, but a poor lubricant. It does lubricate moderately for a small period of time.

New comment by mjanx123 in "People who know the formula for WD-40"

mjanx123 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 07:34:59 +0000

It is a lubricant, even water is a lubricant https://a.co/d/2JHYXP7

New comment by mjanx123 in "People who know the formula for WD-40"

mjanx123 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 07:25:09 +0000

WD40 is absolutely a lubricant (water is a lubricant even), but a poor one

New comment by mjanx123 in "People who know the formula for WD-40"

mjanx123 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 07:20:15 +0000

The aditives in a new engine oil are carcinogenous and toxic already.

New comment by mjanx123 in "People who know the formula for WD-40"

mjanx123 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 07:15:54 +0000

It is a blend of oils. Light oils evaporate (like kerosene does for example), and dissolve thicker oils and grease. Oils displace water in general and once in the surface pores they prevent water from getting in there again, a mixture containing light oils flows in easier and does that better. Being predominantly a light oil it is a poor lubricant, but it is better than nothing, and can flow in crevices where thicker stuff would not.

It is really simple and there is no magic.

The name took off as a brand and completely different stuff from the 40th iteration of a Water Displacer formulation is being sold under it as well.

New comment by mjanx123 in "Is liberal democracy in terminal decline?"

mjanx123 — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 15:20:46 +0000

The European countries leaderships were each put in place by its responsible CIA compartment supporting liberal candidates/parties and undermining the competition. With the current conservative US admin they are supposed to interact with they don't know what to do and likely will do nothing.

New comment by mjanx123 in "Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance"

mjanx123 — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 05:55:46 +0000

Its not random. The neurodivergent brain lacks the ability to perceive (some aspects of) the virtual social reality as something real and to focus on that. In a startup, where the problems at hand are objectively real, the ADHD hyperfocus can excel. In a typical corporation, where the situation is the opposite, it struggles.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9541695/

New comment by mjanx123 in "My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated"

mjanx123 — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 17:01:40 +0000

> Military grade: mass produced by the lowest bidder

This

In the military, military grade is a synonym for crap

New comment by mjanx123 in "Overdose deaths are falling in America because of a 'supply shock': study"

mjanx123 — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 04:21:24 +0000

People don't have the money to buy drugs, deaths go down and price as well (albeit slower).

New comment by mjanx123 in "How wolves became dogs"

mjanx123 — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 03:49:19 +0000

Dogs descend from an extinct wolf species that was sibling to the grey wolf. There are multiple wolf species, proto wolves date far before dog domestication.