Phi for All

Your questions are unclear. If you want to throw waste into a BH, why do you need to land? And because of the nature of a BH, there's no way you could leave if you did. Past the event horizon, no amount of energy will ever let you escape.

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I wanted to add, iNow and Prometheus are right, if you are really worried, you should consult your doctor. My untrained sensibilities tell me that, if you can blink it away and it doesn't cause any pain, it can't be too bad. But I worry that this might make you feel better about something you were right to be worried about. NOBODY on the web is equipped to give you an accurate medical diagnosis!

Could it be the rheum that collects in the corners of your eye distorting your vision somehow until you blink it away? That would be the most likely mechanism for what you describe. The goop gives you a brief funhouse mirror effect.

Conditioners usually don't put out enough air volume to disrupt the bug's flight. Conditioners rely on less air at a lower temperature being blown in, whereas the fan is all about moving lots of air around, which can prevent them from landing on you. Puddles can always be drained and the depressions filled in with dirt or sand, piles of wet leaves can be removed, anywhere water retention happens needs to be altered. Containers and cans that can hold water should be covered or altered. Mosquitoes aren't laying eggs in the ocean, they're looking for calm, stagnant water and human blood. A friend of mine in Florida swears that planting catnip repels mosquitoes (but has been known to attracts cats).

IF you want to be accurate?! Hellooooo, science discussion forum! Using your personal feelings to determine levels of cognition is horribly subjective, especially when you go on to make claims based on them. The first thing you should do is run a search for papers on the subject. Experiments on the effects of sugar on the brain should be plentiful, and may help you advance your idea more than guessing about your feelings.

Not devoid. Devoid means COMPLETELY lacking. All your complex carbs from grains will convert to sugar. Pineapple isn't nothing. How have you determined this exactly? You mention that your brain function isn't the same, but you don't mention what you're basing this on.

Some of the best battery tech at the time was bought up by (drum roll) Chevron, who sat on it and refused to make large format batteries for a long time. Oil & gas will hold us back as long as they can make a little more money.

What mechanism would saccharin use to make you smarter? It might trick the taste buds, but the brain is actually going to want some glucose if it's going to be doing any heavy lifting.

Two things I do if the bugs are bad is check around the yard for puddles or moist areas and dry them out, and this includes gutters coming off your roof. Also have an electric fan nearby. Mosquitos aren't as likely to land on you in the wind, and they can't bite you if they don't land. For cockroaches, they're getting water and food from your home somehow, so you need to cut off that supply. Again, make sure the house is dry and clean. If I had roaches, I would sweep and mop every day and dry the floor after mopping. Make pets eat outside or in a controllable area. No more crumbs or oil on the floor, no more food, no more cockroaches.

If part of the reason for having a democracy is so "the People" will always own something (the streets, sidewalks, parks at least) then the best thing for us to own is the energy it takes to run everything. If our economies rely on us using electric technology, imagine the boost it would give us if electricity were $0.06/kWh instead of $0.133/kWh? There are already lots of subsidies in most countries for oil and gas operations, so we should be able to use those to help solar/wind overcome some of their environmental problems. I'd love to own a fully electric car, and charge it up every night off the batteries from my solar panels. I'd drive it down to Home Depot and buy the materials to build some goddamned water reclamation barrels and a composting station.

It's all metered, so if you need it for air conditioning, it isn't surplus. When we still owned our state Public Service utility, a friend of mine was a meter reader, and told me about homes with windmills and solar where the meters ran backwards, even back then. Public Service sent checks to those folks instead of bills. But koti claimed his friend tried this and was taxed by the state. Maybe if you weren't connected to the grid, you could get away with generating all your electricity this way, but in the US, many states have a way of claiming it's part of public safety. They won't let you go off grid, or collect rainwater, or compost. They usually define what is an approved power or water supply, and then pass laws requiring everyone to use them (not just those who want to be on the grid).

Even California uses privately held "public" utilities. They're regulated like a public provider (which is why they have to buy back surplus energy from wind and solar) but the prices they charge include profit for investors, and they get further subsidies to offset restricted growth. Imo, it's a dumb way to use public funding, and it was a dumb move selling public ownership of something so important in the first place. Electricity is such an integral part of our society these days, but we don't need an unlimited amount of it. We don't need business models for this, we need a utility focused on providing inexpensive electricity to EVERYONE, and let the lower costs all around fuel profit for private ventures. How many manufacturing opportunities are waiting to replace jobs lost to ending fossil fuel use, waiting on cheap electricity to make more concepts viable? Who owns the utilities in Poland? Private? Public? State?

I'm pretty sure radiation at levels high enough to purge mosquitoes will pose a health risk for many more species. Iirc, experiments have been done with radio stations playing tones at frequencies to match various bugs, and none have shown significant effects.

This is why solar electric utilities should be publicly owned. Forget profit and make super cheap electricity available everywhere, and it will benefit big business most (except fossil fuels). Anyone who claims solar isn't cost-effective these days is protecting established technologies.

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To me, brainwashing is coercive, usually done to individuals isolated from their normal patterns. You're somehow being forced to change your beliefs or behavior. Propaganda is usually asking many people to accept more beliefs along with what they already believe, often by making invalid comparisons. It uses conformity as pressure rather than coercion.

Which series is this? I enjoyed the clever realms he created in his Richard & Kahlan novels. Loved the wizard's rules.

It's two basic problems for us, so the solution should solve both. Video is becoming more popular but we aren't designed well for it, and we need a rating system for videos but vetting them in the first place is too time-consuming and/or unfair. Is there an existing review of the best science videos? And would we be discussing them? If we choose the best, what would we discuss if the science is already good? Why should they be here at SFN if you can see them elsewhere? There are many alternatives to discussion available. Podcasts are extremely popular as well. Like videos, they seem more like lectures, more like having someone prepare your food for you (nothing wrong with that). Discussion is different, imo, for the reasons I've already mentioned. I'm not against including something that will reduce my own ignorance, but I don't like the arguments for allowing videos so far. It's like we have this sailing club that most get a LOT of enjoyment out of, but the popularity of jet skis and their shared connection to water is being proposed as a reason to allow them access to our harbor. Does that make sense?

I want to discuss science, but I don't want to discuss science videos. AFAIC, they're the homework you should definitely use to build your knowledge, so you can come here and discuss it with peers. If there was a suggestion about how to police these videos so they don't take up so much staff time, I missed it. Again, popularity, value, and availability aren't being questioned. I want to know how we allow the ones Moontanman approves but not the ones that other members want to post. You all don't see all the first-time posters that are spamming videos of their profoundness.

You can take Salem out of the country, but....

Perhaps mixing the mediums is where we go wrong. There's nothing wrong with learning from a well-produced, accurate video. I think US schools should make watching overview videos be the student's homework, and use the teacher's time in class for specific work in the subject. It's not a bad way to learn. But discussion on forums like this is all about the written word. Threads should be conversations, not lectures. You learn in a different way when you're talking with peers in a reasoned manner about the bits of knowledge you all share. A video is like going out to a restaurant for your dinner. A discussion forum is more like we're all in the kitchen preparing the meal together. Both are great in their way, but mixing them doesn't make either any better.

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But you have the decency to add some context with words, along with your video. That wasn't the behavior I was referring to at all. And we still have the same problems. WE have to watch them to judge if they're good enough quality to watch. And if we allow "yours"....

I really find it annoying when someone replies to me with a video-only response, especially when it comes after several written posts (got one this morning). It always seems lazy to me, like they can't find their own words for their own arguments, or like they can't be bothered so they outsource their reply. I never watch them.