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Stem cells reverse woman’s diabetes — a world first
  • Eh, gotta be honest though. Democrats (at the Federal level) love money. Pelosi's latest Visa stock gambit, vaccines, etc. They use the Republicans to stay profitable. Repubs contrive a fear, Dems monetize it. Capitalists at their core. Not looking out for the People. Just wall street. Because they genuinely believe the machine is what keeps us all living our lives, and to love the machine, and why not make some scratch while you're at it?

  • Why JPMorgan Chase is prepared to sue the U.S. government over Zelle scams
  • I found out on one bank site that if you filled up all the phone number slots with bogus phone numbers, Zelle couldn't be activated. Basically try to logjam your bank so Zelle can't be enabled, so that way it's more difficult for haxx0rs to do it.

    Stupid. Wish it could be 100% blocked on bank accounts if you don't want to use it as it is a huge security hole.

  • Europe’s Heat Pumps Put America’s to Shame | If switching one home to a heat pump improves energy efficiency, why not whole cities?
  • Stockholm decommissioned its last coal-fired plant in 2020, and its giant heat pumps are a major supplier of heat to the city, along with power plants that burn waste and scrap wood from Sweden’s forestry industry that would otherwise be left to rot. Levihn contends that generating heat and electricity from incinerated waste is more efficient than dumping it in a landfill, although these plants still emit carbon dioxide. Stockholm Exergi is working to install carbon-capture technology in the plants in hopes of making the system net carbon negative, he told me.

    "We don't use coal, we just burn waste rather than turning the wood scrap into something useful." Greenwashing at its finest. I suppose the angle is it's "almost" recycling carbon rather than releasing old buried carbon into the atmosphere?

    What an odd guilt-laden non-article. It's non-trivial to install underground piping systems in neighborhoods, they then also need a source/sink of heat to power the mechanism, not every neighborhood would have that, not all topographies would support that. Cities already have centralized heating systems that have been around for decades in some building groupings.

    Seems it'd make more sense to just install a house-grade heat pump on each home the next time the AC needs to be replaced and some grid-scale solar and/or wind and/or hydro and Bob's your uncle. Toss in some base-load nuclear for good measure. Build out the energy infra enough that resistance or baseboard resistance electric heat can be used for when it's too cold to use a heat pump in the meantime, and then sunset gas furnaces the next time those need to be replaced.

    This avoids polluting with big diggers tearing up streets, moving dirt around, possibly destroying gas (causing methane leaks), water, power, Internet infra, and laying new asphalt. No carbon creation by building the piping systems/energy plant and avoids trucking those parts around.

  • Galaxy S25 Ultra’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 “For Galaxy” variant appears on Geekbench, scores lower than expected
  • The S22 US version used snapdragon 8 gen 1 (in the US) and the chip was prone to performance issues. It worked, but it was rough, ran hot, and ate power for lunch. I'm not sure if that was a year that the international variants had an Exynos, but their performance is generally worse.

    So seeing a simpler phone with basic android seem to do fine versus a flagship with super bloated Android on a first gen apps processor makes a lot of sense, really.

  • US to propose ban on Chinese software, hardware in connected vehicles, sources say.
  • I'm not pro-China, but will probably sound that way here. We are all nation-states composed of arbitrary rules. We all think we are the best. We all think the others are less. We all do shitty things to our people. We also need each other to survive. It's a clusterfuck that needs a fix. Xenophobia is never the answer.

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  • Recently tried MS Office apps for the first time in 8 or so years. Somehow they made them less intuitive than even ribbon days. They use a dark pattern save dialog that makes it easy to accidentally save to OneDrive, and if you have OneDrive disabled or uninstalled, there's an always present icon in the title bar of the main edit window that says "autosave off" even though autosave is on.

    Went right back to LibreOffice after one document and one spreadsheet.

  • US health system ranks last compared with peer nations, report finds
  • Those are both mental health issues, as well as the latter being failure of the medical system to limit access. (As well as the unrelated easy access to firearms issue.)

    Mental healthcare in the US is terrible by itself, and is under the healthcare umbrella.

  • Feds target SUV, truck size to save pedestrian lives — ‘one of the last frontiers of vehicle safety’
  • ...you know what they say about guys with big lift...

    Funny thing is, the people I know with large vehicles around here always bemoan how difficult it is to park, yet don't want to solve the obvious problem because twice a year they want to haul a fridge to the dump or pick up something from the home improvement store rather than have it delivered or rent a truck for an hour.

  • J.D. Vance offers ‘proof’ of pet-eating, but it’s proven false with 1 phone call
  • ...and the text messages, and the canvassers, and the snail mails, and the billboards (if you live where they are allowed), and and and.

    Wish it would all just go away, I'll vote how I want despite all the waste of media.

    Politicians should get some sanctioned debates and interviews on CSPAN and that's it.

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    'Slow-moving' Dinosaur Fire is burning near Boulder
    boulderreportinglab.org 'Slow-moving' Dinosaur Fire is burning near Boulder

    The Dinosaur Fire coincided with a heat wave and severe drought in Boulder County.

    'Slow-moving' Dinosaur Fire is burning near Boulder

    The Dinosaur Fire near NCAR coincided with a heat wave and severe drought in Boulder County. ‘We don’t have a ton of concern for public safety at this time,’ said Jennifer Ciplet, public information officer with the City of Boulder, around 1:30 p.m. However, officials are urging nearby residents to have a ‘go bag’ ready in case conditions change.

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