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Comment Wrong numbers (Score 2) 47

See Seyonic's Youtube video.

The 512-SIM racks can only addreses 64 at a time. This comports with what people noticed about the antenna count.

8x is nearly an order of magnitude difference and chaged my mind about the likely purpose.

Presumably the spammers expect the SIM's to get blacklisted and move on?

But WHO is provisioning a quarter million cards at a time without tripping flags?

Comment Bad science reporting (Score 2) 155

On average, people used content warnings to avoid looking at / engaging with content some of the time. On a scale from 1 (always skipped) to 8 (always opened), the average was 5.61. Almost two thirds (63.9%) used content warnings to selectively ignore some content.

This is very far from an anti-content warning outcome. It's saying that content warnings are at least somewhat useful.

Content warnings can relate to a wide range of topics. A single person is likely to have a small number of topics that they wish to avoid. So it shouldn't be surprising that most people often view content after seeing the content warnings.

Comment Re:It sounded exciting, (Score 1) 57

> heart issues such as long QT syndrome

Wikipedia is wrong as usual.

Ibogaine is contraindicated for people with long QT-interval because it temporarily extends it.

This is fine for normal people but not if you already have long QT. It's not hard to see on EKG but some underground clinics don't do the EKG and there have been a few deaths.

There have been no deaths when medically supervised, which is why the Drug Control Act kills people.

Comment Re:Problem sports (Score 1) 57

> but that is as far as you can go in a 'free' society.

Right. That's why taxpayer-funded medical care is incompatible with a free society.

When I can't afford a healthier diet and a gym membership because I'm forced to subsidize others' rock climbing, dirtbike racing, rugby, and junk-food diets, we've totally gone over the cliff.

The whole thing becomes a positive-feedback loop until it detonates.

Spending 20% of GDP on sick-care with ever-worsening results should terrify any thinking person.

Everybody should be able to choose those things but their insurance premiums should reflect it.

Comment Academia (Score 1, Troll) 358

Colleges used to be run by faculty, with administrators as their functionaries.

Now faculty are employees with little say in governance.

Obama's nationalization of student loans has increased the ratio of administrators by 10x by guaranteeing tuition without regard for value.

The faculty are outnumbered and outgunned.

The same thing happened to doctors and hospitals for the same reason and with the same enshittification.

It doesn't have to be this way.

Comment Re:Wall Street Journal (Score 2) 209

> Should anyone really care?

Their opinion pieces are purchased by the MIC, so maybe.

They must be afraid somebody is sniffing around in "their" physics.

We've had government physicists say plainly that MIC R&D has fundamental breakthroughs in topological physics that the public is not privy to.

JWST is discarding "established" cosmological physics theories by the week. This should be celebrated by scientists!

I recently listened to a retired Lockheed guy talking about light propagation theory and in that talk he noted that academic physicists strong resist learning that their "expertise" is in fact in error.

The implication was that non-academic physicists don't have that hangup and move faster.

The trick is the Chinese academic physicists don't have that problem either. The MIC should be terrified about what they have done with their anti-progress psyop. Maybe in 1970 when Chinese were eating salamanders and crickets this was a viable strategy but they failed to adapt to the times.

Comment Re:Right (Score 1) 34

>In my state, the cops are legally required (and so) post public
>notices about where DUI checkpoints will be.

Speaking as an attorney who was still handling DUIs when checkpoints were in common use . . . announcing and pbulsihign ahead of time will make at most a marginal difference in the number of drunks heading through them.

You'll get a slight decrease in sober drivers who don't want the hassle, but drunk drivers just don't plan that well.

I recall my Criminal Procedure professor in law school commenting that he *really* wanted to get stopped in one and just sit there not speaking, staring straight ahead. Just to see what happened, as they couldn't possibly develop probable cause under the circumstances.

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