Archive.org crawled the site: https://web.archive.org/web/20260000000000*/johntaylorgatto.... (check the versions from maybe 10 years ago...)

IIRC he had a stroke, and finally passed away. Now https://JohnTaylorGatto.com redirects to his youtube channel.

What's the problem with Apple's .mov files and DaVinci? I just ran into this last night.

Handbrake has too many options, so I'll definitely try out your utility.

My local sunglass shop had some yellow fit-over safety glasses. I found they cut out enough of the blue from the bad headlights to take the shock out of the experience of driving at night. https://cocoons.com/shop/safety/lightguard-medium-fitovers-l...

Harbor Freight's $2 yellow safety glasses are almost as good. I intend to stock up the next time I notice they're on sale for $1: https://www.harborfreight.com/yellow-lens-safety-glasses-668...

4 years ago I asked HN why the automotive industry wasn't using safe LEDs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27334405

The activists at /r/fuckyourheadlights figured out that the weaponized headlights put a little dim spot at the center of their headlight beams, exactly where the regulators measure the light intensity.

2nd picture clearly shows the dim spot: https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckyourheadlights/comments/1hefn86...

Summary of research: https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckyourheadlights/comments/18lrf3d...

https://www.theautodoc.net/blog/why-do-headlights-become-clo...

The other problem is that some bulbs are just not very good - the filaments aren't properly positioned, or they don't have a good spectral output.

3M has a kit for polishing the haze off headlights with a drill, and for restoring the UV protection layer [0]. Dan Stern [1] told me it's really better to just get a new OEM headlight.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/3M-39008-Headlight-Restoration-System...

[1] https://www.danielsternlighting.com/

https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckyourheadlights/comments/1mshs0v...

Blue-white headlights are actually much less functional for human vision than yellow/amber headlights, so the engineers had to use the regulatory loophole to exponentially increase the output of their marketing-imposed blue-white lights.

Are the HN comments cautioning about Tylenol now invalid because President Trump shared the same sentiments?

Defending Tylenol seems like an odd hill to plant your flag on.

  “There are other rosins made from paper mills, where they grind pulp and extract 
  it with sulphuric acid. That rosin, you don’t want to use for potatoes,” 
  explains Baker [...]

If you take two pills of extra strength Tylenol (2x500mg) every six hours as directed by the instructions, you’ve reached the threshold for liver injury.

Around 50,000 people a year (U.S.) visit the ER for having poisoned themselves with acetaminophen. A lot of people harm themselves without realizing it. I warned a friend about her Tylenol habit, which helped her connect “dizziness” to the Tylenol she’d just taken.

I've joked that if you're an old person trapped in a nursing home, one strategy to get yourself out of there is by cheeking a bunch of tylenol until you have enough, then taking them all at once. 4000mg/day starts to damage the liver. 10,000 mg can lead to liver failure. A pharmacist told me that Tylenol-induced liver failure is not a very pleasant way to die.

There are 2016/2017 tweets by @Tylenol about how the drug shouldn't be used during pregnancy: https://x.com/tylenol/status/839196906702127106 https://x.com/tylenol/status/773897927420841985

This thread was started by someone who commented on how Eric Engstrom (the co-creator of DirectX) accidentally euthanized himself with Tylenol: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25424258

FDA: Acetaminophen one of the most dangerous drugs on the market, March 26, 2023: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35309904

"[...] we can get away with things that we wouldn't be able to get away with nowadays. There's a lot of stuff that's like this; for instance, paracetamol/Tylenol would probably not be approved if it was introduced now because it's really easy to accidentally overdose on." August 6, 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4347943

I deactivated his touchscreen. He’s never complained about his screen not responding like it used to.

I still see him touching the screens, but it doesn’t respond anymore.

Birds are better able to consume soy because they have faster metabolisms than humans. Pigs that are bred for food are able to consume soy because pig farmers don't care about the long-term health of their animals.

Most of the soybeans grown in the US are roundup-ready, so they're contaminated with glyphosate.

I think I remember where I read this - check your protonmail address.

But for people that are nightshade-tolerant potatoes are an excellent food crop.

IIRC, someone was annoyed that do-gooders wanted to remove potatoes from the food stamp programs, because the potato is actually an almost-complete food. This has morphed into The Potato Diet, which calls for eating potatoes and only potatoes for a short period of time.

  From the start of October through November in 2010, 
  Voigt consumed only spuds, a few basic seasonings 
  and small amounts of oil for cooking. His endeavor 
  drew attention from NBC’s Today Show, CBS News, Fox, 
  NPR and the UK’s Daily Telegraph.
  
  Voigt documented his journey through a blog 
  ( 20potatoesaday.com ). Tired of potatoes 
  getting a bad rap as being nothing but fattening 
  starch and carbs, he wanted to make a statement 
  that proved potatoes were very nutritious.

I recently pulled out of a business and the "low tire pressure light" turned on right away. "Hmm?" My next stop was 1/4 mile away, and it still felt okay. At the next parking lot I checked all the tires with my gauge and found one was 10psi low. On closer inspection the nail was right on top. Sure enough I'd picked up a little nail. It was a slow leak, and I wouldn't have heard the hiss. If not for the sensor I might not have noticed I'd gotten a flat until I got on the freeway.

PSA: Check your spare's air pressure. Mine was supposed to be 60psi. It had 40psi, which was good enough to get me to the tire store. I checked the spare when I got home - the tire repair crew had bumped it up to 55psi.

My dad was leaving on a trip recently. Because 'spare tire psi' was on my mind I checked his spare - it was only 25psi.