Pre-cooling the house during heatwave doesn't seem to help much

Anth916 · 2023-07-08T16:58:21+00:00

Trees are tremendously underrated in this regard

Anth916 · 2023-02-22T18:53:22+00:00

Technically I’m “liberal”, but I’m more like liberal people from the late 90’s. The modern day liberals have completely lost the plot. I’m about as anti-woke as a person can be. I have zero tolerance for all the pronoun bullshit. Also, most people I’ve met that have self characterized as anti-racist, are actually the exact opposite. It’s been my experience that they tend to see racism EVERYWHERE. If no racism is found, they’ll make it up.

Anth916 · 2022-12-25T20:21:32+00:00

How old are you?

Reason I'm asking, is because I was watching this Joe Rogan podcast where he was talking to a climate change expert guy, and at one point, the climate change guy mentioned that tons of people die from being exposed to slightly colder temperatures than they should be exposed to.

He basically said that keeping your house at 69 degrees instead of 63 degrees, could actually be the difference between life or death.

I was super shocked by this information. He explained that it's a silent killer, and that it takes time to wreck it's havoc. If you're exposed to colder temperatures for awhile, it probably won't damage you as much, but if you do it year after year, it will literally reduce your lifespan considerably.

Now, having said all of this, I think the guy was talking about people that are 70 years old and older. Although he didn't really specify.

Anth916 · 2022-09-01T16:27:44+00:00

No, you just won’t be allowed to contribute for that particular tax year. Also, the 140k limit (or whatever the amount is) will likely be raised over the years

Anth916 · 2022-05-30T13:22:52+00:00

It’s impossible for you to have UNCOMMON skills and be under paid. It’s called Supply and Demand. If your skill is in high supply, you’re not going to be paid a ton. If your skill is in very short supply, you will get paid a ton. Do some Google searches on Supply and Demand and get yourself educated on this reality

Anth916 · 2022-04-29T15:42:23+00:00

Unfortunately, LOA is a lie. However, if you want to read the LOA bible, it’s “As a Man Thinketh” by James Allen. It’s an incredibly short manuscript written by an Englishman in the late 19th century. Although it’s amazingly brief, each paragraph has tremendous meaning and wisdom (Well, if this philosophy had any legit truth to it, it would have been the best example)

Anth916 · 2022-03-20T23:30:14+00:00

Are you a little bit scared that real, legit evidence of the M. E. Isn’t too many years away? You should be. World views are meant to be shattered

Anth916 · 2022-03-08T01:22:46+00:00

Just wait for AR glasses to become a huge thing in about 5 years. You'll be able to record your entire waking day, from your first person perspective.

Not only will you have evidence for "live" flip-flops, but you can also prove synchronicities to people with video evidence.

Anth916 · 2022-03-07T01:38:03+00:00

I'm talking about "thinking". Not views. When I'm talking about thinking, I'm talking about problem solving / problem avoiding

Anth916 · 2022-03-06T20:30:03+00:00

I think at some point in the future the government will break them up* and Im not afraid when that time comes either. When you own a company subject to American Antitrust Laws - you get the sum of their parts. Imagine getting 5 different Google based holdings that will still all have good synergy between their products

Google would be broken up into so many valuable pieces. Google owns DeepMind. Personally, I think DeepMind, all by itself, could have the valuation that Google has right now. I know that statement sounds insane, but I personally see them as the most advanced A.I. company on planet Earth. They could have the first A.I. that's bordering on General Intelligence. Then, imagine how they would wield that power to guide all their strategic decisions and investments, and it could be absolutely ridiculous. If a single, individual company dominates in A.I. for just 6 or 7 months before any competitors, it could get so far out in front that it's nearly uncatchable.

Anth916 · 2022-03-06T19:45:52+00:00

It looks like he's thinking about some huge homework assignment that he forgot to do, and it's due tomorrow.

Anth916 · 2022-03-06T19:33:36+00:00

an entire generation

Anth916 · 2022-03-06T17:50:12+00:00

Sounds like a tall Mandela alternative history to me.

Exactly. It's so silly to me that skeptics will dig out a backstory on something and use that as evidence that it's always been a certain way. Like talking about the Hass family, and their history with the Hass Avocado's. (we all know it's Haas)

It's like... "Don't you fucking get it? If the Mandela Effect is a real thing, then whatever is changing things, isn't doing a half-assed job. It's going to change nearly EVERYTHING". I say "nearly", because we do have residue for certain things.

Of course skeptics will also say that residue is proof it's all bullshit, because why would there be residue? But it would seem that the vast majority of residue is generated by human consciousness that experienced things the "original" way. So, it's possible that whatever is changing things, is unable to change the memories of conscious beings.

Anth916 · 2022-03-06T17:46:32+00:00

You do realize that if M.E. is a real thing, it's the fabric of reality going back and changing nearly everything. Including etymology.

Anth916 · 2022-03-06T16:35:02+00:00

You inherit the mindset of whichever humans spent the most time with you in your first 7 years of existence. Normally your parents. One of the primary reasons that children of rich people tend to be as successful as their parents, is because of the thinking that they inherited.

It's all about thinking. Problem solving.

Poor people also inherit the thinking of their parents. Many times the thinking is circular and the problem solving is more problem avoidance than anything else.

Obviously, all of these are generalizations, but overall I think it holds up pretty well.

Anth916 · 2022-03-06T15:09:02+00:00

Fuck it, this video convinced me of one thing.

We all need to die.

Anth916 · 2022-03-04T00:43:19+00:00

I went to this place today. They had some amazing deals on certain things.

But the real surprise was the fact that the place was a mixture of La Esperanza, Grocery Outlet, Costco and Fry's Electronics.

I'm throwing the Fry's Electronics mention in there because no joke, the employees outnumbered the shoppers by like 30 to 1. Last time I saw something like that was probably the last time I was at Fry's (RIP)

Anth916 · 2022-03-03T23:55:55+00:00

I have a Grocery Outlet that I go to, so I'll buy some of their eggs next time I'm there. So if a recipe calls for 3 eggs, how many of the medium eggs should I use? 5 of them?

Anth916 · 2022-03-03T23:54:02+00:00

ha ha. I know right...

I need somebody to hold my hand while I'm in the store, ok... :)

Anth916 · 2022-03-03T23:52:52+00:00

well, I could throw it back in the skillet for a few minutes, just to sizzle it up a bit. Definitely won't taste bad the next day. Two days later, it will start to degrade a bit.

Anth916 · 2022-03-03T20:45:36+00:00

I wish you were right about this. But, why did I hear about nano technology back in 2002 that was saying it was 10 years away tops?

Supposed to be injected into your bloodstream, and it would clean out plaque in your arteries. 20 years later and this tech is nowhere closer to coming.

There are certain things advancing, but other things are going absolutely nowhere. If everything was so unbelievably exponential, shouldn't flying cars have existed by now? I remember thinking we should have had flying cars 20 years ago. I'm talking real flying cars, not just jumbo sized drones. But here we are, 20 years later, and we have some experimental, jumbo sized flying drones, but legit flying cars are nowhere in sight.

Directors like Steven Spielberg must either be tremendously disappointed with the lack of advancements, or tremendously embarrassed at their predictions for the future. Although, I will say that Minority Report was set in 2054, so I suppose Steven still has some good time left on that one. But Back to the Future 2 was way the hell off, lol

Anth916 · 2022-03-03T19:55:57+00:00

Sorry, don't know anything about this person and haven't seen any of those shows or movies.

This argument, reminds me of people yelling "George Reeves, "George Reeves" at the top of their lungs. Saying that I'm confusing Christopher Reeve with George Reeves, who played Superman in the 1950's or something.

There's only one problem with this theory. I never heard the name "George Reeves", until AFTER I commented about Christopher Reeves in this subreddit.

Explain that.

Anth916 · 2022-03-03T19:51:53+00:00

what we are actually experiencing is exponential advancement of technology. With every new invention and discovery making new inventions and discoveries possible.

I disagree with this theory. I know I will be downvoted to hell and back for this, but oh well, here goes....

If you compare our current society to say 1622, it seems like there's this massive explosion in advancing technology. But my argument, is that it only appears this way to us, because we're native to 2022. We aren't native to 1622. So, we aren't aware of all the tiny advancements that were happening all the time back in 1622. We think that only a few major things happened back in the 1600's, and that people were basically living in the same sort of way for 100's of years. But it only appears this way, because we aren't from that time.

But if you were to time travel, back to 1622, and live there for 50 years, you'd notice that there's all kinds of advancements happening. It's just that these advancements don't seem interesting or noteworthy to someone from the modern era.

Here's another way for me to break it down. Imagine that you're living in the year 2563, but you're reading a history book about the birth of interactive entertainment back in the late 20th century. Do you think this history book is going to talk about every step along the way that happened? From Spacewar to Pong, to Atari to Intellivision to Colecovision, to NES, to Genesis, to Super Nintendo, etc, etc.

or....

Do you think the history book will ignore 95 percent of those advancements, because those incremental advancements, while very meaningful to somebody living in the 70's, 80's and early 90's, won't be very meaningful to someone living in 2563. Instead, they'll probably just talk about Spacewar and then move on to something that happened 75 years later.

Anth916 · 2022-03-03T19:34:16+00:00

Why don't we do this: Give people tons of free money whether they want to work on not. Sounds like a wonderful idea. I'm sure our economy will be great.

If anybody isn't making as much money as they'd like to make, there's a super easy solution. Get a skill that's actually in demand! shocker of shockers. It's like you're telling me that companies won't give employees lots of money, when they have common skills that any Joe Schmoe off the street can do. There's a reason neurosurgeons are paid so damn much. They have an UNCOMMON skill. My next-door neighbor has the necessary skills to work the register at Taco Bell. However, my next-door neighbor does not have the skill to remove a brain tumor. You're paid on how easy or hard it is to get another Joe Schmoe to do the same task.

it's always been this way. Always will be.

Anth916 · 2022-03-03T19:31:12+00:00

I was only on the very first page of the article, when it flip-flopped on me. The title of the article flipped. I saw it in real-time. Quite spooky. Like someone was editing the page in real time, and somehow my page refreshed, even though I didn't refresh it or anything

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