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thedrbrian··on YouTube blocks Russell Brand from making money through its platform
>YouTube, afaik, doesn’t just let advertisers blacklist individual channels.

It's sort of amazing that the biggest search company on earth can't filter/select ads like that.

thedrbrian··on ‘Sea is constantly dumping bodies’: fears Libya flood death toll may hit 20k
>Letting it go to rack and ruin is storing up misery, so it worries me that in the UK we've had 20 years of government that has effectively "washed its hands" of water management.

interesting twitter thread here.

https://x.com/LoftusSteve/status/1659637753158545414?s=20

thedrbrian··on The Uselessness of Phenylephrine (2022)
I assume the original documents/testing that got it approved stated how effective and safe it was.
thedrbrian··on New world record with an electric racing car: From 0 to 100 in 0.956 seconds
Yes but you ignore the bit where you're making a car affordable to the common man
thedrbrian··on UK air traffic control meltdown
You don't.

I work in logistics for a FMCG company and sometimes our main producer goes down and we run out of certain types of stock. We send as much out as we can and cancel the rest.

If they really want the stock the customers can rebook an order for tomorrow because they aren't getting it today. And we just start adding extra stock to each delivery.

It's the best of a bad situation.

We don't have the money to have extra trucks and very perishable stock laying about and I know the airlines don't pay 300 grand a month to lease a 737 just to have it sat about doing nothing. There's very little slack.

thedrbrian··on The Decomposition of Rotten Tomatoes
0. they're running away in space and the imperials can't catch up. unless the two ships are exactly the same then at some point there will be a power to weight difference and one will catch up or get away. fuel was never an issue in any other SW story. also why didn't the imperials just hyperspace jump in front?

7. why bomb the base they're escaping from and not the ship they're flying to? 8. they only launch about 5 tie fighters against poe at the beginning and the ship only has about 6 self defence lasers. Rogue One showed us just how many Tie fighters could be launched to defend an important base. 9. the rebel bombers. nuf said.

there's so much wrong with that film.

thedrbrian··on Weight-based motor vehicle tax
There is nowhere on earth that this mustang could be called an SUV

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Mustang_(seventh_generati...

thedrbrian··on They did not do surgery on a banana over 5G
No shit.
thedrbrian··on New York Is Full. And it’s the housing market’s fault
New York is a sanctuary city. They want to help
thedrbrian··on The EU’s Digital Services Act is now in effect
they aren't elected
thedrbrian··on How to Produce Green Hydrogen for $1/Kg
if you ignore the capacity factor

>The first German Offshore Wind Park Alpha Ventus Offshore Wind Farm with a nameplate capacity of 60 MW cost €250 million (after an initial estimate of €190 million).[21] In 2012 it produced 268 Gigawatt-hours of electricity, achieving a capacity factor of just over 50%.[22] If the overnight cost is calculated for the nameplate capacity, it works out to €4167 per Kilowatt whereas if one takes into account the capacity factor, the figure needs to be roughly doubled.

thedrbrian··on What do I think about Community Notes?
what is a diverse user?
thedrbrian··on UPS CEO says drivers will avg $170k in pay and benefits at end of 5-year deal
$49 * 37.5 * 52 = $95,550 per year.

I've not had a drink but I think I'm missing something.

Maybe their company healthcare is valued at 50K per employee per year?

thedrbrian··on Kenya suspends Sam Altman’s eyeball-scanning crypto project
Rug pull when?
thedrbrian··on HMRC (UK Tax Authority) Persuing Uber for £386M (~$487M) Vat
wonder how many other businesses could be profitable if they just stopped paying their tax bills.....
thedrbrian··on [dead]
why bother. Feed the Ponzi by importing millions from the third world.

how could this go wrong?

thedrbrian··on Today's North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature (4.8 Sigma)
so we go back to the caves then.
thedrbrian··on Sam Altman’s Worldcoin Crypto Project Officially Launches
and for some reason archive.is doesn't work on my MacBook
thedrbrian··on Germany is no longer exceptional, and joining the European mainstream
Turns out the real force behind German engineering was cheap gas after all
thedrbrian··on “Blade Runners” destroying Ulez surveillance cameras in the UK
the ULEZ is in London
thedrbrian··on Binance lays off over 1k Employees
All that electricity so that 3 to 7 people a second can buy some drugs.
thedrbrian··on Ever Given report highlights Suez Canal pilots’ role in grounding
>In 2023, when most of the aircrafts are pretty much handled by the computer,

This has got to be top ten of most wrongest comments on hacker news.

thedrbrian··on Flying taxi at the Paris air show is quiet – too quiet
on the other hand . no range.
thedrbrian··on The Case Against Travel
This has a certain “You will stay in the pod and you will eat the bugs” vibe to it.
thedrbrian··on Why does nuclear power plant construction cost so much?
it's already happened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_River_Nuclear_Plant?us...

I'm sure I read an article about this plant/procedure and they were looking to save 30 million dollars on a billion dollar plant.

thedrbrian··on Trapped Under Trucks
the other problem is tyres. we use super singles on our trucks and the tractors, trailers and rigids have the same size tyre.

385/65 R22.5

to have a flat floor on the trailer with the smaller tyres you've now got to stock another size of tyre or run dual tyres on the trailer.

thedrbrian··on Inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid
give how many people seem to catch covid after having the vaccine, was it worth it?
thedrbrian··on The 'exploding' demand for giant heat pumps
>In this installation, the heat pumps' CO2 refrigerant will absorb a small amount of heat from seawater. Compressors boost the temperature of the CO2 and the system can then transfer this heat,

accurate reporting , as ever , from the BBC

thedrbrian··on Cultured meat might not be that environmentap friendly
I have 0 kids , I can eat what want.
thedrbrian··on A former pilot on why autonomous vehicles are so risky
>FSD has been 5 years away for… 15 years now?

FSD is going to be enabled on HW2 anyday now. Oh look at that HW4 just rolled out.

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