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Comment Re:Trump Trying to Silence CNN (Score 1) 133

Imagine believing this when there are actual studies that show that Trump coverage is over 90% negative in US.

Imagine reading a study that was conducted by partisan group whose mission is expose "liberal bias in media" that cherry-picked a narrow band of reporting over a sliver of time and expanding that to a statement that implies that's the reality across the entire country.

Comment Re:Trump Trying to Silence CNN (Score 1) 133

ABC is heavily owned by conservatives

My understanding is that ABC the producer is generally liberal-leaning, but the broadcasters (a-la Sinclair) are generally Conservative owned. I would be happy to be given a more accurate one-liner.

what the fuck is MS-now

MSNBC re-incarnated.

Comment Re:Economic terrorism (Score 1) 133

You can not convince me that, after sleeping on this issue for five years, the democratic party now has had a change of heart and is willing to confront the truth

The fact that they got EVERY Democrat, and several Republicans in the House, to force the release of files doesn't give you a hint that they are willing to throw their own to the wolves? Yes, had the Republicans not used it as campaign red meat, the whole thing probably would have died on the vine. Can't really blame the Democrats for that one. I am a Democrat, you can add me to the "I don't give a fuck who's on the list" list.

The time for clinging to these rotting parties and pearl clutching over red-politician-bad, blue-megadonor-good, is over.

You'll get no counter-argument from me on that.

Comment Re:Sounds like an export tax. (Score 1) 95

Only if NVidia chooses to make such a case.

Greed is never satiated.

But they won't, because 1) NVidia gets to sell stuff that previously they couldn't,

After exports start, they will have established the basis that their product is not a threat to national security. This will give them all the leverage they need to file a suit against the US government.

2) Huang (like the whole tech sector) is such best buds with the President these days.

No because greed is never satiated.

Comment Re:so NFTs but even dumber (Score 1) 51

if one of the Base Ball card companies decided to print more TreyYesavage 2025 season cards, in 2032.

I can't imagine anyone doing anything like that. Oh. Nvm. The Pokemon card thing is quite literally the same thing as the baseball card thing, no matter how much you try and "yes, but" it.

There is basically zero intrinsic value in either of them. None. Zero. Zilch. The value is in the intentional rarity. And if Topps (or Pokemon) were to re-print a vintage card because it got popular, that's entirely there prerogative. There are entire industries built around answering the "is this a 19xx Micky Mantle Original or a 20xx Micky Mantle re-print".

Comment Sounds like an export tax. (Score 5, Interesting) 95

I'm no lawyer but this sounds suspiciously like an export tax. I think Nvidia now has a solid case that A) it's illegal (only congress can tax stuff, right?) and that B) a ban is unwarranted because of the attempted illegal export tax.

Kinda seems like the grifter just shot himself in the foot again.

Submission + - Fish-inspired filter removes 99% of microplastics from washing machine wastewate (techxplore.com)

schwit1 writes: Some fish feed by means of filtration; these include, for example, mackerel, sardines, and anchovies. They swim through the water with their mouths open and sift out the plankton with their gill arch system. "We took a closer look at the construction of this system and used it as the model for developing a filter that can be used in washing machines," says Blanke, who is a member of the transdisciplinary research areas Life & Health and Sustainable Futures at the University of Bonn.

During their evolution, these fish have developed a technique similar to cross-flow filtration. Their gill arch system is shaped like a funnel that is widest at the fish's mouth and tapers towards their gullet. The walls of the funnel are shaped by the branchial arches. These feature comb-like structures, the arches, which are themselves covered in small teeth. This creates a kind of mesh that is stretched by the branchial arches.

The filter element in the center imitates the gill arch system of the fish. The filter housing enables periodic cleaning and installation in washing machines.

"During food intake, the water flows through the permeable funnel wall, is filtered, and the particle-free water is then released back into the environment via the gills," explains Blanke. "However, the plankton is too big for this; it is held back by the natural sieve structure. Thanks to the funnel shape, it then rolls toward the gullet, where it is collected until the fish swallows, which empties and cleans the system."

This principle prevents the filter from being blocked—instead of hitting the filter head-on, the fibers roll along it toward the gullet. The process is also highly effective, as it removes almost all of the plankton from the water. Both are aspects that a microplastic filter must also be able to deliver. The researchers thus replicated the gill arch system. In doing so, they varied both the mesh size of the sieve structure and the opening angle of the funnel.

"We have thus found a combination of parameters that enable our filter to separate more than 99% of the microplastics out of the water but not become blocked," says Hamann. To achieve this, the team used not only experiments but also computer simulations. The filter modeled on nature does not contain any elaborate mechanics and should thus be very inexpensive to manufacture.

The microplastics that it filters out of the washing water collect in the filter outlet and are then suctioned away several times a minute. According to the researcher, who has now moved to the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, they could then, for example, be pressed in the machine to remove the remaining water. The plastic pellet created in this manner could then be removed every few dozen washes and disposed of with general waste.

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