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Water Cooler / Re: Record-breaking increase in CO2 levels in world’s atmosphere
« on: May 10, 2024, 07:27:33 PM »
It's never been a better time to be a tree. Well, except for the pesky extreme weather swings.
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Hardware & Technology / Re: Remember when people worried about cell phone radiation?
« on: May 10, 2024, 07:21:01 PM »
>they could launch an assassin drone fitted out with the leeching feature in Ukraine and have it follow power lines to the Kremlin.
That's wild, and makes total sense.
That's wild, and makes total sense.
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Economics & Investing / Re: Renewables make up the lion’s share of new electric generation
« on: May 09, 2024, 10:02:14 PM »
>Texas electricity prices soared almost 100-fold as a high number of power-plant outages raised concerns of a potential evening shortfall.
So that's why I received an automated e-mail stating I am on track for higher than usual electricity charges, along with a failure to explain why.
What caused your bill to change?
The weather has been similar to this time last year,
and may not have affected your bill.
So that's why I received an automated e-mail stating I am on track for higher than usual electricity charges, along with a failure to explain why.
What caused your bill to change?
The weather has been similar to this time last year,
and may not have affected your bill.
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Marketplaces / Re: Amazon sales soar with boost from artificial intelligence and advertising
« on: May 08, 2024, 08:08:51 PM »
>retail operation on the side
luckily for AMZN, the retail operation is generating massive amounts of data, which they'll use to train their AI. Equal only to Google, META, and Tik Tok?
luckily for AMZN, the retail operation is generating massive amounts of data, which they'll use to train their AI. Equal only to Google, META, and Tik Tok?
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Water Cooler / Re: Consumer-grade exoskeleton for walking assistance
« on: May 05, 2024, 11:42:29 PM »
>*almost*
What was the deal breaker?
What was the deal breaker?
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Water Cooler / Consumer-grade exoskeleton for walking assistance
« on: May 05, 2024, 10:37:04 PM »
900 watts of walking assistance or resistance, depending on your use case. That's more than my electric bike. Youtube reviews seem to focus on hiking, running, jumping and resistance training, but I think they'd do even better marketing to seniors.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dnsys/dnsys-x1-exoskeleton-unleash-superhuman-athletic-potential
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dnsys/dnsys-x1-exoskeleton-unleash-superhuman-athletic-potential
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Water Cooler / Re: Helldivers. WTH?
« on: May 05, 2024, 07:04:27 PM »
Last night a friend in his late 20's asked me if I had been following the Helldivers story. It seems to be everywhere at the moment.
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Water Cooler / Re: Weight loss wonder drug sparks 'Ozempic babies' phenomenon
« on: May 04, 2024, 08:19:18 PM »
> they didn't look healthy
Related: Ozempic face
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/ozempic-face
But plastic surgeons have the fix!
https://nypost.com/2024/04/26/lifestyle/face-filler-expected-to-soar-with-cases-of-gaunt-ozempic-face-and-one-company-is-cashing-in/
Daily Mail "celebrity examples"
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13319655/hollywood-celebrities-ozempic-gauntness-weight-loss-effect.html
Related: Ozempic face
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/ozempic-face
But plastic surgeons have the fix!
https://nypost.com/2024/04/26/lifestyle/face-filler-expected-to-soar-with-cases-of-gaunt-ozempic-face-and-one-company-is-cashing-in/
Daily Mail "celebrity examples"
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13319655/hollywood-celebrities-ozempic-gauntness-weight-loss-effect.html
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Water Cooler / Re: Helldivers. WTH?
« on: May 04, 2024, 08:13:52 PM »
Yep, that looks like a good way to kill off a popular title.
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Hardware & Technology / Re: VASA-1 - Microsoft Research
« on: May 04, 2024, 08:01:32 PM »
Getting better by the month. VR video games are going to be amazing in 20 years.
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Water Cooler / Re: Helldivers. WTH?
« on: May 02, 2024, 07:57:59 PM »
Helldivers 2 is definitely popular. It was released in Feb. and had it's highest concurrent player count 2 months ago (458k). Still has 100k+ concurrent players. It is loosely based on the Starship Troopers movies, I believe.
https://steamdb.info/app/553850/charts/
https://steamdb.info/app/553850/charts/
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Water Cooler / Re: Weight loss wonder drug sparks 'Ozempic babies' phenomenon
« on: May 02, 2024, 07:04:03 PM »
>At $1000/month it'll only affect sustain demographics.
I fear it may affect *all* taxpayers and health insurance customers.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-05/ozempic-s-cost-weight-loss-drugs-will-be-billed-to-us-taxpayers
I fear it may affect *all* taxpayers and health insurance customers.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-05/ozempic-s-cost-weight-loss-drugs-will-be-billed-to-us-taxpayers
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Traffic / Re: The man who killed Google Search?
« on: April 24, 2024, 05:51:22 PM »
Well that was scathing.