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piecat,

Faster than light is close, but not really a sim perse

piecat,

On a similar note, middle management simulator

piecat,

Great point, how do you think weight loss drugs work?

They make you less hungry or curb your cravings… Making you eat less.

piecat,

Amphetamines basically make you not hungry. That is the primary mechanism anyway.

piecat,

That’s why unions are essential

piecat,

I’ve never thought of South Korea as a shit place with no either safety

piecat,

Only 999 area codes to try

StarCraft could return, according to Blizzard president, but not necessarily as an RTS (www.pcgamer.com)

While Blizzard is very much focussed on its big money-makers like its various Warcraft games, from WoW to Hearthstone to Warcraft Rumble, as well as Diablo and the much-maligned Overwatch 2, he’s still open to StarCraft making a comeback. That said, RTS fans shouldn’t get their hopes up. While the series might return, that...

piecat,

Take that back, StarCraft deserves another installment

piecat,

World of StarCraft? /s

piecat,

That’s not normal behavior, it’s just sad. Society is failing

piecat,

Having nothing to lose is a hell of a thing

piecat,

They were 12 and 13. “Fuck around and find out” they’re children. Get some fucking empathy

piecat,

So, the FDA isn’t perfect, but they’re reversing their stance based on evidence.

www.fda.gov/food/…/brominated-vegetable-oil-bvo

BVO is added to a food for a specific purpose and is regulated by the FDA as a direct food additive. BVO is allowed for use in a small amount, not to exceed 15 parts per million, in the U.S. as a stabilizer for fruit flavoring used in beverages.

The FDA is working on a proposed rule to amend our regulations to remove the authorization of the use of BVO as a food ingredient. For more information, see the unified agenda.

TIL about this tool, the *Reinigungsschaber* ! (lemmy.world)

I had lost hope with my electric cooking plates. The white circles where completely hidden under a layer of diamond-grade burn residue that no amount of scrubbing with chemicals could even begin to remove. I found this 3€ scrapping tool and it’s amazing !!! Sorry, but I don’t have the before picture, believe me after 6...

piecat,

Honest question, why?

The material safety data sheet really doesn’t indicate toxicity. It’s not a carcinogen or mutagen (even in California)

The marketing material on their website shows a cast iron pan

Elon Musk gives X employees one year to replace your bank - ‘You won’t need a bank account... it would blow my mind if we don’t have that rolled out by the end of next year.’ (www.theverge.com)

“If it involves money. It’ll be on our platform. Money or securities or whatever. So, it’s not just like send $20 to my friend. I’m talking about, like, you won’t need a bank account.”...

piecat,

But honestly who in their right mind would trust musk with their money?!?

piecat,

Just buy some cups and string

piecat,

Who would do that

piecat,

I guess the same could be said about any of the senses. Taste, Sound, Touch, smell.

What does that even really mean though?

Does red look red to you? It looks red to me. What does a difference in perception really mean at the end of the day?

piecat,

There is some level of R&D they do to productize it, manufacturability and scaling. And running drug safety trials cannot be cheap, especially the liability insurance.

That all said, I think it’s criminal that the university labs pay so little. PhD students barely make over $40k, set by the NIH. Not adjusted for CoL either.

I think I have more of an issue with the for-profit nature of pharma companies. Shareholders shouldn’t be involved in medicine.

piecat,

Please wake me up.

piecat,

I mean, many many organic compounds, like solvents or plasticizers, get you high. Similar to ethanol.

It’s all poisoning you, we just have a good way to metabolize ethanol.

piecat,

This is going to be such a nightmare as smart devices become the majority.

Didn’t connect your TV to the Internet? Don’t worry, it’ll spy on you by connecting to the neighbor’s tv. Or the built-in WiFi in the modem. Or the power company’s smart meter via powerline-networking.

Products are going to be engineered to sell backdoor access at a hefty price, if they aren’t already.

Things are going to get scary.

piecat,

It’s going to become this horrible game of cat and mouse, for anyone who actually values privacy.

Sure, you could open the device up, remove any antennas. You could add powerline filtering. You could find the jtag or debug ports. You could find a way to hack it. Jam a signal. Make an ultrasonic white noise machine. Wrap the thing in foil. Cover the cameras.

The individual has to block every channel of “attack”. The data miners only need to get lucky once.

piecat,

Kind of funny to me how the role of operating system has evolved.

We’ve gone from “low level software to manage memory and hardware” to “bloatware that will let you use our hardware with your hardware”

piecat,

Someone let me know when personal computers need TB of RAM

piecat,

Local outages are a lot different than grid failure. But yeah local power lines are probably needing an update too.

piecat,

It’s not a new idea. They used to do RF transmitters back in the 90s

piecat,

The difference is in what the voters want.

Both parties wouldn’t be for it, but liberal voters would be for it. Conservative voters would be against it.

piecat,

Bro you used that too

piecat,

Back in the day a lot of us didn’t have smart phones or computers. But we did have consoles with Internet.

Nintendo Wii had a browser too. Tits in their 480p glory.

piecat,

Abortion at 6 months is something you aren’t going to get a lot of agreement about.

Says who, you?

What does it matter if others don’t agree, that doesn’t change the argument.

China appears to have suspended spy balloon program after February shootdown, US intel believes (www.cnn.com)

China appears to have suspended its surveillance balloon program following a major diplomatic incident earlier this year, when one of the country’s high-altitude spy balloons transited the United States, multiple sources familiar with US intelligence assessments told CNN....

piecat,

Everyone carries around a device in their hand that does that. All your apps track you, at least one sells to China.

piecat,

So wait. If I bought a game they can just brick it down the road?

piecat,

Let’s say company C pooled their resources to pay for lawyers that could reduce the penalty to a profitable level, but A and B couldn’t individually.

piecat,

This shit should be illegal. If it isn’t already.

Destroying a company for your own personal gain is why America is falling under

piecat,

With housing the way it is, and AI driving being a possibility, we’re going to see a huge influx of people truly living in their cars. Add remote work into the mix?

piecat,

And there were a not trivial number of bots.

I bet money there are farms of fake accounts, waiting for the right day when the fediverse is mainstream

US broadband grant rules shut out small ISPs and municipalities, advocates say (arstechnica.com)

The biggest Internet service providers will dominate a $42.45 billion broadband grant program unless the Biden administration changes a rule requiring grant recipients to obtain a letter of credit from a bank, according to a joint statement from consumer advocacy groups, local government officials, and advocates for small ISPs....

piecat,

Plenty of smaller ISPs are WISPs, wireless ISPs. Great for rural too, you just need line-of-sight. Look up if any serve your area

How do I tame my frustration toward my aging parents?

My parents are 57 and 63. My mother is erratic, forgetful, and when she gets mad she sometimes screams and throws things. My father is slowly going deaf, getting slower and more stubborn and forgetful as well. They can be infuriating sometimes, but I know that they’re aging and I can’t be mad at them. How do I deal with...

piecat,

STDs or UTIs can cause dementia symptoms. Could explain why they both have symptoms

piecat,

Healthy, Fast&Cheap, or Delicious. Pick 2.

Google Fi "opted you in" to data selling - You can opt out of CPNI (fi.google.com)

Received an email from Google Fi that their policy is to “opt you in” to sell your phone-call and purchase info to advertisers. They call the data your CPNI — “Customer Proprietary Network Information”. Making this an opt-out when it’s a combo of your shopping data plus phone-call data (including destination and...

piecat,

Damn, the setting isn’t even in the app settings. That’s sneaky. Fuckers.

piecat,

This just sounds like competition. A way to keep steam putting in effort.

piecat,

www.epa.gov/sites/…/coke-oven-emissions.pdf

EPA has classified coke oven emissions as a Group A, known human carcinogen.

Hmm

piecat,

Once destroyed definitely… But couldn’t a vaccine prevent it from getting to that point?

piecat,

Well, some vaccines are therapeutic in nature, where it’s beneficial to take it while you have symptoms. Some vaccines are only helpful before you get a symptom, for example rabies.

I guess the above made it sound like there definitely can’t be a therapeutic vaccine. But unclear about a preventative vaccine.

piecat,

Oh gotcha

piecat,

Got me thinking, why don’t they put forward facing cameras? Like how we have backup cams.

piecat,

Good point! These kids should starve if their parents don’t work hard enough. Those millions and billionaires worked hard for their money!

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