I’m Gwen Danielson, a neuroscientist and bioengineer, who decided as a child that I would end Death

thiel jumpscare

they could be just as well from cambodia for all we know

only after years of kicking and screaming, and companies that made CFCs switched to more expensive HFCs and later HFOs so it’s not like they went out of the business. (alternative is use of hydrocarbons which is much cheaper but flammability was used as a reason to restrict their use) CFCs are also still used as chemical intermediates and as late as during covid there was an operational illegal R12 factory somewhere in northern china

scammers don’t give a fuck and you can find them in any country in the world

e2ee is not enough you also need to know what these ends are

there’s a lot of complicated tubes in refinery, each with hideous lead time

damn i wish i had confidence of a mediocre techbro. twitter thread suggests that there’s four copyright infringements just in these two images

e: still can’t get fingers right, lol

Shadowban is when you can see your own post/comment but it’s unsearchable or otherwise unreachable by other people. milder variant is comments hidden by default, some of them look like deleted by mod but it might be automatic. the point of shadowban is that you don’t know about it. this is something different, why it happened to you idk but there is some trade in old accounts for spam purposes, maybe that’s why

lora bitrate and radiated power are tiny and such considerations are only important in peacetime. gps is jammed now routinely and it’s more important than 95% of iot dogshit. telemetry and remote control that matters is either wired or has reserved separate band, like power grid switches. not sure wdym by logistics

you also have to be stealthy and if you emit you’re seen and if you’re seen you’ll be found and soon dead. lora doesn’t help you with that especially if you increase power to overcome jamming. using starlink in iran now for example is a capital offense. last time i’ve checked, irgc ew looks for starlink wifi and they can find it even if it’s renamed because of its distinct signature. it takes less to spot lora. they do not look for uplink for some reason but they try to jam it and downlink too

okay so they want to use layer of soil as a sort of seasonal storage. fine; this part works. 1. who’s paying for all these residential heat pumps? 2. this kind of arrangement means a lot of digging and drilling. it takes one (1) nimby to stop it in its tracks and all these earthworks also cost money 3. at this point it’s way simpler and cheaper to just use solar collectors to top up heat reservoir in the summer, as long as heat pumps are paid for. also these same solar collectors would just provide hot water in summer directly

were they advised by rube goldberg?

also, your local university probably has a kind of stability that makes years-decades long commitment worthwhile, unlike some sketchy bloated startup that probably dealt in crypto seven years ago

i heard that a couple of german dcs (owned by universities or other research institutions and therefore indirectly by state) do this, but this kinda depends on district heating grid existing and also puts some limits on thermal side, in simplest variant chips just have to run hotter. not to mention that it’s kinda easier to do when you own the entire thing, long term, and can offload some of the engineering and design effort to some intern student writing masters or doctoral thesis. this works in part because when you switch from coal to gas and have district heating using that waste heat, there’s less waste heat from CCGT of equal power, and it’s all gone when you switch to renewables, so there’s a grid that still needs some heat and dc boiler can fill that gap to a small degree. at the same time dc can’t be the only source of heat because demand is seasonal and dc ideally should run 24/7 and while you can get enough storage for daily variation this won’t be enough and some other source of heat is needed. this is why it makes more sense as a long term government backed project

(he’s in the business of dropping anvils from biplanes)

Yeah there are only so many ways to get it going, you don’t hear about these that don’t figure it out because cops bust them making them look like clowns and nobody wants to get associated with them afterwards

there is also a barrier between step 2 and 3, because sometimes news like that are suppressed. american school shootings get that treatment sometimes, not to mention all the info filtering at facebook and friends. this is why sympathetic media is an important bit to have in advance. there’s also this bit where any serious insurgency needs money and it looks like what they got didn’t work out

that southern police chief was per blogpost Laurie Pritchett and this kind of thinking is also what makes COIN tick. worry not, Hegseth declared it all woke nonsense

eliezer misses that (as used in decolonization/civil rights era) nonviolence is effectively a sophisticated propaganda strategy that takes existing injustices and violence and uses it to bait opponent into attacking you, all while your own people take photos and show to entire world carefully crafted messaging that appeals to general public conscience. the messaging part is extremely important in this. there’s no fucking way this could work for him because his cause is comprehensible only to those who already buy his cult messaging as ground truth. he’s in just for the moral superiority of being nonviolent. he’s never gonna get it because comprehending it requires touching grass

there is empirical series of materials sorted from which one is most likely to lose vs gain electrons, but what exactly happens is one of unsolved problems in physics

new and terrifying american weapon

fr this is worse than toilet paper roll math

there are 199 seats and so 2/3 supermajority is 133 seats. tisza has 136 now at 60%ish polling stations counted

you can get it straight from the source instead from this vibecoded mess. 136 now btw https://vtr.valasztas.hu/ogy2026

at 45% polling stations (?) in, Tisza has 135 seats, which is more than supermajority, and results from bigger cities where opposition has greater support still are not yet counted. if mi hazank drops under 5% threshold, their lead will be greater. lowkey expecting that orban is looking for plane tickets to moscow rn

update: at 72% stations in, Tisza has 138 seats