You try and paint a bad picture of "cherry picking" studies. How about if he cherry picked sources, wouldn't he'd be smart for doing so? Let me explain. As posted here on slashdot, science faces a reproducibility crisis. Indeed, more studies are flawed than correct. It would be best to be skeptical by default. Or go by the old and trusted scientific method of forming a hypothesis, testing it and seeing if its right or not. I do remember being taught in 7th grade to first have a theory, then work to prove or disprove it. As they said on the office (after the fire drill), many good ideas were not appreciated in their time. At one time the prevailing thought was heat was a substance, not a vibration of particles. Saying something is cherry picked has had a negative connotation, but in today's scientific world, maybe its a necessity? There is certainly the risk of error by bias. But if everyone went with the prevailing thought, we'd never be corrected if we were wrong. Some have to persue the minority opinion for the full truth to always be found. Our understanding of science is always changing, improving, evolving.

I've read diesels burn oil like 2 strokes. Wish I could find it but I read a chemical engineer describe diesel as approximately 75% kerosene like and 25% heavier fuel oil added for lubrication. Maybe someone with knowledge can clarify

Doesn't it kill appetite too? Seems like that was mentioned in Alive (1993) by the surivors of the plane crash. Not much food but they had lots of cigarettes apparently.

Pavlov would probably say that is not true, but what is true is nicotine targets the same mu opioid receptor that morphine, codeine, oxycontin, percoset, heroine, cocaine etc all derive their pleasure gain from.

You need a rule or law to force you to do that? Or are you above us and think just the person reading your post needs mandated think time?

Probably coming from folks who make money off momentum and retail traders staying passive. If everyone hands their money to S&P to put in the S&P500, a lot of people like that system and profit off its consistency. 401k and other passive investment vehicles where a constant automated trickle of money out of people's pay and into some sort of retirement investment, has been the single largest driver of this "always up in the long term" stock market. The rich don't want people having finite granularity over this process, because its been given to them in the form of people not having the time, knowledge, or energy to diligently look into every stock they own. I've had 401k's in the past, like John Hancock, where you were so limited in your ability to decide how your money was invested that you got to choose only 5 different profiles from aggressive down to safe, with no ability to decide the underlying assets or when they're traded (money always bought units of their etf like investments, that you had no clue what was going on inside). This is the bankers and everyone with a foot on the money stream's dream.

Fearmongering into controlling people, the classic liberal philosophy. Why not pass a law saying at no time may someone bid less for a stock? Guarantee no loss from the retirement nest egg that the stock market has become.

Unfortunately a lot of people like to take away others freedom because they think it might hurt them in the wallet or pocket book.

What you describe, is literally how it is now. We, the sheep, have to wait until cash open to trade, people with a lot of money can go to these firms. I guess I shouldn't say with certainty, maybe Bill Gates is posting here from his yacht.

The way it is now, the less money a person has, the more rules and less freedom they have controlling their investments. Its precisely how Robinhood has gained traction, figuring out ways of offering some of these abilities to less well off people.

How is it going to make things worse? By giving everyone an even playing field? For a long time, the elite, the superrich, have been able to go to Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan or whoever and dump their shares at any time on any number of dark pools. Average person can't. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

If you watch futures, stocks do a ton of moving early in the AM. Often this sets the tone for the whole day. But right now those trade are for the special, the privileged. It promotes unequalness, tiered systems, where the upper tiers get special rules in their favor.

People against others being able to trade unencumbered likely do so with self interest, due to their own financial stake in stocks. They are on one side of the trade and are trying to keep/game the rules in their favor. If they were in all cash or other assets, they'd probably like the ability to buy at any time. That's characteristics of a perfect free market according to economics.

Lemme guess, you're heavily invested and don't want others to sell possibly diminishing your holdings?

If someone wants to make a trade, they should be able. They're not kids. Its a stock transaction anyways, not firing a bullet. But maybe this idea is a good one for congress; make it so they can only pass laws during bank hours, to give them time to think rather than just cast a vote that has such immense power.

Everyone understand you're moving heat from one place to another with an AC or heat pump. Every BTU being pumped out will heat up the surrounding area by that much (law of thermodynamics, energy is neither created nor destroyed). So locally, wouldn't it be "heating up the streets with exhaust?" Scaling up our consideration area, an overall analysis using the entire planet and how much heat is radiated out past the "greenhouse" would need to be considered. If we go by the environmentalist movment people, CO2 and other greenhouse gasses are the primary mechanism keeping the heat in. As long as heat is dissipated locally from the hotspot, "the street" in this example, there won't be an overall warming effect on the planet/universe, as that they say is controlled by greenhouse gasses. But perhaps locally there could be? Dissipation not being instantaneous and eminating out in a gradient

With the light just right, see how much dust comes off clothing when you put it on.

If you're going to comment anonymously, disable your sig. You have your fark link in anonymous posts right next to your username posts.

Why weren't you able to make a single one of those improvements on your own? From your writing it sounds like life was wearing you down. But you waited for other people to make change. They did and you got happy. They changed back, and you again just went along with society, despite how much you are aware of it harming you. You're probably just like everyone else, stuck in the rat race. Does this seem like you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...