- Vasectomies (+ birth control pills)
- animal testing for human research.
- I’m sure that anyone working in a hospital can cough up a few dozen more.
RISUG has been invented in 1978,
is reversable, cheaper, zero side effects,
and with so far 0% failure rate when implemented properly,
Vasalgel, an improvement on RISUG by having a longer shelf-life,
has been invented around 2015.So this stuff has been invented in the same year as the first Star Wars movie,
had gone through all trials multiple times with flying colors,
and instead we use knives and pills with large side effects.If any invention could be been ubiquitous in use at a much earlier stage,
then this would be it.
It could and should have been widely used by the 1980’s.For animal testing we have 3D printed human tissue.
So why test on animals if your question is “Does this stuff work on human tissue?”
The answer you’ll be getting is whether or not it works on mice.
Mice are not human.RSS. And very happy that it is!
Television
Radio
Well, I was surprised at the time…
Besides wind turbines and some solar power, all of our power plants are essentially fancy steam engines turning turbines. We’ve been generating power using water to spin wheels of increasing complexity for thousands of years. Wind as well, though it’s not as prevalent in the modern era.
It is time for the fax machine to die.
It has been time for the fax Machine to die for the last 18 years.
For the love of God somebody, please kill the fax machine.
Need a simple end to end encrypted email solution, and for regular users to understand that solution isn’t Gmail for fax to die. The health and financial sectors are keeping fax alive, and it isn’t completely their fault.
Email encryption has been a thing since '91. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy
Correct me if I’m wrong but fax isn’t end to end encrypted so how is it deemed more secure than email which also isn’t end to end encrypted (by default).
I suppose it has more to do with the opportunity for a significant breach. The healthcare provider’s email system is a big target full of exploits. Fax is also
HIPPAHIPAA compliant, email is not.Fax is also HIPPA compliant, email is not.
Yeah I just love having my cancer diagnosis sent in plaintext over copper wire such that anyone with a dollar store audio recorder and physical access to the wire can intercept. If there’s one thing 19th century data transmission tech is known for, it’s security and privacy.
Is it too much to ask that hospitals use the literally decades old AES standard for sending medical data?
Abraham Lincoln sent faxes! Ancient tech.
As someone who provides customer support for software that basically turns a Windows server into a giant fax machine, I 100% agree.
Gas stoves. Yeah, real smart to use a source of pollution inside your home. Electric ranges have been available for decades. Recently available induction stoves are like magic. Yet people cling to cooking with fire.
I live in a country with abhorrently unreliable electricity.
Even now that I have solar and even if I mostly (85%+) cook on a plug-in resistance hob and electric oven, gas is just unbeatable as a backup during the winter. No sun? Grid down? Milk boiled over and got into the hob’s thermostat? Need to cook more than one pot at a time? Israel decided to bomb a fucking residential substation for no reason again? Power company operator decided to accidentally pull an epic prank and route the wrong voltage to everyone’s house, frying a whole town’s fridges, during a year when people couldn’t afford to replace them (I can’t find an English article to link but I promise this happened)? No problemo
I also got a plug-in induction plate and while it is pretty much magical it also makes my inverter shit itself uncontrollably (all my LED lights flicker and it makes an uncomfortable noise) so I really only use it when the ”good” grid is on (the bad one can’t handle it, the good one is the one from the prank above).
You can pry my backup butane from my cold dead hands. I replace the tank less than once a year, it’s fine. Not everyone who wants this option to stay is a regressive cultist.
An induction stove with booster can outheat any gas stove.
Agreed, but I really miss the sheer power of gas stoves. Wondering if they make (or if I can make) souped-up versions of electric or induction stoves. Or do I just have a really weak electric stove?
An induction stove with booster can outheat any gas stove.
My induction hob can heat things up faster than gas
It’s a combination of high power and high efficiency
Yeah same. Water in a pan begins to sound like it’s going to boil soon pretty much as soon as it’s turned on.
Those that prefer gas over induction must have had some crappy induction hob to compare to.
My wife has a pacemaker, Induction stoves are not an option.
Our induction plate rivals the power of the electric range in this apartment. Our previous induction plates were on par with our gas stove. Am hoping for even more power when I upgrade to a built in induction range that’s wired into 240v.
Or do I just have a really weak electric stove?
I think you might just have a really weak one, or poor compatibility pots? I’ve had both, and if anything my gas burners feel a little slower and cooler than my induction stove did.
I found if the pot makes solid contact with the electric elements the electric can actually heat up water faster than gas. But if the bottom of your pan isn’t flat or the element is warped, they are really, really, really slow.
My experience has been with gas (fast), electric resistive with exposed and warped elements (slow), electric resistive with a glass top (fastest).
IPv4
Twitter
The car.
Non-portable gaming consoles
I can’t drive my car more than 15 minutes anymore without a portable VR headset to play with. It’s too boring.
