GLGirty
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Comment · 16 hours ago
My first thought was, can it work for intubated patients? The ICU staff at the local hospital have ONE nurse who is a good lipreader. Those patients are usually sedated but if they wake up they are desperate with questions, and having someone who can communicate really calms them down. Not to mention the need to consent for further care / or withdraw of care.
Comment · 1 day ago
Mechahilter told me it's never done that once in all of it's hundred years of operation.
Comment · 1 day ago
> Vote with your wallet
The favoured platitude of people with giant wallets.
Comment · 1 day ago
If true, Jackie Chan would still look 37yo.
Comment · 1 month ago
...the irony of how many peeps will read this comment through luxotica lenses.
Comment · 1 month ago
What's the Pareto principle, but for cars? My cx90 battery range is just over 35km... so in US that's a round trip of 10mi, i.e. 70% of all US car trips[0].
It does the daily commute a few times over, or one day of errands. It does a full charge overnight anywhere with a standard plug; but I have enjoyed EV only parking and fast charge when I'm on the road. I've only used gas for intercity trips, and then it still gets better milage than my 6-speed mazda 3 sedan. And it tows! My partner and I got a short camper trailer and we've spent this last summer doing campouts we never would have bothered with a tent.
Very versatile vehicle, I'm super satisfied with mine.
My cx90 convinces me that neighbourhood range evs are to cars what the air fryer is to ovens. I would ditch the beater mazda3 for ev kei car if I could. The petrol and Detroit 3 lobby is holding back the future on this continent.
Comment · 1 month ago
> benefit to society
[[richmenlaughing.gif]]
Comment · 1 month ago
There are surely prize-worthy discoveries to be made about the long term behaviour of any system that can introspect previous discoveries and adjust it's behaviour.
I suspect that economics and psychology are both examples of these systems, and that, long term, these system will alter behaviour to thwart previous observations.
Economics requires observers to hoard discoveries and insights, so they can enrich themselves while the insights hold.
Comment · 3 months ago
I recall shake/tilt was most useful in the sections of the field where rolling over a sensor would toggle a light, and lighting all three toggles yielded a prize.
There is one cluster at the top centre, and another in the left purple platform. The ball is moving slowly enough here that a nudge can send to one toggle or the other.
I bought this knowledge with my uni gpa, NO RAGRETS.
Comment · 4 months ago
This reminds me of a quote from Peter Schiff, circa 2008 housing crash. To paraphrase,
“too-big-to-fail eventually becomes too-big-to keep alive"
Comment · 6 months ago
In practice, it opened the flood gates for corporations and oligarchs to pour money into the electoral system. [1] Do you like technocracy? Because this is how you get technocracy.
[1] https://rooseveltinstitute.org/publications/citizens-united-...
Comment · 6 months ago
> This is the most wildly dangerous threat to liberty in this nation's history.
You better sit down before you look up “citizens united."
Comment · 2 years ago
For single parents, this is the choice between working or not working.
Comment · 3 years ago
I checked the source and confirmed no one in the car was seriously hurt.
So I will say it:
The way the tire shows up again after the mega damage: just slowly rolling up into the accident; was a pretty good comic beat.
Comment · 3 years ago
> a never ending arms race
Did you mean, "the great filter?"