Take-away 1: Electric cars emit 20% more micro-plastics from tires than do ICE vehicles.

Take-away 2: Electric cars are not the solution to climate change. Whether it's a 2000lb ICE vehicle, or a 4000lb EV vehicle, it takes a lot of energy which has to come for somewhere, and a lot of material that will have to be mined, and then eventually disposed.

But is it strong enough to make a space elevator?

This is a conspiracy theory, not unlike the theories you will hear on the right. I've never heard anyone on the right equate soy with Asian or other cultures.

Well, in American there was Bernie Sanders.

It's a confounding thing, that so many people will vote for leaders who straight-up tell them that they will make the world a worse place for them (Reagan, Trump, Thatcher).

Nobody's head is going to explode. Most conservatives are well aware that soybeans are an American croup and are even proud of the fact. They just think that the soybeans should be served to cows.

Vilifying people you don't like is no way to establish understanding or communication.

This itself is a conspiracy theory. I've known a lot of right-wing people, and none of them made a connection between Soy and Asian cuisine. They don't like tofu, in particular, because they didn't grow up with it and see it as some weird, hippy thing.

Hi (Waving from left bubble) !

I agree. I don't think anyone is thinking that hard about the "Asian" roots of soybeans. And people on the left are just as hung up on their identity politics as people on the right.

There is a strong association between Tofu with hippy culture, even though there really isn't such a thing anymore. I guess if you don't want heart disease by the time you're 40, you must be a hippy.

No. Smoking is way more personally dangerous than alcohol, except for auto accidents. Tobacco hurts you in so many different ways -- with sagging skin, lung cancer, emphysema, heart disease, stained teeth, strokes, hypertension. Also, alcohol addicts only represent about 10% of the drinking public, whereas about 90% of smokers become chain-smoking addicts.

And, as I mentioned, smoking often kills people a decade short of retirement. Drinkers, on the other hand, often reach old age.

Not justifying alcohol, but there are so many downsides to smoking. But you can't explain that to an addict.

I have a folding bike that was originally meant to be part of a Marlsboro rewards program. Apparently smokers weren't all that interested in exercise. Who knew?

Yes, where I worked they generously gave you a 10 minute mid-morning break. Unless you were a smoker, and "needed" to slip out 5 minutes every hour. I often wondered if I could get away with just "smoking" a straw.

Most of the smokers I've known don't even get close to 80, and are often very sickly when they do. Two family members that didn't make it to 60. A healthy looking co-worker who dropped dead in the parking lot. A former boss who didn't get to enjoy more than two years retirement.

Cigarettes are the only consumer product that, when used as directed, kill their consumers.

Be the traffic you want to become.

As long as the temperature is below 451F/233C, there should be no danger of fire.

Pro Tip: Keep masking tape in the kitchen. If you do something weird like storing a pizza in the oven, put a piece of masking tape over the oven dial as a reminder. Masking tape is good for putting a date on things going into the fridge too.

How are they for coming off ? The various reinforced tires I've tried (randoneur, gator, 25mm) are really hard to put back on. Like you peel the skin off your hands trying. I've notice that most tires, even cheaper ones, don't give you trouble for the first 500 miles. So have gone back to a medium grade tire that doesn't require special tools to replace.

You only needed a slim 50% to split? Not like a 2/3rds majority?

Regardless, I stay away from both irregardless.

I'm sceptical. That would be an extremely unethical test. And it would only prove that too much of something can kill you. Did you know that people can even die from drinking too much water?

I made my own app, and tracked calories, carbs, fiber, and potassium. I used data from USDA. What I found was that it was almost impossible to get the recommended amount of potassium unless you ate nothing but green leafy vegetables, or massively over-eat.

Studies done on people under 45, almost certainly.

An egg a day instead of a multi-vitamin? And then you get high cholesterol.

I think multi-vitamins are more important as you get older. Your body simply doesn't absorb as much of the vitamins in food as it does when you're younger. So all that advice "Just eat a healthy diet" isn't quite as true.

How about "U" -- "Unstudied" If there's no money to study a supplement, it doesn't get studied. Or maybe "unmonied", because the particular studies the governments want cost $$$.

Most doctors today will tell you NOT to take iron, especially if you are a man. Apparently iron has been associated with various health concerns.

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There’s a website, I can’t remember the link, but any text you search can be found to have already been written on one of its pages.

It's The Library of Babel

You can type up to 3200 characters in lower case. With a short sentence though, the "title" and page number may be longer than your original text!

Edit: Fixed url title

Changing it into soap does change it chemically. It becomes just like the soap you use every day.

Because it gives economic value to plastics, helping to pull them out of the waste stream.

Biden can't win the election without Harris.

Keep in mind that U.S. elections are not popular elections. You have to look at key swing states. Technically, none of the other 43~ states matter much because their outcomes are already statistically pre-determined. It doesn't matter how much people like Biden in California or New York, if he loses key states. For instance, Hillary Clinton had twice as many popular votes in California as Trump in 2016. But those extra 4 million extra votes didn't matter to the outcome because California is just one State.

For example, Michigan is a key electoral state. It is predominantly a red state. But Barak Obama won it two elections in a row because minorities from the densely populated areas, especially Wayne county, turned out for him. Those same minorities did not turn out when Hillary Clinton ran in 2016. They came back ... just barely ... when Biden ran with Harris as VP. This same story is repeated in Georgia and Wisconsin -- both swing states that usually lean heavily Red.

So, to sum up. It doesn't matter how much people in red states hate on Harris. Their election results have already been factored. What matters is how she is perceived in key swing states. While some red state voters won't vote for Biden because they fear he might keel over, other swing state voters will ... for exactly the same reason!

Tea. Earl Grey. Hot

I read that, decades ago. By James Blish, who turned many of the first Star Trek episodes into books. That was probably why I read it. ::: spoiler spoiler An entire planet is excorcized. :::

And if there's life on other planets, 
then I'm sure that he must know,
and he's been there once already
and has died to save their Souls

Larry Norman, "In Another Land", 1976

Just thinking out loud. If your paper record is actually QR codes, then you could scan them into your device as you need them. So you wouldn't have to type some long, complicated sequence by hand.

Less support for KP on Linux. Needs Mono to run. More importantly, AFAIK, it won't interface with a browser extension (on Linux). So KP is more Windows oriented.

What setting?

The thing is, we don't know how viable this is in the long term.

For all we know, every 200 years the Earth is hit by a major EMP sunspot event that will fry our cellpones, cell towers, and satellites.

This isn't just speculative. In 1859 a major solar storm took down most of the electronic communication of that time. Back then, that meant telegraph communication. The first major telegraph message had been sent only 15 years before, so world-wide communications didn't suffer too much.

If we had a major storm now, the winners would be those countries and institutions that still retained paper-based communications and information management systems. The losers would be everyone dependent on electronics communications.

This is it. They don't warn you in high school, but after school your friends will be in colleges or jobs miles away. This is just the way it is and if anything, cellphones would theoretically allow people to stay connected.

So you're saying it would have been better if AI had produced it?

Do you happen to know the title? Or season? Thanks!

No more actors, writers, prop makers, stage hands, or key grips (whatever they are).

Interesting. The article says that Dutch doesn't make a person's heart flutter. I don't think English makes anyone's heart flutter either, and it's arguably the most popular language in the world.

What Dutch has going for it is that is probably the closest to English of all the natural languages. So if you want to check off "bilingual" on your bucket list, it's a good candidate.

I'm willing to do that, but I would have to use Google translate to moderate. Which might be OK? Been studying Dutch lightly for 3 years and more intensely (hour a day) for the last 6 months.