I could certainly see it argued either way. I guess it would come down to how much time and money you have to argue with OSHA if they decide that it includes the keys.

Pass.

The effort you had to put into this....

"controls neutralized" is the part that addresses the keys being taken out, or some measure taken to ensure that some random idiot can't drive off in your telehandler.

This is a well-known phenomenon among people with autism and ADHD, a population that significantly overlaps with the Ehlers-Danlos and fibromyalgia crowd mentioned in the post by u/Onikenbai, but it affects all humans to varying degrees of severity.

The best way I've heard it explained, that jives with my own lived experience as well, is that our brains are highly sophisticated filters that tune out the majority of our sensory input.

Think about focusing on a single sound in a noisy room, or identifying one flavor in a complex dish. Now imagine the opposite where you're simultaneously focusing on EVERY sound in a noisy room, AND the food you're tasting, while feeling every square inch of cloth that's touching your skin, the weight of your body on your joints and muscles, every scent in the room, the air currents pushing on every exposed hair....

You would be in a full-bore sensory meltdown and someone would probably find you rocking back and forth in the fetal position on the floor.

That's what our brains try to prevent every second of our lives, and it is a very taxing, resource intensive process. When we're tired, our brains are trying to do the same job with fewer resources, so the filter isn't as effective. Sleep deprivation, low blood sugar, dehydration, and simple end-of-the-day fatigue all stress your brain's ability to filter out unnecessary information. The result is that everything is a little louder, a little brighter, a little more intrusive than it would have been earlier in the day.

A fun example of this that could happen to anyone are the shingles scars on my left shoulder and chest. They itch constantly due to damage in the spinal nerve branch that feeds that part of my body. There's nothing wrong with the skin, but it always itches because of the damage to the nerves.

I can't feel it right now because my brain has gotten used to it and filters out the sensation, like how you can't smell your own house unless you leave it for a while. If I miss a night of sleep though, those scars itch incessantly and there's nothing I can do about it except getting some sleep to recharge my brain.

The only other thing I can think of is if there's more background noise from outside the theatre earlier in the day that raises the noise floor and makes the sound system sound quieter. I imagine you probably have pretty effective sound insulation in a professional theatre though.

You're higoddamnlarious. Housing costs are never going to significantly drop in a US metro area unless the city is abandoned.

Everyone's answer to the housing crisis is to build more housing, but I don't hear a lot about where that housing is going to go. Try to put it in any city's historic district, and your are not going to get affordable housing for normal people.

You want affordable housing where I live, you have to move way the fuck out of the city (or start collecting roommates). Once you find affordable rent, your transportation costs have sky-rocketed.

The old "supply and demand" mantra isn't holding up so well after 2.5 centuries. They didn't have Airbnb, Berkshire Hathaway, or rent optimizing algorithms in 1776.

Not so much. I work with motor drives that often have a "fire mode." It's for critical processes that must happen regardless of any fault codes, like in life-safety equipment.

I always remember it as, "this thing will keep running even if it's on fire," like a BattleBot.

I don't know how NASA's using it here exactly. Like if they had to put it into fire mode to reset it, or they reset it into fire mode to make it ignore whatever the problem was. It's a real thing though.

Edit: Nevermind, the article continually calls it a "firecode" reset after the title. No idea which one is the typo, and I don't know what a firecode reset would be.

A company in Florida, named after Texas, wants to put a data center the size of a book on the moon.

Is this even real? Is this the elaborate setup of an April Fool's joke? How much cocaine went into this plan?

Not so much bad, just boring.

And in the Bud/Miller/Coors America, the average beer makes your wonder if you're drinking pee if you've ever had anything better.

In the 80%-of-the-US-population-lives-in-urban-areas-now America, you can get whatever the hell kind of beer you want. I don't know if you could even claim there is an average. I imagine if you could, it would be by a slim margin based on arbitrary criteria.

The whole reason this is funny in the first place is that in the first America, there's only three beers, so if one of them should happen to cast some shade while promoting their own beer, it's not hard to guess who they're talking about. It's even funnier when one of the other two claims insult without being named directly.

The joke doesn't work in the second America, so it's not even talking about your beer.

I know, I've had some good ones.

The original comment was about the average lager within the context of American beer though, and they do all give the impression of watered down piss.

Alow me to write off the other half of beer styles in existence and say that IPAs are fucking disgusting, and we all know it. The people who "like" them are lying to themselves.

They can be, but they are not.

Is what I'm seeing in these animations two/eight smaller antennae arranged such that their wavefronts(?) are in phase with each other, so they amplify to create a much stronger wave with a flatter curve?

I've worked with wireless hardware of various types most of my adult life, but I've still always had that disconnect with trying to visualize a wave in 3d space; especially when looking at some of the antennae I've run across. Would it be accurate enough to say that the "waves" expand in a shell from a point of origin, and each "shell" is more or less the location of the peak field strength at the moment you're measuring it?

The one in the picture is a FANUC. They're famous for making big yellow arm robots, but they make all kinds of other robots too. There are a lot companies out there making many different kinds of robots.

I've wondered for a long time about the degree of difference between somniferum and the rest of the family. There must be significant differences in the dozens of chemicals that make up opium between species.

Also, there must be a few cultivars of a plant that's been farmed for thousands of years and had at least one war named after it. I'd love to know some of that agricultural history. How flexible is that phenotype?

I love seeing the occasional headline about "opium poppies" being found somewhere. They should read, "regular-ass poppies found growing somewhere; they all produce opium."

The US, and many others, had been pulling mRNA vaccine technology out of their collective asses for decades, and testing the living shit out of it along the way.

The idea that the COVID vaccine just appeared out of nowhere is an easy conclusion to make because this work was not widely known in the general public. Then a bunch of con artists amplified that sentiment to retain their waning power.

It was more a situation of;

Science/Pharma: We've been researching this new type of vaccine that will be a game-changer for all sorts of diseases and we've just about got it figured out, then we can tell everyone about it.

CDC/FDA: 95% is good enough for this new disease 'cause it is wrecking shit and we have no idea how bad it will get if we do nothing.

Science/Pharma: Shit, yeah that's bad. We plugged the new disease's DNA into our thing and it made this vaccine, here you go.

Since the common cold and COVID are more-or-less cousins, I'm also holding out hope that we cure the common cold in the next decade. Or at least keep it so well contained that most of us don't even think about it anymore.

Edit: fixed a small but important word.

I meant a sphere centered on the sun, that's big enough to enclose the Earth too.

Turns out that's still a bad idea, but you'd capture all the radiation of the sun that didn't hit planets and such.

Why not just build the sphere around the Earth? And maybe Mars? Sure the surface area would become a ridiculous number that doesn't have it's own name, but we wouldn't be relying on an engineered solution to keep Earth from freezing over.

Bonus: seemingly limitless habitable area if it's fancy enough to have rock, water, and atmosphere on the inside surface.