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vegetishon Tuna use sharks as back scratchers despite risk of being eaten

Tuna is full of mercury and other human-made environmental toxins, due to it being high in the food chain. So I don't trust that Tuna in their "right mind" would do this. It's like observing human mad hatters and concluding that their behavior is normal

vegetishon Google 20% time volunteers have been rewriting the ITA Matrix flight search app

You still can't do a search with origin from multiple countries, which annoys me. If I want to find the cheapest ticket for a cross-atlantic trip, it would be very helpful to have such a feature.

vegetishon Oculus Quest is removing the Facebook account requirement

"Here, have a sense of freedom. Something Apple will never give you."

vegetishon An Analysis of the Potential for the Formation of Nodes of Persisting Complexity

So New Zealand and Australia ranks highest, with Ireland one point below

vegetishon Bitcoin miners are buying power plants

Use solar, dudes. You can even run crypto rigs directly on 12 volts, which saves you the hassle of getting costly inverters and PSUs

vegetishon The NoPhone

A waste of plastic really

vegetishon Recycling Rethink: What to Do with Trash Now China Won’t Take It

Bighead thought: Can't we just melt everything down to a big soup and suck out the different fractions/layers and then further chemically and/or mechanically separate all the stuff that sticks together?

vegetishon Elon Musk's tunnel project is a bad joke

Just let the man build some tunnels. Also, just because the demo shows a Tesla model X doesn't mean that other services like the pods are discluded, as the article states. It's simply a matter getting some 7+ seat cars and stuffing a bunch of people in them.

vegetishon How broken is the USPTO: How is this a patent

It has surely gone through quite a paper trail. "Final rejection" dated 13.07.2012, but that wasn't the end of it:

https://register.epo.org/ipfwretrieve?apn=US.201113244836.A&...

vegetishon Test Your Creative Insight - Interactive Feature

No, not always. It shifts after a refresh.

I got 13 points after the negative image (first), and 11 points after the positive image, which contradicts the research. I was in a pretty positive mood before starting though, and then I started concentrating on the task, which may or may not have had an influence. Also, the "positive/humorous" video I found to be pretty boring, so maybe I got more annoyed than getting in a good mood, because I just wanted to get on with the test.