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nulluser , 3 months ago to science in Study: Fasting Triggers Body-Wide Changes After 3 Days

Water weight. You still drink water when fasting.

nulluser , 4 months ago to technology in You Don’t Need to Use Airplane Mode on Airplanes | Airplane mode hasn't been necessary for nearly 20 years, but the myth persists.

Not having to listen to you talk on the phone while I’m trapped in a seat near you is absolutely going to decrease my air rage.

nulluser , 4 months ago to technology in "Tony Delivers" - just order your food and send him a screenshot

The free market also dies when unregulated companies destroy their competition to become monopolies, destroy the environment and enslave people.

You’re correct in that when companies essentially own politicians and get regulations passed that help them do the above, like the system we seem to have now, then that’s a serious problem.

The answer to that isn’t to get rid of regulations, though. An unregulated free market isn’t going to stop factories from dumping toxic waste into rivers or spewing it into the air. It’s not going to stop companies from paying employees slave wages. And it’s definitely not going to stop companies from using dirty tactics to drive out their competition and become monopolies, as you seem to be suggesting.

A well regulated free market can both reward innovators that come up with new products or services that society values while also protecting the environment and the workers from exploitation, and ensuring healthy competition.

That’s not the system we have now, for sure, but we’re absolutely not going to get there by getting rid of regulations. We need to yank control of the government (and thus the laws) away corporations and the wealthy and give it back to the people.

RCV

nulluser , 4 months ago to news in U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney clears charges against white supremacists, says there's a bias against the far right

FYI: It’s “past time”. But I’ll admit, I wasn’t 100% sure, myself, so I had to double check before responding. grammarpartyblog.com/…/pass-time-versus-pastime/

nulluser , 4 months ago to news in Judge fines Trump more than $300 million, bars from running businesses in New York for three years

Headline at NBC now says “more than $350 million”. I imagine it was a typo earlier rushing to get the story posted.

nulluser , 4 months ago to noncredibledefense in To keep trade flowing, the US is now using aircraft carriers to move containers around the globe

www.cnn.com/2023/06/30/travel/…/index.html

nulluser , 4 months ago to technology in European Court of Human Rights declares backdoored encryption is illegal

“With this outstanding landmark judgment, the ‘client-side scanning’ surveillance on all smartphones proposed by the EU Commission in its chat control bill is clearly illegal,” said Breyer.

“It would destroy the protection of everyone instead of investigating suspects. EU governments will now have no choice but to remove the destruction of secure encryption from their position on this proposal – as well as the indiscriminate surveillance of private communications of the entire population!”

I hope he’s right, but I’ll believe it when I see it.

nulluser , 4 months ago to technology in Google is making a map of methane leaks for the whole world to see

The partnership between Google and the Environmental Defense Fund

I interpret that to mean that Google is getting paid for this work. They’re not doing it out of kindness.

ETA: So, yes, PR BS.

nulluser , 4 months ago to news in Ukraine-Israel Aid Bill Clears Critical Hurdle in the Senate

Bill didn’t “pass,” it was just kept alive

18 Republicans joined Democrats to advance the measure, which leaders hope the Senate will approve as early as Tuesday.

nulluser , 4 months ago to technology in Russia is using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite devices in Ukraine, sources say

Pretty sure the person you’re responding to didn’t think a /s was necessary, seeing how obvious the sarcasm was.

nulluser , 4 months ago to news in These states are basically begging you to get a heat pump

If you need to add insulation to make switching to a different heat source worth it, then adding that insulation without switching will reduce your current utility bill. It’s not like the insulation (or lack ther of) cares how the heat was generated.

nulluser , 4 months ago to news in These states are basically begging you to get a heat pump

I’m not aware of anything that’s made to be used as a heat source that doesn’t need electricity to work properly. Gas furnaces have fans that circulate the air. Gas boilers have pumps that circulate the water. Even most fireplaces I’ve seen have a fan system for circulating air (and those that don’t are obviously just for ambiance and not meant to heat the room they’re in, much less the house). All require electricity.

nulluser , 4 months ago to nottheonion in Joe Biden confuses Emmanuel Macron with former French leader Francois Mitterrand who died in 1996

*I’ll *than

nulluser , 4 months ago to news in Northwestern students face criminal charges for pro-Palestinian newspaper parody

I did too, so went back to find it…

The Class A misdemeanor charges, the highest level short of a felony,

So, not a felony.

nulluser , 4 months ago to news in Here's how 2 sentences in the Constitution rose from obscurity to ensnare Donald Trump

I honestly can’t imagine how anyone could convince themselves that, if someone could go back and ask the authors of Section 3 if they thought it applied to the office of the president, that they would say, “No” . It’s ridiculous to me that this is even something we’re discussing.

ETA: Not disagreeing with you. Just complaining.