The difference is that electric cars and trucks primarily charge overnight, when the demand for electricity is low.
You don't need to improve the grid capacity to serve people charging when you have excess capacity available.
All computation is mechanical at its core
What about studies that indicate the possibility of quantum effects within the brain?
Usage rules mandate that the drug cannot be taken at home.
This part is incorrect. Many schedule 3 drugs are taken at home, legally. Ketamine in particular has no special statute governing it, and there are at-home therapy programs.
That was a quote pasted directly from the Psychology Today article linked, but a quick google shows you're right, no support for that statement. Possibly the phrase "usage rules" (PT's phrase, not mine) meant recommended practice (at the time the article was written) and is not legally binding.
That being said- absofuckinglutely your ability to make rational, correct decisions is ridiculously disrupted on ketamine.
Sure, lets warm up the Pacific Ocean. What could go wrong ?
Wave power is generating electrical power from energy that's already present in the ocean. If you don't use it to generate electrical power, it will eventually turn into heat from damping anyway.
Ketamine is a very commonly prescribed drug, especially over the last decade for treating PTSD. I don't know what that has to do with nazis, nor do I see any good coming from stigmatizing it. What other medicine do you like to stigmatize? Vaccines?
Ketamine is a Schedule III controlled substance: having accepted medical benefits but abuse potential. Usage rules mandate that the drug cannot be taken at home. Patients are observed at least two hours after receiving the agent and typically receive psychotherapy and other treatments for depression.
https://www.psychologytoday.co...
Quoting Gerard Sanacora, M.D., Ph.D. Director of the Yale Depression Research Program and Co-Director of Yale’s interventional psychiatry program: “Large amounts of data suggest that your ability to make rational, correct decisions is completely disrupted when you take ketamine, as long as it’s in your system... People can hear things, see things, feel things differently. The physiological and psychological reasons are the main reasons the FDA declared Spravato [Ketamine] safe only in a health care facility under supervision.”
That's what I am trying to figure out, the best I can think of is the albedo effect but microplastics is way to small to have that effect,
Yes, it's the albedo, and also yes, too small to have a significant effect compared to the main driver, the greenhouse effect..
The summary actually states this:
If the latest estimates are right, Shindell said, microplastics might not be an enormous source of atmospheric warming, compared with massive contributors such as cars and trucks, belching industrial plants or even burping cows.
But then undercuts that with
"But not a trivial one, either," he said.
Spoiler: yes, it's trivial.
"the report suggests defenders should focus less on tracking specific groups and more on stopping common tactics like credential theft, remote access abuse, and large-scale data exfiltration."
Both!
They're not mutually exclusive.
Yet another example of whataboutism." Saying "X may be a problem" does not imply "no other problems exist, we should look at X and nothing but X".
There's another whataboutism fallacy here, accusing the person posting as having a particular opinion on a completely different issue ("And the ban of golden rice people like you supported.") What does the phrase "people like you" even mean? People posting about agriculture on slashdot that include links to NIH?
Well this is just classic medicine. If you go to an internist with an issue, they will try to address it with medications. If you go to a surgeon, they will try to address it with surgery (or do exploratory surgery to try and figure it out). Each works within their own area of expertise. My 94 year old grandma had a lump that was breast cancer. The surgeon wanted to do a full mastectomy at her age, which was ridiculous. Meanwhile the oncologist said, no, let's do a less invasive lumpectomy because I better know what her long-term prognosis is and what other tools (hormone therapy and the like) are available.
This is just a classic thing, and hopefully you have a general practitioner that is involved and can help make informed decisions, or you do that task yourself weighing the options.
These studies need to be taken with a big grain of salt. Essentially what this did was provide to AI and two test doctors the clinical data entered by a nurse who examined the patient, and based off that limited text information the AI tended to do better. The thing is... doctors see patients themselves, even in the ER. They ask their own questions, physically examine the patient, and collect their own data. So it is no surprise a doctor, given only limited 3rd party data, didn't make as good of a diagnosis when they aren't used to working that way.
Next thing is this: "game out thorny diagnostic questions". Okay, so what they mean by "thorny" is obscure and not your typical cases. So again, its no wonder a physician, given less than normal information and no opportunity to see the patient, didn't catch some rare atypical case. When strep is making the rounds, and a patient comes in with a sore throat and no other abnormalities, they will probably diagnose it as strep, and may not even bother doing a test. That's the way ER doctors work, and they don't look for some exotic other thing that could be causing the sore throat based on something obscure way back in the patient's medical records. Unless it was called to their attention.
Yes it is. There are copious amounts of dystopian sci-fi talking about why governments shouldn't control breeding.
The average number of children per woman in Switzerland is 1.29, about half of the population replacement rate. Stopping population growth in Switzerland has nothing to do with controlling breeding.
Traffic is largely caused by on ramps and exits.
Good point. A highway with no ramps and no exits would have no traffic at all.
So, in a million different ways, blocking a sizable chunk of the world's supply of oil is infinitely more effective than nuking a nation
This is still a ridiculous statement. The blocking of the straight can stop overnight, and it's gone. Done. Everything flows again immediately. It can be undone. A nuclear detonation cannot be undone. If the straight is blocked long enough then interventions will happen, and not just by the United States.
With the exception of the suffering of the Iranian citizens, and the world paying a little more to drive around in their cars, this is a GOOD thing. Countries in the middle east have been lazy and naive to not develop alternate routes for the straight. This event will prompt them to finally invest in that kind of infrastructure.
Global oil consumption is predicted to begin decreasing soon, and then these countries in control of the world's oil supplies will begin to lose influence quickly. These events also push countries and consumers away from oil, thus speeding the conversion to electric cars, and additional investment in solar and storage.
A lot of people are completely ignoring the religious zealot fervor of Iran's leadership, and are being very ignorant to how motivated their are due to their religious beliefs. I guess for non-religious individuals, or those who belong to much more peaceful religions, it is difficult to understand their motivation and just how bad they want to kill certain other people. Iran's ability to strangle the world's oil supplies and threaten the region with force needed to be dealt with at some point.
It depends on where a tax regime is on the curve. If taxes are very high, it hinders growth and drives people to shelter what they have. In that situation, lowering taxes leads to increased revenue as growth increases and sheltering stops being worth it.
That was Laffer's claim.
The argument he used to support this was little more than "it seem obvious, doesn't it?"
There's very little actual data showing this effect. If there is a peak in the Laffer curve (above which the tax revenue decreases with increasing tax rate), that peak must be at a tax rate much higher than what we see now. In all the cases of the US or Britain cutting income tax rates, tax revenue did not increase.
https://maseconomics.com/laffe...
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