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Open the orange, remove the giraffe, put in the vodka.

(Variation on: <https://www.smart-words.org/jokes/giraffe-refrigerator-eleph...>.)

Alternatively, use an apple-corer to breach the peel, pour in a shot of vodka, and drink with a straw, much as with watermelon:

<https://www.thespruceeats.com/vodka-watermelon-recipe-417556...>.


Or you can buy a citrus juicer and make it yourself. A couple or three oranges and a few seconds in the morning.

OXO Good Grips runs about $20, it's a squeeze-by-hand option. You can get a wooden reamer, or spend about or upwards of a Franklin for something complicated, though I find simpler is saner.


I have both an old school glass dish reamer as well as a wooden reamer. Use it for making lemon/lime iced tea (using actual tea, not that powered sugar crap) for the summer months.

It would be more illuminating to reference the General Motors Streetcar Conspiracy directly, in which GM and other defendants (Firestone, tyre company, Standard Oil of California, Philips Petroleum, and Mac Trucks) were convicted of violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act in both monopolising the market for buses and the demolition of extant streetcar lines in numerous US cities:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp...>


Thank you for the link!

Here in San Diego we're still suffering from those removals.

New trolley lines aren't installed in a way to serve daily resident commutes, as the original trolley lines did, instead they're primarily organized to serve as tourist disneyland rides...


UMR?

Under main roof

Apologies, I meant to add the acronym where first said under main roof.


Thanks!

May 4, 2023, to be clear. 323 comments.

Also 30 Sept 2021, 29 comments, <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28704495>.


Yes, but Space is Big. The density of dust of any description (lunar or other, including residual solar system dust, comet dust, asteroid dust, etc.) is low. Relative velocities can be quite high, however, and even very small particles (sand to ball-bearing sized) can inflict significant damage. Attenuation in low-Earth orbit (where the ISS is) from atmospheric drag is also probably fairly high, so that any dust captured in such an orbit (as opposed to passing through on a one-time or high-inclination orbit) would likely enter the atmosphere fairly quickly.

That said, I've seen discussion elsewhere that lunar dust accelerated by any mechanism (impacts, or rocket fire) won't billow as dust does on Earth, but will launch on a ballistic trajectory. Whether that's suborbital, orbital, or (lunar) escape velocity depends on the initiating event.

We've found numerous lunar and Martial fragments as Earth-impact meteorites, with various sources giving 200--400 known Martian fragments:

<https://www.sciencealert.com/almost-200-fragments-of-mars-ma...>

Lunar dust liberated by impacts is all but certainly a component of near-Earth space dust, but probably a small percentage based on a quick search. Most seems to be of comet or asteroid origin.


An HN website tweak as a sign of respect on the passing of notable contributors to the tech world:

<https://blog.willmeye.rs/whos-received-a-black-bar/>


Root-level comment has been edited as noted by respondant lynndotpy <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47785027> and original author Geee <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47785316>.

Other articles in this series discussed over the past five days:

1. Introduction: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47689648> (619 comments)

2. Dynamics: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47693678> (0 comments)

3. Culture: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47703528>

4. Information Ecology: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47718502> (106 comments)

5. Annoyances: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47730981> (171 comments)

6. Psychological Hazards: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47747936> (0 comments)

And this submission makes:

7. Safety: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47754379> (89 comments, presently).

There's also a comprehensive PDF version for those who prefer that kind of thing: <https://aphyr.com/data/posts/411/the-future-of-everything-is...> (PDF) 26 pp.

(Derived from aphyr's comment: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47754834>.)


This is excessively reductive.

Media (social or otherwise) is a force multiplier. Ultimately it is the sensory, feedback, and control mechanism for a social system. And yes, if you change the informational behaviour of a system you fundamentally change that system's behaviour, there are still other factors at play.

Corruption, inequality, biases (themselves often reinforced through media, yes), environment, and various other endogenous and exogenous factors also come in to play. I'd also call in other informational elements, including widespread surveillance systems and AI, which operate in at least part outside the scope of social media.

That social media exacerbates many of our present problems I'd agree to. That it's fundamental to all of them, not so much.


I am not convinced that even if we had less corruption, inequality, environmental issues that we wouldnt still see the fragmentation of society and the rise of populism that we see today.

Social media algorithms explicitly optimise for isolationism and extremism, cultivating rage stemming from small disagreements, which are simply a fact of life.

The only way to solve this is if there were no disagreements or differing opinions to amplify, which is sadly impossible.


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