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It sounds like they're casting atheletes who willingly take banned substances as a persecuted minority group that we need to stand united for, on par with the fight for LGBT rights or something. It's all super-defensive, like it was started by a few atheletes that got caught. The section called "Science is Real" tries to cast anti-doping as anti-science.

Watch one of those documentaries on Lance Armstrong. Getting blood transfusions in the back of a van doesn't look fun.

But I'm all for it. Why stop at substances? Use CRISPR to give a swimmer some webbed-feet.

I'm a huge beatles fan, and while Get Back shows sparks of creativity - for the most part it, it shows a few childish rich dudes high as all hell dicking around in front of cameras in a super-weird situation that they put themselves in trying to document themselves writing an album.

The World's A Little Blurry on the other hand shows two siblings battling through some tough shit and turning it into gold on a shoestring recording budget.

Does anyone else notice when LED's flicker at 60hz?

I was in a restaurant last week that had some of those LED's made to look like old time lights and the flicker in the room was terrible. If anyone moved their hand or the menu, you could see the strobe effect very easily.

xconfessions by Lust Cinema is pretty good, especially the early ones. They are a collection of 15-20 minute long films based on fantasies that people have submitted. They have a natural progression showing the lead-up (the "why are these people having sex? part) and the actual sex feels pretty genuine.

Any others?

Sure, the mass-manufacture of 5 billion more phones is only going to contribute to this global warming, especially since we're making these in third-world countries under lax environmental laws. But that just means we'll be selling even more phones!

It seems like donating plasma is even more effective.

I mostly look at aqicn.org and wondering if the airgradient kits can share data with that website?

I think I need someone to explain to me how some of these open source air quality monitors share their data and what websites can use the data.

I'm just having a hard time believing that we're at this moment in time where life suddenly got better for workers.

The lettuce is grown in my own country and is already picked and tended to by low-key slave labour (migrant workers).

What's crazy is that TV's are already crazy cheap. I was in the grocery store a few weeks ago spending $5 on some lettuce and right next to the checkout was a big stack of 50" TV's that they were selling for $199.

I'm simplifying here, but how is mining a dozen rare-earth materials, making a handful of integrated circuits, casting a flawless LCD panel, pick and placing circuit boards, winding coils for magnetic speakers, molding a case out of plastic and shipping the entire large box across the world the equivalent of growing 40 heads of Romaine lettuce? Doesn't the lettuce just kinda grow from seeds with occasional watering?

Maybe a good startup would be a refrigerator that only opens after you let it track your movements, preferences, listen in on your conversations and then watch a few targeted advertisements in exchange for some free lettuce?

Part 2: https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/poconos-coal/burning-coal-cou...

Part 3: https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/poconos-coal/burning-coal-cou...

Part 4: https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/poconos-coal/burning-coal-cou...

I stopped by Centralia on a road trip, it's a bit of a "tourist destination" in the atlas-obscura sense.. It was a very weird place. Roads were buckled everywhere, smoke was coming out of cracks.. enitire neighborhoods were abandoned and houses missing, etc.

All the subtle trickery manipulation that the smart phone's doing to reality is concerning. Smoothing people's faces, making their eyes pop, enhancing the shit out of the colours, and now plopping fake objects overtop of the real ones.

Future concerns of this technology should range from a low-key disconnect from reality, to the complete inability to photograph certain objects or locations.

Imagine dusting off a 30 year old digital camera, finding some AA batteries to put in it, snap a selfie and then realizing just how ugly we all are and how washed out the polluted world actually looks without a bunch of narcissism-pandering enhancements.

The idea of a future where everyone is at home with screens strapped on their face, talking to their bubble-friends in a simulated tree-lined park while the outside world turns increasingly hostile is pretty sad.

Serious question: Has anybody else noticed that it's gotten very hard to talk to other people face-to-face lately? I feel like I'm expected to be an anonymous and obedient dopamine dispensing machine for the other person. Even worse, I've also noticed myself doing the same; getting home and then realizing I spent the whole conversation bragging or ranting while barely letting the other person speak. It's like the odds of having an even back-and-forth interaction is <20% post covid.

But seriously, would these be any less efficient than an electric baseboard heater?

If the repurposed plasma screen heater is consuming 400W, is it releasing 400W of heat?

I want to make some sort snarky comment about how slavery would have been legal and rampant in the era these people are choosing to glamorize.

But at the same time, I totally get it.. as an avid ice hockey fan, the game is now ruled by high-tech equipment and more importantly big-data analysis that has diminished personal creativity and the "art" of the game. Footage of historic games are also completely void of billboard advertisements everywhere and that strange artificially hyped environment with screens ordering fans to "CHEER LOUD NOW!".

Conan Plays Old Timey Baseball: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS39vMhag-A

My FLIR camera that I use for electronics only exports in JPEG, with the GUI baked into the image and some pretty crappy JPEG compression artifacts. Lame.