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Comment Re:It sounded exciting, (Score 1) 56

> heart issues such as long QT syndrome

Wikipedia is wrong as usual.

Ibogaine is contraindicated for people with long QT-interval because it temporarily extends it.

This is fine for normal people but not if you already have long QT. It's not hard to see on EKG but some underground clinics don't do the EKG and there have been a few deaths.

There have been no deaths when medically supervised, which is why the Drug Control Act kills people.

Comment Re:Problem sports (Score 1) 56

> but that is as far as you can go in a 'free' society.

Right. That's why taxpayer-funded medical care is incompatible with a free society.

When I can't afford a healthier diet and a gym membership because I'm forced to subsidize others' rock climbing, dirtbike racing, rugby, and junk-food diets, we've totally gone over the cliff.

The whole thing becomes a positive-feedback loop until it detonates.

Spending 20% of GDP on sick-care with ever-worsening results should terrify any thinking person.

Everybody should be able to choose those things but their insurance premiums should reflect it.

Comment Academia (Score 1, Troll) 348

Colleges used to be run by faculty, with administrators as their functionaries.

Now faculty are employees with little say in governance.

Obama's nationalization of student loans has increased the ratio of administrators by 10x by guaranteeing tuition without regard for value.

The faculty are outnumbered and outgunned.

The same thing happened to doctors and hospitals for the same reason and with the same enshittification.

It doesn't have to be this way.

Comment Re: Stupid comparison, apples and bowling balls (Score 1) 267

The difference between a 'personal' charger and a 'commercial' charger is 'is this being used by a person, or by the public.'

It's not different hardware. It might not even be a different firmware, depending on the manufacturer; I know that for my charger, all it takes to make it 'commercial' is to point it's configuration at a payment portal.

Comment Re:Stupid comparison, apples and bowling balls (Score 1) 267

Nope. You're conflating 'the car' with 'the driver.'

You, and your car, spend about ten minutes a week at a gas pump to pump 500 miles of range into your box on wheels.

Your neighbour spends about twenty seconds per week to put 500 miles of range into his box on wheels, which takes his car 12 hours.

Comment Re:Here come the edge cases! (Score 1) 267

Don't bother arguing with Fluffernutter; he's tried to argue in the past that 'clicking climate start in the car's app' is somehow too complicated for the average person to do, and too much hassle, where as climbing into an ice cold ICE car and waiting for the cabin to warm up while you sit there in the driveway is faster, easier, more efficient, and better.

Comment Re:Wall Street Journal (Score 2) 204

> Should anyone really care?

Their opinion pieces are purchased by the MIC, so maybe.

They must be afraid somebody is sniffing around in "their" physics.

We've had government physicists say plainly that MIC R&D has fundamental breakthroughs in topological physics that the public is not privy to.

JWST is discarding "established" cosmological physics theories by the week. This should be celebrated by scientists!

I recently listened to a retired Lockheed guy talking about light propagation theory and in that talk he noted that academic physicists strong resist learning that their "expertise" is in fact in error.

The implication was that non-academic physicists don't have that hangup and move faster.

The trick is the Chinese academic physicists don't have that problem either. The MIC should be terrified about what they have done with their anti-progress psyop. Maybe in 1970 when Chinese were eating salamanders and crickets this was a viable strategy but they failed to adapt to the times.

Comment Re:Solar is the future. (Score 1) 129

> realized that this is the cheapest option.

It's cheaper if the financing an be achieved.

The capital costs for a retrofit are impossible for the 60% of this country who live paycheck-to-paycheck.

Then there's the matter of being responsible for your own energy system maintenance in the highly-distributed model (which is more resilient). Folks with ceiling bird aren't going to.

And of course I can design my own system but many need professional help and it's more difficult than plumbing or residential electric.

I'm slowly adding infrastructure and capacity but that also entails simultaneously paying for grid and offgrid investment which is beyond most.

The grid-scale projects really do mar the landscape and create vulnerabilities (e.g. hail) though the economies of scale are quite nice.

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