Learning as much as one can about how living systems (like the cells and nerves in our bods), react to different influences allows us to make choices.
Rather than the bullshit-yourself-for-comfort, head-in-the-sand (and fart loudly at everybody) approach, which is guaranteed to offer pretty much the worst level of protection, using applied knowledge is a pretty good, non-hysterical option.
-Because, those who are loudly and belligerently opposed to the idea of electrosensitivity can be just as foolish and annoying as any hypochondriac.
But when you do the work and collect the necessary knowledge, you can pick and choose the technologies to keep around your home, you can minimize their influences and keep your personal environment cleaner than it might otherwise be.
I mean.., WD-40 might be toxic, but does that mean you live with rusty hinges? Or do you simply apply it with care and don't spray in on your dishware?
In the instance of house wiring; you can get some unnecessary EM fields if you don't balance the cables correctly. This happens sometimes with improperly installed power outlets. A bit of knowledge applied and a pair of pliers can make a big difference without sending you back to the stone age.
-Because despite the farting Thomases, there are compelling cases on record of adverse reactions resulting from doing things like sleeping in an unnecessary EM field.
I understand why people get all religious about their materialism, and I know people get irrationally blindered when it comes to their addictions, and I know people would rather yell and holler when their egos feel slighted by any criticism they feel touches on their own choices. And I know all of that isn't going away any time soon.
But I've done my homework and I think I'll follow my own nose on this stuff.
These problems are not little items you can put in separate boxes.
This pattern is why you cannot trust any established system. Power and money aggregates into the hands of people who are willing to sell your well-being for profit.
Some are doing it with mustache-twirling evil laughter, but most are just followers with no further interest than seeking pleasure while avoiding pain.
But this exact system is not just replicated, but complicit in every other area of established human endeavor.
This is why government is full of psychopaths, why wars are for-profit lies, why I won't vaccinate my kids, or trust public education, or eat GMO foods, or trust that cell phone tech is safe.
The Free-Market Moonies are wired in the same way as the people who will argue without pause or thought against me on any of my unpopular stances, and they're still wrong. Of course they're wrong. They're choosing to side with a fundamentally broken system, using the sales points given to them by IT; products of a system which creates its own willing slaves.
The only difference with housing is that because it's not a choice, (you have to live somewhere), nobody has bothered to come up with a bunch of lies and corrupt academia in order to convince us to buy into the product.
And to insure that this broken version of reality is not just accepted as the only sensibly way, but belligerently so, the oligarchy install the serves-them philosophy in higher education institutions so that society factory-produces legions of free-market Moonies who, thus programmed, thoughtlessly argue with the Great Wall of Ignorance erected in front of their faces, fighting for the elitist gutting of society.
We see that shit all the time, right here on Slashdot.
Sad fact: the first time and place people "learn" something is in most cases the last word they're willing to hear on the subject.
Updating and expanding one's knowledge structure, killing sacred cows when they turn out to be sacred rats, is apparently a superhuman feat beyond the grasp of the masses.
I recommend if you actually want to know that you go find one. There is a mountain of excellent information available on Google or through your library system.
But I refuse to enable your learning disability by playing the dance you want to dance.
The last move of the denial dance is people essentially closing their eyes and ears, "I won't read that because (insert childish reasoning here)" and not answering any more posts.
If you wanted to know, you'd already know. If you're ignorant, then you don't want to know, and typing "[citation needed]" is just the mechanical way you've learned which allows you to avoid knowledge while pretending to yourself that you're the intelligent one.
no serious scientific study has been able to establish that electrosensitivity exists
How come nobody had the common courtesy of a "simple" double blind experiment?
It's ridiculous to think for even a second that this hasn't happened. Of course there are such studies.
The two key words here are 'serious'. -A qualifier which isn't applied to any study which doesn't support the party line.
-And specifying "electrosensitivity". -Which means tests demonstrating, (for one example), that the blood/brain barrier becomes permeable under exposure to certain low-power frequencies, regardless of its repeatability or implications, is not relevant if the study doesn't specifically look at somebody claiming "electrosensitivity".
Basically, this whole attack is a crock, people being persecuted by science cultists (who don't actually respect science), going far out of their way to persecute people who are disrespectin' their cherished belief system.
Your childishly oversimple world view and pissy rant aside...
I have a friend who just got married. Her legal name changed as a result. She's straight, has no agenda, is a bland, white female who believes the TV news because, "Why would they lie?", doesn't ask questions and is perfectly happy being a father-knows-best vanilla citizen. In her mightiest throes of intellectual dissent, discussion topics rarely stray from the kind of drapes she wants in her house and whether to go with public or private schools when she has kids. She'd probably even agree with your infantile position, though your cuss words might upset her.
But FB is giving her trouble over her last name changing, indicating that their rules and enforcement are stoned.
So long as the power company is able to continue to reliably supply electricity at the rates you currently enjoy, and your income isn't interrupted for unforeseen reasons, and your savings are not destroyed over night for other unforeseen reasons...
You get the picture.
Invest now, and that's one fairly huge thing you don't have to worry about external forces screwing up on your behalf.
Plus, installing solar and tuning your house to run on 12 volts is fun! (It's not like you weren't going to spend it on something else less enduring and less satisfying).
I think if you lend money, you should *have* money and not invent it out of thin air. Silly me.
Working to obtain wealth is noble. But it's a lop-sided equation. The banks do zero work (other than creatively lying) to obtain their money, but the people are expected to do *real* work to pay it back.
Until we understand this fact of life, we will forever think of brave and insightful people who resist their slave owners as criminals when the actual truth is the complete reverse.
The mistake you're making is thinking that somebody else worked to accumulate real money to lend out. That's not what happened. The banks invented that money out of thin air, -without working for it-, (working to obtain wealth is important to you, right?) and laugh as the little monkeys jump around trying to pay it back in a fixed shell game.
Maybe you're just angry because you lacked the insight to see that you were being screwed and didn't get up the courage required to resist the slave master bullies.
How many years of your life have you wasted doing what you were told when really it was all a con-job? Maybe you're angry because his bravery and insight makes you have to look at the fact that you've been made into a chump.
That money was pulled out of thin air via fiat currency slight of hand, same as all currency in existence, and the compound interest makes it mathematically impossible to repay those loans without a whole bunch of people defaulting.
Are those people bad because they happened to not dance quite fast enough in the musical chairs game which is our economy?
That's what happens with a system that instantly creates more debt than there is available money to pay back those 'loans'.
That's how it works. By design.
Personal responsibility is important, sure, but its lack cannot be rationally argued with such a broad brush as being the primary cause, (or even a distant secondary cause), as so many are wont to do.
I don't care how much pressure to be a good citizen is applied; when there's less cash in circulation than there is debt, (by many orders of magnitude), blaming the debtors is short sighted to say the least.
Principled men are prepared to face the consequences, if they truly believe in the righteousness of their actions. (aka Manning)
Oh please.
You're quoting childish emotional logic designed for idiot followers of psychopathic authority figures. The monsters all really appreciate it when you follow their bullshit commands. Would you also "turn the other cheek" and "forgive and forget" as well, because some fairy tale tells you to?
When you *know* 100% for certain that the criminals you out are going to go for your blood, only an idiot gives it to them willingly over some cheesy Hallmark sentiment about what bravery is supposed to mean.
Honestly! You can stay free and continue to broadcast your message, or let the criminals you're outing have their way with you in a rigged system they control.
Hmm.
If you can't see your way through that simple problem, then you're also likely too gullible to have ever been a whistle blower yourself. You have no business judging true heroes like Snowden.
Depends who you fire to "save money", and who you threaten to fire if they don't step in line.
The sciences were ruthlessly cut in Canada and the outcome has been similar. People less concerned with office politics and professional integrity and more concerned with doing good science weren't focused enough on crawling up the sinking bodies of their brethren for air. Only the most survival-oriented of the rats know how to keep the paychecks coming when the lower decks go under.
You can't be good with one hand and evil with the other. You're evil, and any good you do is a psycho's sweet smile to look charming for the cameras. It doesn't work the other way around.
Repeat after me: TESLA HAS INVENTED NOTHING NEW. THIS INCLUDES HYPERLOOPS AND ALL THEIR OTHER SHIT. STOP BUYING INTO THE FUCKING HYPE YOU MORONS.
So, Tesla is basically doing what Apple did, except promoting something which is actually useful and not soul-destroying?
-Not to mention.., instead of building it all in slave factories overseas, Tesla is investing in American labor and technology.
I don't see the reason to wax alarmist here.
I'd still go with lead-acid for home energy storage, (they're uglier, but offer the same cost per kwh at around triple the product life span. Lead-acid is just better chemistry for deep cycle installations.)
But seeing the market shift over to renewables, energy owned by the individual rather than the oligarchy, is a pretty great thing, and Tesla is at the forefront of promoting that into popularity. I'm not going to dump on them for being good at marketing when they're also being good at "human".
Knowledge sources can only be built through networking efforts which actively strive for truth at all cost, self-police of its membership, values multiple viewpoints in the understanding that one person is powerless to perceive reality in its totality, and is prepared to take ego hits as members put truth and knowledge ahead of personal whimsy.
The human world at large is a cauldron, or more accurately, a crucible evidently designed to purify human psyche and spirit. The action of heating and cooling through explosive action and reaction, serves to burn away the impurities over time and allow the desired qualities to slowly crystalize.
The world is a machine. A system. A soul mill.
As it happens, there is a regular and huge amount of low grade human "material" being poured in. Low grade human materials have yet to figure out the core challenge of apprehending and accepting objective reality as it stands, that there is a universe outside of and independent of the self, and that lying at the top of one's lungs, (and keyboards), is ultimately an act of nihilism.
Those that don't learn this, vanish, and those that do, eventually have it burned away.
Wikipedia is open to the whole of the the grist, so it cannot help but be a useless source of noise on any sensitive subject. Essentially, it allows the spiritual equivalent of tantrum-throwing children the same editorial power as wizened elders. How can that possibly become a reliable reservoir of pure knowledge?
This is self-evident and it is surprising that the project for an open encyclopedia was even attempted. It was doomed from the start to be exactly as we see it today.
Yet it serves an object purpose. It was and continues to be an amazing experiment which teaches people the necessity of being vigilant and focused and humble in their search for truth -if they at all want it.
Conversely, it also demonstrates the ultimate futility of trying to control the universe by lying; though this is a more selective lesson which is lost on the liars.
But I have to say, I am sick of this stupid debate.
-It's not to say that I think gays shouldn't be allowed to marry. What I'm saying is that I don't give a hoot. Get finger rings. Adopt kids. Have a great life. Sorry, but I just don't care. I think about the question of yes/no, and I get bored and fed up.
And I know the arguments, "Entitled hetero male. You'd care if YOU were the one who blah, blah, blah".
No, you're not getting it.
It's a make-believe issue which NOBODY should give a fuck about. It's not interesting. It's stupid. The paranoid conservative imbeciles who oppose it are just as tar-balled into caring about this stupid bullshit as those who march in those retarded gay rainbow parades.
No. Wrong. This is not me saying, "Gay Marriage shouldn't be an issue. It should just be. Peace out, bro." -If you think I'm saying that, you are not getting it:
What I am saying is this whole idiot issue is wasting our energy on unimportant fluffy goddamned nonsense while relevant issues are exploding on the world stage around us right now.
"Oh, you would think it was important if you weren't allowed to marry the person YOU loved!"
Fuck off, you compliant, herd-following jack ass. Your tits or cock and what you do with them is BORING. It doesn't matter. Do you think your little orgasm means anything special among the billion orgasms this planet experiences every single fucking day? Do you think your special body issues are fucking relevant to anything? Whether or not you wear pants or a dress is the stupidest non-issue in the universe.
-Yes, your hipster friends have all latched on to the popular-wagon which happens today to be filled with gays and other people who want special attention paid to their unique and special gender issues. -Yes, it's the issue you can get uppity about without the threat of anybody actually telling you to fucking shut up, (fucking Shut Up!), and where the whole crowd is at your back making you feel accepted and part of the gang (so long as you holler the right slogan-du-jour).
But, please.
Somebody make them shut up. Because they are STILL not getting it.
Listen: Marriage is just another make-believe piece of bullshit designed to create exactly this sort of distracting problem. Marriage is a legal fiction. A piece of paper.
Marriage license? A marriage license?? Are you fucking kidding me?
The goddamned state is telling me I need a license to share a bed with a very best friend? Bzzt. Sorry. Fuck off.
Why the hell do people play along with this imbecilic bullshit? Is it because, well, everybody else is following along with the same imbecilic bullshit due to some kind of automatically binding social-contract (which I never fucking signed), so they might as well go along also?
Is it because it's been sold to us through stories about princesses and white dresses since we were tots? Yeah, probably. And I'm sure there are plenty of (blandly sophistic) "compelling" arguments about micro-corporate familial unions and such. -Except if we ran society in a healthy way, we wouldn't need to involve goddamned legal representatives in child rearing. We'd have psychologically healthy parents with psychologically healthy neighbors, and if Daddy gets abusive, we'd beat the shit out of him and leave him on the steppes to dry out. And baby would point at every man and woman in the community and say, "Daddy, Daddy, Daddy, Mommy, Mommy, Mommy" -because we'd all be raising all the kids together.
"But it's not like that! Be realistic. Get with the program!"
Oh dear god, Fuck Off. -Who the hell gave us this "program"? I'll tell you who; the same people who spiked every scrap of media coverage of the last Olympic games with a retarded dose of Gay Activism in an effort to make everybody hate Russia. -Not because anybody at the top levels actually gives a flying
Comet activity seems to cluster during certain points in time. You get very little for thousands of years, and.., and then the sky is on fire for a few decades. -This was not factored into the author's analysis. If you happen to be alive while the Earth is flying through a concentrated cloud of rock, then your chances of being affected goes way up.
There are numerous historical studies which strongly suggest cyclical comet problems encountered by our little planet, and some theoretical mechanics offered which explain why the Earth flies through clouds of rock on a regular basis. A couple of those theories put us squarely in the early stages of just such a comet cluster. Observations of increased activity in our skies would seem to confirm this.
What can we do about it?
Not much.
Well.., some. Some of the problems associated with falling space rocks are not Crash-Boom related. The Black Plague is argued by some to have been related to off-world pathogens; there were many reports during that period of fireballs and similar. In any case, there are ways to mitigate that kind of misery.
Another benefit of knowing that immediate dangers exist is that of kick-in-the-pants inspiration, "Get on with your life! Make it worth while! Time here is unique and valuable!"
Which, I suppose, ought to be the case regardless, but still...
The other reason to not go back to sleep, as the author seems to be promoting as the rational response we should all have, is that falling space rocks are interesting! We paid the price of admission, after all. Why ignore the show?
At 3.5 million U.S. truck operators, it appears that the 1% are actually long haul drivers. Who knew?
Anyway.., your analysis would hold water if, and only if, you remove the banks and the pyramid scheme of geometrically growing interest on their funny money.
All that cheap food is rapidly becoming unaffordable for millions.
Free Marketeers and fans thereof have all forgotten that the Market is here to serve us, not the other way around. When a perfectly logical free market "adjustment" means vast global suffering, it means we're doing something stupid. Just because the math lines up nicely when people die doesn't mean it's the right and only answer to a logistics problem.
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Learning as much as one can about how living systems (like the cells and nerves in our bods), react to different influences allows us to make choices.
Rather than the bullshit-yourself-for-comfort, head-in-the-sand (and fart loudly at everybody) approach, which is guaranteed to offer pretty much the worst level of protection, using applied knowledge is a pretty good, non-hysterical option.
-Because, those who are loudly and belligerently opposed to the idea of electrosensitivity can be just as foolish and annoying as any hypochondriac.
But when you do the work and collect the necessary knowledge, you can pick and choose the technologies to keep around your home, you can minimize their influences and keep your personal environment cleaner than it might otherwise be.
I mean.., WD-40 might be toxic, but does that mean you live with rusty hinges? Or do you simply apply it with care and don't spray in on your dishware?
In the instance of house wiring; you can get some unnecessary EM fields if you don't balance the cables correctly. This happens sometimes with improperly installed power outlets. A bit of knowledge applied and a pair of pliers can make a big difference without sending you back to the stone age.
-Because despite the farting Thomases, there are compelling cases on record of adverse reactions resulting from doing things like sleeping in an unnecessary EM field.
I understand why people get all religious about their materialism, and I know people get irrationally blindered when it comes to their addictions, and I know people would rather yell and holler when their egos feel slighted by any criticism they feel touches on their own choices. And I know all of that isn't going away any time soon.
But I've done my homework and I think I'll follow my own nose on this stuff.
Touché
Why don't they try just eating the fat? (What kind of fat? Saturated? Unsaturated?)
Because if you mix fat with sugar, you're essentially eating food mixed with poison.
But then, as others have pointed out, when you test human diets on tiny herbivores, you're not really contributing anything to the brain trust.
Why not run your tests on cows? They have more stomachs per animal, so you don't need as many! Science can be done faster!
Also.., side note: Protein converts to sugar when you eat more than you need. You don't need much.
These problems are not little items you can put in separate boxes.
This pattern is why you cannot trust any established system. Power and money aggregates into the hands of people who are willing to sell your well-being for profit.
Some are doing it with mustache-twirling evil laughter, but most are just followers with no further interest than seeking pleasure while avoiding pain.
But this exact system is not just replicated, but complicit in every other area of established human endeavor.
This is why government is full of psychopaths, why wars are for-profit lies, why I won't vaccinate my kids, or trust public education, or eat GMO foods, or trust that cell phone tech is safe.
The Free-Market Moonies are wired in the same way as the people who will argue without pause or thought against me on any of my unpopular stances, and they're still wrong. Of course they're wrong. They're choosing to side with a fundamentally broken system, using the sales points given to them by IT; products of a system which creates its own willing slaves.
The only difference with housing is that because it's not a choice, (you have to live somewhere), nobody has bothered to come up with a bunch of lies and corrupt academia in order to convince us to buy into the product.
Exactly.
And to insure that this broken version of reality is not just accepted as the only sensibly way, but belligerently so, the oligarchy install the serves-them philosophy in higher education institutions so that society factory-produces legions of free-market Moonies who, thus programmed, thoughtlessly argue with the Great Wall of Ignorance erected in front of their faces, fighting for the elitist gutting of society.
We see that shit all the time, right here on Slashdot.
Sad fact: the first time and place people "learn" something is in most cases the last word they're willing to hear on the subject.
Updating and expanding one's knowledge structure, killing sacred cows when they turn out to be sacred rats, is apparently a superhuman feat beyond the grasp of the masses.
[citation needed]
Yes it is.
I recommend if you actually want to know that you go find one. There is a mountain of excellent information available on Google or through your library system.
But I refuse to enable your learning disability by playing the dance you want to dance.
The last move of the denial dance is people essentially closing their eyes and ears, "I won't read that because (insert childish reasoning here)" and not answering any more posts.
If you wanted to know, you'd already know. If you're ignorant, then you don't want to know, and typing "[citation needed]" is just the mechanical way you've learned which allows you to avoid knowledge while pretending to yourself that you're the intelligent one.
Um, you're determining my level of definition knowledge based on two short declarative sentences which don't break any grammar rules?
Thanks, Kreskin. I'll take that on advisement.
no serious scientific study has been able to establish that electrosensitivity exists
How come nobody had the common courtesy of a "simple" double blind experiment?
It's ridiculous to think for even a second that this hasn't happened. Of course there are such studies.
The two key words here are 'serious'. -A qualifier which isn't applied to any study which doesn't support the party line.
-And specifying "electrosensitivity". -Which means tests demonstrating, (for one example), that the blood/brain barrier becomes permeable under exposure to certain low-power frequencies, regardless of its repeatability or implications, is not relevant if the study doesn't specifically look at somebody claiming "electrosensitivity".
Basically, this whole attack is a crock, people being persecuted by science cultists (who don't actually respect science), going far out of their way to persecute people who are disrespectin' their cherished belief system.
The Sun creates noise. Cells react to modulated frequencies.
Your childishly oversimple world view and pissy rant aside...
I have a friend who just got married. Her legal name changed as a result. She's straight, has no agenda, is a bland, white female who believes the TV news because, "Why would they lie?", doesn't ask questions and is perfectly happy being a father-knows-best vanilla citizen. In her mightiest throes of intellectual dissent, discussion topics rarely stray from the kind of drapes she wants in her house and whether to go with public or private schools when she has kids. She'd probably even agree with your infantile position, though your cuss words might upset her.
But FB is giving her trouble over her last name changing, indicating that their rules and enforcement are stoned.
How does that fit into your little tantrum?
Russia isn't even in Ukraine, you propagandist's wet dream. You compliant ignoramus.
The only fact you present which appears to have retained any integrity is barely 30 bytes long: "Snowden is sitting in Russia".
Congratulations! Everything else you wrote is 180 degrees twisted from reality.
You septic intellectual appendix.
You and your kind are why children's fingers get blown off by land mines.
Sure.
So long as the power company is able to continue to reliably supply electricity at the rates you currently enjoy, and your income isn't interrupted for unforeseen reasons, and your savings are not destroyed over night for other unforeseen reasons...
You get the picture.
Invest now, and that's one fairly huge thing you don't have to worry about external forces screwing up on your behalf.
Plus, installing solar and tuning your house to run on 12 volts is fun! (It's not like you weren't going to spend it on something else less enduring and less satisfying).
I think if you lend money, you should *have* money and not invent it out of thin air. Silly me.
Working to obtain wealth is noble. But it's a lop-sided equation. The banks do zero work (other than creatively lying) to obtain their money, but the people are expected to do *real* work to pay it back.
Until we understand this fact of life, we will forever think of brave and insightful people who resist their slave owners as criminals when the actual truth is the complete reverse.
Who is he stealing from, exactly?
The mistake you're making is thinking that somebody else worked to accumulate real money to lend out. That's not what happened. The banks invented that money out of thin air, -without working for it-, (working to obtain wealth is important to you, right?) and laugh as the little monkeys jump around trying to pay it back in a fixed shell game.
Maybe you're just angry because you lacked the insight to see that you were being screwed and didn't get up the courage required to resist the slave master bullies.
How many years of your life have you wasted doing what you were told when really it was all a con-job? Maybe you're angry because his bravery and insight makes you have to look at the fact that you've been made into a chump.
Nobody loaned him the money. Get that straight.
That money was pulled out of thin air via fiat currency slight of hand, same as all currency in existence, and the compound interest makes it mathematically impossible to repay those loans without a whole bunch of people defaulting.
Are those people bad because they happened to not dance quite fast enough in the musical chairs game which is our economy?
That's what happens with a system that instantly creates more debt than there is available money to pay back those 'loans'.
That's how it works. By design.
Personal responsibility is important, sure, but its lack cannot be rationally argued with such a broad brush as being the primary cause, (or even a distant secondary cause), as so many are wont to do.
I don't care how much pressure to be a good citizen is applied; when there's less cash in circulation than there is debt, (by many orders of magnitude), blaming the debtors is short sighted to say the least.
Principled men are prepared to face the consequences, if they truly believe in the righteousness of their actions. (aka Manning)
Oh please.
You're quoting childish emotional logic designed for idiot followers of psychopathic authority figures. The monsters all really appreciate it when you follow their bullshit commands. Would you also "turn the other cheek" and "forgive and forget" as well, because some fairy tale tells you to?
When you *know* 100% for certain that the criminals you out are going to go for your blood, only an idiot gives it to them willingly over some cheesy Hallmark sentiment about what bravery is supposed to mean.
Honestly! You can stay free and continue to broadcast your message, or let the criminals you're outing have their way with you in a rigged system they control.
Hmm.
If you can't see your way through that simple problem, then you're also likely too gullible to have ever been a whistle blower yourself. You have no business judging true heroes like Snowden.
Depends who you fire to "save money", and who you threaten to fire if they don't step in line.
The sciences were ruthlessly cut in Canada and the outcome has been similar. People less concerned with office politics and professional integrity and more concerned with doing good science weren't focused enough on crawling up the sinking bodies of their brethren for air. Only the most survival-oriented of the rats know how to keep the paychecks coming when the lower decks go under.
This is the same company in charge of Star Wars.
Keep your hopes down.
You can't be good with one hand and evil with the other. You're evil, and any good you do is a psycho's sweet smile to look charming for the cameras. It doesn't work the other way around.
Repeat after me: TESLA HAS INVENTED NOTHING NEW. THIS INCLUDES HYPERLOOPS AND ALL THEIR OTHER SHIT. STOP BUYING INTO THE FUCKING HYPE YOU MORONS.
So, Tesla is basically doing what Apple did, except promoting something which is actually useful and not soul-destroying?
-Not to mention.., instead of building it all in slave factories overseas, Tesla is investing in American labor and technology.
I don't see the reason to wax alarmist here.
I'd still go with lead-acid for home energy storage, (they're uglier, but offer the same cost per kwh at around triple the product life span. Lead-acid is just better chemistry for deep cycle installations.)
But seeing the market shift over to renewables, energy owned by the individual rather than the oligarchy, is a pretty great thing, and Tesla is at the forefront of promoting that into popularity. I'm not going to dump on them for being good at marketing when they're also being good at "human".
I've always wondered why we don't see any applications using Nitinol.
The stuff has been around since the 70's. It looks really useful and powerful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Humans are the problem.
Knowledge sources can only be built through networking efforts which actively strive for truth at all cost, self-police of its membership, values multiple viewpoints in the understanding that one person is powerless to perceive reality in its totality, and is prepared to take ego hits as members put truth and knowledge ahead of personal whimsy.
The human world at large is a cauldron, or more accurately, a crucible evidently designed to purify human psyche and spirit. The action of heating and cooling through explosive action and reaction, serves to burn away the impurities over time and allow the desired qualities to slowly crystalize.
The world is a machine. A system. A soul mill.
As it happens, there is a regular and huge amount of low grade human "material" being poured in. Low grade human materials have yet to figure out the core challenge of apprehending and accepting objective reality as it stands, that there is a universe outside of and independent of the self, and that lying at the top of one's lungs, (and keyboards), is ultimately an act of nihilism.
Those that don't learn this, vanish, and those that do, eventually have it burned away.
Wikipedia is open to the whole of the the grist, so it cannot help but be a useless source of noise on any sensitive subject. Essentially, it allows the spiritual equivalent of tantrum-throwing children the same editorial power as wizened elders. How can that possibly become a reliable reservoir of pure knowledge?
This is self-evident and it is surprising that the project for an open encyclopedia was even attempted. It was doomed from the start to be exactly as we see it today.
Yet it serves an object purpose. It was and continues to be an amazing experiment which teaches people the necessity of being vigilant and focused and humble in their search for truth -if they at all want it.
Conversely, it also demonstrates the ultimate futility of trying to control the universe by lying; though this is a more selective lesson which is lost on the liars.
Well, obviously, lots of people care.
But I have to say, I am sick of this stupid debate.
-It's not to say that I think gays shouldn't be allowed to marry. What I'm saying is that I don't give a hoot. Get finger rings. Adopt kids. Have a great life. Sorry, but I just don't care. I think about the question of yes/no, and I get bored and fed up.
And I know the arguments, "Entitled hetero male. You'd care if YOU were the one who blah, blah, blah".
No, you're not getting it.
It's a make-believe issue which NOBODY should give a fuck about. It's not interesting. It's stupid. The paranoid conservative imbeciles who oppose it are just as tar-balled into caring about this stupid bullshit as those who march in those retarded gay rainbow parades.
No. Wrong. This is not me saying, "Gay Marriage shouldn't be an issue. It should just be. Peace out, bro." -If you think I'm saying that, you are not getting it:
What I am saying is this whole idiot issue is wasting our energy on unimportant fluffy goddamned nonsense while relevant issues are exploding on the world stage around us right now.
"Oh, you would think it was important if you weren't allowed to marry the person YOU loved!"
Fuck off, you compliant, herd-following jack ass. Your tits or cock and what you do with them is BORING. It doesn't matter. Do you think your little orgasm means anything special among the billion orgasms this planet experiences every single fucking day? Do you think your special body issues are fucking relevant to anything? Whether or not you wear pants or a dress is the stupidest non-issue in the universe.
-Yes, your hipster friends have all latched on to the popular-wagon which happens today to be filled with gays and other people who want special attention paid to their unique and special gender issues. -Yes, it's the issue you can get uppity about without the threat of anybody actually telling you to fucking shut up, (fucking Shut Up!), and where the whole crowd is at your back making you feel accepted and part of the gang (so long as you holler the right slogan-du-jour).
But, please.
Somebody make them shut up. Because they are STILL not getting it.
Listen: Marriage is just another make-believe piece of bullshit designed to create exactly this sort of distracting problem. Marriage is a legal fiction. A piece of paper.
Marriage license? A marriage license?? Are you fucking kidding me?
The goddamned state is telling me I need a license to share a bed with a very best friend? Bzzt. Sorry. Fuck off.
Why the hell do people play along with this imbecilic bullshit? Is it because, well, everybody else is following along with the same imbecilic bullshit due to some kind of automatically binding social-contract (which I never fucking signed), so they might as well go along also?
Is it because it's been sold to us through stories about princesses and white dresses since we were tots? Yeah, probably. And I'm sure there are plenty of (blandly sophistic) "compelling" arguments about micro-corporate familial unions and such. -Except if we ran society in a healthy way, we wouldn't need to involve goddamned legal representatives in child rearing. We'd have psychologically healthy parents with psychologically healthy neighbors, and if Daddy gets abusive, we'd beat the shit out of him and leave him on the steppes to dry out. And baby would point at every man and woman in the community and say, "Daddy, Daddy, Daddy, Mommy, Mommy, Mommy" -because we'd all be raising all the kids together.
"But it's not like that! Be realistic. Get with the program!"
Oh dear god, Fuck Off. -Who the hell gave us this "program"? I'll tell you who; the same people who spiked every scrap of media coverage of the last Olympic games with a retarded dose of Gay Activism in an effort to make everybody hate Russia. -Not because anybody at the top levels actually gives a flying
I don't see the actual harm that microbeads are supposed to cause.
Have you tried looking? Or thinking?
Screw it. You're probably being deliberately stupid in an effort to annoy people. Mission accomplished.
I recommend you switch your diet to foods contaminated with microscopic bits of plastic.
Comet activity seems to cluster during certain points in time. You get very little for thousands of years, and.., and then the sky is on fire for a few decades. -This was not factored into the author's analysis. If you happen to be alive while the Earth is flying through a concentrated cloud of rock, then your chances of being affected goes way up.
There are numerous historical studies which strongly suggest cyclical comet problems encountered by our little planet, and some theoretical mechanics offered which explain why the Earth flies through clouds of rock on a regular basis. A couple of those theories put us squarely in the early stages of just such a comet cluster. Observations of increased activity in our skies would seem to confirm this.
What can we do about it?
Not much.
Well.., some. Some of the problems associated with falling space rocks are not Crash-Boom related. The Black Plague is argued by some to have been related to off-world pathogens; there were many reports during that period of fireballs and similar. In any case, there are ways to mitigate that kind of misery.
Another benefit of knowing that immediate dangers exist is that of kick-in-the-pants inspiration, "Get on with your life! Make it worth while! Time here is unique and valuable!"
Which, I suppose, ought to be the case regardless, but still...
The other reason to not go back to sleep, as the author seems to be promoting as the rational response we should all have, is that falling space rocks are interesting! We paid the price of admission, after all. Why ignore the show?
At 3.5 million U.S. truck operators, it appears that the 1% are actually long haul drivers. Who knew?
Anyway.., your analysis would hold water if, and only if, you remove the banks and the pyramid scheme of geometrically growing interest on their funny money.
All that cheap food is rapidly becoming unaffordable for millions.
Free Marketeers and fans thereof have all forgotten that the Market is here to serve us, not the other way around. When a perfectly logical free market "adjustment" means vast global suffering, it means we're doing something stupid. Just because the math lines up nicely when people die doesn't mean it's the right and only answer to a logistics problem.