x31b t1_jdfr96n wrote on March 24, 2023 at 1:45 AM

I’ve read of some interesting treatment options recently: vaccines for opioids that make your body attack or neutralize the opioids before they can have an effect.

x31b t1_j25bucy wrote on December 29, 2022 at 7:44 PM

Reply to comment by ABoyWithNoBlob in One of the world's largest lasers could be used to detect alien warp drives by upyoars

Strawberry ripple in the space time continuum? What happened to Eddy? I thought that’s where he was.

x31b t1_j1nxzw4 wrote on December 25, 2022 at 11:46 PM

Reply to comment by GravySquad in Is AI like ChatGPT censored? by joyloveroot

I worry that if we ever get a real communication from outer space that it will be the interstellar equivalent of a prank call: now that you’ve mastered fission and fusion weapons, you’re ready for our recipe for fusion power: make a fusion bomb, add these things in these steps, then set it off and all your energy and Co2 issues will be solved. Turns out, they’ve told us how to make a planet-killing bomb.

x31b t1_j12cugu wrote on December 21, 2022 at 3:52 AM

Reply to Installing a washer. Where’s the drain ? New house by baicunko

The right opening has a round cover in the bottom. Can you pull it up with the plastic stalk? Maybe with pliers?

Maybe they covered the hole up so sewer gases don’t go into the house.

x31b t1_j0wbqxr wrote on December 19, 2022 at 10:13 PM

Reply to comment by Laserteeth_Killmore in Iraq: The Lost Generation (2008) - In the past five years (2003-2008) more than four million Iraqis – 20 per cent of the entire population – have been driven from their homes as a result of the war and sectarian bloodshed. Two million have become exiles living desperate lives. [00:50:11] by Missing_Trillions

I would say that life in Iraq under Saddam in the early years, before the Iran war, was better than what they have now.

Do you think it’s better now?

x31b t1_j0qzket wrote on December 18, 2022 at 7:34 PM

Reply to Iraq: The Lost Generation (2008) - In the past five years (2003-2008) more than four million Iraqis – 20 per cent of the entire population – have been driven from their homes as a result of the war and sectarian bloodshed. Two million have become exiles living desperate lives. [00:50:11] by Missing_Trillions

Iraq would have been better off if the US had just installed a competent dictator.

x31b t1_iyco01a wrote on November 30, 2022 at 12:29 PM

Reply to comment by grettp3 in Mid 20th century wedding in Iran (before the Islamic Republic took over in 1979) by LookAtThatHotTurtle

You’re the moron. Mossadegh was ousted in 1953 for trying to overthrow the king.

This picture was taken in the 1960s. Well after that. Not before.

x31b t1_iyaye09 wrote on November 30, 2022 at 1:23 AM

Reply to comment by Electronic-Dog-586 in Mid 20th century wedding in Iran (before the Islamic Republic took over in 1979) by LookAtThatHotTurtle

You know nothing of history.

x31b t1_iyay8ga wrote on November 30, 2022 at 1:22 AM

Reply to comment by Automatic_Flight_659 in Mid 20th century wedding in Iran (before the Islamic Republic took over in 1979) by LookAtThatHotTurtle

And when the mullahs took over, they kept and expanded that same secret police.

Source: last paragraph of the Wikipedia article on SAVAK.

x31b t1_ixmewg3 wrote on November 24, 2022 at 3:35 PM

Reply to comment by simplicissimusrex in I'm Ananyo Bhattacharya, author of 'The Man from the Future', about Hungarian-American mathematical genius John von Neumann. AMA! by simplicissimusrex

Von Neumann in a suit and tie. Feynman in a t-shirt. Classic.

x31b t1_itt3ikb wrote on October 26, 2022 at 2:33 AM

Reply to Recycling plastic is practically impossible — and the problem is getting worse by chrisdh79

If only there were a way for sodas to be sold in reusable glass bottles that you could take back to the store and use over and over.

Back to the 1950s!

x31b t1_itj3jzt wrote on October 24, 2022 at 12:37 AM

Reply to comment by -The_Blazer- in China is building a 40 gigawatt offshore wind farm, the biggest power plant in existence by mutherhrg

The only thing that matters is the direction of the curve.

If China is increasing emissions,the world is fsck’ed. If they are decreasing, the world has a chance.

The US and EU are decreasing.

x31b t1_it8n7o7 wrote on October 21, 2022 at 7:00 PM

Reply to comment by OLSAU in A new UN report explores how to make human civilization safe from destruction. There’s a way to make civilization extinction-proof. But it won’t be easy. by mossadnik

Or just eliminate anyone who actually wants the job from consideration.

x31b t1_it8n0js wrote on October 21, 2022 at 6:58 PM

Reply to A new UN report explores how to make human civilization safe from destruction. There’s a way to make civilization extinction-proof. But it won’t be easy. by mossadnik

The world would be a lot safer if the UN actually got their act together and took out Putin.