It’s not just cities - there’s nearly no dark sky sites in all of Europe, and very few dark sky areas east of the Mississippi in the US.

I didn’t see the Milky Way with my naked eye until driving through NE New Mexico in my late 20s.

darkskymap.com/nightSkyBrightness

All of these people who don’t apply the things they learn in school just don’t really think that much in my opinion.

When I was in the military in a leadership class, we had to use a protractor to calculate angles and distances on the map given a bunch of coordinates. I realized these were all right triangles, said fuck the protractor, and used trigonometry to get exact answers. I earned distinguished honor graduate, ie top of the class, despite my lab nerd POG ass being mixed in with a ton of infantry and ranger battalion guys.

I use dimensional analysis on a near daily basis because it’s just so damn handy. You can convert anything to nearly anything else as long as you have some numbers with the appropriate units in between.

That’s not how your immune system works. Your immune reserves are not “spent” nor do they need to replace ones “lost”. It’s not like a military battle. Most pathogens are either destroyed or they avoid destruction through some mechanism - they’re not often fighting back against the WBCs.

Your immune system produces chemicals that make you feel like shit / tired, because it’s evolutionarily advantageous to feel like shit. This keeps you resting and away from others. This is also how medicines like NSAIDS or steroids can make you feel better, by inhibiting the processes instigated by WBCs. It’s not the disease that makes you feel bad, it’s your immune system (unless you’re deathly ill, we’re talking common cold/flu/COVID type stuff here).

It would be impossible for me to go in depth in immunology but your explanation is not at all in line with the evidence we have currently.

There’s the answer I was looking for.

I get that, but outside of using aux heat or having to defrost the coils outside, it seems like identical temp differentials would be identically efficient. The heat pump doesn’t use more energy to heat than cool, the heat pump uses more energy in winter due to a larger difference to overcome.

Edit: I believe successfultry’s comment below is the most accurate. Heating is more efficient than cooling, not vice versa, due to waste heat not being a waste for heating.

Why would they use more energy in one direction versus another? This doesn’t really make sense to me. Heating and cooling is just swapping which element is the condenser and which element is the evaporator.

Edit: assume I’m talking about identical temp differences. I’m aware it gets more cold than it gets more hot, but that’s not comparing like for like. My question isn’t “is it more efficient in summer or winter” it’s “is cooling more efficient than heating.”

Merely existing, even if you were in a perfectly safe bubble, is carcinogenic.

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I feel it’s fairly relevant with the interest in microplastics lately.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5664766/

Yeah, it also applies there. It’s just a fact - heavier vehicles have more tire wear.

I genuinely feel like you’re the one who’s trolling here. Goodbye

Higher weight and higher torque means tires wear faster on EVs. That’s physics, and the theory is backed up by real world evidence.

I agree with this viewpoint completely, I just don’t see how strictly speaking this is racist. If I dare ask, I get accused of being a racist. No one will explain what is exactly racist about this to me, they just say, “how isn’t it racist” or downvote me. This shit is frustrating. The top comment is calling it racist and I really just don’t understand it.

Please point out to me what in the text that includes the picture makes this racist then. There is so little text there, I really cannot wrap my mind around how this is racist other than the depiction of a gang. I’m not arguing at all, I’m stating my observations and feelings. Can I not even be open with my potential ignorance over how this is racist, without being accused of being a racist?

You could swap that depiction of the bloods with any other group portrayed in South Park and make a similar shitty blood drive pun… would that be racist? Can someone do this so maybe I get what’s happening here?

So it’s South Park who’s racist, because they’re the ones who created that caricature.

They’re making a pun for a blood drive based on the gang The Bloods - who are a predominantly African American street gang.

I don’t see the racism. “What up blud” is a common greeting and jumping people in happens in gangs, Blood or otherwise. Is it the South Park depiction of the gang?

It seems it was taken down due to making light of gang culture - not because of racist implications.

Maybe I’m just out of touch, I just really don’t see how it’s racist. The Bloods exist and they’re mostly African American. The text of the post is just a shitty pun.

Fuck cops, but this is for a blood drive, which they’re not even really that involved with.

It’s got nothing on an F650 super truck. I’ve driven past one on I35 outside of San Antonio, TX.

For a size reference, here’s Doug DeMuro, 6’3” (1.9m):

The difference is the pyramids exist