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Sure, why not.

And, there were 1,126,000 abortions were provided by US clinicians in 2025.

Ban abortions.

With the added benefit of being able to mount the tracks at an angle, and the added disadvantage of occupying area near the tracks that is occasionally used for maintenance equipment.

And getting approval to widen the right of way, where it’s even physically possible, and issues around flora suppression.

Placing a cover over the area between the tracks makes it much more difficult to inspect the ties (sleepers) and ballast.
Would you be better off just building an additional nuclear power plant.

This trial tied the panels to the grid, but they want to connect it to railway substations or directly in to the trains power system for the traction motors.

Making the power only available for trains.

And never at night, as is typical with solar panels.

Re:Scientists reverse brain aging, with a nasal spray on Sunday July 05, 2026 @11:53AM (#48795215)
Close enough
Oh, I wrote “bling” lol
Every Friday night after work, happy hour starts at 6.
What the fuck is wrong with you cunts on this site.

I’ve written in this style here under a couple usernames over the past 15 years, and I assure you, I’m not a fracking toaster.

I’m a tradesman with 28 years experience working in all sorts of farming, fishing, aquaculture, industry and industry adjacent mental fabrication and as machine repair technician, 10 years operating a fibre laser cutter.

I reached out to you in a friending manner suggesting a few ideas in line with the interest you expressed.

And your response is to blow me off.

Blow me off motherfucker.

I hope you get in to farming and find yourself wrapped around a power take off shaft.

Eat a bag of dicks. Cunt.

Unfortunately life isn’t a triple-bling placebo controlled study.

There isn’t a cohort consisting entirely of otherwise identical yous we can use to retrospectively assess the outcomes of single-changes.

And besides, it’s not like one or any number of psychedelic experiences, results in a perfect human experience free of suffering or what have you.

Re:Scientists reverse brain aging, with a nasal spray on Saturday July 04, 2026 @09:10PM (#48790455)
This one?

https://youtube.com/shorts/E74r-ybeQfE

Someone needs to put an octopus in a mini vehicle.

Re:Scientists reverse brain aging, with a nasal spray on Saturday July 04, 2026 @09:05PM (#48790437)
On the plus side, expect to see great works of literature authored by rodents.
Re:Scientists reverse brain aging, with a nasal spray on Saturday July 04, 2026 @09:02PM (#48790423)
Grab me a bag while your there.
Re:Leaking YouTube creators' private videos on Saturday July 04, 2026 @07:42PM (#48790075)
You’re responding to an argument I didn’t make.

And looks like you agree that coding isn’t engineering.

The first high-level programming language was Plankalkül, created by Konrad Zuse between 1942 and 1945.[2] The first high-level language to have an associated compiler was created by Corrado Böhm in 1951, for his PhD thesis.

How long are you going to keep claiming programming is a brand new discipline?

Okay, engineering proper has thousands of years of history. But it’s not like coding came down in the last shower.

Fair enough that any random app probably doesn’t need to be probably correct. And that’s why it’s not engineering.

The practice of coding is a science and an art.

I guess we should make a distinction between Engineering and engineering.

Lower case e engineering is the design and manufacture of complex product - in which case, sure coding is engineering, and coders are engineers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_programming_languag...

Re:Leaking YouTube creators' private videos on Saturday July 04, 2026 @06:17PM (#48789582)
Architects are visual artists not engineers.

Only one of your list calls themselves engineers, because the others are not.

The whole premise of labelling someone prejudice for stating the facts is wildly idiotic.

Extremely. It’s only a logical facility when the argument made is fallacious.
Also, wasn’t the 250 ppm atmospheric CO2 concentration prior to the start of the Industrial Revolution a historic low as far a geological-time goes?

I suppose that’s not particularly relevant for more recent old growth tall trees that seem to have got by fine in a colder Earth.

But it’s easy to imagine a warmer, wetter, Earth with higher atmospheric CO2 concentrations being more conducive to taller tree growth.

On the other hand, I probably don’t really know what I’m talking about, not my area of expertise.

Oooo, I get a bit excited about interdisciplinary techno-plant-and-livestock

Another area that might be easier to break in to as far as work goes is labouring for an irrigation business, kinda agricultural plumbing.

You’ve probably seen pivots[1] and side-roll irrigation systems.

This would put you in more direct contact with the farm operators, expose you to a wide range of agricultural crops, and also tie neatly in to your existing CS skill set with regard to agricultural SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition), or Industrial Arduino as I like to call it.

Working for seed processes / distributors and fertiliser and pest & weed control industries could also be another foot-in-the-door move.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center-pivot_irrigation

No more beer, wine, bread, or yogurt for you.

No mushrooms, no meat, and no vegetables.

Re:CarPlay Is Additive on Friday July 03, 2026 @12:05AM (#48770572)
Ah yes, the solution to any and every problem, real or imagined, is more government.
Re:CarPlay Is Additive on Friday July 03, 2026 @12:02AM (#48770551)
Isn’t that a type of fish?
Re:Nano Banana 2 Lite on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @09:45AM (#48746698)
> Pretty soon they'll take the stickers off mowers warning people to not put their hand under it while it's running.

Good.

Re:Why I Stopped Arguing with People on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @09:42AM (#48746644)
Do you believe all points of view are equally valuable?
> in 2012 i owned a car that could run 100 octane fuel, and that was $9 a gallon. a few more octane and you get Jet-A minus the additives.

So? Diesel and petrol (gasoline) are different fuels. Comparing them by RON is irrelevant.

I mean, here we are so..

QED

The perennial question.

Well, at least it’s spurred intellectually curious discussion.

My BMI is 28.7 at 181cm and 94kg at 45.25 years old.

Am I overweight, not far off obesity?

You probably wouldn’t say so if you saw me.

BMI is mostly only a useful metric when it is.

> NEAT

non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis?

I’m a bit of a fitness enthusiast, but not enthusiastic enough to have come across all the acronyms.

> It’s pretty well known, in cycling at least, that hard interval training is super effective for untrained people or people coming back from a break, but the gains plateau relatively quickly, and the stress of doing this kind of work is hard to sustain for long periods.

This is 100% experience with both cycling and running, and something I worked out on my own early on, prior to the advent of smartphones and even talking to anyone who knew anything.

I enjoy sprinting, both running and cycling, but it’s mostly something I do to regain my endurance ability after a break. Two two weeks of high intensity interval training, and then I’m able to sustain moderate intensity jogging for 30+ plus again, or an hour cycling.

Can you clarify your last paragraph, looks like there’s a typo or grammatical error that states the same outcome for both arguments put forward in the preceding paragraphs.
> Which would ignore that jet fuel is going to be a multiple of the gasoline price.

That doesn’t sound right. If my Duck Fu is any good, jet fuel is currently going due US$3.00 per gallon, avgas (leaded petrol) at $3.30, and gasoline at $2.88 gallon.

There’s nothing much special about jet fuel, it’s just kerosene, same as RP1 (Rocket Propellant), heater fuel, and lamp oil you can buy from the hardware store, with a touch of something to stop it gelling at low temperature if I understand correctly, but also jet fuel tanks are heated if I recall correctly.

I believe standard diesel fuel will also works in jet engines, but kerosene is cheaper.

I’m not in the US, and if I understand correctly their gasoline (petrol) price can vary greatly from state to state, California being the worst? Is that right?

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