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Comment Re:They don't remaster to make 'em sound better (Score 2) 259

You are mistaken, that is not what remastering means. Remastering (just like the original mastering process) only has access to the full stereo mix of the recording (notwithstanding the Dolby Atmos 3D mix nonsense newer productions are mixed down to), so there is no way of getting rid of part of the recording. It's really just putting the final touches on a recording. What you are confusing this with is rerecording of older tracks and even whole albums, like Taylor Swift did to reclaim her royalties.

Disclaimer: With new technologies, all of the above is in flux, of course, and possibly also in jeopardy. You can manipulate stereo mixes in a lot more ways digitally than you could ever before, what with stem separation and similar stuff. Bee Gees recordings getting autotuned upon rerelease, and so on. A real shame. You CAN replace drum or bass tracks by better sounding versions, sure. But that would not be a remaster, it is a reworked track.

Comment Re:Yeah... Try terraforming the desert on earth fi (Score 1) 159

Been there, done that. Just take a look at Israel, or China. Do you mean at a larger scale, like the whole Sahara / Mojave / Australian Outback? I think we will eventually see proposals for that as a way to bind some CO2 (if you can solve the irrigation problem and ensure the new forests don't burn down every year).

Comment That ship has been sinking for years (Score 1) 181

Mozilla has jumped the shark a few years back when they moved to that other engine that made 90% of the addons unusable (batch downloaders, GreaseMonkey, and so on). I'm still using FF as my main browser, because I need my plugins, but it's version 52 (the last one before the change). For the (ever increasing) number of websites that refuse to load or work in it, I am using Chrome.

Comment Re:Humans are good at this... (Score 1) 636

"Here lies Joe Biker, he had the right of way."

Although that does happen, the more likely version is, "Here lies Joe Biker, he thought he had the right of way." Bikers on the sidewalk. On the wrong side of the street. After dusk with no lights on. Claiming they have the right of way, of course. Daily experience in Germany.

Comment Re:Look for the agenda (Score 5, Informative) 216

I know you're trolling, but allow me to bite: Vegan doctrine doesn't include fasting, moreover, vegans love carbs and get fat if they don't also afford a nutrition coach. Muslims don't know the first thing about fasting, Ramadan is a joke: not even water during daytime, only to eat triple the normal daily amount all night long is NOT intermittent fasting, it's binge eating with a cooldown phase.

Keto and fasting (comes naturally, the hunger just goes away) for the win, and you can keep eating those steaks. But throw away the potato.

Comment Re: Should be simple enough to try it on animals f (Score 1) 646

And why not simply use carbon monoxide (CO), instead? It's even cheaper to make, there is no panic nor suffocation, but you just fall asleep, to never wake up again. And if injections are too costly, why not just inject air into the bloodstream (that would probably be a horrible death, but electrocution is not exactly euthanasia either), or cut some arteries and let them bleed to death?

Comment Re: In before... (Score 1) 294

Type 1 diabetes is rare, and type 2 diabetes is the more common syndrome, growing rapidly among your fellow citizens, strongly correlated to their ever growing waist diameters, which is the type I was obviously talking about. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

If there is, as you say, "cumulative damage from high blood sugar and the danger of passing out *or dying* from low blood sugar," then simply going keto will probably remove that danger from your life. Keep those glucose levels low in the first place.

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