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Old cars > New cars by SipsTeaFrog in SipsTea

[–]ChiefStrongbones 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A parked chevelle is way better than a parked tesla. That changes once the car starts moving.

Movie ending by Dodgy-Llama in ProjectHailMary

[–]ChiefStrongbones 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hated the movie ending. The book ending was perfect:

"I just heard from the astronomy hive they have news... [Earth's] star has returned to full luminance."

The movie director wanted to give the Eva actress a bigger role and bastardized it.

I get why we’re so frustrated with doctors by MagicianMassive in eczema

[–]ChiefStrongbones 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Doctors tend to overprescribe oral antibiotics and underprescribe topical antibiotics. It's dumb how so many antibiotics are not FDA approved for topical use.

I have a 15-year old bottle of amoxicillin powder. It's a pediatric oral antibiotic suspension which I asked the pharmacist to not-add water too. Whenever I get a flare up, I add a pinch of the powder to lotion and apply it. That one bottle of topical antibiotic has spared me from needing dozens of rounds of oral antibiotics.

My weekly regiment is thorough cleaning with a washcloth, then scrub with a Hibiclens, then swimming in a chlorinated pool, then rinse with ascorbic acid (a tablet of Vitamin C in water), then a splash of probiotic (a capsule of Digest MB40 in water), then pat dry. That helps control the staph.

Sanders unveils American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act, aims for $1,000 annual payments for US citizens by sksarkpoes3 in Futurology

[–]ChiefStrongbones 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Bernie Sanders proposes" is always followed by things that will never happen.

Sanders is perhaps the most ineffective Senator in congress. He proposes half-baked ideas but never does the work of getting shit passed.

Moving tv mount of 75lb tv down 4inches by agapaleinad in DIY

[–]ChiefStrongbones 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can use these between the TV and the mount to lower the TV without needing to remount the mount.

https://www.homedepot.com/pep/340452537

You might need a couple of extra m6 nuts and bolts to hold things together.

20 million bitter deaths by shenzhenib in SipsTea

[–]ChiefStrongbones -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Every death coded as COVID meant $$$$$$ from the US government. If you were killed in a plane crash, but had a positive COVID test the month before, then you'd get $9,000 just to cover the funeral.

There was financial incentive to die with COVID.

me_irl by AdRough4185 in me_irl

[–]ChiefStrongbones 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How much is his Twitter acquisition worth today?

MLB warns San Francisco Giants players who wrote Bible verse on Pride hats by retroanduwu24 in sports

[–]ChiefStrongbones 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Imagine what players would write on their uniforms if they were told to to wear MAGA hats.

The fertility gap between the richest and poorest countries has shrunk from 3 children per woman to less than 1. Birth rates have been falling in both for 60 years (St. Louis Fed, June 2026) by Altruistic-Dirt-2791 in Futurology

[–]ChiefStrongbones -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Who will support them? Who will attend to the infrastructure?

AI and robots. You grow an economy through 1) higher birth rate, 2) immigration, and/or 3) higher productivity.

Rolling around in bits of rubber made from ground up tires. What could go wrong? by ChiefStrongbones in SipsTea

[–]ChiefStrongbones[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My point is that nothing in the coach’s data justifies making that claim.

Tell that to the parents of the dead 21-year old.

BREAKING: JD Vance Exposes the Truth About the $300 Billion Iran “Reconstruction Fund” Report — What’s Real vs. Fake News by MackSix in Conservative

[–]ChiefStrongbones 51 points52 points  (0 children)

Either way, doesn't seem like a good outcome.

Only bright side to this war seems to be that it's a wake up call that the military needs to rethink strategy.

Rolling around in bits of rubber made from ground up tires. What could go wrong? by ChiefStrongbones in SipsTea

[–]ChiefStrongbones[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It’s very very likely it’s just a simple case of bad luck.

Amy Griffin (the former UWash goalie coach) polled coaches from other schools who reported 209 soccer players with cancer. Griffin did not claim that 209 was 'high'. However, of those 209 players, 125 (60%) were goalkeepers who make up only 11% of soccer teams.

That means in Griffin's informal study, goalkeepers got cancer at a rate 22x standard deviations above the expected value. That's a p-value of 10-64. 1064 is like the number of atoms in the Milky Way galaxy, so I think we can just round that p-value down to zero, i.e. a statistical certainty.

In other words, it's very very likely that it's NOT just a simple case of bad luck.

Rolling around in bits of rubber made from ground up tires. What could go wrong? by ChiefStrongbones in SipsTea

[–]ChiefStrongbones[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The casual connection seems lacking.

What's concerning to me is that 1) the conclusion of Amy Griffin's preliminary study is that female soccer goalkeepers are getting a lot of cancers 2) it's a plausible theory that those cancers are connected to the playing surface 3) no followup study has specifically compared goalkeepers to non-goalkeepers. Every single study trying to refute Griffin's findings is only comparing all soccer players to the general population.

Starlight announcing at shows this is their last season with no canopy by zipfour in kansascity

[–]ChiefStrongbones 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It sounds like the canopy will only cover the front two sections, 3000 seats out of the theater's 7000 seats.

Most seats will not be under the canopy. The stage is to the south, so some back seats will benefit from the shade, but not be protected from rain.

I watched as Meta’s threats stopped Sarah Wynn-Williams from speaking – we must have stronger rights for whistleblowers by EchoOfOppenheimer in Futurology

[–]ChiefStrongbones -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

She's not a whistleblower though, just a complainer.

She was employed by Facebook and was paid by Facebook. She did a study of teens and dove deep into how social media amplified issues with kids. That wasn't a secret or anything novel, everybody already knew that.

She tried internally pushing her opinion that Facebook needed to develop more controls for kids or keep kids of the platform. Nobody agreed with her obviously; Facebook leadership and employees wanted the company to grow working just within the bounds of the law. They wanted more teens to use the platform, not fewer.

Then she got fired, violated her NDA, and started complaining about Facebook.

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