A red herring?

I was thinking the same. Older men's social lives were largely composed of work and wife. After retirement, empty nest, and widowering an old man is left with nothing.

We should ban birth control, right after we ban cigarettes, asbestos, leaded aviation fuel, chlorinated hydrocarbons, liquor, cured meat products, most pesticides, and tanning salons.

The obvious answer is none. We just might not get to that point cause humans tend to make things imperfectly.

TIL insects and plants "genetically modified" eachother.

If you are get your definitions from the FDA you must think caffeine and alcohol aren't drugs, and that Heinz kerchup is fancy.

Sounds like some BS from the food industry to make non-GMO labels legally meaningless.

Looks awful. I'll have it with 4 cups of rice.

That's just how music works. A new sound is popular, lots of bands distribute a lot of it, and then it isn't new anymore, and people listen to something else.

Makes me think the fact that many bats eat mosquitoes would expose them to many diseases from a variaty of other animals. Also, bats are often communal, so pathogens that can spread among the bats are selected for.

Insectivoir bats can't eat if they are weak so the bats' immune response has evolved to best handle frequent outbreaks of all sorts.

Epic games freebies will win in the end. Distributing digital content isn't very expensive, and it undercuts Steam. New indie developers cannot compete with free games. Your time and hard drive space belongs to Epic.

I guess we have to wait and see what a 120 watt GPU can do this generation.

Games sell hardware. A Nvidia partnership game is made to make the most common hardware obsolete, so new hardware can be sold.

The games industry has split into three, AAA games, free to play microtransaction games, and indie games. The industry wants to kill indie games because they don't generate any shareholder returns. They will obliterate Steam with frivolous lawsuits and givaways, and then the creativity that big corporations can't compete with will go away.

The tech is still hugely better over 2 generations, but the power consumption keeps rising. Somehow a 120 watt last gen GPU became entry level.

The 2080 is a 215 watt gpu. Games should run on 60 watt gpus like they used to.

A 1060 SHOULD play almost every game out there. The games that don't are mostly open world RPGs like we had in 2014 with low graphics settings options omitted.

The power consumption is what offends me most. Like, by now you should be able to play games on 200 watts, but nope, 500+ watts or GTFO.

Also, roads kick up oil, asphalt, salt, tire dust, exhaust particulates... And skylines are useful locational references.

I think car infrastructure can't be made multipurpose. Cars are just too awful to pair with anything else.

Is it because carparks are sources of oily particulates, and are expensive to service when in use and difficult to close?

We know of ways to build that magnetic field, but it is pretty clear that humanity is not able to pull together and complete mega projects like that right now.

Latent heat. At higher pressures water freezes at lower temperatures. At higher pressures the latent heat of fusion increases.

As a material passes from liquid phase down to solid energy is released. Same as how steam releases a lot of heat as it condenses on your hand when you delid a boiling pot of water. This is called latent heat of fusion, and latent heat of vaporization.

Water is weird. It is most dense at 4°C then begins to expand toward 0°C as it forms transient nano scale clusters of molecules. At high pressures these nano clusters are less able to form.

You must have made an error. Biodiesel production alone uses like 100 tons per day. You must have mean 100 million tons per year.

What I meant by "environment of legal restriction" was strict building codes, stubborn approval processes, and zoning. I wasn't talking about environmentalism.

Environmental restrictions can fulfill that function of restricting supply in a way that benefits landlords, but the developers would be burdened with extra costs for surveys.

Everyday homeowners don't build housing developments. You might say that they don't control the means of production. Landlords and developers create an environment of legal restriction to ensure that competition does not cut into the profits of their business model. Nimby homeowners just jump on the bandwagon.

You'd make more money, but your competitors would make less. That is what this research states, and why we won't see more multiplexes.

Weird, I scrolled down and 4 posts below this was an ad for a prescription drug. Why are big corporations allowed to sell drugs and nobody else? Why should we trust our corporate overlords?