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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.

news.mit.edu/2024/solar-powere

Paper:

nature.com/articles/s44221-024

How wobbly is too wobbly?
best guess I keep the molar but have to get through Sunday with a straw and advil

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

"I wouldn't like to be a flea
Under your collar
All along that day"
Peter Tosh - Downpressor Man
youtube.com/watch?v=zjoE6MiuQU

Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

I don't know computer, ask me after I finish this coffee

Followed a stereotypical Subaru owner this afternoon, can't decide if Stop being ugly or LSD is my favorite. Plenty of other choices

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.”

theguardian.com/society/2024/o

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? phillymag.com/news/2024/10/14/

*ssssh I was clicking my way along a rabbit hole and just ended there. Be quiet.

Not really cold but have a lot of deadfall. Yeah that's the reason, sure

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.

Even Batman is stuck at home.

"Two weeks after Helene, NCDOT still working to connect Bat Cave with outside world "

newsobserver.com/news/state/no

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.

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.
archives.gov/news/articles/dig

I'm lessening my use of Google products. What do people use as alternatives to Google Maps?

...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
righto.com/2024/10/wealth-dist

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