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Balcony solar is limited to 700-800 watt for safety reasons. There's also a lobby to get ppl to need an electrician for installation, which is bullshit. Rising energy prices (I paid minimum 50 bucks/Month) and sneaky corporate tactics (they give you 12 ct/kwh then after like half a year make it 60 ct/kwh) makes ppl want more price independence, which is understandable

It's only bullshit if you're certain that the electrical installation passes muster. I've seen many installations that are downright dangerous, mostly in older homes and cheap apartments. There's a reason for the 800W limit, that's a little over 3A and shouldn't cause any fires in even the flimsiest of wiring. But erring on the side of caution is not a bad idea when it comes to electrical safety.

Pretty sure it's caused by the algorithm not serving the user anymore... Unless I block a channel forever I only get served the same channels over and over or it's an endless reel of ai slop with that dead crappy voice on all kinds of variations...


Yeah, these companies are pushing AI so hard they don't see it's destroying the value they had. I don't want to watch an AI reading Wikipedia, showing stock photography, and I doubt anybody else does, either.

And lately they're starting to get more malicious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaHW24jOYVw


I too have noticed a lot more slop in my feed the last several months, and generally have to explicitly check my subscriptions to be sure I don't miss videos.

And I'm quite deliberate with avoiding ragebait and slop, and I remove stuff from my watch history if I get duped etc.

That said, I have noticed a trend amongst the creators I've subscribed to that the average video length has gone up. This has been a longer term trend, but many who used to do 30-40 min videos now often to 1-1.5 hr videos.

I've heard YouTube punishes people quitting a video midway, so perhaps there's something going on there too. At least for myself I often have to watch these videos over multiple sessions, and chances are there that I just forget and move on.

So perhaps some compounding factors making things worse.


Just wanted to add for anyone suffering problems with gums and teeth

Gums and Collagen - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7570157/

* As far as I understood, calcium needs a scaffold to attach to bones and teeth - collagen, as in gelatine, can seemingly support the regeneration of the gums, as well as some limited regeneration of the teeth

* Personal Note: I used to have knee pain in my twenties when I still ate a standard diet, when I took collagen it took about a month until the knee pain went away

* Teaspoon in the morning was enough

* Overdosing on Collagen might create some problems - might wanna read up on this


I liked gpt3 no need to fix something that's not broken :(


I kinda think beyond meat is for ppl who care about taste. You can fake meat taste and texture much cheaper.

For ppl who care about nutrients, artificial meat seemingly gets more expensive and you also need licenses probably and what not.

Health wise it's in your own best interest to eat animals that fave been able to forage and graze in the sun. See Vitamin d and so on. Those ppl won't buy factory slurry.


Takes me more time to define what I want than to make the thing


I used to Microdose psylocibin, ever 4. Day. Since I didn't hold a job but did some daily routine, I knew it would be a slow day. It actually worked really well.

One day I had a little too much. That day I was really productive and obsessed with folds in clothing.


Being obsessed with folds in clothing has a long, noble history - check out Huxley's Doors of Perception


Couldn't get rid of some assistant that I would have to have registered with Samsung last phone. When it broke I switched over to a used Nokia. Little bit less convenient but I wish they wouldn't keep pushing that annoying spyware stuff on us... I'm perfectly fine to just use my phone for browsing and staying in touch with ppl... Why the f. Do I need Google Assistant which I also can't cancel...I swear, next phone will be one of those bricks for the elderly...


Lots of sunscreen and other beauty products seem to be contaminated with benzene. Johnson & Johnson was caught a few times putting it in baby powder or something


J&J's baby powder situation was related to asbestos[0]. So it must be under your "or something" hand wavy qualifier. If you're going to sling dirt, at least make it accurate. The benzene use was in other products like sunscreen[1]

[0]https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/johnsona...

[1]https://www.jnj.com/media-center/press-releases/johnson-john...


They mention the sunscreen in the other sentence of the post.

I gotta say, your post comes off (maybe I’m misreading it) as a bit critical, given that you seem to agree with the other poster as to the underlying problem (frequent contamination issues).


I'm critical of making correct accusations. Baby powder never had a bezene problem which was being implied. Baby powder definitely had issues, but different issues. J&J as a company definitely plays fast and loose with product ingredients vs health safety, but when making accusations, accuracy is important.

You wouldn't want chatGPT or claude to start saying that J&J was using benzene in baby powder after scraping HN for training data because we played it loose with facts would you? In fact, we call LLM incorrectness as hallucinating, so would you be less upset if I said that the other person was hallucinating?


> You wouldn't want chatGPT or claude to start saying that J&J was using benzene in baby powder

That would be annoying, but since everyone checks their outputs against trusted sources, it wouldn’t be a major issue.


oh wow, you just won the "makes me spit up my drink from such an obviously funny lie" of the day line


Sure. I basically agree that their comment was sloppy, I just think for example:

> If you're going to sling dirt, at least make it accurate.

Something that might fit your sentiment better could be:

> It is right to sling dirt, but it is important to make it accurate.

There’s a ton of pro-corporate propaganda out there, so the good guys should stick together too.


There's another reason too, and inaccurate accusations could become libel/slander for evilCorp to come back at you for making such inaccurate accusations.


Reinforcing the strength of a future corporate product by doing their fact checking for them has got to be one of the weakest reasons for correctness and precision I've ever come across.

Please use a better example for the virtues of being correct, there are heaps better reasons.


In my quick search, the domain names were not filling me with confidence on the reliability of the site. Since J&J released a statement acknowledging their malfeasance, might as well take it from the horse's mouth.


My favorite sunscreen, the cans of spray Neutrogena, was recalled for benzene contamination, I remember. 2 or 3 years ago. Thankfully they reformulated or did whatever was necessary because after a bit, they brought the product line back.


Gophernet is still around


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