Yubikey also has usb-c versions with compliant plugs.

Wow, air to air even?

But do you know what the COP is at -30?

Interesting.

At these temperatures, I can’t imagine air source heat pumps being very efficient.

I would probably have a spare gas, oil or wood based heater and use that for days like this, or for if the power goes off on days like this.

Do most Finnish people pay spot prices for electricity?

It’s basically the flu vaccine in my opinion.

People at risk stand to beneffit most, but it doesn’t need to be mandated .

Yes, you could argue that, but it would be an extraordinary claim.

I might still get indigestion from that taco I ate in 1999.

But it’s really unlikely, since that Taco cleared my system way back then.

mRNA also clears the body quite quickly.

So to have side-effects after so many years, one would need to explain a mechanism.

Otherwise it’s really just very speculative. Might as well believe 5G causes cancer. After all, it’s new technology.

So how many years does it take to no longer be new?

The Polio vaccines are also new compared to the Smallpox vaccines.

But that doesn’t mean we don’t have sufficient data on their safety and effectiveness. And we have comparable levels of data on the mRNA covid vaccines.

Is your friend stuck in 2021?

The covid vaccines are three years old now. Millions of people have had 3 or 4 shots, or even more.

In what world are they “new”.

This right here.

The TV comes with the cheapest removable feet, because VESA mounts exist.

Are you implying that Roe v Wade is religious? Cause you aren’t making much sense.

One could also argue that legally allowing unrestricted abortions past 24 weeks is counterproductive, since it galvanizes the pro-life movement. Look at any rally and most protestors are showing pictures of very late term abortions. I remember being in school as a teenager and the pro-life activists coming to our classroom to graphically describe partial-birth abortions that suck out the brains of babies. I was pro-life for the next ten years or so.

Obviously, that’s not representative at all of what a normal abortion looks like. But it’s much less galvanizing to show a 6-8 week old bunch of unrecognizable bodily fluids, which is much more representative of the average abortion.

A clear timeline also puts a healthy pressure on pregnant women to make a difficult decision earlier, when everything is easier, less impactful and less risky, instead of postponing it.

I’m not an expert, but the happy balance seems to be with easy accessibility up to 12 weeks and progressive restrictions after that.

This was also the gist of the original Roe v Wade, which established a trimester framework.

Once you assign rights to the unborn, you very quickly end up in an “no abortion except to save the life or health of the mother or prevent unnecessary suffering of a non-viable fetus”.

And this is exactly why most jurisdictions have limits on abortion.

In my country, elective abortions are only legally allowed up to 24 weeks of gestation and the doctors only perform it up to 22 weeks.

Above that, there needs to be a serious medical situation that falls in the exceptional categories.

Practically speaking, it’s mostly an ethics discussion. The vast majority of abortions take place within the first 12 weeks, most even within 8 weeks.

You don’t need to support either side. I don’t.

You just need to not be hypocritical and value all human lives and human rights equally. You need to stop supporting apartheid perpetuated by Israel.

The Palestinians don’t really need support from the West. They just need to not be blockaded and terrorized by Israel. And their land and water not stolen. All they need is equal protection under international law.

The Arab and Muslim countries and humanitarian organizations are more than willing and able to support them. Your support is not needed.

In the American context, such a stance will be characterized as being anti-semitic and supporting Hamas. But it isn’t. It’s just being consistent and impartial.

Many Israelis actually also have a similar stance. And they get accused of being traitors.

It’s a thing, but even the creationists debunk it.

The summary is that, ancient people did conceive of the sky to be solid, but the Bible itself never says so in unequivocal language.

One could interpret the word used for “firmament” as being synonymous with the atmosphere and interstellar space and the texts still make sense.

https://creation.com/is-the-raqiya-firmament-a-solid-dome

Not much.

We can easily solve climate change. We have the technological capability to do it.

Once it gets bad enough, we will solve it.

Probably with cooling stratospheric aerosols for a few years to buy some extra time to make up for the lost time of the last three decades.

I think melatonin is more the exception than the rule.

Testosterone needs to be injected and has a very short half life.

A quick Google shows Dopamine also needs to be injected and has a half life of one minute, so is only used as an IV drip.

To answer the first one:

My understanding is that it’s basically impossible to get these hormones through oral pathways.

Mostly because they break down in stomach acid or can’t cross the blood brain barrier.

And finally, if all that were solved, these hormones are typically short lived and are quickly lost.

Which is why, say you are low on dopamine. We don’t give people dopamine pills, but instead some other medicine that promotes higher levels of dopamine.

Happy you found something that works.

What works best for my personal email address is very aggressively unsubscribing from notifications and labeling spam as spam.

Now that I only rarely get emails, I can very easily keep up to date.

A 5 minute glance into my email app is enough to be up to date for the last 2-3 days. About once a week I might receive a mail that actually requires action or a response.

Work is different. But I guess I get paid at work, so I spend way more time on my work email. But I don’t like automatically filing work email, because if someone mails me, I need to take notice and perhaps respond. ADHD helps me with a positive reputation that I respond quickly when I not busy.

It actually started with WW1 when Britain promised both Jews and Palestinians their own state if they overthrew the Ottomans.

Before that, Ottoman rule was oppressive to both groups relatively equally for a few hundred years.

WW2 and the whole holocaust thing just turned it from a small problem into a big problem, as millions of European Jews sought a safe haven outside of Europe, leading to the creation of a religious ethnostate in 1948.

So yeah, Europeans definitely are to blame, but Arabs and Palestinians aren’t innocent either. They rejected a perfectly adequate solution by the UN in 1947.

Math.

John McCarthy had a saying: He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.

And I can confirm, society talks a lot of nonsense.