sploosh 18h ago • 100%
The virus seriously weakens cellular membranes, causing Soft Cell. SC leads to a breakdown of your dopamine and oxytocin receptors which leaves you with a feeling of tainted love.
sploosh 2d ago • 100%
I married my Luna. Best call ever.
sploosh 2d ago • 100%
USB DVD readers are pretty cheap and backing up a DVD movie to a file (either just the movie as mp4/whatever or the whole disc with menus, special content and all that jazz as an ISO) is trivial. DVDs themselves are fragile circles of plastic that store data a micron-thin foil layer that can be hurt by too spicy a laser pointer. Do yourself and your roommate a favor and make a copy of that thing for posterity's sake.
sploosh 2d ago • 100%
Schrodinger's fake news: it was only a mistake because he got called out.
sploosh 4d ago • 100%
The title had me like "What did those tiny carnivorous plants do now?" but no that's Utricularia.
sploosh 4d ago • 100%
This is just The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas with trolleys.
sploosh 4d ago • 100%
I just want a seat at the table for one of their feasts.
sploosh 5d ago • 87%
I think our model of cosmology is likely way more wrong than we think. I LOVE it when we get new data that challenges our accepted notions, which is why I'm loving all the "how are these ancient galaxies so big" stuff coming out of Webb.
My running theory is that what we call the universe is an inverse version of what we would consider to be the real universe, were we not stuck in this crummy inverted one.
sploosh 5d ago • 77%
Sorry, but it's just too hard to have sympathy for people who think that they've found the financial and legal equivalents of abracadabra and alakazam.
sploosh 5d ago • 96%
I suppose that mathematically one could say I'm depositing a bill when I pay it, as I'm deducting the value of the bill from my bank account, which is the same as adding the negative of it. Since they're asking me to pay it, it's kind of negative money.
But no, then you'd be a pedantic idiot and would have said nothing of value.
sploosh 5d ago • 100%
Yes and no. Induction motors have been around since the early-mid 1800s. More recently some folks noticed that if you took the style of field winding that induction motors use and some hall effect sensors and stick some permanent magnets in the center you've got yourself a very nice little brushless DC motor. Turns out that if you then replace the permanent magnets with more windings, this time like those on the rotor of the induction motor, you're back at an induction motor, but this time you have a very precise idea of where the rotor is in its' rotation form the hall effect sensors, allowing you to very precisely control which coils are energized. More precise control of the coils allows for greater efficiency, power output and thermal regulation.
It's old tech with less-old tech stuck to it with some high-er tech glue.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but I figured this out and it's made it possible for me to interface my microKORG with my computer without buying a dedicated USB MIDI interface. It works for passing notes and for loading sysex/using Korg's craptastic software. The Minilogue XD has a type-B USB port, as well as full sized MIDI in and out. When plugged into the computer, the Minilogue presents two sets of MIDI interfaces - one labelled "midi" and another labelled "sound" or "keyboard," with in and out for each. By connecting the out from micro to the in on mini and the out on the mini to the in on the micro and using the minilogue's "MIDI" labelled interface on the computer, you can connect to the micoKORG and backup/load your patches. I imagine this can be done with other instruments or controllers that have USB and standard MIDI interfaces, but I don't have anything else to test with.
sploosh 1w ago • 100%
Iirc he went into therapy, got a major cult-boner for his therapist and then started bossing his partner around, claiming that she was toxic by misusing therapy language.
sploosh 1w ago • 100%
And they've been sold before. Might be bad, might be neutral, probably won't bring improvement.
sploosh 1w ago • 100%
Not even AMD can beat the 7800X3D. The sun will explode, and the 7800X3D will still be in the top 10 gaming CPUs.
sploosh 3w ago • 100%
Please follow up with a doctor! I am not a medical professional and what I have written is entirely anectodal and unverified.
sploosh 3w ago • 100%
Tetracycline is an antibiotic, so it kills stuff in your gut. Not all of it, but it is best to take probiotics if you're taking any kind of antibiotic just to keep your gut flora a little happier. It also kills the bugs that tend to be the reason there's pus in acne, which are what cause acne to be red and bumpy
Accutane is like a roided-out version of vitamin A and works like vitamin A in your skin, just even more vita-tastically, or whatever scientific term is appropriate. This means that it clears up some of the causes of acne (makes your skin produce less oil, shrinks pores so they can't clog as easily, etc.), but it's so freakin' vitastic that it goes too far. All my friends on Accutane in high school needed lip balm 24/7 and a few of them had frequent nosebleeds, especially while playing sports. One of them had to go off it very soon after he started because it made his acne much worse and he ended up with a pustule 2.5 inches across on his back that needed to be drained and packed.
Inflammatory bowel disease is another thing that seems to pop up down the line for some accutane users, but AFAIK no formal causal link had been established, or perhaps heads are just in the sand. For what it's worth, one of the folks I know from high school that took accutane has been dealing with inflammatory bowel problems since shortly after she took it, which was around 20 years ago.
Very different drugs that work on acne from entirely different angles. Tetracycline won't cause long term gut health problems all on its own unless you take it for far too long, or at unsafe dosages.
sploosh 3w ago • 100%
Every single time I'm scrolling and Carter's face pops up at the bottom of my screen I think "Oh, he's reached the end of his long, full life," and them nope he's fine and older than most people will ever get. Go Jimmy!
sploosh 3w ago • 100%
So it would seem.
When you take a shower does the shower flow through you or along your edges?
sploosh 3w ago • 85%
I want a slide out keyboard like on my G1.
I got hurt kinda badly on the job a few weeks back and so far the process has been agonizing between a RN that didn't believe I was in pain, an employer that seems to be laying groundwork for firing me a and a worker's comp insurance company that is more than a little loose with the timing of their payments. The whole thing has me pretty anxious, unable to do most things I enjoy and in a whole boatload of pain. Anyone had an experience with an on-the-job injury? How'd it go? Any tales of full healing and victory over disability to brighten my outlook?
I found this little fella (as well as a number of his friends) outside. It's cold and wet, so I brought them in where they can get warm and dry out. Remember folks, if you're cold they're cold.
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The settlement avoids a jury trial that would have started next week. Former Portland City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty has accepted $680,000 from the city’s police union and two officers to settle claims that officers shared information that falsely implicated her of committing a hit-and-run.
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The Air Force and the FAA denied permission for Varda Space's capsule to return and land on Earth. By Passant Rabie After manufacturing crystals of an HIV drug in space, the first orbital factory is stuck in orbit after being denied reentry back to Earth due to safety concerns. The U.S. Air Force denied a request from Varda Space Industries to land its in-space manufacturing capsule at a Utah training area, while the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) did not grant the company permission to reenter Earth’s atmosphere, leaving its spacecraft hanging as the company scrambles to find a solution, TechCrunch first reported. A spokesperson from the FAA told TechCrunch in an emailed statement that the company’s request was not granted at this time “due to the overall safety, risk and impact analysis.” Gizmodo reached out to Varda Space to ask which regulatory requirements have not been met, but the company responded with a two-word email that ominously read, “no comment.” The California-startup did provide an update on its spacecraft through X (formerly Twitter). “We’re pleased to report that our spacecraft is healthy across all systems. It was originally designed for a full year on orbit if needed,” Varda Space wrote on X. “We look forward to continuing to collaborate w/ our gov partners to bring our capsule back to Earth as soon as possible.” Varda Space launched its spacecraft on board a Falcon 9 rocket on June 12. The 264-pound (120-kilogram) capsule is designed to manufacture products in a microgravity environment and transport them back to Earth. On June 30, its first drug-manufacturing experiment succeeded in growing crystals of the drug ritonavir, which is used for the treatment of HIV, in orbit. The microgravity environment provides some benefits that could make for better production in space, overall reducing gravity-induced defects. Protein crystals made in space form larger and more perfect crystals than those created on Earth, according to NASA. “SPACE DRUGS HAVE FINISHED COOKING BABY!!” Delian Asparouhov, Varda’s co-founder, wrote on X. Unfortunately, the space drugs are not allowed to come back to Earth, baby. Varda’s capsule was originally scheduled for reentry on September 5 or 7, but the company’s application was denied on September 6, according to TechCrunch. Varda formally requested that the FAA reconsider its decision on September 8, and that request is still pending. “It’s a very different type of re-entry capsule. If you think about it, both Dragon and Starliner, these are [SpaceX] vehicles that are $100 million-plus, minimum, to build, and billion-dollar-plus total programs. These are meant to carry humans, have active control, fully pressurized environments,” Asparouhov is quoted as saying in an interview in Ars Technica. “We are effectively the polar opposite type of re-entry vehicle. If those are luxurious limousines, we’re building like a 1986 Toyota Corolla that is meant to be less than a million bucks a pop, quickly refurbished, and then shot right back into space.” Varda’s in-space manufacturing capsule is a byproduct of a growing space industry, which grants easier access to low Earth orbit. The current regulatory debacle is a also the result of a young space industry, one in which proper regulations of spacecraft are still taking shape.
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The Joint Office of Homeless Services has failed to provide data and refused to answer questions posed by members of the community budget advisory committee, writes Daniel DeMelo, who chairs the committee. It is unclear how effective its efforts have been, despite its soaring budget
What other combos are misnamed?