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frezik

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  • Yes, and they have the problems outlined above.

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  • Sure, they exist, but they have the flaws outlined above.

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  • Ethics mean we don't know what the average human male erect penis size is.

    No, really. The ethics of the studies say that a researcher can't be in the presence of a sexually aroused erect penis. Having the testee measure their own penis is prone to error. There are ways to induce an erection with an injection, so they use that.

    Is the size of an induced erection the same as a sexually aroused erection? Probably in the same ballpark, but we don't really know.

    Source: Dr Nicole Prause, neurologist specializing in sexuality, on Holly Randall's podcast.

  • How it started vs. How it's going

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  • I've heard that phrase a handful of times now and it's already making my eye twitch. Though I don't think it's meant to be complimentary.

  • How it started vs. How it's going

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  • He probably paid some fishing tourist shop to get him to just the right place so he could hook it and pull it in. That pic cost him money, and it's really important to him.

  • Chuck Schumer Forced to Postpone Book Tour After Turning on Dems in Funding Vote Prompts 'Security Concerns'

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  • muskrat's data eng expert's hard drive overheats while processing 60k rows

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  • The trick is to take the hard drive out of the EVA foam.

  • muskrat's data eng expert's hard drive overheats while processing 60k rows

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  • Did they ever finish their own bible translation? The one they started because King James was too woke.

  • Don't be fooled by Big Math propaganda!!!

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  • It was starting to change under Biden, but Trump put tariffs on importing math.

  • Used Tesla prices tumble as embarrassed owners look to sell

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  • At least some Teslas use the Supercharger network for free, so they're a drain on the company at this point. But I think they canned that program a while back for new sales.

    Personally, if I picked one up (and I probably wouldn't unless it was even cheaper than they are now), I'd spray paint it in gaudy pansexual pride flag colors.

  • Used Tesla prices tumble as embarrassed owners look to sell

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  • What do you want to have happen? The car exists and is in an owner's hands already. Elon doesn't make any more money no matter if they sell it or not. It's environmental waste to simply scrap it. What are the options, here?

  • Trump expected to invoke wartime authority to speed up mass deportation effort in coming days | CNN Politics

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  • What regime would be stupid enough to use military resources to imprison a chunk of the domestic population while also having a giant war?

    Oh, right, that kind.

  • that about 1/1000 of your phones RF power output, and the distance is 384400km

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  • Technology always gets better with no regard to physical limits.

    (People who argue this unironically are a pet peeve of mine. Yes, there are limitations on what's possible.)

  • Elon Musk’s DOGE is growing desperate for a “win”

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  • So much of the criticism focuses on Starship, specifically. Starship has never claimed to be anything other than a test program. Look back into the history of NASA test programs and you'll fine lots of exploded pieces of rockets. Starship is also moving along a whole lot better than the SLS at a comparable stage of the development track. People bleating about this clearly don't have a lot of knowledge about rockets and their history.

    Safety is somewhat valid. Obviously, exploding rockets over the Gulf of Mexico is not a good thing, but the chances of debris actually hitting a plane are minuscule. See Big Sky Theory, which is the basis for a lot of air traffic policy. It's just that the aviation industry has extremely tight safety standards, and so they divert planes.

    Falcon 9 also exists, and now has a better track record than Soyuz (the previous gold standard). People making these arguments seem to conveniently leave that out.

    Now, environmental standards, how Musk is trying to gut NASA and the FAA, and how the company never would have survived without government subsidies? Yes, absolutely focus on those. Also, the fact that SpaceX employees are mostly insulated from their idiot CEO. They're the real heroes of the company.

    In a different Administration, I think SpaceX should be nationalized and run something like the USPS or Amtrak. NASA shouldn't make their own rockets anymore. They're really bad at making anything close to cost effective.

  • Trump’s Call to Scrap ‘Horrible’ Chip Program Spreads Panic

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  • My favorite story from the Obamacare debacle:

    The exchanges were meant for people without an employer who has health coverage to get that coverage on their own. Members of Congress and their staff are employees of the federal government, which obviously provides health insurance. They normally wouldn't have access to the exchanges.

    Enter Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, who figures Democrats are setting up an awful system on purpose that they would never subject themselves to because they Hate America(tm). Thinking he'll call their bluff, he introduces an amendment to specifically opt Congress into the exchanges.

    Except it's not a bluff, and Democrats think that's a pretty great idea.

    After the ACA gets passed, Republicans run against their own amendment, twisting the facts around to claim Congress opted themselves out of Obamacare.

  • To make America great, Donald Trump is undoing its greatness as global stock markets fall

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  • Trump is dumb as shit, but there's several people behind him who aren't.

  • The new 3B "fully open source" model from AMD

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  • There is absolutely nothing inevitable about technological change. We think that way because of the specific place we are in history. A specific place that is an aberration in how fast those changes have come. For the most part, humans throughout history have used much the same techniques and tools that their parents did.

    You also can't separate AI technology from the social change. They're not dumping billions into data centers and talking about using entire nuclear reactors to power them just because they think AI is a fun toy.

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  • Was there anything in the posts above mine that suggest this was a technical issue, or did you read that in as an assumption?

    Every time a significant change in technology comes about, there is a significant impact to jobs. The printing press destroyed the livelihood of scribes, but it made books dramatically cheaper, which created new jobs for typesetters, booksellers, etc.

    Take a look at the history of the first people called "Luddites". They were early socialists focusing on the dismal working conditions that new automation would bring to the workers. And they were correct.

    Not every technological change is good. Our society has defaulted to saying yes to every change, and it's caused a whole lot of problems.