Non preppers / Doomers. What's one small thing you're prepped for?
  • Wahots Wahots 10h ago 100%

    Vaccines. I got my mpox shots because it works across a broad spectrum of pox viruses. The mpox vaccine is actually just the modern smallpox vaccine! Not terribly common, but in the past decade or so, someone found a frozen vial of smallpox in a university lab freezer.

    While unlikely that mpox or smallpox will ever completely blow up into a huge pandemic, it is good to have.

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  • Photographer Kawika Singson in Hawaii – 4 July 2013
  • Wahots Wahots 1d ago 0%

    Breaking through the crust would be spicy.

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  • LG monitor asking about ad tracking preferences
  • Wahots Wahots 1d ago 100%

    Haha, that's almost impressive. But no, I will not be buying an LG monitor now.

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  • Man who threw away $500M Bitcoin hard drive sues city for right to search landfill
  • Wahots Wahots 1d ago 100%

    Well, it was. 11 years of landfill leachate have probably taken their toll, not to mention that it was probably crushed immediately under literal tons of soggy rainwater trash.

    Life with friends and family is much more valuable than some extra 000s. Money can't bring them back once they are gone. Nor can it be taken to the next life.

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  • Man who threw away $500M Bitcoin hard drive sues city for right to search landfill
  • Wahots Wahots 1d ago 100%

    I've heard about this dude since like...2018. At some point you have to move on. Shit like that will consume you, and it's just not worth losing years of your life over it. Talk about a needle in a haystack.

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  • What's an aspect of life that's currently done privately that you think should be communalized?
  • Wahots Wahots 2d ago 90%

    In the US, nudity. People get really weird and obsessive of bodies when nudity isn't exercised at places like beaches, changing areas, etc.

    It's not healthy to only see bodies as sexual because they are always covered up in public and then 100% sexual either in the bedroom or in porn. There has to be a gradient. Everything in moderation.

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  • Why do some men dis other men who sit to pee? (& follow-up questions)
  • Wahots Wahots 2d ago 100%

    Catheter, adult diapers, or dehydrate yourself, haha. I hate places where there two urinals and one stall per 500 people during a 15 minute intermission.

    I usually just dehydrate myself a bit if I know the restrooms are essentially out of service.

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  • Why do some men dis other men who sit to pee? (& follow-up questions)
  • Wahots Wahots 2d ago 100%

    I don't think people really care, lol. Unless they like to learn their friends peeing preferences, they probably have an ulterior motive if they are that interested.

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    Signs point to e-bike maker Juiced Bikes going out of business
    electrek.co

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    Harris Campaign Names Republicans Who Voted Against FEMA Funding
  • Wahots Wahots 1w ago 100%

    They should be made to wear signs saying that they voted against FEMA packages while touring their destroyed states. Or are they worried they might lose an election if people actually knew their stances?

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  • North Koreans deployed alongside Russian troops in Ukraine, sources say
  • Wahots Wahots 1w ago 100%

    360 noscoping russians as a wallrunning Ukrainian super soldier.

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  • New car buyers driven to white or grey, with bright colours rarer than ever, data shows
  • Wahots Wahots 1w ago 100%

    Never buy a grey car. We had one during our childhood, it got hit four times by idiot drivers not watching the road. Most were distracted by phones, food, etc. Silver blends into the road fairly well.

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  • [OC] Northern Lights
  • Wahots Wahots 1w ago 100%

    We looked, but unfortunately a cloud layer rolled in. We did see them the other night, though!

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  • Cumbrian tadpoles refuse to turn to frogs due to bad weather
  • Wahots Wahots 1w ago 100%

    Fuck it, regress. Thumb your nose at the laws of physics and time and become small again.

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  • Clear coolant suggestions for a watercooled PC?
  • Wahots Wahots 1w ago 66%

    Generally, it's good to have biocides and corrosion inhibitors so the loop doesn't corrode or develop biofilms. I only need about a liter per year and would rather not have to keep separate bottles of biocide and inhibitor. And I'd need to find distilled water locally. For about $12, a premix is fine.

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  • Hello! I've had a watercooled PC for a number of years, but more recently it's been difficult to find EKWB Cryofluid Clear at reasonable prices. I'm thinking of switching to something like Mayhem's x1 coolant, or Alphacool's eiswater. Any suggestions? Will it matter that some old fluid might still be trapped in a rad even after a flush? I'm hoping to not do a full teardown. I'm thinking about going with this: https://www.performance-pcs.com/water-cooling/watercooling-fluids/watercooling-fluids-additives/mayhems-x1-coolant-1-liter-clear-mx1c1l.html

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    Still reeling from Helene, Florida braces for Hurricane Milton as it gains strength
  • Wahots Wahots 2w ago 71%

    Nah, democrats will bail them out as idiots like DeSantis come crawling back despite shooting down emergency relief for themselves and other states. At least the democrats do the right thing.

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  • Still reeling from Helene, Florida braces for Hurricane Milton as it gains strength
  • Wahots Wahots 2w ago 100%

    Columbus to Charlotte would be a 690km ride, and that is nowhere close to Florida. The US is huge. Biking and ebiking is great for cities, but the US is huge and needs high-speed trains for interstate travel between city pairs.

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  • Red Dead Redemption and Undead Nightmare Coming to PC October 29 - Rockstar Games
  • Wahots Wahots 2w ago 100%

    Undead nightmarrrrre, fuck yes. I generally don't like rockstar games these days, but undead nightmare was so fucking good. I might actually have to buy it

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  • 'We are all Gisèle': French women rise up against 'rape culture' during Gisèle Pelicot trial
  • Wahots Wahots 2w ago 92%

    Yeah, a uni I went to had a sexual assault course everyone had to take, and the thing that stuck out was that the statistics on women were horrible, but the statistics on men being raped was not statistically far behind. It was something awful like three men in a classroom of 30 would have been victims of rape. On average.

    The worst part is that a friend of a friend was actually held down and raped in a hotel by three people in the hallway. But he was so scared of being perceived as gay, he refused to talk to the police, his family, or get PEP for possible STD exposure. Men don't feel like they can come forward for male rape because they will be perceived as gay, and they won't report being raped by women because it's seen as being weak. Fucking horrible, and then the rapists get away and continually abuse people until someone finally breaks the chain. :(

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  • Smart TVs are like “a digital Trojan Horse” in people’s homes | 48-page report urges FTC, FCC to investigate connected TV industry data harvesting.
  • Wahots Wahots 2w ago 100%

    For example, Amazon Web Services and ad-tech company TripleLift are working with proprietary models and machine learning for dynamic product placement in streamed TV shows. The report, citing a 2021 AWS case study, says that "new scenes featuring product exposure can be inserted in real-time 'without interrupting the viewing experience.'"

    Peacock is also working with TripleLift to develop "In-Scene" Peacock ads that owner NBCUniversal says it's currently testing:

    When a user plays episodic content, your brand’s product or message is dynamically placed in the frame of targeted scenes, creating a non-interruptive ad experience that aligns the programming with your campaign theme/goals.

    This could be hilarious when your omegaverse softcore porn drama gets plastered with prune juice, old people pill adverts, and trump propaganda on everyone's shirts, tattoos, jock straps, voice lines and whatever else the AI can scrounge up. "It totally fits with the narrative!"

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    Furry Wahots 2mo ago 100%
    Michigan Reveals Winning ‘I Voted’ Sticker Design Following Competition (A werewolf sticker!)- The New York Times (free article)
    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/05/style/michigan-i-voted-sticker-werewolf.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ik4.v3gg.4qhSdGP4aVvY&smid=url-share

    A 12 year old submitter her design and overwhelmingly won the competition. The stickers should be coming out this election, see if you can snag one if you live there!

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    www.king5.com

    Please vote in the general election this fall! 54 people in the state determined the outcome of the primary! This is the person who controls all five million acres of public lands and forest fire management.

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    www.nytimes.com

    RealPage, maker of YieldStar, is almost singlehandedly the ones causing rent to skyrocket across much of the United States. >One of the algorithm’s developers told ProPublica that leasing agents had “too much empathy” compared to computer generated pricing. You can learn more about them here and why this antitrust case is so important: https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-rent-increase-realpage-rent

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    How Did Mpox Become a Global Emergency? What’s Next? - The New York Times
    www.nytimes.com
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    https://www.nytimes.com/article/spotted-lanternflies-nyc.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ak4.LgGx.SfpMuU-VONji&smid=url-share

    Very invasive, like bedbugs of the garden. They prey on grapevines and other plants in your garden, and are spreading quickly. Kill them if you see them or their mud-like eggs!

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    www.nytimes.com

    I love stories like these: scientists and the NIH working to create a cure for an unprofitable disease, just because it would make the world a better place. And in the interim, making new discoveries that might potentially benefit society at large.

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    I've been fighting it for awhile. Various nutrient levels, light levels, etc. Considering getting a nerite snail, but heard they can be a bit of an escape artist. Any tips?

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    www.latimes.com

    There are geothermal solutions for geothermal features near the surface already. This article is about advances in deep geothermal solutions: 15,000+ feet of pipe, deep into the earth. Utilizing the falling cost of horizontal drilling equipment from the fracking industry, there are now solutions to drill 10,000 feet down, and 5,000 feet sideways to improve the likelihood of running into superheated rock. Currently, drilling will be limited to geothermally gifted areas of America, but may be able to expand to less fortunate areas as the technology improves and gets even less expensive.

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    www.nytimes.com

    Looks like critical thinking deteriorates above 72f/22c. Crime swings higher. Lowering your core temperature seems to help, even if you live in a climate with unavoidable heat.

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    https://vxtwitter.com/cityofcalgary/status/1802432921049161970?s=46&t=iXV2vvXEELz9SoQbhPI2vQ

    For context, a water main blew, and the city of Calgary has been under strict water rationing for the past handful of days. The new pipe should arrive later this week from California :) https://www.calgary.ca/emergencies/critical-water-main-break-june-2024.html?redirect=/16avewatermain

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