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Comment Well, I'll baselessly speculate (Score 2, Informative) 150

From the video that's floating about it's clearly under control and suffering from a lack of power. My money's on bird strike or other FOD ingestion taking out both engines, second place bad fuel or engine oil starvation, third place an undocumented control mode that decided to shut down both engines for *reasons* because lol boeing

Comment Re:The problem is that search is on a downward spi (Score 1) 31

Google actively makes their search results worse because if you have to rephrase your query half a dozen times instead of getting an answer in one like it's 2009 they make 500% more impressions. It's all in the emails that came out in discovery for this lawsuit, check out Ed Zitron's podcast.

Comment See also ESA Annual Debris Report from Monday (Score 1) 31

This seems timed to coordinate with the space debris status report they issue every year. This year's is quite concerning as they have come straight out and said that kessler syndrome is inevitable without active removal of existing, historical space debris *even if we permanently cease all launch activities today*. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.esa.int%2FSpace_Safe...

Comment Re:Coming soon: EEETFTFTFs! (Score 2) 40

They're highly leveraged and rebalance every day, the idea is if the underlying goes up $1 the ETF goes up $5 and vice versa. There's a lot more to be said about the ruinous effect of holding them overnight due to rebalance decay but anyway the firms making these investment vehicles aren't investing in them nor are they concerned by their performance, these exist strictly to generate fees on the trading churn. TL;DR Wall street has been losing too much market share to sports gambling and this is a strategy to correct that.

Comment Re:yeah no shit (Score 1) 163

NOVA classification system. You're mixing different ingredients in an industrial process, some are further processed (roasting), some aren't, adding lots of salt, putting them in a high-convenience packaging. This all adds up to a NOVA Type 4 rated ultraprocessed food. The delta between what these definition mean and what the public thinks they mean is 90% of why this is a problematic, unscientific, woo-woo bullshit label. If people wanna start talking about specific ingredients, or generally foods that are engineered for hyperpalatability, yeah, great, let's go. But the criteria for the "ultra-processed" shorthand is so misaligned with what people think it is that is it dogshit useless.

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