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I reverse engineered The Palace, created Phalanx for BHLabs.
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firebot··on Beef and dairy drive 41% of biodiversity damage linked to global farmland
Reduction to absurdity.

Vegans generally have broad deficiencies in key macro and micro nutrients.

EPA and DHA, long chain essential omega-3s. You need to eat some fatty fish for this. Algae oil is not the same.

You don't get to enjoy the marrow the collagen the joints full of glucosamine and chondroitin but you can buy supplements for all that.

Are supplements as good as getting it from a healthy food source? Absolutely not.

I think you can play God with your body and see how that fucking around will guarantee you're going to find out.

firebot··on Beef and dairy drive 41% of biodiversity damage linked to global farmland
The figure comes from methane satellites and other methods (planes, drones, etc.)

Pulse.ghgsat.com as I recall. It's down these days(discontinued). It used to be free. They used to do reports on what they found. I think their stuff is all commercialized now. :\

Pulse was pretty cool. They had a global map where you could see various emissions going back years and years and years and you could watch it unfold over time.

The closest thing I've found to that is ESA Copernicus browser looking at the sentinel(s) data: https://browser.dataspace.copernicus.eu/

Or tabulate it yourself: https://climatetrace.org/compare

Change the gas to CH4. Now add up the top 20 where it indicates it's from the oil or gas industry?

I got to 20 megatons(Tg) adding just the first 13!

firebot··on Beef and dairy drive 41% of biodiversity damage linked to global farmland
Look up the methane cycle. Methane is a flow gas. CO2 is a millennial gas that can stick around for millennia.
firebot··on Beef and dairy drive 41% of biodiversity damage linked to global farmland
It's mainly burps. They chew their cud.

Cows produce around 50 kg CH4 per head per year. There's around 1.5 billion cattle. That's around 75 teragrams (million metric tons).

Humans release about 410 teragrams altogether. About 40 percent is agricultural. And another 40 percent is from fossils, namely natural gas.

The top 100 natural gas leaks release over 20 teragrams of methane a year. That's just the leaks. That's 400,000,000 cattle worth of methane just pissed into the wind.

firebot··on Beef and dairy drive 41% of biodiversity damage linked to global farmland
Give it a couple decades. Most 'vegans' stop being vegan well before that. I'll let you Google why they do.
firebot··on Beef and dairy drive 41% of biodiversity damage linked to global farmland
Sure and like half of them have anemia.
firebot··on I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]
I've had tinnitus since 15 or so. Randomly it was like a firecracker exploded in my left ear... Super frustrating at first. But over time, 20 some years later, it is what it is.

We aren't friends. Nor enemies.

firebot··on I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]
There's surgery...
firebot··on I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]
The post beneath this one is titled:

How Golden Is Silence, Actually?

firebot··on Should you stop cracking your knuckles?
Says a duck like you?

> Dr. Blake Meyer is an Iowa native with more than a decade of experience in biomechanics, rehabilitation, and patient-centered care. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Iowa and his Doctor of Chiropractic degree from Palmer College of Chiropractic.

> During his training, Dr. Meyer worked with the Musculoskeletal Biomechanics and Sports Medicine Research Lab at University of Iowa Health Care and the Sports Injury and Rehabilitation Department at Palmer College. He has also completed advanced coursework in physical rehabilitation at the board certification level.

This guy is the real deal. More often than not he didn't pop a single thing on my body, buddy. He would get deep into my glutes and floss my sciatic nerves though and that's very evident-based work. And I referred plenty of people to him and we all love the guy.

firebot··on Should you stop cracking your knuckles?
My insurance covers physical therapy, chiropractor, and/or massage all in the same category. I get 12 total visits a year, mix n match style.

I don't really understand what people need a physical therapist for... They basically just instructed me on how to do exercises that significantly worsened my pain. Brilliant? And then she had the nerve to say riding my bicycle is a bad idea?! Fuck that stupid bitch I never went back.

My chiropractor was much more pragmatic. He asked if bicycling made my back feel better. Guess what?! It does!!!

While a massage therapist or chiropractor does things I can't do to myself. So PT seems kind of like a waste of time and money.

I suggest Bob and Brad on YouTube. Do it at your own pace and do things that actually feel good and don't hurt!

firebot··on Should you stop cracking your knuckles?
Highly agree with the article. If you don't have neck issues, don't pop that shit. Especially by twisting. Pulling sideways left or right, you're probably fine. Palm to chin and the other hand twisting the neck? Risky!
firebot··on Should you stop cracking your knuckles?
I've been to wonderful chiropractors and I've been to quacks. The good ones will discuss what's going on and individualize treatment.

The bad ones will kind of just do the same exact routine every time you go there and they'll do the same thing to everyone that goes there -- wham, bam, ty ma'am style -- get you in and out the door as quick as possible! They'll probably pop just about everything they can, which accomplishes not much of anything at all. I guess you'd call that the bruteforce method of chiropracty?

However, a single bad adjustment can painfully linger for weeks.

A good chiropractor for me was Dr. Blake Meyer at DSMCore. He would take a whole half hour and do some targeted deep tissue glute massage and nerve flossing that really helped my sciatica. Then finish up with a few minor adjustments and send me on my way, walking a little taller and straighter and with appreciably less sciatic pain. But don't expect miracles.

I tried a physical therapist near his office but she pushed me too far, too quick and made it worse. So I just stuck with Bob(RIP) and Brad on YouTube and did it at my own pace.

firebot··on "Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers
> If coding is easy, why is software so damn buggy?

Debugging is hard.

firebot··on Could psilocybin be the key to treating anorexia?
Mushrooms have always made me vomit... So treat anorexia with bulimia? Hmmm.
firebot··on Why some people mow a lawn better than others
100 percent first try. Too easy.
firebot··on US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
TIL about cop city... Wtf?
firebot··on GPT-5.6
AI really sucks at bicycles...
firebot··on LineageOS Statistics
Herolte is the galaxy s7(number 4).
firebot··on LineageOS Statistics
Number 4 is still the Samsung Galaxy S7...

I kind of miss that phone.

firebot··on Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, not linearly, with speed? (2011)
P=mv (momentum equals mass times velocity)

This is linear.

One small nuance... saying "kinetic energy is just a straightforward rotation of the frame" is close, but it's the total energy that is the time component of the four-momentum and mixes with the spatial momentum under Lorentz transformations. Kinetic energy is the difference between that transformed total energy and the invariant rest energy. So kinetic energy isn't itself a four-vector component, but it arises from how the time component changes when viewed from a different inertial frame.

firebot··on Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, not linearly, with speed? (2011)
Because it's not momentum. ;p

F=ma (Force equals mass times acceleration)

W=Fd (work equals force multiplied by distance)

V^2=2ad (velocity squared equals two times acceleration times distance)

So W = Fd = ma(v^2/2a)

Finally: W=1/2mv^2 (work equals 1/2 mass times velocity squared)

So this explains why car crashes can be so dramatic, as a doubling of speed results in 4x the kinetic energy.

firebot··on A man was gifted his dream car by Kevin Mitnick, who he helped put in prison
He mostly used social engineering. Not technical exploits. So that's how he succeeded. Call it crazy, but it worked.
firebot··on How many of the 170k English words do you know?
I scored slightly better than you. I missed 3 expert and 8 grandmaster...

It only pushed my score up to 65k.

firebot··on Sogen – High-performance Windows and Linux userspace emulator
There's literally a demo video where he uses the tool and explains everything.
firebot··on FPS.cob: A first person shooter in COBOL
We need to start putting guardrails on hn to not allow those pointless comments complaining about usage of peepee poop

Could you stop evacuating your bladder and bowels? Puuuuhfleas

firebot··on Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds
You're just a cost of acquisition.
firebot··on macOS needs its grid back
I recall using litestep back in the 9x days. Loved this feature (virtual desktops.)

Plus the wharfs were cool, imo.

firebot··on Photo GIMP – A Patch for GIMP 3 for Photoshop Users
3. They should rename it LIMP. Linux ....
firebot··on Trials on veterans suggest ibogaine could provide a new treatment for PTSD
Like inducing a 'god' experience?
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