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New comment by sd_mikey in "Dopamine Fracking"

sd_mikey — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:47:37 +0000

This seems in the same ballpark as the book Attensity!, which coined the term human fracking.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jan/18/how-can-we-def...

New comment by sd_mikey in "Supreme Court formally asked to overturn same-sex marriage ruling"

sd_mikey — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 04:33:42 +0000

> "If there ever was a case of exceptional importance," Staver wrote, "the first individual in the Republic's history who was jailed for following her religious convictions regarding the historic definition of marriage, this should be it."

Kim Davis has been married four times to three men [1][2].

She had twins in 1994, five months after divorcing her first husband, with the biological father being the man who later became her third husband, which seems to point to an affair during the marriage [1][3][2].

If this is about upholding Christian convictions, her own history doesn’t exactly model them.

[1] https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/09/01/kentucky-cle...

[2] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kentucky-clerk-same-sex-marriag...

[3] https://people.com/celebrity/kim-davis-married-four-times-re...

New comment by sd_mikey in "Interest in heat pumps has increased dramatically in recent years"

sd_mikey — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 16:49:21 +0000

Matt Risinger explains how and why he put an ERV in his house in this episode of The Build Show https://youtu.be/OrG7oG8Tvp8. It seems to be the thing to do of late in to help with air exchanges and still meet the passive house standards.

New comment by sd_mikey in "The age-old strategy of buying cheap shares is faltering"

sd_mikey — Sat, 19 Sep 2020 05:31:11 +0000

Between the Feds quantitative easing during the Great Recession and now their buying of corporate bonds (sometimes junk), it’s difficult to discern the true value of companies. Easy and cheap money can make balance sheet appear pretty good at first glance.

New comment by sd_mikey in "“Cold Tube” cooling system uses half the energy of an air conditioner"

sd_mikey — Fri, 21 Aug 2020 03:18:20 +0000

I also suggest Matt Risinger’s YouTube channel. Lately he’s been talking about Passive House construction, which supposedly uses only 10% of the energy of a standard built house.

New comment by sd_mikey in "It takes now 53 weeks salary to earn same as 30 weeks in 1985"

sd_mikey — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 20:43:47 +0000

The Thread Reader App does a decent job of unfurling tweet storms. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1230505649794166785.html

New comment by sd_mikey in "Effect of High-Dose Vitamin D3 Supplementation on Colorectal Cancer"

sd_mikey — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 15:42:29 +0000

There’s some specific targeted use when it comes to enhancing outcomes of chemotherapy. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5842847/

New comment by sd_mikey in "Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator?"

sd_mikey — Sat, 25 May 2019 04:02:42 +0000

One of the many reasons for the “Trash-80” name.

New comment by sd_mikey in "Deutsche Bank Says Software to Detect Money Laundering Had a Bug"

sd_mikey — Wed, 22 May 2019 17:24:49 +0000

They should do some back testing to verify the validity of the updated software. This would uncover past fraudulent activity and possibly any new bugs introduced by the fix.

New comment by sd_mikey in "How Fair Is My D20? (2015)"

sd_mikey — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 23:05:45 +0000

I would love to see this experiment done with the d20 from The Dice Lab. They make their d20 dice with "ideally-balanced vertex sums while retaining the opposite-side numbering convention". They explain why this makes for a bit fairer dice here. https://mathartfun.com/thedicelab.com/BalancedStdPoly.html

New comment by sd_mikey in "Litecoin and Ethereum buys and sells are temporarily disabled"

sd_mikey — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 17:00:26 +0000

My guess is that the there are a lot of newbies now on Coinbase (#1 app in the Apple AppStore). They are buying the cheapest “bitcoin” without actually understanding what they are buying. This has increased demand for the cheaper of the only three options in Coinbase thus increasing price.

New comment by sd_mikey in "Convoy raises $62M from Bill Gates and other luminaries to transform trucking"

sd_mikey — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 00:04:27 +0000

https://auptix.com has a platform that optimizes LTL. They've been up and running for a while and have good volume.