“Helicopter” isn’t heli - copter

It’s helico - pter.

Helico: Greek for helix or spiral.

Pter: Greek for wing, like a pterodactyl.

Honestly it’s a result of being the world’s reserve currency. At one point Brazil was the capital of rubber, and like 2 towns in Brazil made all of the latex the world used. They used to ship their clothing to Europe to be washed. Then 900 rubber tree seeds were smuggled out and it crashed their monopoly, devastating those towns.

Much the same has happened to the US when you can deindustrialize and print without consequences. The same happened to Spain with their silver mines in the age of sail. Silver flowed through Spain, but didn’t stay there… It was cheaper to buy foreign goods in Spanish silver than to pay a Spaniard to do it. When the silver ran out it all crumbled…

Trump killed the petrodollar and it’s going to turn the US into an inward looking regional power…

A stroke is caused by one of two things:

1. A blood clot blocking an artery feeding part of your brain

2. A blood vessel rupturing (aneurysm rupture) that causes pressure to build inside or against your brain, squeezing blood vessels shut like a pressure bandage.

Both of them cause a lack of oxygenated blood to the brain, and treating one type makes the other worse.

As an aside: the city I used to live in had an ambulance with a CAT scanner in it that would be dispatched to suspected strokes. They could diagnose whether it was 1 or 2 and treat it right away.

As to why arterial widening causes lacunar strokes, the article didn’t make it clear how or what small vessel disease is.

Gas exchange also doesn’t happen in your arteries or veins, but in your capillaries. Your capillaries are small enough to just barely fit a single red blood cell (the RBC often need to bend to fit through) and that close contact of RBC and capillary wall allows fast and near complete gas exchange. The tightness of a capillary is a feature, not a bug. So it could be that you don’t have consistent contact with the same RBC for long, and mostly are in contact with blood plasma?

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Kinda? it depends. Basically all modern CPUs have compression hardware acceleration or idle cores, though so sometimes disk compression can have little to no impact on your OS’ speed but increase the bandwidth of your drive by a lot. Hard drives and SSDs are half simplex, so reducing nuisance reads by 10% can make your drive appear faster at both reads and writes.

As an aside, this is why I like ZFS so much. Part of what makes ZFS great is the ARC cache with smart eviction. Most Frequently/Recently Used (MFU/MRU) allows for repeated reads from the same info to come from RAM and not a slow pool. It opens up all of that available bandwidth and IOPs for writes if you need too, or for aggressive prefetching.

I think what’s funniest to me is he was very close to recreating a real windows feature. You actually can “compress files to save space” under options, and apply it to all child files and folders. This is not the way to do it though lmao

How many vulnerabilities exist on windows that we know of? How many probably exist that we haven’t yet discovered?

Linux vulns make the news though because it’s so rare. Both of these exploits also need local access like a compromised ssh key or some other form of remote shell access. A firewall and functioning frontal lobe still stops both of these in their tracks.

Wow they start out so cute then turn ugly just like me

One of the most important elements in successful revolutions is recruiting class traitors. They have the means to make it successful and work the establishment from the inside as well.

They have a cultural expectation that their children takes care of their parents. That also applies to the parents as well. In the worst case, one kid could be taking care of 2 parents, and each of their parents as well. The kids are still the retirement plan.

Glass shatters

Stone cold music plays

40 decades of one child policy takes the stage

And yeah I know the one child policy has been over for years but it set a cultural expectation and they built their infrastructure around it. Schools, daycares, leave, benefits, plus the strongest factor of all: people try and have families similar in size to the ones they grew up in generally speaking

Edit: and as to how that hurts a nation, it’s really hard to save money and grow your wealth as an individual when you’re working your butt off to support 6 other adults by wiring them money into the countryside. It prevents you from starting your own business (too much risk, not enough money or time) and is a giant economic drag on the economy. We’re already worried in Canada about retiree to worker ratios and we’re nowhere close to 6:1. I think it’s something like 1:3 for us right now?

I have a suggestion!

One of these puppies will chew through literally anything, and you can run it as slow as you want as you feed them in feet first!

Alternatively we could also use the Wall Street Brazen bull

The other thing businesses do that should be illegal is target “high cost” employees.

Their healthcare insurance provider will provide them a monthly report and if you suddenly start $1 million worth of chemo it shows up in next month’s bill. The insurance provider doesn’t tell them who it is by law, but they DO tell them it’s costing the company a ton and hiking their monthly premiums. in a company of 100 people it’s not hard to figure out who it is…

This is a key part of a long ass rant I always have chambered on why China won’t be the next superpower for long. You can’t structurally build an empire of global influence when each worker is supporting their parents and 4 grandparents.

Addressing the fact that junk food brands are owned by tobacco conglomerates might be a good first step. They have addiction scientists working with food scientists to make food more addicting. They can even make it taste horrible but you’ll crave it…

Regulating those blood suckers would be a good first step.

A 4 day workweek still sounds sweet though but obesity is a symptom, working 5 days is not the disease here…

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Grandpa’s strongest potion:

10 lbs of sugar

As many crab apples as you can get from your grandpas crab apple tree

Juice them all

Mix juice with sugar in sanitized fermentation bucket (use starsan) and add enough boiling water to get up to 10% ABV on your gauge.

Rehydrate yeast in a lukewarm dilute sugar solution so you don’t shock it.

Add to mash and seal with airlock

Ferment until there’s no change in specific gravity between days

Rack your wash off of the Lee’s into a different jug and start distilling it with a water distillation still.

Once you have a first pass done, distill it again and toss the foreshot this time.

Stop distilling when the alcohol content drops below about 48% or when it tastes horrible.

Typically you end up with 68-80% ABV potion. Grandpa’s strongest potion also gives grandpa strongest hangover, so watch out.

Yep same. Got a 3 day ban for jokingly saying they should have tested a mk-48 torpedo on the hantavirus cruise instead of letting them scatter to the wind like dandelion seeds.

Not meaningfully, no. In the middle of a dry desert far from other bodies of water you could theoretically form cumulus clouds downwind of your site (I have heard of this happening), but it would be teeny tiny.

The amount of water evaporation is just orders of magnitude too small. The earth gets about 1kW of energy per square meter, so a 9GW data center is approximately the same amount of waste heat as 9 million square meters, which is 900 hectares.

All my homies hate copaganda