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I stopped having that problem when I started taking a single square of toilet paper, folding it into a quarter square and using it to dab the tip a few times to get the last bit of liquid out. There's enough space to dab a few times with a different spot on the paper and folding it makes it thick enough to not have liquid go all the way thru. Since I started doing that I don't get the post restroom drip. Not really useful for a urinal, but it does work.

Luna is abrasive, essentially like shards of non safety glass. The dust on mars is soft, it's been blowing around since before the dinosaurs died off. The main issue with martian dust is electrostatic charge, but that's easier to manage than lunar dust.

Semaglutide has been used for diabetics for roughly 20 years. The FUD angle is just people rambling against something that doesn't affect them personally. Everyone knows the only things that matter are what effects "you", everything else is just fantasy. If we could rid ourselves of that mindset we could build a much better world.

There's anecdotal accounts of GLP meds helping with a range of addictions. Of course in science anecdotal accounts are the lowest tier of evidence, that's only top shelf in law.

More importantly we have decades of irrefutable evidence that diet and exercise alone are about as effective as abstinence only sex education. It's great there are people that can just decide to eat less, but it's foolish to assume that can work for everyone.

It's odd how people act as tho there's a "moral argument" against using a tool to help reach the goal. It feels a lot like the argument that "morals are from religion", as if you need god to know that murder isn't really a productive activity (unless you work in a slaughterhouse).

I wish American money could go back to having "mind your business" printed on it instead of "in god we trust", it was a huge loss to all of us when that garbage was passed. It was also a huge loss when everyone just decided to go along with saying "taxpayer money" instead of saying "public funds/money", but slippery psychological slopes are everywhere.

Terzepitide took me from always wanting food to actually being able to focus on other things fully. I was concerned with being able to inject myself weekly, but it's easy and worth the 1-2 minutes a week. If you start, the dosage schedule is more a suggestion than an absolute. I noticed side effects getting worse so I dropped back to a lower dose and have held there for a couple months now. Only real drawback has been from a friend giving me a hard time after seeing the vial in my fridge, but he seems to be coming around after seeing obvious results.

One could even argue food is a lifetime chemical dependance. An assortment of chemicals really with the amino acids, lipids and sugars involved. People who are against these medications typically draw arbitrary lines for what treatments are "acceptable".

Until starting tirzepitide I always thought about food, now I don't. Had depressive issues since I was a teenager as well. I took Wellbutrin for 20 years and had an interruption in the last six weeks due to an insurance issue. Payed for the tirzepetide out of pocket, take that once a week, my depression is manageable without the Wellbutrin for the first time in my life. I'm still going thru depression, but that's due to my husbands death in early March. If I wasn't taking my weekly shot I would easily be morbidly obese and probably suicidal. The cost isn't an issue either, I would spend more on food that I'm not buying or eating each month than it costs to buy the medication.

Just because something might not be interesting to someone doesn't mean it has no value. I have no interest in sports, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't exist. I could argue they shouldn't be as prominent in society but that's a different argument.

If you have struggled with your weight, depression, have early warning signs of cardiac problems and a range of other conditions it can be worth considering semaglutide or terzepitide. As long as you stick to the lowest dose that's effective the side effects are minimal to non existent. Categorically dismissing these drugs is as silly as refusing pain meds because "god designed us to experience pain".

Vantablack is carbon nanotubes grown on a surface. Black 3.0 or 4.0 and Mosou black are paints that perform significantly better than regular black but are still measurably less than Vantablack. Visually the difference is small, but durability is far better.

essentially none of the videos have sound on the iOS client. It's rare I ever come across a video with sound. Very frustrating to use.

Not directly, bu whatever they are eating ultimately gets energy from the sun. It's really just about how pedantic you are on redirection of energy.

That's where a larger group helps versus the 3 men on Apollo, or 4 people for Artemis. Having a larger pool of personal will ease a lot of social friction. It's also likely that a laser comms connection will be readily available, that is a large part of why starlink developed laser link between satellites.

I expect before people go that SpaceX will put a small constellation of starlink satellites in orbit of mars. I could also see them putting a bunch of probes on a starship and having them separate in martian orbit, landing at candidate sites. The combination of the 2 will lead to a lot of valuable data to decide where humans will land first.

Around mars it's likely the satellites will be in a higher orbit, but there's no internet needing low latency there either, at least not at first. They could be a basis for a mars positioning system. If a lower orbit is used they could potentially use synthetic aperture radar to get high resolution scans of the surface. It's probable that many starships will already be waiting on the surface by the time humans make the trek out there. Presumably loaded with food, equipment parts etc... For how quickly the ships are fabricated we aren't looking at a scenario where ships are in short supply.

The reduced air pressure on mars also means keeping warm will be significantly easier than in Antarctica. Convective heat transfer is much slower. Protecting against conduction isn't too challenging. Seeing how a spacesuit is necessary on mars building one that can retain enough heat to be comfortable isn't really a herculean effort. Far easier than a suit for the moon, mars doesn't really have grains of regolith that are consistently sharp and abrasive like earths moon has. On mars there's more a fine powdery substance, it was called "fines" in the red mars novel.

It's irritating to see people claim it's colder than antarctica but never a discussion how the reduced atmospheric pressure makes it easier to keep warm.

Mars not having a magnetosphere isn't as short term a need. The atmosphere stripping away is on geologic timescales, not human ones. Even then, we could put a superconducting ring between Sol and Mars and get the same effect as far as solar wind stripping the atmosphere. It would be a big project, but not impossible. It's also a project that won't possibly start until people live there permanently.

Worrying about the atmosphere stripping away is akin to worrying about the smaller of Mars two moons being on a path that will impact in 100,000+ years with the surface of mars.

In many problem domains mars is an easier target for long term habitation than the moon, the biggest challenge is getting there. The retorts from people here about farming miss that we don't need 'soil' to farm, there are techniques that mostly just need water and vitamins that can dissolve into it. At Epcot they have a system to breed fish and use the fish waste for feeding plants to grow. Throw in mycelium for handling human waste and you have an efficient system for augmenting food production.

A serious effort for mars will have as many or more spinoff technologies as Apollo gave us. The computers we are using today are further along in development from the massive influx of effort to make computers that could fit in space capsules. With the acidification we are causing in the ocean, a reliable way of converting C02 to oxygen at scale might be needed here on earth to prevent an oxygen collapse within decades. Climate change is a bitch, and it could give an excuse to start charging people for breathable air here on earth so the cynics may be right about that eventually happening. That possible disaster just isn't on even most climate scientist radars yet.

There will be other spinoff technologies we just don't see yet. The large rocketry needed to get there also opens up resource extraction from near earth objects. There's massive material wealth just barely outside our present grasp. It would be nice for materials like platinum and gold to follow in the footsteps of aluminum in becoming common enough to be usable for trivial items. Aluminum was a precious metal just a few hundred years ago in its refined form. Gold nanoparticles look like a candidate that could make current GLP-1 drugs obsolete, it works in animal studies but not tested in humans yet. Manufacturing in space is also on the verge of practicality. Metal foams, ultra low attenuation glass and optically transparent aerogels can be made in microgravity that are superior to the versions that can be made here on earth. Metal foams would be ideal for making ships, cars and planes that are much lower weight than we can make now without loss of strength, less weight means fewer watts per mile and less material needed.

The people whining about the idea always seem to miss the secondary effects of making the effort and always see to paint the optimistic take as naive, really they are just demonstrating short sighted thinking.

I have an automation that turns it on whenever I take the phone off the charger. You can also set it up with locations. So I have an automation that tweaks a few settings when I get to one of the disney parks here in FL. It's usually keep the screen fairly dim on manual brightness, but set it to auto there. Its really hard to see the screen when it's bright in the great big room.

I have an M2 Max with 64Gb of ram. It handles everything I throw at it. Runs the 30ish gigabyte deepseek model fine. I will admit for gaming I pretty much just stick to Cyberpunk 2077, Minecraft, Stray, Viscera Cleanup Simulator and old games with open source engine options. I'm happy I can play Cyberpunk with my screen on full brightness using 30w, compared to my Xeon windows machine taking 250w for lower frame rates.