Favorites May 6th 2024
Look at how the beginning and end of day spikes in Natuaral Gas generation have completely gone away. Later in the thread, you can see how increased battery capacity is what's handling the morning and evening demand spikes. All of this while solar generation has shot up in the last year. Feels like we're on track to be almost all battery+solar in California by end of decade
You might think that no one is arguing that ozempic is bad because it's cheating, but there are absolutely people showing up in the replies to argue this exact point.
It's important to remember that nonprofits are the result of the privatization of public services.
Longer Reads
• Article about how a UX design mistake lead a bunch of people to accidentally register as candidates for president of Iceland (src)
• I really enjoyed this long article about why exactly modern chip fabs are so extraordinarily expensive. One tidbit: the entire floor above a fab is generally devoted to the absolutely massive ventilation system. (src)(cached)
Flotsam and Jetsam
– TikTok appears to be in violation of Apple's app store policies, they could get banned from iOS without any government intervention. (src)(cached)
– Providing aid to Ukraine has put strain on US military supply chains, but that's probably good, we realized where things are lacking without being at war ourselves. (src)(cached)
– Cancer research used to be bipartisan, but Republicans are blocking it now to deny Biden a win. (src)(cached)
– Israel is blocking Germany from supplying anti-tank missiles to Ukraine. They've become less pro-Russia over time, but they're still not fully allied with the West on Ukraine. (src)(cached)
– Vast majority of Taiwanese voters say that China and Taiwan are two separate countries (src)(cached)
– Saddest day on a navy submarine mission is day 31, when spotify/netflix downloaded content expires. (src)
– Egypt refusing to let in refugees from Gaza is illegal under international law. It's bad to stop people from fleeing a war. (src)(cached)
– The FDA has refused to approve a lot of anti-depressants over the years, here's a look at their reasoning. TL;DR: the literature is corrupted by selective reporting (src)(cached)
– While Tesla is struggling, Ford's EV sales have more than doubled year over year (src)(cached)
– Old quote from Fukuyama's End of History, written in the 90s, about people might have a need to rebel against systems, leading them to try to overthrow well-functioning liberal democratic governments. (src)(cached)
– I shared previously how digging holes in the desert stopped desertification, but the images are quite striking. Fremen should have tried this. (src)(cached)
– Lights are coming back to the SF Bay Bridge, ready in March of 2025 (src)(cached)
– Article arguing that Instead of decoupling from China, the west should try to make them more dependant on us while we become less dependant on them (src)(cached)
– Interesting video detailing the exact steps used by someone who makes trailers for movies that look like they're from a different time period. 1950s Star Wars in the example (src)
– Jacobin comes out against Canada's MAID program (src)(cached)
– The folks who did Trump's hush money deals seem to have had immediate regrets when he won the election in 2016 (src)
– "We're a modest company with modest goals: 1: sell a quality product at a fair price 2: drain the world's oceans so we can find and kill god" Tweet from 2014, was it about Amazon? Apple? I don't actually know. (src)(cached)
– Net favorability above water for banning both pro-palestine and pro-israel campus protests. Median voter is kind of a doofus, but the Biden admin probably should at least be aware of the public's views when making decisions. (src)(cached)
“You might think that no one is arguing that ozempic is bad because it's cheating, but there are absolutely people showing up in the replies to argue this exact point.”
Shame is a key facet of diet culture and likely a large source of the “cheating” accusations. You must diet “in the right way” and that way is suffering for your “poor choices.”
One of the worthwhile points brought up against ozempic is that it replicates a pattern throughout the last half century of a miracle drug that people are pressured to use despite risks to their individual health or cost to them, all in an effort to make them meet an arbitrary cultural standard as opposed to acceptance.
That coupled with the current high price off-prescription and shortage for its original use for diabetics continues a trend where people who are fat are still under pressure to be thin, while those most privileged enjoy the benefits.
In other words, the shaming will continue until morale improves.