Wombot posted:

Something I wasn't able to find in the articles the last time this was in the news: Is there an increase in child-consuming capability between a Peloton and any other brand of treadmill?

RFC2324 posted:

Its a techbro thing, so the tabley is probably a web app to the remote server that actually controls the thing, so its harder and slower to turn off than a traditional treadmill

Notahippie posted:

Most treadmills have barriers at the back that limit how far the belt can suck you under, so that the worst-case scenario is some rugburn. Apparently theirs is either poorly designed or hosed up in some way - it's not supposed to drag kids all the way under like that.

facialimpediment posted:

I linked it a few weeks ago specifically because it wasn't graphic and bloody, just a toddler offering his ball as sacrifice, then getting lightly munched as the treadmill denied the sacrifice. At the time, there were no deaths and only a sporadic few cases.


Not the kid in the video, I wouldn't link that kind of thing here.

Comrade Blyatlov posted:

Few people have come to know the “true” story of the origin of Sinko de Mayo. It is my pleasure to set the record straight.

A little known fact is that back in 1912, Hellmann's mayonnaise was manufactured in England. In fact, the Titanic was carrying 12,000 jars of the condiment scheduled for delivery in Vera Cruz, Mexico, which was to be the next port of call for the great ship after its stop in New York. This would have been the largest single shipment of mayonnaise ever delivered to Mexico. But as we know, the great ship did not make it to New York.

The Titanic hit an iceberg and sank and the cargo was forever lost. The people of Mexico, who were crazy about mayonnaise and were eagerly awaiting its delivery, were disconsolate at the loss. Their anguish was so great that they declared a National Day of Mourning, which they still observe to this day.

The National Day of Mourning occurs each year on May 5 and is known, of course, as Sinko de Mayo.

AreWeDrunkYet posted:

The Navy must have hundreds, if not thousands, of trained nuclear technicians. That would be a great training pipeline for civilian nuclear plants, that's one major hurdle that shouldn't be a big deal for building nuclear plants in the US.

Comrade Blyatlov posted:

Few people have come to know the “true” story of the origin of Sinko de Mayo. It is my pleasure to set the record straight.

A little known fact is that back in 1912, Hellmann's mayonnaise was manufactured in England. In fact, the Titanic was carrying 12,000 jars of the condiment scheduled for delivery in Vera Cruz, Mexico, which was to be the next port of call for the great ship after its stop in New York. This would have been the largest single shipment of mayonnaise ever delivered to Mexico. But as we know, the great ship did not make it to New York.

The Titanic hit an iceberg and sank and the cargo was forever lost. The people of Mexico, who were crazy about mayonnaise and were eagerly awaiting its delivery, were disconsolate at the loss. Their anguish was so great that they declared a National Day of Mourning, which they still observe to this day.

The National Day of Mourning occurs each year on May 5 and is known, of course, as Sinko de Mayo.

facialimpediment posted:

https://twitter.com/BenjySarlin/status/1389995401458167811

They're finally getting to the point - nuclear power is clean as hell and it's a bad idea to shut down reactors because natural gas is cheaper now.

Grip it and rip it posted:

People were always talking about the new plants that were supposed to be constricted in Ga. And the possibility of not having to work outages around the country. As far as I know, none of those new plants ever materialized, thanks to the financial crisis.

Comrade Blyatlov posted:

Few people have come to know the “true” story of the origin of Sinko de Mayo. It is my pleasure to set the record straight.

A little known fact is that back in 1912, Hellmann's mayonnaise was manufactured in England. In fact, the Titanic was carrying 12,000 jars of the condiment scheduled for delivery in Vera Cruz, Mexico, which was to be the next port of call for the great ship after its stop in New York. This would have been the largest single shipment of mayonnaise ever delivered to Mexico. But as we know, the great ship did not make it to New York.

The Titanic hit an iceberg and sank and the cargo was forever lost. The people of Mexico, who were crazy about mayonnaise and were eagerly awaiting its delivery, were disconsolate at the loss. Their anguish was so great that they declared a National Day of Mourning, which they still observe to this day.

The National Day of Mourning occurs each year on May 5 and is known, of course, as Sinko de Mayo.

Comrade Blyatlov posted:

facialimpediment posted:

2/10 only because you used Sinko de Mayo in the header and footer, instead of just the footer. BOO.

Soylent Pudding posted:

Cross posting from the techbubble thread

Shifty Pony posted:

it is (was lol) a slat treadmill.

normal treadmills use a belt and a stationary supporting plate under the belt. no matter how well kept the plate and belt are when your foot comes down the belt will get squeezed between your foot and the plate and will slow down slightly.

a slat treadmill uses something closer to what you see in a moving walkway, with a bunch of hard wide flat boards supported by ball bearings running along rails under them and driven by chains on either side. your foot striking means jack poo poo compared to the sorts of loads the ball bearings can handle without a meaningful increase in friction and as a result the feel is better or something. they are expensive because there's a bunch more moving parts involved and they are mainly found at fancy gyms.

anyway slat treadmills are much harder to make safe because the slats need more room to turn than a belt so your shields can fit as tightly, and they are extra dangerous because when they turn the slats open up between each other then close back down. that's not really a problem in a fancy gym because they don't have kids and pets running all around.

the peloton treadmill didn't even bother to implement basic physical safety poo poo like a shield and didn't include basic safety logic like stopping the motor and requiring a power cycle if a jam or unusual load is detected. in one video a kid's ball manages to completely stop the treadmill, but when it is dislodged the treadmill immediately went right back up to full speed.

Grip it and rip it posted:

People were always talking about the new plants that were supposed to be constricted in Ga. And the possibility of not having to work outages around the country. As far as I know, none of those new plants ever materialized, thanks to the financial crisis.

FrozenVent posted:

They know China has regular-rear end paper too right?

CommieGIR posted:

gently caress yes, I kinda hope they find a way to basically re-open Indian Point too


Thanks, Oil Industry who financially backed a bunch of eco-groups to protest and oppose nuclear power.

FrozenVent posted:

They know China has regular-rear end paper too right?

FrozenVent posted:

They know China has regular-rear end paper too right?

Sacrist65 posted:

One official stated, "this was not a joking matter."

AreWeDrunkYet posted:

The Navy must have hundreds, if not thousands, of trained nuclear technicians. That would be a great training pipeline for civilian nuclear plants, that's one major hurdle that shouldn't be a big deal for building nuclear plants in the US.

facialimpediment posted:

And by the way, it's quite clear at this point that conspiracy theorists have ahold of the Maricopa County, Arizona ballots.

https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1390021943777181700?s=19

facialimpediment posted:

And by the way, it's quite clear at this point that conspiracy theorists have ahold of the Maricopa County, Arizona ballots.

https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1390021943777181700?s=19

facialimpediment posted:

Final thing for a while on the vaccine patent issue, but Derek Lowe's my source and he's dramatically smarter than I'll ever be, so:

https://twitter.com/Dereklowe/status/1390029655848198153

https://twitter.com/Dereklowe/status/1390030683217793025

https://twitter.com/Dereklowe/status/1390031073300598784

Also some extra talk about the Fill/Finish portion being complex too. Hoping everyone involved worldwide can ramp up production of the base components so that invalidating the patents really does make an effect.

Hyrax Attack! posted:

That makes me think of the Americans how the spy family wouldn't even keep leftover Russian food in their fridge on the tiny chance someone would recognize it and start asking questions. Dang that was a good show.

Meshka posted:

It is interesting how Russian and Chinese spies differ. Russians are trained for infiltration, but the Chinese are usually recruited locally, especially 1st gen ones. Russians go for quality and Chinese for quantity.

Grip it and rip it posted:

This essentially makes this whole thing an empty policy win for the government and pharmaceutical companies right? They get to champion how they are *above* trying to coldly cash in on a global pandemic as they take in $Texas.

facialimpediment posted:

Nah, Pharma's pissed.

https://twitter.com/levfacher/status/1390048101084418051?s=19

My personal standpoint is that I don't give a flying gently caress what the pharma companies make... right now. Every dollar and bit of materials shoved to Big Pharma for this initial rampup returns like 10x the money to the economy and saves the gently caress out of lives. But Big Pharma is looking long term, in which they should go gently caress themselves, while hopefully in said long term the generics makers have enough expertise and ingredients to make the mRNA vaccines by then. There are a few vaccines already being made generically, just not the adenovirus/mRNA types.

It's absolutely an empty policy win on the government side though. It's the solution to a problem we'll have in 12 months when it doesn't do much about the material shortages.