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> I'm going to guess that you're a really good shape that a 2 km walk isn't a big deal, but I don't think most Americans can do that.

Shit that's horrifying.

I have health issues and walking 2km a day to try to help fix. So I see 2km a day as basic. 6-10km run a day would be "fit" IMO. things as humans are designed to walk.

Living in suburbia means I have to walk "for the sake of it" although I cam make it useful e.g. get some milk!

As for cold. Anything above minus 5 should be OK just wear stuff like skiiers wear which can be got cheap off brand.


77% percent of young Americans aren't fit for service.

2 km of walking in a day, even in great weather is exceptional for me. I probably average 1km or less.

And I'm not a car owner. My family members will literally hop in a car and drive 30 minutes over walking .5 km to the grocery store. They like the other one more they say.


Are you sure you mean .5km? That's only 0.3 miles, 1500 feet. That is the distance if you drive to a Walmart supercenter and park in the center of the parking lot and walk to the door.


This is just utterly astonishing to me. I've just checked a map and it's ~0.5 km between where I park at work and my office!


Your going to have to walk both ways, in the rain/snow, etc ?

Like a lot of comments have already mentioned these towns don't even have sidewalks. You'll be walking on the side of the street risking an accident


Is there a lot of traffic in places with 10k residents?


I am 50 years old and don't think I'd pass fit for service either, but I can still easily walk a few Kms.


The average American walks 2.4 miles per day per the CDC.


Should be budgeted though right.


It's mentioned as the article as free from using waste wood.


so people are just delivering free wood to anyone who chooses to move out to the boonies? Seems like a bad assumption to be making


well, specific people are delivering free _waste_ wood to people specifically near them.

Kinda like those people that got free _waste_ oil from restaurants to run their vans. It's not something you can replicate literally anywhere but it does exist. Industrial waste has to be disposed of somehow and often people are happy for you to accept it for free.


No mystery really.


Looks like the 72/90 is actually from shadow banning.

But to answer whose opinions do you want to ban? Who is speaking correctly?


Startups might be the new SDE1 while trying to do stuff outside of capitalism might be the new startup.

Not in terms of financial reward of course. But in terms of rewarding career off the beaten path.

Personally while I want to do a startup I am finding the boring path you mention quite fascinating!


25Mhz to 33MHz. Oh yeaaaaaaa!


Do you have any feeling as to why it only lasted 4 months. Sounds unusual to have the spot on CFS like experience for such a short time so wonder if there was a trigger to recovery.


Root causes I suspect. The problem of a syndrome.


Was a root cause done on that? Was it due to wind power?


Trigger suspected to be one substation https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/power-generation-los... The blackout itself is suspected to be amplified by ren https://montelnews.com/de/news/96607ac1-dd73-4c23-bb47-a7c2a... "Die Experten betonen, dass erneuerbare Anlagen das Problem nicht nur nicht abfedern konnten, sondern möglicherweise verstärkt haben."


And RE is running the grid in "strengthened mode". There were no comments about what this means, but looking at the data, gas+nuclear are modulated less vs usual, regardless of ren generation https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/ES/72h/hourly


and here's the link about more gas firming https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-19/spain-boo...


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Iberian_Peninsula_blackou...

The root cause is not known, but Spain was producing excess power (primarily solar) at the time around the disconnect. Some fluctations were seen, then supply started to disconnect from the grid in Spain, leading to sudden loss of 2.2GW of power. In Spain, automatic load shedding then happened to try to recover, but it was too little too late as neighboring countries detached from Spain to protect their own grids.

Nothing about this sounds like an issue with renewables.


No, the study is still ongoing. I can't find the link (and Google is functionally useless for finding original links) but Spain's power authority held an update last week where they gave a summary of events (where the failure first happened, where it spread to, etc) and if I understood correctly will have non-Spanish/French/Portuguese experts do the full investigation.

Still a ways away from understanding what happened


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Iberian_Peninsula_blackou...

not strictly because of wind power but few denies that wind power hasn't been a contributing factors - politically it's too sensitive so it's going to be "under investigation" for a long time. Alledgedly too little inertia / rotating power ... there is a parallel to the Australian blackout 10 years ago, where the solution was to build large batteries


Wouldn't mind some bird mitochondria!


Seriously, what would happen if we swapped out human mitochondria from a zygote for bird mitochondria?


I don't think you'd get the same sort of effects, because a huge part of the mitochondrial regulation and function is carried out by genes and gene products from outside the mitochondria.

It would be an interesting experiment though. I'd expect that they might not live, or that the cell would function sub-optimally, but who knows, maybe the cellular machinery is highly conserved.


Yes. Afaik from Nick Lane’s “Oxygen” the Cytochrome Oxidase made from the mitochondrial DNA have to match the Cytochrome C made from nuclear DNA. Even slight mismatch seems to lower mitochondrial performance and is a problem why heteroplasmy (mixing of mitochondria from father and mother) seems to be selected-out.


Well what if you also swapped out those genes?


If your mitochondria have bird DNA and your nucleus has bird DNA, then you’re a bird.

There’s an easier way. A single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) that only and rarely is observed in Japanese can extend human lifespan greatly. Flip a single base pair. This seems the most promising first step for genetically engineering humans.


You'd get Kids in the Hall Chicken Lady.


And some whale blood!


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