Yeah, ok. But you can't deny that there isn't much of a market for hot shit on a hot summer day. Everyone is buying frozen. You can make your own of course, or take the frozen and heat it to your hearts desire, but don't be surprised you can't buy hot shit these days. Its just basic market dynamics.

This is interesting. I've noticed that most of my parrot's senses seem duller than mine (unlike with, say, dogs) - not as picky with taste (except staleness), no meaningful signs of a significant sense of smell, has trouble seeing things that are right near him sometimes, etc - but he seems more atuned to having rapid reactions to anything unusual than I am. Like, at my old place, whenever a chunk of ice would break off the roof and crash down to the ground below, he'd be reacting before my senses even registered the event. I wonder if the "high framerate" thing is in general a "fast communication with the senses" in parrots. Certainly there's a very short distance between most of their sensory organs and the brain. And it's certainly useful for a prey animal to be able to react to sudden events (like, say, a striking snake, or a diving hawk glinting through the branches)

"I'm here live . I'm not a parrot." ;)

They're intelligent social animals. Even just a change in eye contact from me alters my Amazon's behavior. He's incredibly attuned to my posture, tone of voice, mannerisms, etc, to clue in whether he's going to e.g. be getting a treat or scolded for misbehavior or whatnot. I can't imagine that a video without that back-and-forth would stimulate him.

I don't watch TV anymore, but he used to just tune it out. Rather, he'd tune into *me*. He'd laugh at the funny parts of shows and the like, not because he understood the humour, but because he was paying attention to me, and I was laughing, so he wanted to join in. And then I'd react amusedly to his taking part, he'd get attention, and getting attention was in turn a reward to him. They like getting reactions to the things they do. A video won't do that.

And yeah, he understands what screens are - same as mirrors. Some smaller psittacines are known to strongly interact with mirrors as if they're other birds, but in my experience, the larger ones don't do that; they quickly learn it's their reflection and stop caring. As a side note, I actually tried the mirror test with my Amazon twice, but each time I got a null result. You're supposed to put an unusual mark or lightweight object on their head where they can't see it, put them in front of a mirror, and if they interact with the mirror like it's another animal, they don't recognize it's their reflection; while if they use it to try to preen the hidden mark/object, it's a sign of recognition. But my Amazon didn't give a rat's arse. I might as well have put him in front of a wall for all it mattered; he gave the mark zero attention. Didn't care about the reflection of a bird. Didn't care about the mark on his head. Just sat there waiting for me to put him back on his cage :P I couldn't get him to interact with the reflection at all. Nor does he react to birds on TV. By contrast, he'll VERY MUCH interact with a real bird (he hates them all... he's very antisocial with nonhumans).

No Google ate their lunch with chromebooks, because Apple didn't care enough about management. It takes so little time to figure out a keyboard and touch pad, like less than an hour for kids over the age of 6.

Oh god, all Android tablets are terrible. Including and especially samsung ones. Even worse app support, janky hardware with limited repair options. The list goes on. You buy samsung if you are obligated by contact, religion or habbit to have a non Apple tablet. Thats about it.

The ipad works great with printers. I know its very confusing, but any wireless printer works pretty well with cloud printing. It detects the printer automatically and can print to it if its on the same network. It works better than any windows or linux based device does with HP's own drivers.

And well, it works well enough with a bluetooth keyboard and mouse. The mouse support is really really odd. I can't recommend that for anyone. And of course it works great with icloud storage.

But yeah, An ipad is a bigger ios device. That's it. You can even make phone calls on it. So doing iphone things but on bigger screens, maybe with more people than yourself.

Living forever is a bunch of crap. However, it's only a matter of time until someone finds a way to get an extra five to ten (good) years of life.

We need to be dealing with this now, or we are going to have to deal with a 105-year-old Mitch McConnell.

Even the US Army is testing an anti-aging drug right now:

https://www.popularmechanics.c...

Bad Data meaning "anything I don't agree with or like"

That works until it is gamed by bad actors.

I mean yeah if Trump's in this isn't worth the paper its written on obviously. But, but I wonder how long it will be before the economics take over and it just happens anyways. There is a difference between stopping new laws from reducing coal usage to those that would subsidize it. Here's hoping in economic forces, and the incompetency of idiots.

You're reading old papers that didn't understand the economics of renewables. Nuclear is more expensive on the whole and longer term to get any up and running. I'd be ok with building more nuclear, but I don't think that's going to happen due to a whole host of reasons. Its easy to underestimate the political difficulties of building nuclear or really any large infrastructure at least in the US. Renewables require a lot less red tape to be cut or public investment. I think we do need to move fast on some kind of energy storage mechanism to deal with days where solar and wind are not capable of meeting load if we aren't also adding nuclear. I guess thats what we're banking on natural gas, which while not carbon neutral is less carbon. And that can be done quick and cheap. Its important to be pragmatic rather than dogmatic to reduce greenhouse gasses asap.

I don't know what a sane price is for this. If it were a laptop, $3200 is a great deal for a lightly used 5k original device. I think that reflects on the lack of utility for many many people. Its possible you contrarian reading my post have some use for it that can't be met with any other device. I don't know who you are or what your needs are but I'm also not in charge of you. Go do you're thing and report back how cool it is that you've done it.

Anyone reading this, please please do not finance a car's worth of money on some new gadget you're not even sure if you have a use for. I've had many friends do similar. Friends who took out tech loans from the university at 9% interest for a new gaming rig that was outdated in 3 years, and are still paying it back. Friends that would get behind on utility bills so they could get the brand new Gaming system. Just don't. Having entertainment and fun should be available for all, but do it with in your budget for heavens sake.

If you have 5k burning a hole in your pocket and you wouldn't' notice if it disappeared from your bank account, sure do it if thats what you enjoy.

White dwarfs are composed of electron-degenerate matter. With most matter, volume changes with temperature. This is a natural check on nuclear reaction rates - as they increase, they heat up their environment, causing it to expand, reduce density, and slow the reaction. But degenerate matter's volume is almost independent of its temperature, so it lacks this natural counterbalance; degeneracy pressure is what keeps its volume, not thermal pressure. As a result it tends to be kind of... explodey ;) You have to get the temperature so high that thermal pressure becomes relevant again for it to meaningfully expand.

A lot of people seem ok profiting off of deals with the CCP.

Many are so fixated on money as power and the means to convey value that they fail to see the manipulation.

China is using old colonial tactics against the US and Europe. Trade as a means of political control.