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Crazy Ted posted:Looking back on things, it's kind of amazing that everyone born from about 1935 to 1960 didn't die of some kind of cancer: https://www.google.com/#q=john+hurt+cause+of+death
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Crazy Ted posted:Looking back on things, it's kind of amazing that everyone born from about 1935 to 1960 didn't die of some kind of cancer: I genuinely am curious as to what 'harmless' material we currently use is going to be found out to be deadly in the future. In the way that we go 'holy poo poo, they used asbestos in schools!!', in 40 years, will they be saying 'I can't believe that they used paper every day!' or 'can you believe they ate chicken, what morons!' ?
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spog posted:I genuinely am curious as to what 'harmless' material we currently use is going to be found out to be deadly in the future. It's soda, man.
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spog posted:I genuinely am curious as to what 'harmless' material we currently use is going to be found out to be deadly in the future.
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vaping
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spog posted:I genuinely am curious as to what 'harmless' material we currently use is going to be found out to be deadly in the future. Centrism.
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I was going to say petroleum products but we already know that's bad for us, we just ignore the risks in favor of its practical uses.
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The Archaic posted:Who here loves cable management? Doesn't something get hosed when you bundle too many cables parallel like that? Like the little Internet elves get confused about which way to go or start having a little elf orgy or whatever and then you lose your connection? Or is it just for power cables parallel to data cables?
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spog posted:I genuinely am curious as to what 'harmless' material we currently use is going to be found out to be deadly in the future. Lol if you think humanity has a future.
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spog posted:I genuinely am curious as to what 'harmless' material we currently use is going to be found out to be deadly in the future. Sucrose/car exhaust
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spog posted:I genuinely am curious as to what 'harmless' material we currently use is going to be found out to be deadly in the future. I'm hoping that gluten free diets actually cause cancer. I will laugh so godamned hard my balls will depart my body.
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Bubblyblubber posted:Doesn't something get hosed when you bundle too many cables parallel like that? Like the little Internet elves get confused about which way to go or start having a little elf orgy or whatever and then you lose your connection? That's why there are twisted pairs inside the cables. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twisted_pair
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Bubblyblubber posted:Doesn't something get hosed when you bundle too many cables parallel like that? Like the little Internet elves get confused about which way to go or start having a little elf orgy or whatever and then you lose your connection? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twisted_pair for exactly the reasons you highlight EFB! That will be because my brain is slower due to the lead in the fuel that all my vehicles used to run on.
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azurite posted:That's why they're twisted pairs. I learned something today!
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azurite posted:That's why there are twisted pairs inside the cables. But if the twisted pairs prevent interference, why do IT people freak out if you suggest putting a power cable parallel to a an ethernet cable in a conduit?
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Bubblyblubber posted:But if the twisted pairs prevent interference, why do IT people freak out if you suggest putting a power cable parallel to a an ethernet cable in a conduit? At least here it's a code violation.
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Jerry Cotton posted:At least here it's a code violation. At this rate my motorized mains voltage dildo will never get the ethernet connection it so desperately needs. Isn't there an actual technical reason against it? I'm in Brazil, so code is... not really an impediment to anything.
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Bubblyblubber posted:At this rate my motorized mains voltage dildo will never get the ethernet connection it so desperately needs. I'm not sure it applies to residential buildings anyway. Actually I don't even know if it's against code here, but I know it's against code somewhere because someone was talking about it at work. (International consortium so could be another country )
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It's more of a theoretical risk of interference. All our fixed installation is done with shielded twisted pair, because why not. The extra cost of shielded vs unshielded cable was minuscule in comparison to the cost of the installation anyway.
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MrYenko posted:I'm hoping that gluten free diets actually cause cancer. No but if you have celiac you're some huge stupid percentage more likely to die in any random year because cross contamination fucks your body up. Also I dunno why everyone gets so up in arms about people not eating wheat even if their reasons are bad, it's not particularly good for you even if your body can process it without having a meltdown. People saying they have celiac when they don't is way less annoying to me than people getting all up in arms about their love of bread. No one wants to hear that you're fat and want to get fatter.
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Gumbel2Gumbel posted:No but if you have celiac you're some huge stupid percentage more likely to die in any random year because cross contamination fucks your body up. Hey, don't worry when the FDA is eliminated everything will be cross contaminated so those with allergies will simply die!
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MrYenko posted:I'm hoping that gluten free diets actually cause cancer. But I'm allergic to wheat :c I didn't choose this diet! And eggs and dairy which means no pizza which is hell. So maybe cancer won't be so bad. AzureSkys fucked around with this message at 14:51 on Jan 30, 2017 |
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Gumbel2Gumbel posted:No but if you have celiac you're some huge stupid percentage more likely to die in any random year because cross contamination fucks your body up. There's a few reasons. People who lie about a gluten allergy (or are delusional about having one) make the world more dangerous for those with Celiac's, since people are less likely to take them seriously. It also means the person with the 'undiagnosed gluten intolerance' gets to dictate where a group of people eat and then get sanctimonious about how healthy their food is, criticize what everyone else is eating, and promote other pseudoscience bullshit.
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Dienes posted:There's a few reasons. People who lie about a gluten allergy (or are delusional about having one) make the world more dangerous for those with Celiac's, since people are less likely to take them seriously. It also means the person with the 'undiagnosed gluten intolerance' gets to dictate where a group of people eat and then get sanctimonious about how healthy their food is, criticize what everyone else is eating, and promote other pseudoscience bullshit. I'd much rather take that than some dumbass online wishing I'd get cancer because I can't eat wheat. And everyone has built up that fake celiac person in their own mind to a much greater extent than they actually exist in the wild.
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Dienes posted:There's a few reasons. People who lie about a gluten allergy (or are delusional about having one) make the world more dangerous for those with Celiac's, since people are less likely to take them seriously. It also means the person with the 'undiagnosed gluten intolerance' gets to dictate where a group of people eat and then get sanctimonious about how healthy their food is, criticize what everyone else is eating, and promote other pseudoscience bullshit.
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I mostly just take issue with food fads promoting misinformation and bad science to the general public. I don't particularly care who eats bread, I mean it's high in carbs so whatever, but I don't like it meaning that even some meat products now say "gluten free" on them promoting the perception that it's a spooky scary food word and it's bad for you.
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spog posted:I genuinely am curious as to what 'harmless' material we currently use is going to be found out to be deadly in the future. Antibiotics, including flushing them into the water supply to dispose of them.
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^^^: Yep, barring some completely unforeseen science out of left field, this is 100% what the current century's major foil will be I'm annoyed at the anti-gluten fad since it meant my box of vital wheat gluten wasn't on the store shelves when I needed to restock. I finally broke down and ordered a 4lb bag of pure gluten, so I'll have non-crumbly bread and good pizza dough for years to come at least
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MrYenko posted:I'm hoping that gluten free diets actually cause cancer. Remember when that dude tweeted that he wished some other dude got cancer and then he got cancer himself. Or something like that.
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spog posted:I genuinely am curious as to what 'harmless' material we currently use is going to be found out to be deadly in the future. Blue. loving. LEDs. 40 years in the future they'll be saying, "We have no idea why they felt the need to put blue LEDs in everything. Sure, they had no idea they were giving themselves eyeball cancer, but, come on, it looked loving stupid."
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Collateral Damage posted:Or in the 1920s for that matter. I have Female Trouble and Lumbago
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Lucky you, I just have other common ailments
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CollegeCop posted:Blue. loving. LEDs. A lot, maybe all, LED light bulbs use blue LEDs coated with a phosphor that gives the appearance of white light. See Metamerism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamerism_(color) http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2016/12/01/blue-leds-confuse-brain.aspx quote:Why So Blue? Still better than CFLs. Compact Fluorescents loving suck. Philips remote-phosphor LED lamp teardown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4ZBfmLGRrk I am kind of about light bulbs. Vanagoon fucked around with this message at 16:06 on Jan 30, 2017 |
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Speaking of led and florescent lights, anyone have any leads on adaptors that will let me convert my kitchen lights to led? They're the standard full size bulbs with the ballasts running straight off of 120v. I'm renting an apartment, so i can't really tear out the ballasts to get to the couple inches of wire to wire in an outlet, but i can't think of anything else that would work
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You can just buy LED fluorescent tubes that drop into standard fluorescent fixtures now. All the circuitry to adapt the voltages is right in the tube.
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Sentient Data posted:Speaking of led and florescent lights, anyone have any leads on adaptors that will let me convert my kitchen lights to led? They're the standard full size bulbs with the ballasts running straight off of 120v. I'm renting an apartment, so i can't really tear out the ballasts to get to the couple inches of wire to wire in an outlet, but i can't think of anything else that would work Various companies make LED tubes intended as drop-in replacements for fluorescents. I haven't tried any of them, though, so I can't really comment on how they stack up. Edit: this is why we preview.
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Sentient Data posted:Speaking of led and florescent lights, anyone have any leads on adaptors that will let me convert my kitchen lights to led? They're the standard full size bulbs with the ballasts running straight off of 120v. I'm renting an apartment, so i can't really tear out the ballasts to get to the couple inches of wire to wire in an outlet, but i can't think of anything else that would work http://m.homedepot.com/b/Electrical-Light-Bulbs-LED-Light-Bulbs/Soft-White/N-5yc1vZbm79Z1z0u18z
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Sentient Data posted:Speaking of led and florescent lights, anyone have any leads on adaptors that will let me convert my kitchen lights to led? They're the standard full size bulbs with the ballasts running straight off of 120v. I'm renting an apartment, so i can't really tear out the ballasts to get to the couple inches of wire to wire in an outlet, but i can't think of anything else that would work If you've got tube lighting, there are drop-in replacement tubes that fit your fixtures, ballasts and all. A brief intro is here.
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Bubblyblubber posted:At this rate my motorized mains voltage dildo will never get the ethernet connection it so desperately needs. Have you considered using Power over Ethernet to drive your dildo instead?
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:You can just buy LED fluorescent tubes that drop into standard fluorescent fixtures now. All the circuitry to adapt the voltages is right in the tube. Do they stop the ballast from doing that loving annoying humming? EDIT: just looked up the prices and holy poo poo! I think I'll stick with fluorescents right now, thanks. Double edit: Okay, Ebay has much more reasonable prices. The Australian manufacturer I checked had a single, standard 120cm tube as $70. Megillah Gorilla fucked around with this message at 18:24 on Jan 30, 2017 |
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