Solar-powered desalination system requires no extra batteries
Because it doesn’t need expensive energy storage for times without sunshine, the technology could provide communities with drinking water at low costs.
https://news.mit.edu/2024/solar-powered-desalination-system-requires-no-extra-batteries-1008
Paper:
dog knocked my rear right lower molar loose. Please stand by.
#dogs #heMeansWell
Putin's dachas are getting leveled. By...him? Interesting. Termites?
President Vladimir Putin has demolished his palatial Black Sea holiday villa
Putin has abandoned $1.2 billion private clifftop retreat in Gelendzhik, 170 kilometers (105 miles) northwest of Bocharov in the Krasnodar Krai region
#ukraine
"I wouldn't like to be a flea
Under your collar
All along that day"
Peter Tosh - Downpressor Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjoE6MiuQUM
Desks are killing us is what I'm saying. Ban them.
“Take regular breaks, walk around, go for a walking meeting, use the stairs, take regular breaks when driving long distances, or use that lunch hour to get away from the desk and do some movement.”
#desks
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Having trouble parsing this sentence*: "who amongst us has not partaken of sensuous over-the-clothes-stuff with an off-duty transit authority cop in the empty upper levels of the Fashion District? https://www.phillymag.com/news/2024/10/14/philadelphia-sex-in-public/
*ssssh I was clicking my way along a rabbit hole and just ended there. Be quiet.
This one is 50-50 but I'm gonna just call it: NO. Nope, nah, uh uh
#weather
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gtwo.php
It's so difficult to understand the scope and scale of flooding from that hurricane. That article has this picture of a shipping container crushed in the river. Crikes.
#Helene
Even Batman is stuck at home.
"Two weeks after Helene, NCDOT still working to connect Bat Cave with outside world "
#Helene
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article293809024.html
I hope actblue re-evaluates their entire m.o. because they are currently standing on my last nerve. Their over the top communication routine is, IMHO, bad enough but they've inspired copy cats, some of which are straight-up grifters. I've donated directly to the campaign is there even a reason for actblue anymore? It's like even more annoying MailChimp.
Gonna track down the contact for the CEO and give them a taste of their own medicine. #politics #USA #venting
Think you're going to be able to access all your cat pictures^H^H^H very important files in 10,20 years? Maybe if you're lucky. The US National Archives has a handy framework to help figure it out and it's just been updated. On GitHub, get some.
Also check out those groovy terminals, mmmmm vintage IBM.
https://www.archives.gov/news/articles/digital-preservation-framework-update-2024
...turns out that if you put Elon Musk on the graph, almost the entire US population is crammed into a vertical bar, one pixel wide. Each pixel is $500 million wide, illustrating that $500 million essentially rounds to zero from the perspective of the wealthiest Americans.
/Nosanitize
http://www.righto.com/2024/10/wealth-distribution-in-united-states.html
ideal for precision work