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It was sad when the Physics Girl took Shell's money to shill hydrogen fuel cells.
I get you need to eat but still....a very shitty move.
I can't even come close to imagining her medical bills, can you?
Is she "ok" now? The last I knew she was completely incapacitated and couldn't get out of bed. One hell of "long covid" case... :(
That video is a really hard watch. If you’ve ever been in either of their positions taking care of a family member full time or relying on someone, you know the tremendous amount of love involved in it. Usually you see it as an afterthought, but what was amazing about Destin’s video is seeing it happen in real time.
I have one of the conditions some doctors suspect is the root cause of long COVID, mast cell activation disorder, and it absolutely sucks ass if it's uncontrolled. It can make for some amazing naps, but they get old when it's all you can do.
I'm fine'ish now, although I guzzle the contents of a small pharmacy every month.
I.didnt know her at all before this comment chain.
But it is interesting.
By big fear short of everyone dying in covid was these symptoms would be far more widespread.
Everyone seems to have forgotten about covid now
No. No, we remember, Americans just pretend it doesn't exist.
Quotes being used for sarcasm or emphasis. The world may never know
I used the quotes because seeing her condition before I can't imagine she's going to be 100% better. I just meant to ask if her condition improved at all that she would be able to make another video knowing that ok isn't going to mean perfectly healthy. The long covid quotation was just because that's what we call it colloquially but I don't think that's a real diagnosis. I'm not a covid denyer or anything lol
Seeing another comment though I see the video being discussed was before she got sick.
Long covid is just a common name for a collection of post viral sequelae caused by the virus. It's not a single disease.
Her Instagram is kept fairly up to date. She is still confined to a bed, and it sounds like she still requires round-the-clock care. Her partner and family are absolute heroes.
The videos were made before she got long covid. I don't know how well she's doing now. My only updates about her are from the host of veritasium and only when I go looking for his videos.
Destin from Smarter Every Day visited them. https://youtu.be/xbcjf-hrOAs?feature=shared
She can't even make videos in her current state. This was done well before then. The fact that she is able to have the medical care she has now is a sign she didn't need that money though. She was obviously making enough from other more ethical sources. Now if she made that, I could excuse it, but it wasn't done now.
That said, her medical bills shouldn't be an issue for anyone. There are people out there in the same state but with much less support. They shouldn't have to suffer even more because they can't afford it.
She's still got an income from Patreon, though I don't know how much it is. Also, depending on her income and savings level she could have coverage through Medicare or Medicaid. Source: I'm a young person with CFS that is on one of those two because I'm too fucked up to do anything remotely approaching work.
For sure she's still making some money and receiving support. Her channel has also been reuploading clips of old content as shorts. I'm certain it doesn't keep pace with what it used to though, plus she's got mounting bills. I'd understand if she did something desperate right now basically, but not at her peak.
Oof. I'd offer psychadelics, seen implications they can sometimes help with that sort of thing; potentially resetting the thinky bits of the immune system and stuff, but I have no idea where you are.
No worries, I got a great doctor that's helping pull me out. Hydroxychloroquine is the main drug that's helping me. I just have to stop making mistakes, which is harder than you would think. I didn't know psychedelics acted on the immune system, I figured any help they offered would be related to the default mode network (DMN).
Dunno, I didn't see in depth medical shit. Was about mushrooms and cacti more than LSD, but honestly I'd advise you to just explore-it's fun as fuck anyway.
Oh, also, psychadelics can be enjoyed while you sleep. Some of them.
I remember coming away from her videos with the perception that hydrogen fuel cells are dumb. So she did a pretty bad job shilling it, if that is the case.
They are far from dumb. Fuel cells are one of the few ways that hydrogen can be consumed in a green way.
What? It can be consumed in pretty much any way possible and the only byproduct is going to be water.
I haven't heard about this. Can you elaborate on what happened?
Kari Byron, formerly of MythBusters fame, recently put out an ad for Shell. I believe she's also committed to a 3 year "docuseries" for them. See here for a thread on Lemmy.world with a link to the video
I can't find the specific video but here is the first video in her series: https://piped.video/watch?v=hghIckc7nrY
She says that the hydrogen is sourced using water and renewables but it's highly sus that Shell (or BP; I can't remember) was sponsoring the series.
Shell does that all the time. Among the oil companies, they seem to be the biggest advocates for hydrogen.
They 100% know that electrolysis methods won't be economically viable. The path through hydrogen goes through traditional hydrocarbon sources.
One maybe possibly exception is the recent finds of underground hydrogen sources. Still unclear if that's going to be economically viable. But even if it is, we would just add it to the list of decarbonized energy sources. We're not short of solutions; we're short of political capital to implement them.
I would argue against that any day. Electrolysers are viable, they are just not the current state of the industry because dirt cheap solar and wind weren't around in previous decades.
It's the storage that might not be viable in most countries (because only some have geology that allows for underground gas storage). Producing hydrogen from water at 95% efficiency is doable with today's tools, if you have somewhere to put it.
Electrolysis is a great idea for local generation using excess domestic solar capacity. They are shit as a centralized fuel generation mechanism.
The biggest issue is that batteries are just better than hydrogen electrolysis for local domestic storage.
We don't have a lack of other possibilities for using excess solar/wind. Heating up rocks can work.
Fucking. Mood. People need to stop relying on fucking governments; I can think if like five that aren't hardcore invested in the end of the world (the largest of those being, like, Cuba, which still uses oil for everything because its all they can get-the others are even more marginal). We need more guerilla infrastructure or syndicalist infrastructure. Especially energy.
Well, if you make a single hydrogen atom from renewable and add that into a huge tank of dirty hydrogen...Technically you could claim that the hydrogen is sourced from renewables.