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The idea is that the wild-type Streptococcus that already lives in your mouth produces lactic acid, which is bad for your teeth. The modified bacteria produces ethanol instead, which is neutral for your teeth. I don't believe there's any assertion that the ethanol is helpful to your teeth, just that you're going to have some bacterial colony in your mouth, so they are trying to change the byproducts of that colony to something less bad.

> People have no place to host a party, because they're all renters

I've seen this repeated in several comments and I just don't get it -- renting a place, be it a college apartment or a full house as an adult, has never stopped me from throwing a party. Maybe if there was a "no parties" rule in the lease (which I've never seen, and I've rented at least a dozen different places) and the landlord lived in the building, but otherwise rentals are fair game.


If anything, renters are more likely to throw parties. They don't care about the building or even the inside in the long-term. The likely worst case is losing a month's rent in the deposit, which you're likely to lose some of anyway even if you keep it perfectly clean.

Yeah, pretty much every college town is full of renters throwing parties. One consequence of that is how student-aimed housing tends to be lower quality.

I know this struggle, and the best I've been able to do is to push every time for limited scope. Let's just get pizzas instead of cooking 3 different mains and having a cheese plate, 4 bowls of chips, etc. Social media has really done a number on people (see also those omnipresent balloon arches)

I don't remember darts as much on TPB... the phrase "Corey, Trevor, two smokes, let's go" stands out.

Ricky is shot with multiple tranquilizer darts.

Ricky, get the darts out!

Ricky dazily pulls out his cigarettes.

Not those darts!


After trying the tutorial it feels like a Diku MUD, but of course heavily modified. I'd be interested to know more too, though, and will be poking around the website.

These old cars can be a lot of fun but even the fast ones weren't that fast when taken against a modern family car... take a 68 Mustang, an iconic car as featured in Bullitt, with a 0-60 of 5.4 seconds and compare it to a 2012 Toyota Camry doing the same in 5.8 seconds.

https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/comparison-test/a151426...

https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a15122183/toyota-camry-...

I used to drive a 62 Studebaker. People saw an old car and asked me if it was fast. Hell no, I'd answer -- but by God it can suck fuel!


Here's the thing. A 68 Mustang had no almost emissions controls. A 78 Thunderbird was almost the exact same stuff, except it was choked to shit. A modern computer-controlled Camry is not only way better performing, it also orders of magnitude cleaner.

IMO the ICE has achieved its final form, so now the future has to be something else (electric).


RE: "ice final form"

It's an intersting time to live, we are indeed seeing the peak of ICE, though I think there are lots of room for improvement in EGR, compression, more efficient catalytic process.

"smaller market" ICE manufacturers IE isuzu, mazda, hino etc. are sort of working towards this, as opposed to jumping on EV train.

Theoretically, it's completely reasonable for a high compression inlne 3 cylinder with aero wheels/tires to get 60-70 MPG. (With proper EGR, turbo application, CVT)


https://ecomodder.com/forum/showthread.php/94-caprice-wagon-...

50mpg from a 5.7L V8, using most of the drivetrain from a truck(!)

My daily driver gets roughly half that, but it has a carbureted 6.6L and an automatic transmission, with some mild performance tuning done. I am satisfied enough with that.


Really none of that is improving the ICE.

I think the major carmakers aren't interested in super-economy ICE cars.

They're attracted to XXXXL EVs because they can make the XXXXL cars they want to make and still claim they're "green"


Only corporate legal could freak out over the idea of hiding a single stanza of an 80 year old poem across a dozen resource names where they'll never ever be seen by the average user. If that's not fair use it should be.

You don't want to end up with a court trying to figure out whether that usage constitutes fair use. Taking a stand on whether it "should be" fair use isn't what company resources are for.

An accurate representation of corporate legal's general attitude, yeah... just say no to any request because that covers your ass.

Legal troubles are exactly why you have a legal team. Uber didn't ask for permission, neither did OpenAI. Now they're worth billions. Microsoft and Apple do their own fairshare of probably borderline illegal things too.

Selection bias. Lots of other companies did borderline illegal or fully illegal things and they are gone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_corporate_collapses_an... (although many of these are incompetence collapses).

Yes but they did illegal things that materially increased the value of the company, they didn't send employees off to mug people in alleys just for the fun of it.

Neither is stopping the presses for every little thing.

Does this count as self-promotion?!

No, I'm not related to the Mr Hollerith who invented the punched card.

A man of culture! Where do you sail yours? I'm not much of a sailor yet, so the Skerry feels plenty... scary... even in 10 knot wind inside a breakwater at Alameda


The Skerry has only seen the Willamette and Columbia rivers so far, but Puget Sound is calling…


> Maybe 100% of times you are missing the point why people think that way by just assuming this?

"Am I so out of touch? No, it's the users who are wrong"


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