At least some new cars don't even come with the satellite antenna for Sirius anymore

The best result of this I could foresee is a deal on some refurbs at Microcenter in a few years?

I keep my media on a NAS, too, so even went so far as to buy an external 4k drive to be able to rip those while they are still commercially available. I can sync the NAS to my phone, too, so it's my own personal spotify/netflix. The Samsug TVs we have can natively stream from the NAS, as well, its really flexible.

I actually just bought a 4k reader/burner for ripping my 4k movies to my NAS, so am atypical, but yet agree as I too have a spindle of blank blu rays with no use case... transferring large files is either better done over the net or with a thumb drive or SD card. Can't guarantee a PC on the other end would have a disc drive to read them these days.

It'd stack the errors if you only referred to the previous studies, but you use the old/baseline product as one of the experimental groups in your new study. So Group A gets traditional flu vaccine, Group B gets mRNA, maybe Group C gets both to see if that's better or worse (can be either depending on the details!) But no, there are blank placebos given in /animal/ model experiments when defining the disease model. You don't need that data from humans and shouldn't want to do a controlled study in humans for that data.

That covers income, but I don't know how well you can support a population with no local food. I don't see agriculture being very... effective at -50C. Could do hydroponics but a power blip from famine is not a way to run a country.

It is often more ethical to design a study where you compare efficacy to a known efficacious solution and see if there's a benefit, because you don't need an untreated group. Especially for dangerous pathogens. It's also normally done for combination treatments where comparing to baseline is pointless, you want to see if two treatments together is more effective than one. I have not figured out the ringwing obsession with double blind placebo trials, I can only figure it is because that's what they go over first in elementary school science for the scientific method. It is like making the cabinet installer learn forestry and milling before learning how to install high end cabinets, then starting over with plywood production forestry and lamination techniques before installing mid grade cabinets. It's a bunch of extra expense, risk, and work for no tangible benefit. The administration is also putting pressure on animal models, which is the ethical way to do placebo studies, the whole MAHA approach to infectious disease is fraught.

You're chock full of mRNA, as is everything you eat every day. Any sequelae in your muscle tissue would be due to the binding sites the virus uses, which have correlated to heart issues, which means you'd be in worse shape if you became infected with the real live virus. You can avoid mRNA vaccines if you choose, of course, but I would recommend staying up to date on all vaccines for coronaviruses as you must be at much higher risk than the general population.

(for now?) you can sideload on Android at least. Honestly, though, my trust level for installing random phone apps is fairly low, so I'd prefer a (usually free) first party app over most others in most circumstances. For paid software I'd trust it enough but the adware stuff these days can be rather dire and has been used to push malware, with that even being what makes it through the current app stores. Still, anything to encourage keeping them as open as possible is good in the end.

Also if the correlation is erased with something as simple as looking at decaf then it is a pretty good indicator that either the caffeine itself or other components titrated out with it are key contributors to the effect.

One guy might be more critical than the others (e.g. the human monitoring the agents in this case) but certainly Carmack could not have gotten DOOM into your hands entirely single handedly, either, there'd have been lawyers, and accountants, and other more interchangeable folks that were nonetheless necessary.

The longer they run the more they tend to go off the rails (kinda like going rampant in sci fi i guess?) so the latest stuff has involved using agents to split out tasks to other agents and QC the results and strap everything together. But that's not too surprising since it is how humans get complicated things done, too, versus getting one guy to do the whole damn thing at once.

It does, they've just been around long enough that folks don't run into it as often unless they're road tripping out in the southwest where the signage has to very explicitly tell folks "no you really won't make it if you don't fill up at this exit" Might become more common for the latter once EVs hit a higher threshold and some of the small freeway exit gas stations fold up

Well if you pitch it as a fix for global warming as well as a way to cause crop failure of your enemies....

I think doomscrolling social media is more likely to replace video games (and probable in the decline in industry value for video games) than are books.