That, or the 60+ clinical trials (out of which >80% are peer reviewed) that show a clear signal with benefits. Stigmatizing Ivermectin as "goat paste designed to go after parasites" alone is just plain wrong with strong scientific evidence to back up antiviral and anti-inflammatory benefits. If you're interested, take a look at IvmMeta, an ongoing meta analysis project with full references to the studies I referred to above. Nobody should be taking animal paste, however, and should rather get a prescription for human rated pills.

Trucks typically have a longer life expectancy than passenger cars with significantly more miles being driven annually, yet we can see trucks spewing black smog into the atmosphere all the while a fairly recent passenger car will fail an inspection if any of the rigorous emission thresholds is reached.

Seems a bit more attention on other forms of transportation would be warranted, including trucks receiving the hybrid treatment. There's also been interesting development in using gas turbines as the generators in trucks instead of ICEs.

So yes, a valid point indeed.

I've held a megaphone in front of my mouth and spoken into it. All I heard was my own regular voice, therefore I don't believe they work as advertised. In other words, it's all about direction.

I've also been visiting a house about 1.5km(1 mile) away from the nearest wind turbine, with the noise disturbance inside the house being at such a degree that I couldn't believe our government could let this happen. When the noise hits them, the residents can't sleep and neither would you in similar circumstances.

The issue seems to be mostly coming from the low frequency noise forming from the air pressure of the wing hitting the tower after the wing has passed. It seems to be very directed - directly sideways of the turbine.

Another contributing factor is weather. Certain conditions can cause noise that is emitted on a rising angle to curve back downwards. When these rare weather conditions are met, we've found people much father away complaining about the noise while the residents much closer had no issue with it.

Often there's more going on than immediately meets the eye.

If you want to be that nickpicky about something that was supposed to be a joke in the first place, I'll note that kasvotkunnia.com does not exist either (Faceglory's primary domain is a .com). And I'll also note that querying TLD registrar databases using the whois tool will return results for all domains that have been registered (i.e. bought), not just those that are, to use your word, "active".

Fine.

$ whois kasvotkunia.fi
 
Domain not found

I would have thought that was already a fetish site.

$ whois faceglory.fi
 
Domain not found

To be fair, Finnish is an impossible language.

You're not married to my husband. Two weeks after he gets a new phone, it looks like he's run it through the clothes dryer in a box of rocks. I don't know how he does it.

I like your affect.

Don't you mean boobies?

Heh, I almost thought of adding a disclaimer. No, I have nothing to do with the software. Just a happy user.

I can't speak for the Windows and Linux versions, but I know from Little Snitch that the Mac version attempts to talk to port 443 on their webserver when it starts up, presumably for an update check. Additionally, it attempts to contact doubleclick.net and googleapis.com when you search for location. I just block all this traffic and haven't seen any adverse effects.

Thanks for the pointers to g.lux and redshift. I'll check those out and see if they offer anything better for me.

f.lux isn't designed for outdoor use (although there's no reason you couldn't use it there). The idea is that the light coming off your screen matches the colour temperature of the natural light you'd be receiving if you were outdoors (and whatever might be coming through your windows), so that your brain's neurochemistry (melatonin in particular) matches what it should be doing at that time of day, helping you maintain a natural circadian rhythm, which it seems to accomplish in spades.

I use f.lux on my MacBook and it's great (also available for Windows and Linux, but I haven't tried those versions). It adjusts the colour temperature of the screen, using your location and the time of day, to match the colour temperature of the natural light of that time of day. I have noticed a significant difference in the quality of my sleep since I started using it. Plus, whenever I happen to get up during the night and want use the computer for something, I'm not blinded by the screen.

Hence my pedantic preference for putting the quotes around the physical object.