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Comment Re: results and mechanism (Score 2) 60

Yeah, looks like I got it wrong. "Antimuscarinics block the action of acetylcholine at muscarinic receptors, which can help to increase muscle tone in the upper airway during sleep." I'm not entirely sure how that happens.

Me neither, but I’m suddenly envisioning a crack team of elite opera singers marching to the beat of Bach, stepping in to lead an oddly loud workout routine.

No but seriously, do opera singers suffer from sleep apnea? Or anyone else that can brag about having “muscle tone”?

Comment Re:Or maybe (Score 1) 57

they've got better doping techniques that the tests don't detect yet?

Yeah, or maybe hardware improvements aren’t getting the credit they deserve.

Equipment undergoes extensive wind tunnel testing to reduce drag coefficients. Teams use apps like VeloViewer to preview race courses and weather forecasting to optimize wheel selection.

Put the athlete of today on the hardware of yesteryear if we truly want to compare.

Better yet, juice ol’ Lance up so much Tropicana reaches out for a sponsorship deal and send him spinning on the new shit.

Comment Re:The Real Questions. (Score -1, Troll) 180

Yes, but the perspective of a EV-certified Firefighter or Homeowners Insurance Provider's questions are not that important to Mercedes-Benz because you are not offering them money. AmiMoJo's question is very important to Mercedes-Benz because he is a potential buyer. That's not to say you question is not important too, but if Mercedes-Benz can not "get the cost to a level that the market is interested in" then they won't sell and you won't be needing any answers.

I wonder when it will finally come to light that no one can make an EV and “get the cost” anywhere within reason without massive subsidies at many levels?

If we intend for consumers to actually be able to consume this product as an owner/operator and not a permanent rider, then the answer is likely six-figure price tags, subsidies, or massive losses. (The latter is only mentioned because some of these entities still carry the ignorant stench of Too Big To Fail, so selling at a loss sadly isn’t a hazardous thing anymore.)

Comment Re:Problems with printing fire arms (Score 1) 100

You seem to be replying to someone else. You ignored my point entirely and made up a new one, not understanding what I am concerned about at all.

Fair point and I stand corrected. That said, for the last few hundred years, real guns have generally been made to look like guns. You can get a Glock today in any color you want as long as it’s black.

The good part about more women protecting themselves with firearms, is the confidence of self-defense for themselves and their families.

The bad part about more women protecting themselves with firearms, is hardly any of them wants to do it with an “ugly” gun. Hence the rainbow enema shat all over the market in the last decade. Even from the factory.

I am not saying toy guns are bad, I am saying real guns designed to look like toy guns are bad.

Ironically enough, I’m fondly remembering the toy cap guns of my youth that were made out of actual metal and looked more like a real gun than the real guns of today can. Sold to every kid on the block.

Maybe it’s not the guns that really changed..

Comment The Real Questions. (Score 1, Insightful) 180

The batteries used in EVs have a gel in them. It's not liquid as we normally think of it, but it's not solid either.

The real question is if they can get the cost to a level that the market is interested in.

(EV-certified Firefighter) ”Uh, from my perspective, that’s not the real question.”

(Homeowners Insurance Provider) ”Yeah. About that..since you’re gonna want to park it in the garage..”

Comment Re:Oh no! (Score 1) 36

So it's not like YouTube's URLs aren't obtuse enough already?

In all fairness, if you’ve not memorized the RickRoll Youtube URL by the time you left DEFCON 30, you’re asking for it. Even the kids abusing this found far more issues in Realityland.

https://www.infosecurity-magaz...

Gotta love how they remastered RickRoll in 4K..as if pranksters needed the upgrade.

Comment Re:Perspective-rounding. (Score 1) 80

There is a little more to it. Those nasty endocrine disruptors. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.go.... Bisphenol A, insecticides, herbicides, even phytoestrogens. https://loe.org/shows/shows.ht....

Is there? Actually?

This includes compounds to which the human population is exposed in daily life through their use in pesticides/herbicides, industrial and household products, plastics, detergents, flame retardants and as ingredients in personal care products.

Lets revisit this “study” riddled with blame after we audit the living shit out of those claiming the hole under their nose isn’t to blame. This claim to blame being overweight is even more outrageous than the standard I-have-a-gland-problem abused as an excuse for being perpetually obese.

If obesity wasn’t a problem 50 years ago like it is today, what eating and exercise habits changed? We know where to look to solve this problem. Common F. Sense would argue that everyone in society was exposed to “pesticides/herbicides, industrial and household products, plastics, detergents, flame retardants and as ingredients in personal care products” and yet everyone is not obese. Go figure as to why.

Comment Re:Liberal media, supports liberalism. (Score 2) 89

It's called gaslighting and if you wear down the news cycle on any topic then you can get away with all kinds of crap.

Now there’s one hell of a reminder as to how America ended up with President Trump.

Twice.

Spank you liberal media. For lying so hard and so long that voters became that desperate.

Comment Re:Liberal media, supports liberalism. (Score 1) 89

>> Ask yourself why Trump would bring up Epstein repeatedly in debate as an obvious negative to be weaponized against his political enemies if he himself were guilty.

i mean, he is a goddamn moron

Given the fact that Kamala could have confirmed that at any time to take her opponent down, I’d say this proves the best moron won.

Her sheer incompetence, is immeasurable. Truly.

Comment Re:Problems with printing fire arms (Score 3, Insightful) 100

The problem is not just that it is hard to regulate/stop. The problem is that the people doing it are not being responsible.

You see, you can print the guns out of any color. And multi-colors. It is totally possible to print it out of black plastic. Those look like guns.

But it is also totally possible to print it out of neon colored plastic. And it is totally possible to add embellishments to the printed gun to make it look like a sci-fi blaster.

And people do this. They have competitions for best printed gun and for most fantastical. So people walk around with real guns that have minimal metal in them and look like a toy gun. You can walk in a comic book convention with these things. You can walk down the street after shooting someone and the cops will ignore you.

I am not saying I have a solution, I am saying that printed guns are a problem. I do not even know if it is possible to solve the problem. But the people that ignore these issues are fools.

Go back 50 years in rural America and you’ll find a high school senior pulling into the school parking lot with a real 12-gauge shotgun hanging in the rear window. With the teacher hanging outside smoking saying ”Hey, you have any luck in the blind this weekend?”

No SWAT team was activated. No parents were admonished and villified in the public square by a rabid gaggle of Karens. No child was kicked out of school and robbed of a future. No child even felt threatened.

You tell me what the hell changed. Because the answer isn’t toy guns are too colorful and popular. Had those as kids too.

Comment Cat has been out of the bag for decades. (Score 2) 100

A few of the more progressive states now have "ghost gun" laws that prevent you from making many gun parts without a valid serial number on it. I doubt that these same progressive states are all that eager to issue valid serial numbers to home builders without a lawsuit, so they basically made home 3D printing of most firearms illegal.

And yet I could probably have an entire machine shop delivered directly to the Manhatten DA office, along with a dozen copies of the anarchists cookbook ordered straight from Amazon, and use it to make all manner of mayhem. Because no one is policing machinists. Or raw aluminum alloys. Or 30-year old design documents and CAD files telling us how to make a full-auto-anything.

Cats been out of the bag. Uninstall the fucking revolving door at the prison if we truly want to address the problem.

Comment Re:tracking more than 160k people for up to two de (Score 2) 80

tracking more than 160,000 people for up to two decades..... Really..... Who, what, when and where did people sign up for these studies ????

Bought my first internet connected pedometer twenty-five years ago. (Sportbrain)

As far as who signed up for this study? That’s probably easy to answer. Everyone that blindly clicked “I Agree” over the last quarter century of pedometer pimping.

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