LetThereBeNick

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[–] LetThereBeNick@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 minutes ago

You mean it's not 50 trillion consoles? Enough for everyone on the planet to have 6,000? Damn.

[–] LetThereBeNick@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago

It is our warrior tribe's right of passage. To become a man, each boy of age must spend five nights in the god spears.

[–] LetThereBeNick@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was excited to use a magnetic car mount with wireless charging, then discovered that every bump in the road jiggles the contacts and produces error messages on my phone

[–] LetThereBeNick@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

You could take genes out of the picture and the story would hold. Just assume people raised by impulsive parents distracted by 8 other kids are more likely to repeat the cycle. Contrary to supporting eugenics, that idea is inclusive and powers progressive welfare reform.

[–] LetThereBeNick@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Reddit is gamed like that. Even before LLMs there were highly active users that caught bans for using multiple accounts to boost all their posts.

Facebook didn't catch on in a similar way, because people didn't have personal feeds yet. The way startups are funded now seems to follow your model though. Decisions on high about what people should see/want.

[–] LetThereBeNick@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

More housing ≠ more people. We aren't going back to a 3+ child average unless a lot of other things change

[–] LetThereBeNick@lemmy.zip 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

How sure can you be that DME bought on amazon will leave no residues? Are there food grade solvents anyone can buy?

[–] LetThereBeNick@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 days ago

Two photon microscopy doesn't even think about them at all.

[–] LetThereBeNick@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago

TechnologyConnections yt channel. I see his video on dishwashers mentioned a lot.

[–] LetThereBeNick@lemmy.zip 18 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I'll always remember chatting with a guy at the airport who asked what I was in grad school for. Unexpectedly, he was thrilled to talk about neuroscience, and asked what I thought of a recent study. Some researchers had put dogs in fMRI to "prove" that dogs can feel love.

[–] LetThereBeNick@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Szechuan peppercorns. They do not contain capsaicin, but produce a vanilloid drug that opens potassium leak channels in your mouth, preferentially in the fine touch afferents. When you eat szechuan spice these neurons misfire and tell your brain that you are sensing a rapid, fluttery (50Hz) vibration.

Also called Chinese prickly ash, these trees are not related to chili peppers or black pepper, but are instead very small citrus fruit. Fears over them introducing citrus blight led to a ban on imports to the US that was only overturned in 2005. Since then, people like me have been discovering how good they are in pasta sauce.

[–] LetThereBeNick@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago

There is good reason to limit off-target drug delivery, to minimize side effects in tissues that don't need exposure to the drug.

  • Is the oral route more effective than topical?
  • What are the systemic effects of the oral med?
  • Was the study quoted in the article in any way funded by a pharmaceutical company that would be granted an exclusive license for a "new formulation," or is it trustworthy?
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