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by elihu 1y ago
> "All greenhouse gas emissions come from one of five sources" > (Graphic shows electricity generation 28%, transportation 16%, agriculture 19%, buildings 7%, manufacturing 30%) There's another large source of human gre
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by elihu 1y ago
...and that's for an episode that probably cost the original studio at least a hundred thousand dollars to produce, maybe a lot more.
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by elihu 1y ago
https://www.threepanelsoul.com/comic/sunshine
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by elihu 1y ago
Is running a fake cell tower technically against FCC regulations? Any possibility of just reporting them to the FCC and causing them to incur fines or take them down?
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by elihu 1y ago
You might be thinking about Gaza, where Hamas released a video of them digging up a water pipe and using it to make rockets. The Telegraph released an article about how the EU is worried that Hamas might dig up EU-funded water lines to make
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by elihu 1y ago
Israel has sufficient control that they can decide whether or how much food enters Gaza, and they have substantial control over the means by which food is distributed. (Aid organizations apply to them for travel permits so that they don&#x2
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by elihu 1y ago
> "The war and the condition of the Palestinian population is 100% the responsibility of their government, Hamas, that continues fighting and holding Israeli hostages." No. Israel is an occupying power, and they're heavil
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by elihu 1y ago
I think the thing that should have been a clear unambiguous sign (if nothing up to then were convincing enough) that Israel's intentions weren't just to defeat Hamas but cause severe harm to the civilian population of Gaza was whe
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by elihu 1y ago
Yes, there's an ICC warrant out by for Netanyahu and Gallant. Basically that just means that they won't travel to or even be invited to countries that would arrest them. The same goes for Putin. A lot of pro-Israel people just thi
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by elihu 1y ago
I was a student at OGI back when it was still a thing. Then a lot of the DARPA grant money dried up because of the Iraq war (they wanted research that could be applied to weapons in the short term, not basic research into operating systems
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by elihu 1y ago
Yes, but tides are already sucking a huge amount of rotational inertia out of the Earth all the time even if we aren't actually using it for any practical purpose. The only reason its not a problem is that the Earth has so much rotati
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by elihu 1y ago
> There is the MPE specification which allows individual note bending, however it is not supported by any python library as far as I can tell. One could try to hack something with channel pitch bends, but it would be limited to playing 1
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by elihu 1y ago
I wonder what the implications for tires are? Apparently modern tires about 1/3 natural rubber. Presumably if they could be made of close to 100% natural rubber, it would mean less microplastic entering the environment from tire wear
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by elihu 1y ago
I was in a startup that was acquired by a big tech company and it went about like that. They made us use Windows for email and "business stuff". I continued to do all my real work on a low-budget Frankenstein computer under my d
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by elihu 1y ago
My current phone is a cheap Samsung. It's awful. The usb-C connector has never worked for data and only barely works for power (the plug sits at a funny angle and doesn't charge unless it's "just right"). There d
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by elihu 1y ago
For awhile I've been working on an MPE MIDI controller called the Mosaichord. It uses a tuning system called just intonation, where the frequencies of all the notes are related to each other by whole number ratios. I'm using a s
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by elihu 1y ago
Tesla's sales are dropping, in large part because many EV buyers would be embarrassed to be seen driving a car made by a company run by a guy that's actively dismantling the US government and who gave a Nazi salute at a rally when
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by elihu 1y ago
> Elon Musk is right to shift his focus back to carmaking No. The damage to Tesla's reputation has already been done, and the only way to fix it is for the board to fire Elon Musk as CEO. > Listings for the Model 3 have increase
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by elihu 1y ago
I was going to guess "trees". A not-at-all-famous-but-maybe-it-should-be CO2 absorber is azolla. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azolla_event
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by elihu 1y ago
Those aren't great either, but a mitigating factor is that those things happened a long time ago in conflicts that have already ended and few of the people involved are even alive anymore. It's not like the United States is serio
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by elihu 1y ago
One defense against it might just be to actively crawl Facebook and externally record the contents of posts as soon as they're posted. Then you have a record of everything that got deleted. I don't know how you scale that up to m
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by elihu 1y ago
I would think that anyone advocating for or cheering the death of civilians would be valid reason for removal. Criticizing Israeli policy, being supportive of Palestinians in general, or contradicting Netanyahu's talking points: not a
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by elihu 1y ago
The article does mention it, but I agree that the story is incomplete without a clearer idea (including examples) of what is being censored. > "A Human Rights Watch (HRW) report investigating Meta’s moderation of pro-Palestine conte
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by elihu 2y ago
Kind of surprising its not on Project Gutenberg as far as I can tell, but maybe it's obscure enough that they just haven't gotten around to that one?
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by elihu 2y ago
"Lullaby, lullaby, swindles and schemes. Flying's not near as much fun as it seems." -- Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn
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by elihu 2y ago
Hegseth's posts were the most egregious, but there was a lot of sensitive information that could have been inferred from the rest of it -- basically that the U.S. was planning some sort of attack against the Houthis, they debated wheth
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by elihu 2y ago
I came across this article[1] the other day, after reading about the US sending people to a prison in El Salvador and wondering what we actually know about the place. An incongruity that I didn't notice at the time but realized a bit l
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by elihu 2y ago
Ideally a lot of the long-haul freight could be handled by rail, but another option for trucks is to have electrified highways. There are some projects in Sweden (one of which uses power rails embedded in slots in the road surface) and Ger
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by elihu 2y ago
Electric trains are pretty common in some parts of the world, it's just that the US has never bothered with it. And to be fair, diesel trains are already very energy efficient. I believe trains haul about as much cargo around as truc
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by elihu 2y ago
My guess is that they put it in some kind of rubbery enclosure before installing it, but who knows? Maybe it's not actually a problem to have hard edges.

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