A whole generation licking windows

That’s exactly how it seemed to me: it was only acceptable as background. When I actually listened and studied, I found it off-putting and strange, just like most generated images. It has all of the musical elements, but they’re assembled without understanding or art.

I’m surprised it’s thought to be so good. I listened to most of the examples in the published research, and I found most to be unlistenable as anything but background music. The moment I focussed in it, I wanted to change it.

Is it also a function of the added moisture? Salty things don’t dry easily.

Ads are not the product.

YOU are the product.

If you say you will not follow a judge’s instruction or take the word of an officer, you will never be selected for a jury.

They want to publish stories so they can get eyeballs to ads. That’s what news is and does. Gotta get the dirt so you can get the eyeballs.

So, repressing natural urges via moral disapproval is more likely to elicit compulsive sexual behavior than a healthy approach to sex?

Stands to reason. Good to prove and know.

Now if we could just use some of this knowledge to inform public policy, we might make some real progress.

It’s still useful to have proof of things that seem reasonable.

> Using historical carbon dioxide intensity data to estimate carbon dioxide levels per year beginning from 1960, the researchers found that in 2021, steel production accounted for 27% of the carbon emissions of the global manufacturing sector, and about 10.5% of the total global carbon emissions worldwide. Corroded steel replacement accounted for about 1.6 to 3.4% of emissions.

I mean...of course it is. Who is most likely to see it and share it? The young, the educated, and the connected.

Solely based on sodium intake, doesn’t appear that they controlled for weight or bmi.

The platform was built decades ago for phone calls. It’s a terrible data delivery system.

Every year. Most valuable knowledge resource in history. Fighting it makes governments look stupid.

Would the night sky on a world orbiting such a star be fundamentally different? It would be mostly black, wouldn’t it?

Edit: Copied text from the link below:

>They could see the nebulae, beautiful and distant and beckoning, and could tell that those faraway galaxies were composed of suns, other stars like Thrial, and even guess that some of those suns too might have planets round them… but they looked in vain for stars anywhere near their own.

>The sky was full of darkness. There were planets and moons and the tiny feathery whorls of the dim nebulae, and they had themselves filled it with junk and traffic and emblems of a thousand different languages, but they could not create the skies of a planet within a galaxy, and they could not ever hope, within any frame of likelihood they could envisage existing, to travel to anywhere beyond their own system, or the everywhere-meaningless gulf of space surrounding their isolated and freakish star.

>For a distance that was never less than a million light years in any direction around it, Thrial-for all its flamboyant dispersion of vivifying power and its richly fertile crop of children planets-was an orphan.

Which stands to reason. If your body has difficulty making enough insulin to process carbs, lowering your carb intake sounds like a good idea.

I hope very much this is sarcasm.

I had friends like that once, but they died in a freak gasoline fight accident. It’s especially sad because they were really, really good looking.

They probably all have equal income opportunities elsewhere.

We do not generally subscribe to a modern ethos, so most confuse justice and revenge. The earliest codes of laws conflate the two: Code of Hammurabi is where we get ‘an eye for an eye’. We have done much better since, but we still have far to go.

Capital punishment is proven to be an ineffective deterrent, it costs more than life in prison, and it can err.

There is no modern justification; it can only serve primitive needs for revenge, which have no place in a modern judicial system.

Not one, a purposefully dysfunctional cabal bent on preventing the government from operating properly. An entire party and their supporters are responsible for this.

Germany doesn't have enough energy to run their country because they tried to establish meaningful ties w Russia in the hopes of making Russia a more useful economic partner.

They need the gas, and they don't have great near term options. The middle east is sitting on a ton of energy, and until we shed the majority of our need, the world will continue to buy their oil.

I like the closing quote:

> Smouse said the incident was “pretty scary” and his house is located in an area where planes and jets often pass through.

> “I think about it a lot, where they come in, and, literally, they are like 200 or 300 feet over us,” he said.

Powerful insight: planes in the air overhead.

Science is too slow for journalism. We need conjecture and controversy, and we need it fast.