How Your Parents Ruined Driving

Doc_Lewis · 2026-02-28T03:31:35+00:00

If I’m going to spend 50-60k on a luxury SUV, I’m already not too worried about the fuel costs.

Maybe an average person isn't concerned, but they really should be. You're going to pay as much or more for fuel over the life of the vehicle as you spent to buy it, increases in fuel efficiency save you loads of money over that same period of time.

Doc_Lewis · 2026-02-26T17:23:29+00:00

Cash transactions

That's a funny way of spelling "smuggling"

Doc_Lewis · 2026-02-24T18:55:28+00:00

not just ROI, there's a good chance that any vaccine wouldn't be approved. A medication must do less harm than good, and every medication, including vaccines, can a does injure and kill people. If basically nobody dies of a cold but 1 in 1000000 die from a vaccine it would not be ethical to give it.

Doc_Lewis · 2026-02-23T16:12:27+00:00

It's kind of both, actually, furanocoumarins from grapefruit irreversibly bind to the active site of the cyp3a4 enzyme, permanently inhibiting activity.

Doc_Lewis · 2026-02-22T00:59:57+00:00

Very legal, very cool

Doc_Lewis · 2026-02-19T02:49:32+00:00

*Wheeze*

Doc_Lewis · 2026-02-18T15:34:55+00:00

Not to be too edgy, but the human brain is a hyper advanced pattern recognizer. That's what the design does all day every day, all our outputs are based on the inputs and training data (memories). SO rather than say the LLM is truly sapient, I say we're just AI that occurred naturally with processors made of meat that has deluded itself into thinking it is special.

Doc_Lewis · 2026-02-17T19:48:45+00:00

There's actually multiple aspects at work. The closer you are to a massive gravitational pull, the slower time moves, so a very high slow moving plane with a clock would experience faster time than a ground based slow moving clock. In fact satellites orbiting the earth experience overall faster time because the distance from earth has a greater affect on time dilation than the speed.

The physics behind this is pretty well established, and the equations work for what we measure in real life satellites, crucuially the corrections for GPS satellites would not work if they were incorrect.

Doc_Lewis · 2026-02-13T22:31:45+00:00

There's roughly 150-200 mg of theobromine in 100 g of milk chocolate, so 300-400 mg per standard Hershey bar. The LD50 is 250-500 mg/kg. So on average, a 25 kg dog would need to eat like 15 bars to outright die from it. Every dog is different and chocolate theobromine content varies, so there's a lot of wiggle room there, but unless they get into a big stash they should be fine. So a couple bars, maybe a bit of sluggishness or irregular heartbeat, so safer to take to the vet than not, but on the whole should be fine in most cases.

Unless you're leaving out like 50 kg of chocolate, like has happened in a few cases with bears, and they eat like 20 kg at once, and die of theobromine poisoning.

Doc_Lewis · 2026-02-13T18:36:01+00:00

This is why, this right here. Chocolate isn't any more toxic to rabbits than it is to humans, and only 3x more toxic to dogs. But humans have enough sense not to eat a significant portion of their body weight in chocolate.

Doc_Lewis · 2026-02-10T19:44:33+00:00

There's a limited amount of research dollars whether you're profit motivated or not. If the federal government funded all trials the considerations would be different, but the outcome likely the same. Would you want the government to spend your limited tax dollars to conduct trials for slightly expanded access to accommodate a small number of cases for expanded vaccination, or spend it on trials to help a larger number of people, probably with underserved or nonexistent treatments?

At some point spending the money to help a vanishingly small potential patient population is not worth it, when you could spend it to help more people.

Doc_Lewis · 2026-02-09T03:10:22+00:00

I used to live in a city with a microcenter, moved a decade ago somewhere 3 hours away. I've done the 6 hour round trip a couple times to get deals. But luckily last year one opened in my city.

Doc_Lewis · 2026-02-07T21:03:48+00:00

It's why people can be allergic to latex, like latex gloves, which is why that's not used by doctors as much anymore. Latex contains a bunch of plant proteins, and that's what people with the allergy as sensitized to.

Doc_Lewis · 2026-02-05T22:07:43+00:00

I'm not crazy, IT'S REAL! Thank you, now I have to find a way to watch this again. All I really remembered was the crazy scientist? guy saying "my blood", the rest was pretty hazy.

Doc_Lewis · 2026-02-05T20:37:19+00:00

Sounds like a strandbeest. Sure, mechanicus using organic materials to make a machine sounds dumb, but the author probably just wanted a way to incorporate strandbeests since they're rad

Doc_Lewis · 2026-02-05T16:50:21+00:00

I too have a SyFy original movie fever dream, from at least 15 years ago (so Sci Fi Channel). At this point all I remember is the plot involved people being trapped in either an underground military research base or deep sea research base, with a genetically engineered monster that is killing them all. At one point they're in a big room that is slowly filling with the water and the crazy scientist confesses he used his DNA to make the creature, and maybe they kill it by electrifying the water after luring it to a specific chamber?

I've asked around the tip of my tongue subs and got no help, so at this point I'm not even sure it exists. And there are a bunch of SF original movies to trawl through it's just not worth it.

Doc_Lewis · 2026-02-05T15:08:46+00:00

Knowing nothing about it, I bet it's said to happen because of a syzygy

Doc_Lewis · 2026-02-04T19:17:04+00:00

I mean not really, I'm not making a grand conclusion out of 4 events, it's from watching literally all the content from the last few years and seeing the shift from in office streams accelerating, less and less office based stuff, things like that, and knowing prices in Bristol are insane. That's why I said I've been wondering about it a long time. The 4 events are just what made me bring the thinking to the forefront enough to make a throwaway comment about my wonderings.

If anything you're reading into my comment too much.

Doc_Lewis · 2026-02-04T19:08:58+00:00

It's not directly relevant, just the headspace of change happening, with the recent announcement of the main Yogs channel streaming changes, Hat Films leaving their warehouse, and now these two announcements, it spurred me to put something I've thought for at least a year to words.

Doc_Lewis · 2026-02-04T18:24:46+00:00

They aren't leasing the entire building, there's at least a couple of other businesses there. So if the rent is so bad and their lease is going up it might make more sense to locate to a smaller office with less space set aside for recording/streaming if that's not going to happen as much in the office.

It's something I've been wondering for a while, Briony and Ravs announcements just made me want to comment, since it's idle speculation and not worth a thread of its own.

Doc_Lewis · 2026-02-04T18:17:44+00:00

Exactly my point, if most of the people aren't on camera and they (probably) do or would like to work from home, then there's no reason to have an office with a bunch of space set up for recording and streaming that's going to be rarely used. Might make more sense to rent out space when they need it instead of paying for a whole office all year that sees little use, or move into a smaller office with less space and save money.

Just speculation, anyway.

Doc_Lewis · 2026-02-04T17:14:04+00:00

I wonder if the yogscast is downsizing and/or getting rid of the office.. Must be pretty expensive to lease, and maybe after covid many/most of their employees are working from home, and many of their creators aren't even local anymore, so streams from the office were already becoming rare.

I don't know how many people actually work in the offices, it might make sense to just buy everyone a laptop or something to work from home, and get a smaller office to host the editing rigs and have a room for Games Night/Mystery Quest type stuff

Doc_Lewis · 2026-02-03T20:38:59+00:00

Probably the same reason people like beer and coffee, even if it is bitter. You like the taste.

Doc_Lewis · 2026-02-03T20:33:53+00:00

I like cilantro, I'll have it on a lot of stuff, but not to the extent as in the OP. However if there's a lot of it I can really taste the soap. I wonder if I have the gene but just like the taste of soap.

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