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Iamatworkgoaway104 karma

Do you know of any politicians that have any good plans for fixing the chain of command issues that arose? Plans with budgets and timelines that is, not just well wishes and thoughts?

Iamatworkgoaway66 karma

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHmNiOsTYfA

Sulfur Hexafluoride might be easier to get.

Iamatworkgoaway21 karma

As somebody with an interest in several high tech areas of interest, I find that the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is overwhelming in most media articles, what is your opinion on under researched articles(and under comprehended by the writer)?

“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”

I've noticed this in high tech news articles in regards to space exploration, as well as EV autos.

Iamatworkgoaway16 karma

hehehehe

So does anyone use dioxygen difluoride for anything? Not as far as I can see. Most of the recent work with the stuff has come from groups at Los Alamos, where it's been used to prepare national-security substances such as plutonium and neptunium hexafluoride. But I do note that if you run the structure through SciFinder, it comes out with a most unexpected icon that indicates a commercial supplier. That would be the Hangzhou Sage Chemical Company. They offer it in 100g, 500g, and 1 kilo amounts, which is interesting, because I don't think a kilo of dioxygen difluoride has ever existed. Someone should call them on this - ask for the free shipping, and if they object, tell them Amazon offers it on this item. Serves 'em right. Morons

Iamatworkgoaway12 karma

but there's no medical indication for the substance and there is very real harm potential.

Alcohol, Tobacco, high fructose corn sugar. Education over law enforcement every time all the time. Prohibition didn't work, neither did the drug war, and the cure is worse than the disease.