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This is doable today if there was a will. But the advertising/surveillance industry doesn't want it.

"the result of their work poses danger to the US"

I doubt it.


Person who probably has never lived next to an industrial site disappointed to find they don't like living next to an industrial site.

This is why we have zoning laws.


I despise trackpads. They feel so sloppy and approximate. Mice work great for my needs. But the best laptop pointer for me has been the pointing stick: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_stick

I despise trackpads.

And yet I'll use nothing else. Conversely, I have never gotten along with pointy sticks, all the way back to the original 1993 Toshiba Portégé[0] despite their apparent popularity.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynabook_Portégé


Rock dust ≠ AlO

"Aluminum oxide compounds generated by the entire population of satellites reentering the atmosphere in 2022 are estimated at around 17 metric tons. Reentry scenarios involving mega-constellations point to over 360 metric tons of aluminum oxide compounds per year, which can lead to significant ozone depletion."

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024GL10...


Not associated with Proton AG - the makers of ProtonMail.

"Thiel, the founder of data intelligence company Palantir Technologies ... is preoccupied with the risk of a “one-world, totalitarian state” obstructing scientific and technological progress. He depicts those who lobby for tech regulation as harbingers of the antichrist."

There is so much wrong with this guy. How do these nuts rise to such positions of power?


"Kent ... whose wife, navy cryptologic technician Shannon Kent, was killed in a bombing in Syria in 2019. "

What was a cryptologic technician doing in Syria? Wouldn't she be in some office or ship somewhere?


Pretty interesting, the Navy's rating card for CTIs is online: https://www.cool.osd.mil/usn/rating_info_cards/cti.pdf

Shannon was a friend of a friend who is also a CTI. I don't know specifically about Shannon, but my friend is commonly deployed in areas like this as well, though she obviously cannot reveal much about her actual job functions to me.

Are the facial reconstruction techniques used on H. Sapiens skulls even applicable to Neanderthal skulls? Maybe the clues left on the skull are different between these species.

But good work, though. It's important to be able to imagine these beings as people.


A Whale's tachycardia is my bradycardia. Huh.

There are documented cases of perfectly healthy humans with resting heart rates under 30bpm.

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/lowest-he...


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