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New comment by readthenotes1 in "Shanay-Timpishka, a boiling hot river 700km from the nearest active volcano"

readthenotes1 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:02:23 +0000

And yet, there is. You just have to keep reading

New comment by readthenotes1 in "Caffeine and Cardiovascular Disease: AHA Scientific Statement"

readthenotes1 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:03:04 +0000

Once money or prestige gets in play, science leaves the room

New comment by readthenotes1 in "My husbands suicide shows theres something very wrong with US insurance industry"

readthenotes1 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:31:29 +0000

The way they used to before medical insurance took over that industry: charity

New comment by readthenotes1 in "'We used acid to sabotage Microsoft hyperscale data centre construction'"

readthenotes1 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 01:12:22 +0000

That's just it, I do not believe they are trying to improve the world.

I believe they are just acting out, and doing so and yet another non-constructive way.

New comment by readthenotes1 in "DeKalb deputy charged with Flock camera misuse; more Georgia officers fired"

readthenotes1 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 01:10:56 +0000

Flock: You thought we put the cameras up to spy on you. Haha on the police who buy them and rat themselves out!

New comment by readthenotes1 in "ECHR confirms ethical veganism is a protected philosophical belief"

readthenotes1 — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 19:41:09 +0000

The vegan who ignores the last sentence and the definition "In dietary terms it denotes the practice of dispensing with all products derived wholly or partly from animals"

It's kind of like the Christian who ignores the conversation in the gospel of John:

"A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another."

New comment by readthenotes1 in "Popular sugar substitutes linked to faster brain aging"

readthenotes1 — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 01:23:06 +0000

"At the beginning of the study, participants completed detailed food questionnaires describing what they had eaten and drunk during the previous year. "

My goodness.

I almost expect a clause stating that this study was in part funded by the Brazil Sugar Export Consortium...

New comment by readthenotes1 in "I'm Making Strandfall, a Solarpunk Orienteering Larp"

readthenotes1 — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 20:01:07 +0000

Worth the read If just to find this sentence

"Smartphones are anti-enchantment devices."

Full disclosure: I am using a smartphone right now.

New comment by readthenotes1 in ""Stop Cutting Down Flock Cameras " (Mass Surveillance Is Good) [video]"

readthenotes1 — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 19:10:01 +0000

Sorry-- I did not mean to imply that the USA has fixed their crime problem.

I was making the point that there are countries that used to have a lot less crime, which reduces the demand for policing. Now they have more crime. Problem solved.

New comment by readthenotes1 in "Goodbye, and Thanks for All the Bikesheds"

readthenotes1 — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 18:46:42 +0000

Maybe he's trying to prove the point of why he's ready to retire...

New comment by readthenotes1 in "'We used acid to sabotage Microsoft hyperscale data centre construction'"

readthenotes1 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:51:02 +0000

You think they did math on this? No, all he did was have a tantrum where they got attention to themselves and patted themselves on the bat for doing something.

They didn't think through the ecological results of someone scraping off the destroyed concrete and pouring more.

New comment by readthenotes1 in "'We used acid to sabotage Microsoft hyperscale data centre construction'"

readthenotes1 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:49:50 +0000

Did the Data Center get canceled? If not, then no it is not ruined and instead what's going to happen? Is someone's going to scrape up a whole bunch of that concrete releasing a whole bunch of carbon dioxide and then someone's going to pour down some more concrete which will increase the CO2 in the atmosphere.

New comment by readthenotes1 in "'We used acid to sabotage Microsoft hyperscale data centre construction'"

readthenotes1 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:47:05 +0000

Cluster B society tantrums

New comment by readthenotes1 in "High-Bandwidth Flash offers efficient storage for model weights"

readthenotes1 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 04:43:50 +0000

Go ahead, take it further.

Imagine you are immensely intelligent beings who project into our space-time Continuum as mice. You need a lot of memory and processing but you don't need it quick. What do you do?

(With apologies to Douglas Adams)

New comment by readthenotes1 in "The bread paradox: why convenience always wins, and why SaaS isn't doomed"

readthenotes1 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 06:32:54 +0000

Platform decay is real.

I have relatives who share sourdough starter yeast and make their own bread.

New comment by readthenotes1 in "Agnes Callard’s theory of the uni-context"

readthenotes1 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:23:30 +0000

Orson Scott Card saw this coming last century and wrote of a character who maintained 2 online personas who became the thought leaders of opposing groups.

Some of the late gen-x/millennials who saw this coming may have been inspired to read Endor's Game after seeing the movie

New comment by readthenotes1 in "Section 219, the US-Israel Military Merger, Would Thwart American Democracy"

readthenotes1 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 01:10:46 +0000

Any president that wants to pause it can cite "national security".

That sounds pretty reasonable since Israel spies on the USA a lot

New comment by readthenotes1 in "California rocked by another earthquake that will unleash the Big One"

readthenotes1 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:20:15 +0000

Ublock Origin for the win.

Again.

New comment by readthenotes1 in ""Stop Cutting Down Flock Cameras " (Mass Surveillance Is Good) [video]"

readthenotes1 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 22:34:46 +0000

And those stats represent the arrest records as well.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4111266/

We could choose the same response that England chose, but I would hope there would be a better way.

At least the USA did not fix their crime problem like Germany did.

New comment by readthenotes1 in "Silent speech with ultrasound"

readthenotes1 — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 03:29:07 +0000

I wonder if, like with lip reading, they switch from American English to a different language that's not so peculiar they would have and much less error rate