johntfella

long range forecasts suggest drier conditions for northwest/west this winter https://www.severe-weather.eu/long-range-2/atlantic-anomaly-...

It is interesting no one mentions budget cuts to k-12 programs from 2008 and onward ... (https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/04/02/many-pub...).

Been a member since the beginning. Never necessarily needed the money, it was just a way to pass some time. I eventually found it as a way to raise some cash for casino money. More recently, now I'm retired and don't really gamble too much.. I might do a task here and there. Whatever I raise I donate to the local soup kitchen.

For those using it to "get by" idk, I mean I knew someone who qualified for SSDI in theory but was still denied. He used it to offset some cash needs but obviously was not sufficient enough. Think the bigger issue around ethics is more societal. People shouldn't have to rely on it in place of SSDI when they shouldn't have been denied. I suppose the same can apply to food stamps etc. With this administration obviously things are tightening and getting more strict. Potential SSDI reforms will probably exasperate the need for this service. The ideal is this wouldn't be the case and the service just provides the small cash niceties for small time gaming and donations.

ref; https://www.propublica.org/article/social-security-disabilit...

we ignore austerity measures post 2008 to our detriment. https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/uead092

''Time and again through our history, we have discovered that attempting merely to preserve the comfortable features of the present, rather than reaching for new levels of prosperity, is a sure path to stagnation'' - Alan Greenspan (https://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/speeches/2004/20040...)

when I was a less kind uncle I convinced my nephew who had no knowledge of Weird Al nor Coolio that an amish farmer really wrote the song. This would come back to haunt him in junior high music class when he got talking about it to his teacher who in turned got a good laugh.

Leaving it out overnight at room temp is a common enough practice. I know some families of Swartzentrubers who practice this regularly. Some say it thickens it some, others say it gives it a favorable tang. In the raw milk subset of the crohns/uc community it was adapted after it was found that leaving it out allows for antimicrobial resistance organism to grow (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7320593/). To understand why this is an appeal is a bit of a long explanation. Nonetheless, the cold chain is often broken in order to clabber.

to quote Wendell Berry, “the more superficial and unsatisfying our lives become, the faster we need to progress"

The doctor I've been with since 1998 has refused to adopt the digital system. He's getting older unfortunately and I suspect in another few years he'll be retiring only to be replaced by a doctor who embraces digitalization. It's far and few these days to find paper only offices. Which is a shame, as I feel the more modern the medical system is the less personable, less "family doctor" oriented, heck more often only to be bought up by a network. Quaint is under rated, futurism is over rated.

this opinion piece from bloomberg earlier in July comes to mind; https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-07-14/statis...

One of many policies that is detrimental. One thing that does not seem to be on tech's radar at the moment is what it could mean if Trump withholds US funding from WTO (https://borderlex.net/2025/03/27/alarm-bells-in-geneva-as-us...) and it's implications per TRIPs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43490291

think its bad now... wait until TRIPs falls apart; https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/trump-tariff-wa...

Bloomberg did a good mini-doc on pfas 8 months back; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8qGtEVh7oQ

I suspect it might end up being an all or the above kind of situation, perhaps mixed in with transgenerational effects from atmospheric atomic tests and so forth (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLCF7vPanrY, https://web.archive.org/web/20200507112343/https://www.cdc.g..., & https://www.americanscientist.org/article/fallout-from-nucle...)

I only go with the title of the article. So far there have been some good comments. I'm not here to be part of the discussion. Only give the reason why I posted and also why I did not change the title.

the reason I post it is because I want to see the talent of HN dive around the data. I suspect there is a bias some where. Perhaps the conservative religious are coming from wealthier families so perhaps a inequality issue. Perhaps an issue of internet use akin to Haidt's thesis but I'm skeptical of Haidt as I am with anyone who sort of enters the pop culture sphere of dialogue. He might note of a problem but there may be other reasons for the problem etc. We can't ever dive into that further because such discussions get flagged before even taking off. HN beyond reddit and others I feel have a better intellect to consider such data.

a concern I'm looking into for a private project (I use hn as a link saver) is fireworks impact on birds. specifically interested in songbirds. however i dont think its a key component in their decline (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aaw1313) it is just a side issue to consider that perhaps there is something that can be done along side keeping domestic cats indoors and so forth. The key interest is overall the decline in songbirds and how this effects the tick population and thus lyme disease and other related illnesses. Perhaps banning fireworks would help, though it would be an uphill battle; yet probably easier than say banning neonicotinoids.

washington post article is probably more straightforward, to quote

"The team created a computer model that simulated how a full lake affected the fault. They found high water levels in Lake Cahuilla prompted activity along the fault in two aspects. First, the weight of the lake water caused the crust beneath it to bend, unlocking the plates so they don’t touch as much. The lake water also seeped into the cracks and pores in Earth’s crust beneath it, increasing the fluid pressure inside the fault and further unclasping the plates."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/06/0...

* Sorry for formatting, not really my strength.

no idea, was hoping someone more in the know of the field would comment. one thing id ponder too is.. the time frame... how long say for fill up to slippage? i just link cause i had come across the study from a news story month back and it just one of those weird things almost akin to simulation where its like "of course this brings a lot of rain to the area"... hopefully its not enough to do much in that grand scheme of things and just enough to help with drought conditions ie hoping salt lake gets some of that rain too.

interestingly research on San Andreas fault and Salton sea was recently published in July noting of fill up relating to slip rate; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06058-9

Another study published for September looks further into the history of slip rate and fill up; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118271

Hanson's idea (https://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/gamble.html) of a betting market for science could be an interesting model for journalism. Probably easier said than done.

it would be pretty cool to see netflix or amazon pick up the various forgotten stories of Wyndham, hell even some HP Lovecraft. Lately I've been buying up vintage books and vinyls to give to nephew as he enters the age of discovery so to speak. what I linked I just thought was too neat not to share. hope others enjoy it as much as I did.

Makes sense, ie why there can be the centralize well water depots etc. I'm thankful that it's not something I have to rely on indeed.

Most wells these days go with uv, not sure if that handles that. Personally I don't bother, but I also pull from creeks and rivers nearby for more tainted water with the intention of exposure. Been doing it for decades now. Wouldn't recommend it. That said, uv might be a plausible answer (I know a few public wells where you pay to fill up which is treated with uv and is all they use).

On my property I have both a well and a spring so that's what I generally use. Recent outing in the city reminded me of the chlorine they use. It was kind of an amusing episode as drinking the water at the restaurant I had sworn maybe the glasses weren't fully rinsed so the waitress brought out another and made sure it was clean.. still tasted of chlorine. So I had her fill my canister up thinking it was just a detergent they were using.. still tasted of chlorine so I presumed it must be the water and remembered that indeed chlorine/chloramine is added to public supplies. I don't know if that will prove to be a problem in the future and most things that claim to be are a bit on the tin foil hat tent that said a recent study does seem to show minimal impact on gut biome (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-022-01101-3) .. whether there is a compounding effect down line who knows.. but could explain some of the issues that differentiate between farm communities and urban dwellings (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kidsallergies/amish-farm-...)

I'm reminded of the Chris Hedge's mini-doc "American Psychosis", around minute two where he notes of puncturing the illusion and optimism as a disease: https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/american-psychosis-chri...

summary article of welt article non-paywalled: https://regionalheute.de/stiko-mitglied-verlangt-herausgabe-...

apologies on the paywall, initially on my end it wasn't for whatever reason. I should have pdf'd it when I had a chance cause now all I get is the paywall too.

edit: opening up on google with translate should provide the translation.

thanks for the article, for the other article I'll scavenge scholar when time permits for that time range of an article on the subject.

if you have the article I'd be interested in reading it and saving to my collections. Another more updated book that covers a similar theme published in 2018 is Jerry Muller's Tyranny of Metrics.

1. https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691174952/th...

I agree with your statement. HN can be pretty thoughtful, so I posted in hopes to read outside his echo chamber.

not sure publication date