I'm most curious about how the salmon found it so fast.. Did their instincts predispose them to go there, if they were in the area? or was there some physical trace they were following? or is there some weird lamarkian genetic memory thing going on? .. In fact do we know now salmon normally navigate 1000's of miles back to their spawn location?
They swim towards where they feel water flowing from. They keep going until their bodies are breaking down. Fish at the spawn location often have rotting bodies, even as they still live - losing color and with their flesh changing consistency.
That part is not really known. Various things have been suspected like memory of magnetic fields, salinity, temperature patterns, odors, etc. Basically they may be memorizing those on the way out and end up coming back to the same shoreline. From there it’s following upstream water pressure (which is how salmon ladders induce them to follow the ladder).
Do rivers have a smell? Animals have a keen sense of smell and the volume of rivers is enormous. Seems like a random-walk sniffing for rivers would be effective.
We definitely do not live in that ideal word where this is often enough true. Just take a look at the zerocarb/carnivore community and, just as a random example, IBD and Chron's remission, or keto and type 2 diabetes, etc.
Right, so if there's no evidence that something is effective at treating $medicalCondition then what is the difference between that and sitting under a pyramid made of juniper?
They aren't; they're motivated to ensure ice-cream machines are only fixable by them. Still a perverse incentive. It makes zero sense for a company to be motivated to have their own product... not... work.
This article hit different for me.. It had a weird font so at the beginning I thought it said...
"I spent the days just prior to my 80th birthday sick with shigellosis"
Laptops and also smartphones dont last in my experience.. Too much miniaturisation imo. I dont buy them 2nd hand, I only buy new ones as they only have a limited life. Desktops on the other hand, will last forever, I buy those 2nd hand and they are so cheap but they function perfectly.. Also if something does break they are modular and its trivial to replace the broken part.
It greatly depends on the laptop, even within the same manufacturer. I have lots of old Apple gear that still works but is just too old to get security updates:
- 2012 13" MBP, works great with an SSD upgrade, and the hinge is still solid, which was not the case with my 2009 15" MBP where the screen literally ripped off.
- 2013 15" retina MBP. Great laptop, still plenty fast to use today, but runs a little hot and the battery life was never amazing.
- 2015 12" retina Macbook. Survived two glasses of water spilled on it, but the speakers and bluetooth died. It was miserably slow to use anyway.
My daily driver is now a 15" M3 Macbook, which has been amazing in nearly every way. Only minor complaints is that the ram maxes out at 24GB and I wish I had 1 more USB port on the other side.
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