I love it. I likely browse it more than any other website. Sort of like when I used to read no "books", but I'd browse physical encyclopedias. It is 99% perfect I'd wager.
On second reading/thought, I guess some sea creatures like krill or something are probably more abundant across the planet. But anyway, that crazy sighting with trillions of individuals is some king of impressive and scary.
Please double check your sources on the eggs, Wikipedia seems to disagree. Wikipedia with references is saying that the Rocky Mountain Locusts, at least, laid eggs at high altitudes and the prairies were just where they sometimes spread to. They went from possibly the most abundant species of animal in the world to extinct in 30 years... around 1902, and nobody has proved exactly why I take it.
" with one famous sighting in 1875 estimated at 198,000 square miles (510,000 km2) in size (greater than the area of California), weighing 27.5 million tons and consisting of some 12.5 trillion insects, the greatest concentration of animals ever speculatively guessed, according to Guinness World Records.[2]"
"The first mention of Melanoplus spretus appears in 1887 in publications by S.H. Scudder.[6][7] Although the name "Rocky Mountain locust" was thought to have been given to this species following recovery of specimens washing off from Rocky Mountains glaciers in recent years, particularly from the Grasshopper Glacier, the name was given to the species, while it was still extant, after it had been established that the true habitat and breeding site of the species is high on the Rocky Mountains. The species is reported to have descended from the Rocky Mountains to the prairie in large numbers only in certain years, particularly in dry seasons, following westward wind currents. Outbreaks usually lasted two consecutive years. Although a great number of eggs were laid on the prairie during outbreak years, individuals hatched from these eggs usually did not thrive, a condition that has been attributed to the lack of adaptation of this species to prairie habitats"
Certain things even the most "don't give a rat's" attitude general public are creeped about about. Having random people tracking you down physically might just be one of them.
I'm using the article's link.:) Found that pretty interesting in itself, very much so. I did catch one mistake in my post(s), it was 8.5% of under 65 that sent fake news.
And this if funny too... on another site they talk about parties. 4% of dems and 18% of republicans shared fake news... saying due to Trump stuff.
And then on Fox News, they have a partial article that totally omits the 4% dems vs. 18% repubs. I find it hilarious, as more of a moderate myself, that Fox would leave out that stat but post most of the rest. The biased news on both sides is just sad... you have to laugh some so you don't cry. Anyway, stop reading the news, it'll ruin your day!
Check the article, only 3% more old people did the fake news sharing than the other groups. 11% of old people shared fake stuff, 8% of 0-65 age group shared fake stuff. And they said it wasn't race, party affiliation, or any of that... just age.
So if you are over 65 and on Facebook, you are reading and sharing news. A lot of it is fake apparently. Is that just because you are sharing tons of news in general?
If you are less than 65, you are on Facebook to do other things rather than mostly deal with news info... like post photos of yourself or snoop on your friends and family... maybe play Facebook video games that give PC viruses.
The study's stats are kind of weird... only 49% of the people agreed to let their profile be looked at. After that, they say 11% of oldies shared fake stuff, whereas 8% of non-over-65 people shared. Of those 11% of oldies over 65, apparently they shared twice as much fake news as the 45-65 category, and 7 times as much as the younger generation. But... do people under 30 even care about news? My guess is most do not and share NO "news" articles.
This is interesting... I've been wondering if there are sites that "usually do fake news"... and they say yes. If you look on the article, it links to this https://docs.google.com/spread...
Which says all the well known names are doing real news: Washington Post, Huffington Post, New York Post, New York times, CNN,Wall Street Journal,Vox,FOX News,New York times, New Yor Daily News, NBC News
These guys apparently often do fake news:
Ending the Fed The Political Insider Denver Guardian World News Daily Report Conservative State Burrard Street Journal abcnews.com.co Liberty News Yes I'm Right Twitchy World News Daily Report World Politic US USA Newsflash Breitbart Donald Trump News World Politic US
Winning Democrats DC Clothesline Departed.co Every News Here Biz Standard News Burrard Street Journal American News Biz Standard News NC Scooper American News Conservative Tribune Heavier Metal Empire News National Report YourNewswire Heavier Metal YourNewswire United Media Publishing Heavier Metal Adobo Chronicles
American Military News Reel News Network Empire News LGBTQ Nation The News Nerd Celebricity The Political Insider Daily Currant National Report Superstation95 Celebricity USA Daily Politics World News Daily Report TMZ Hip Hop USA News Flash Satira Tribune NC Scooper Satira Tribunes National Report
Chromebooks are SLLLLOOOOOWWWWWW. My kid has one for school... whenever I help, I end up using my 5 year old gaming desktop which is about 1 billion times faster when I have more than 3 tabs open in a browser.
I do something fairly similar. I think it's some scientist gene that makes you want to store and categorize things so knowledge isn't lost. At least that is what I tell myself. And when it's too tedious to sort well, I at least just save it somewhere.
In summary, eating lots of processed meats is linked to certain cancers (might be related to nitrates/nitrites, might not). Lots of vegetables contain tons of nitrates, but cooking them doesn't produce the bad stuff. The problem is
Quote:
"When nitrites are exposed to high heat, in the presence of amino acids, they can turn into compounds called nitrosamines.
There are many different types of nitrosamines... and most of them are potent carcinogens (26).
They are among the main carcinogens in tobacco smoke, for example.
Because most bacon, hot dogs and processed meat tend to be high in sodium nitrite and they're high protein foods (a source of amino acids), exposing them to high heat creates the perfect conditions for nitrosamine formation (27)."
There is absolutely no good reason to keep Autorun on USB devices as a thing. People just need to learn to open Windows Explorer, and browse to an.exe to run if they need to install something. If it is drivers they are worried about, then provide simple steps on the device in print for where to download drivers. That is it, end-stop-goodbye.
The only way it could be implemented right is "click this box to pay $100 bucks extra to never ever be tracked by Google." Why is that not an option yet? I guess because either they are bastards, which is possible, or maybe there is no easy button to not get tracked... they have it spread out over 1000 ways... settings in apps, settings in phone, websites and more websites.
My thought is, the social situation which encourages friends counterbalances the individual's fear of doing something. In a perfect situation, this means that you don't venture out on your own and die from a mammoth that easily runs you down. But when all of your buddies tell each other that it won't be so bad, then the group goes, and you kill yourself a mammoth and eat it.
In the modern world, sometimes this translates to the cinnamon challenge and people choke to death on yummy spices. But hey, at least it helps sometimes.
One site says 1/4 of Americans use drugs that increase suicide risk. HELLO, could it be the fucking big pharma bastards killing people off?!
"Hey are you depressed and want some medicine to feel better? Here take this, it makes you care about nothing, including your own life."
Pretty sure some illegal drugs do the same damn thing. People need to stop taking shit and go outside more, hang with your family more, be a normal human more.
So we still have dirty sounding translations into English like "Dong" for a name. Why? The current trend in romanizing of Chinese is to translate something that sounds like "sheh sheh" which means thank you, into "xiè xie". You have to study Chinese Mandarin in college for 6 months before you'll ever know how to pronounce this stuff now.
I like the way they translated stuff back in the 1960s. You know, Jackie Chan can be said by anybody in an English speaking place just by looking at the name, and it is close enough. Jackie Chan born today would probably be translated to something like Jackie "Xzyingx" now. Jet Li into Jet "Kiuahz" no doubt. Yet Dong Suk probably still translates to "Dong Suk". WHY? Something to do with Zhuyin vs. Pinyin I guess. Annoys me to no end. Every other language that gets translated into English at least has some basis for picking the damn letters that are close enough in sound.
It sure sounds like a really good way for animals to learn what is deadly and what to avoid. If you run into deer where hunters kill them, they are scared of people. If you see deer in a park where people feed them by hand, they trust people. Do their offspring get some of this response via the mechanisms in the study? I bet they do at least by some degree.
Born in the 70's, I was big into the Star Wars toys and some other toys around that era. My parents let us get some, but never could we get enough. For half of the stuff I couldn't get, I would keep old Sears catalogs to look at the pictures and pine for them. Until my asshole (read: probably completely reasonable and sensible) dad through the old catalogs away... the heartless son of a bitch!
Well with the www, we will always have access to old picts of old toys, so I doubt any kids are going to drool over these catalogs. Or will they?
Yes, more daylight is good for people of all ages going to school and work. If DST goes away, it would have to be replaced with laws that tried to tell businesses when people could work... and that is never going to be popular.
The females had heart cancer just like the males... like 5% of them or something. The pregnant and baby rats had low body weights. But then the exposed male rats lived longer... so something weird is going on there.
"Did NTP find health effects other than cancer? NTP found lower body weights among newborn rats and their mothers, especially when exposed to high levels of RFR during pregnancy and lactation, yet these animals grew to normal size. "
"In addition to seeing tumors in the male rats with higher exposures to RFR, NTP scientists also observed other changes in the hearts of exposed male and female rats that supported their conclusions. The evidence for tumors in the brain and adrenal glands was not as strong as what NTP scientists saw in the heart. However, the type of brain cancer observed is similar to a type of brain tumor linked to heavy cell phone use in some human studies. 3"
"NTP found longer lifespans among the exposed male rats. This may be explained by an observed decrease in chronic kidney problems that are often the cause of death in older rats."
However, the studies question the long-held assumption that radio frequency radiation is of no concern as long as the energy level is low and does not significantly heat the tissues. Did NTP find health effects other than cancer? NTP found lower body weights among newborn rats and their mothers, especially when exposed to high levels of RFR during pregnancy and lactation, yet these animals grew to normal size.
What factors contributed to the NTP conclusions? In addition to seeing tumors in the male rats with higher exposures to RFR, NTP scientists also observed other changes in the hearts of exposed male and female rats that supported their conclusions.
The evidence for tumors in the brain and adrenal glands was not as strong as what NTP scientists saw in the heart. However, the type of brain cancer observed is similar to a type of brain tumor linked to heavy cell phone use in some human studies. 3
As a person born in the 1970s, this totally fucking bums me out. It is so bad it makes me want to change my career, stop eating meat, and teach my kids that animals don't matter because they are all going to die out. I'm not going to do any of those three things in reality, but what the hell can a guy do to actually make a difference? SSSHIIIIIITTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!
Wiping out animals that are threats? I guess that'd be other humans then, they are the main competition and threat to you and your kids and their kids. Everybody better start having less children and fast.
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I love it. I likely browse it more than any other website. Sort of like when I used to read no "books", but I'd browse physical encyclopedias. It is 99% perfect I'd wager.
Definitely so. Life, even insect life, is often fragile. I was shocked to read of something so prolific to become extinct so quickly... very freaky.
On second reading/thought, I guess some sea creatures like krill or something are probably more abundant across the planet. But anyway, that crazy sighting with trillions of individuals is some king of impressive and scary.
Please double check your sources on the eggs, Wikipedia seems to disagree. Wikipedia with references is saying that the Rocky Mountain Locusts, at least, laid eggs at high altitudes and the prairies were just where they sometimes spread to. They went from possibly the most abundant species of animal in the world to extinct in 30 years... around 1902, and nobody has proved exactly why I take it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
" with one famous sighting in 1875 estimated at 198,000 square miles (510,000 km2) in size (greater than the area of California), weighing 27.5 million tons and consisting of some 12.5 trillion insects, the greatest concentration of animals ever speculatively guessed, according to Guinness World Records.[2]"
"The first mention of Melanoplus spretus appears in 1887 in publications by S.H. Scudder.[6][7] Although the name "Rocky Mountain locust" was thought to have been given to this species following recovery of specimens washing off from Rocky Mountains glaciers in recent years, particularly from the Grasshopper Glacier, the name was given to the species, while it was still extant, after it had been established that the true habitat and breeding site of the species is high on the Rocky Mountains. The species is reported to have descended from the Rocky Mountains to the prairie in large numbers only in certain years, particularly in dry seasons, following westward wind currents. Outbreaks usually lasted two consecutive years. Although a great number of eggs were laid on the prairie during outbreak years, individuals hatched from these eggs usually did not thrive, a condition that has been attributed to the lack of adaptation of this species to prairie habitats"
Certain things even the most "don't give a rat's" attitude general public are creeped about about. Having random people tracking you down physically might just be one of them.
I'm using the article's link. :) Found that pretty interesting in itself, very much so.
I did catch one mistake in my post(s), it was 8.5% of under 65 that sent fake news.
And this if funny too... on another site they talk about parties. 4% of dems and 18% of republicans shared fake news... saying due to Trump stuff.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/...
And then on Fox News, they have a partial article that totally omits the 4% dems vs. 18% repubs. I find it hilarious, as more of a moderate myself, that Fox would leave out that stat but post most of the rest. The biased news on both sides is just sad... you have to laugh some so you don't cry. Anyway, stop reading the news, it'll ruin your day!
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/f...
Check the article, only 3% more old people did the fake news sharing than the other groups. 11% of old people shared fake stuff, 8% of 0-65 age group shared fake stuff. And they said it wasn't race, party affiliation, or any of that... just age.
So if you are over 65 and on Facebook, you are reading and sharing news. A lot of it is fake apparently. Is that just because you are sharing tons of news in general?
If you are less than 65, you are on Facebook to do other things rather than mostly deal with news info... like post photos of yourself or snoop on your friends and family... maybe play Facebook video games that give PC viruses.
The study's stats are kind of weird... only 49% of the people agreed to let their profile be looked at. After that, they say 11% of oldies shared fake stuff, whereas 8% of non-over-65 people shared. Of those 11% of oldies over 65, apparently they shared twice as much fake news as the 45-65 category, and 7 times as much as the younger generation. But ... do people under 30 even care about news? My guess is most do not and share NO "news" articles.
This is interesting... I've been wondering if there are sites that "usually do fake news"... and they say yes. If you look on the article, it links to this
https://docs.google.com/spread...
Which says all the well known names are doing real news:
Washington Post, Huffington Post, New York Post, New York times, CNN,Wall Street Journal,Vox,FOX News,New York times, New Yor Daily News, NBC News
These guys apparently often do fake news:
Ending the Fed
The Political Insider
Denver Guardian
World News Daily Report
Conservative State
Burrard Street Journal
abcnews.com.co
Liberty News
Yes I'm Right
Twitchy
World News Daily Report
World Politic US
USA Newsflash
Breitbart
Donald Trump News
World Politic US
Winning Democrats
DC Clothesline
Departed.co
Every News Here
Biz Standard News
Burrard Street Journal
American News
Biz Standard News
NC Scooper
American News
Conservative Tribune
Heavier Metal
Empire News
National Report
YourNewswire
Heavier Metal
YourNewswire
United Media Publishing
Heavier Metal
Adobo Chronicles
American Military News
Reel News Network
Empire News
LGBTQ Nation
The News Nerd
Celebricity
The Political Insider
Daily Currant
National Report
Superstation95
Celebricity
USA Daily Politics
World News Daily Report
TMZ Hip Hop
USA News Flash
Satira Tribune
NC Scooper
Satira Tribunes
National Report
As for razors, get the ones with 2 blades, not the 4 blades they push nowadays. The 2 blades kind stay comfortable for waaaay longer for some reason.
Smart TVs... yeah I hate being spied on. They are obviously making way more money than they let on, otherwise they wouldn't have bothered.
Chromebooks are SLLLLOOOOOWWWWWW. My kid has one for school... whenever I help, I end up using my 5 year old gaming desktop which is about 1 billion times faster when I have more than 3 tabs open in a browser.
I do something fairly similar. I think it's some scientist gene that makes you want to store and categorize things so knowledge isn't lost. At least that is what I tell myself. And when it's too tedious to sort well, I at least just save it somewhere.
After googling this stuff and hitting 8 websites, this one seems to be the most informative.
https://www.healthline.com/nut...
In summary, eating lots of processed meats is linked to certain cancers (might be related to nitrates/nitrites, might not). Lots of vegetables contain tons of nitrates, but cooking them doesn't produce the bad stuff. The problem is
Quote:
"When nitrites are exposed to high heat, in the presence of amino acids, they can turn into compounds called nitrosamines.
There are many different types of nitrosamines... and most of them are potent carcinogens (26).
They are among the main carcinogens in tobacco smoke, for example.
Because most bacon, hot dogs and processed meat tend to be high in sodium nitrite and they're high protein foods (a source of amino acids), exposing them to high heat creates the perfect conditions for nitrosamine formation (27)."
There is absolutely no good reason to keep Autorun on USB devices as a thing. People just need to learn to open Windows Explorer, and browse to an .exe to run if they need to install something. If it is drivers they are worried about, then provide simple steps on the device in print for where to download drivers. That is it, end-stop-goodbye.
The only way it could be implemented right is "click this box to pay $100 bucks extra to never ever be tracked by Google." Why is that not an option yet? I guess because either they are bastards, which is possible, or maybe there is no easy button to not get tracked... they have it spread out over 1000 ways ... settings in apps, settings in phone, websites and more websites.
My thought is, the social situation which encourages friends counterbalances the individual's fear of doing something. In a perfect situation, this means that you don't venture out on your own and die from a mammoth that easily runs you down. But when all of your buddies tell each other that it won't be so bad, then the group goes, and you kill yourself a mammoth and eat it.
In the modern world, sometimes this translates to the cinnamon challenge and people choke to death on yummy spices. But hey, at least it helps sometimes.
One site says 1/4 of Americans use drugs that increase suicide risk. HELLO, could it be the fucking big pharma bastards killing people off?!
"Hey are you depressed and want some medicine to feel better? Here take this, it makes you care about nothing, including your own life."
Pretty sure some illegal drugs do the same damn thing. People need to stop taking shit and go outside more, hang with your family more, be a normal human more.
https://www.vox.com/science-an...
https://www.drugwatch.com/ssri...
Maybe if they paid their accountants more, or hired more of them so they weren't overwhelmed, less companies would be losing money to criminals.
So we still have dirty sounding translations into English like "Dong" for a name. Why? The current trend in romanizing of Chinese is to translate something that sounds like "sheh sheh" which means thank you, into "xiè xie". You have to study Chinese Mandarin in college for 6 months before you'll ever know how to pronounce this stuff now.
I like the way they translated stuff back in the 1960s. You know, Jackie Chan can be said by anybody in an English speaking place just by looking at the name, and it is close enough. Jackie Chan born today would probably be translated to something like Jackie "Xzyingx" now. Jet Li into Jet "Kiuahz" no doubt. Yet Dong Suk probably still translates to "Dong Suk". WHY? Something to do with Zhuyin vs. Pinyin I guess. Annoys me to no end. Every other language that gets translated into English at least has some basis for picking the damn letters that are close enough in sound.
It sure sounds like a really good way for animals to learn what is deadly and what to avoid. If you run into deer where hunters kill them, they are scared of people. If you see deer in a park where people feed them by hand, they trust people. Do their offspring get some of this response via the mechanisms in the study? I bet they do at least by some degree.
Born in the 70's, I was big into the Star Wars toys and some other toys around that era. My parents let us get some, but never could we get enough. For half of the stuff I couldn't get, I would keep old Sears catalogs to look at the pictures and pine for them. Until my asshole (read: probably completely reasonable and sensible) dad through the old catalogs away... the heartless son of a bitch!
Well with the www, we will always have access to old picts of old toys, so I doubt any kids are going to drool over these catalogs. Or will they?
Yes, more daylight is good for people of all ages going to school and work. If DST goes away, it would have to be replaced with laws that tried to tell businesses when people could work... and that is never going to be popular.
The females had heart cancer just like the males... like 5% of them or something. The pregnant and baby rats had low body weights. But then the exposed male rats lived longer... so something weird is going on there.
"Did NTP find health effects other than cancer?
NTP found lower body weights among newborn
rats and their mothers, especially when exposed to
high levels of RFR during pregnancy and lactation,
yet these animals grew to normal size. "
"In addition to seeing tumors in the male rats with
higher exposures to RFR, NTP scientists also observed
other changes in the hearts of exposed male and
female rats that supported their conclusions.
The evidence for tumors in the brain and adrenal
glands was not as strong as what NTP scientists
saw in the heart. However, the type of brain cancer
observed is similar to a type of brain tumor linked to
heavy cell phone use in some human studies. 3"
"NTP found longer lifespans among the exposed
male rats. This may be explained by an observed
decrease in chronic kidney problems that are often
the cause of death in older rats."
"the type of brain cancer
observed is similar to a type of brain tumor linked to
heavy cell phone use in some human studies."
From the article: https://www.niehs.nih.gov/heal...
However, the studies question the long-held
assumption that radio frequency radiation is of
no concern as long as the energy level is low and
does not significantly heat the tissues.
Did NTP find health effects other than cancer?
NTP found lower body weights among newborn
rats and their mothers, especially when exposed to
high levels of RFR during pregnancy and lactation,
yet these animals grew to normal size.
What factors contributed to the NTP conclusions?
In addition to seeing tumors in the male rats with
higher exposures to RFR, NTP scientists also observed
other changes in the hearts of exposed male and
female rats that supported their conclusions.
The evidence for tumors in the brain and adrenal
glands was not as strong as what NTP scientists
saw in the heart. However, the type of brain cancer
observed is similar to a type of brain tumor linked to
heavy cell phone use in some human studies.
3
As a person born in the 1970s, this totally fucking bums me out. It is so bad it makes me want to change my career, stop eating meat, and teach my kids that animals don't matter because they are all going to die out. I'm not going to do any of those three things in reality, but what the hell can a guy do to actually make a difference? SSSHIIIIIITTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!
Wiping out animals that are threats? I guess that'd be other humans then, they are the main competition and threat to you and your kids and their kids. Everybody better start having less children and fast.