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Comment Re:Wikpedia for your connvenience (Score 1) 84

During 1995, plague was confirmed in the United States from nine western states.

it is then pretended like nobody knew of the plague out in the wild prior to that... which is absurd.

That is absolutely not what is happening there. Wikipedia is presenting a fact and they shouldn't have to prefix it with "for example" or "as one data point" for your reading convenience, or to stop you from imagining they are saying things not in or implied by the article.

Comment Re:human safari (Score 0) 184

you are a terrorist sympathizing scumbag, why don't you move to Gaza? Ukraine has been under fire for over a decade now, children are murdered by ruzzian orcs every day, so is anyone else unlucky enough to be hit by a drone launched into civilian infrastructure.

Israel must win and not let any terrorists annihilate itself.
Ukraine must win this and not let any terrorists annihilate itself.

Both countries are under attack by terrorists. In fact ruzzian terrorists have been supplying middle Eastern terrorists with weapons and intelligence and psyops help (similar to what you are engaged in) for a very long time. The world must awake to this nonsense, remove ruzzian terrorism from this planet, this would clear out quite a few other terrorists from this planet.

Comment Re:human safari (Score 0) 184

Except you are a lying scumbag, that's all. Israel is protecting itself from extermination, lead forward by Iran, who is now going to be busy enough with its own problems for a while, to support all the terrorists around Israel, at least these are good news. Hoping that Israel deals with the Hamas operatives and finds all of the remaining hostages.

Comment Re:This guy had a different experience (Score 1) 182

We all know that campsites are basic. Electrical hookup at a campsite means you can plug in something with a low electrical load.

Is that how it works in the UK? I think part of the confusion might be international differences. In the USA, most campsites for RVs (not tent camping spots) have "50 amp" connections, that is to say, two poles of 50A @ 120V, usually also connectable as center-tapped split-phase*, so you can pull 50A @ 220V. There are some which are limited to "30 amp" or a single 30A, 120V connection. Most tent spaces, if they have power at all, have a single 120V outlet at 15A or 20A. (About 13 or 17A continuous.)

I would have thought you would have at least 15A@220V at any electrified site in the UK. That's not enough to charge any EV bigger than a scooter at full power, but it's enough to get some respectable range overnight, surely enough to get to a fast charger?

It's true that some campgrounds even in the USA are oversubscribed, but this is a very bad practice, because of air conditioning. A lot of larger RVs now have three AC units. Each one can peak at 15A@110V and sustained can easily be 10A on a hot day.

* Some badly wired campgrounds have only a single phase to a campsite with a 50A connection, so you cannot get 220V, you get 0V instead when you try. This is of course some clown shit because you need an enlarged neutral anyway. Some larger RVs are starting to use 220V air con units, or even have a 220V clothes dryer in them!

Comment Re:Financal Anxiety (Score 1) 182

Your point makes sense, except the $15k EVs don't have this kind of range.

Eventually, perhaps they will. And then people could afford them, AND solve the range anxiety problem at the same time.

Has anyone subjected any of these $15k EVs to US-level crash tests? Will they survive a partial impact front collision?

Comment Re:You Don't have to doubt Christopher Columbus (Score 1) 40

Christ we're at the point where we have Christopher Columbus apologists.... There really isn't a lot of Hope left for this country

We're way past that point of course. That's been going on since forever. There's two main groups responsible. The understandable one is the Italian-Americans who fear they are being erased or demonized. They only got whiteness recently and they are afraid that either they will lose it, or they will get too much of it. The other group is also understandable I guess, but only by understanding that they are big fucking idiots. They are the people who don't want Columbus' evils to be known because of what it says about a nation he didn't discover and isn't named after him.

Comment Re:Houses (Score 1) 287

being that our country has become nothing more than a business, it needs a businessman to run it.

Even if that made any sense, which it doesn't, it would need a SUCCESSFUL businessman. Trump is not that, he is only a successful GRIFTER. To the extent that he has been successful, it has only been by abusing the system, and he is not actually successful as a businessman anyway. If he had invested in index funds he would have made more money than with all of his bullshit bankruptcy buttfuckery. As such, you have no idea what you are babbling about, and your argument consequently makes less than no sense.

Comment Re: effective? (Score 4, Insightful) 66

The COVID mRNA vaccines were the culmination of decades of research into genetic vaccines that could be in essence engineered to target a selected antigen without the years of trial and error that are required by the methods we have been using since the 1950s. Within days of the virus genome being published, they had a vaccine design, the months it took to get to the public were taken up with studies of the safety and effectiveness of the heretofore untested technology, ramping up production, and preparing for the distribution of a medicine that required cryogenic storage.

It would be unreasonable not to give the Trump administration credit for not mucking up this process. But the unprecedented speed of development wasnâ(TM)t due to Trump employing some kind of magical Fuhrermojo. It was a stroke good fortune that when the global pandemic epidemiologists have been worried about arrived, mRNA technology was just at the point where you could use it. Had it arrived a decade earlier the consequences would have been far worse, no matter who was president.

The lesson isnâ(TM)t that Trump is some kind of divine figure who willed a vaccine into existence, itâ(TM)s that basic research that is decades from practical application is important.

Comment Re:effective? (Score 5, Insightful) 66

It's worse than that. People should have learned from the pandemic. When we collectively get together to push development of these things forward, the results are hugely beneficial. Governments acting on our behalf to get mRNA vaccines funded and released in record time is going to have long term positive effects for all sorts of conditions.

The same thing happened during WW2. Massive advances in technology. In the UK after the war, the new socialist government ran on a platform of continuing those big national collaborative projects, and the benefits were huge. Lots of infrastructure, affordable housing, socialized healthcare, a state pension... The US did some similar things with the GI Act, and also back in the 1930s with the New Deal, and again with Apollo.

What makes it worse than just rejection of science is rejection of the kind of collaboration and national projects that reap huge rewards.

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