I tend to not really care for most new things, as most of it feels cheap, inauthentic or a scam to further the surviellance facist oligarchy state. Id be completely content with time frozen in 2004.

So, to be a little more positive, what are some new things that are actually good?

Note, to me, new is within the last 10 years.

I'll start. The fediverse concept is neat.

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[–] 27 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Andor is arguably the best Star Wars content since the original movies

Heat pump technology has come a long way recently. In locations that stay above 0F (-18C) they're now competitive with fossil gas furnaces for performance and cost (cost results may vary based on local incentives). Many units now work below 0F too, but they get more expensive/less efficient

Personalized mRNA vaccines to prevent pancreatic cancer recurrence after surgery have had some promising early results in clinical trials. This is one of the hardest cancers to treat, so this could be huge.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Heat pumps work great and are super common to install on homes where winter temps drop well below that. They're so efficient they're worth it even if you use supplemental heat for the coldest part of the year.

    Andor was indeed great

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    We have heat pumps at my job for our factory.

    They are literally useless around of below freezing in the experience here.

    They exchange heat so they blow out air colder than outside air, then their entire radiator gets completely covered in ice, then it has to switch off and then the entire factory cools off while they have to turn on the resistive heaters to defrost themselves, then they turn themselves back on and because they are covered in water from defrosting, very quickly freeze again and the whole cycle repeats while the factory is very marginally warmed up during the cycle.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

    Andor is arguably the best Star Wars content since the original movies

    I'll get down voted for this, but remove the nostalgia goggles, and the original Star Wars trilogy are 7/10 movies at best. MAYBE Empire would get an 8.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I don't think it's even an argument. It's just better than the original trilogy IMO. They need more Star wars movies with the same feel.

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