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Re:Why Do Cats Knead? on Friday June 09, 2023 @02:16PM (#36261805)
Only tangentially related: when I was a kid we let a couple stray female dogs sleep in our garage during the winter. One of them was pregnant and ended up delivering like 11 puppies in our garage. Both the mother and the other stray dog began lactating and both dogs would breast-feed the puppies.

We gave away all the puppies around the neighborhood. We took one, so did our aunt and a family friend. It was an interesting experience to get to see how different dogs from the same litter and different environments grew up. When they would get together you could tell they remembered/knew each other. I still miss that dog - literally experienced his entire life :(

That doesn't mean you have any less heat to dissipate.
It has to have gotten worse since the whole JFK thing.
I think the problem is you'd have to put the laser system on the area you want destroyed. Lightning can really only kill someone or light stuff on fire - and we already have weapons that can achieve this more easily that mounting a laser system in person. So it doesn't look like this is really forming an effective weapon unless you can direct the lightning, ideally stealthily, to a third location. Maybe it could be mounted to a drone that flies over? I'm still having a hard time imagining a scenario where this provides new leverage.
Re:Intravenous Caffeine on Thursday June 08, 2023 @02:12PM (#36246198)
Mushrooms and LSD are solid and the only drugs I still fuck with from time-to-time as I enter my 30s. Also seem to be popular among the HN and nerd/professional crowd. Pot and mdma don't really have a place in my life anymore. I still love to drink but I cut back mainly for fitness goals.
We were going out of business, but the sale was so successful we're doing ok now!
Re:What Hallucinogens Will Make You See on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @06:31PM (#36219977)
The replication subreddit has had some really impressive content also.
Re:Deadly heart attacks are more common on a Monday on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @06:00PM (#36219641)
A case of the Mondays?
Re:Snowden Ten Years Later on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @05:11PM (#36219177)
It really is guillotine time.
Re:How Wittgenstein Watched Movies on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @03:47PM (#36218164)
This will solve literally nothing.
Holy shit man grow some balls. Yes, this is a constructive comment. You cannot let yourself be pushed around and extorted by such petty 'fears'.
Re:Pneumatic Antenna Launching Systems on Monday June 05, 2023 @01:07PM (#36199437)
In reality this is not much of a concern at ~100psi. The bigger concern is to make sure that you get a good clean glue seal at all of the joints. That is the most likely error and point of failure. Also, don't drop it.
Does Excel have version control and diffing? I know Word does.
The camps went away and the guns stayed. Seems effective.
There's no more people in camps in the US because we actually have power?
Yea the government put him in a camp and he still wants only the government to have the guns and his fellow man disarmed. He's a nut and professional victim - not a hero.
I recommend Sithu Aye.
Re:India calls for all mobile phones to include FM radios on Thursday May 11, 2023 @12:41PM (#35904698)
Didn't one of the old iPhones or iPods have a FM receiver that used the headphones as an antenna?
This already exists in the form of wax/dabs.
Re:Fakespot Is Acquired by Mozilla on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @01:36PM (#35791268)
I use firefox everyday at work and home and can't think of a single thing that 'needs' to be fixed from a user perspective. I loads up the internet and is fast. So I don't think defining Mozilla's vision as 'fix a bunch of random issues' is very wise. Gnone key-ring support and porting to rust? How is that going to grow the user base?
Re:Ask HN: Project ideas for a Linux kernel module on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @12:14PM (#35789867)
Write a simple USB driver for interacting with some arduino widget. I'm talking actual USB not serial emulation. For instance, when you plug in some microcontroller/arduino with a small LCD screen you can `echo Hello World > /dev/my_lcd_screen` and it will appear.
Yea go tell that to someone actually living in a third world country. How out of touch and spoiled can you be?
Re:The Struggle to Make Lab-Grown Meat on Friday April 28, 2023 @11:25AM (#35742393)
Yea, I'll give up real meat when the elites do.
It says here in this history book that luckily, the good guys have won every single time. What are the odds? -Norm MacDonald.
Re:Religious Faith Is Surging Among Young People on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @03:06PM (#35705150)
It's the opposite for me personally. While I still wouldn't say I believe in a tangible god or higher power in any meaningful way, I have come to grow more of an interest and appreciation for religion, specifically christianity, as I've gotten older. I'll never be a bible freak but I would like to, one day, be able to say I honestly believe in (a) god. I'm not sure what that means exactly, and it could be wrong, but if it's all the same I'd much rather be the person that believes.
You did 5 minutes of internet research, think you know what you're talking about, and now think I owe you something. I can't help you.
Everything is already complex. The rubber in the tires, foundries for the metal in the tractor, machining tools and welding equipment, the processes and tools to develop insecticides, water infrastructure. Why is a far away radio a bridge too far? It already takes a nation to build tractors at scale.
That's the thing. Tripping and self reflecting isn't edgy. It's been made to seem edgy. Someone died while doing drugs? Guess we should only sell beer at the psych office too so they can save us. And cut your self righteous bullshit about internet comments being uncalled for. Trauma and overcoming, i.e, the human experience, isn't new. These mega institutions sticking their whole fist up our ass is. I'm not against the idea that there needs to be 'the man'. But people are sold the idea that it's only ok or 'safe' to trip in a doctors office I think we need to get a grip. Might as well fuck in front of them too.
Re:Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content on Thursday April 20, 2023 @11:10AM (#35641324)
Replace 'hate' with "things I don't like" and you'll see why your comment provides no insight. Hate is subjective and political.
Or just do drugs by yourself or with friends and not around some stranger who guides you to state approved answers. Also do mushrooms, not this shit. Only reason they're pushing this brain-melting stuff is because they can make a buck.

'actually drugs are good now. Just give us your credit card and insurance info and step right this way'. Fuck off. Do drugs in the woods and sort your shit out like we've been doing for thousands of years. Get out of here nerd.

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