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quicklime

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  • Pelosi privately told Biden polls show he cannot win and will take down the House; Biden responded with defensiveness

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  • I think you may be mistaken if you're implying that the DNC is the entity that is trying to get Biden to step aside.

    The DNC is currently engaged in an all-out effort to lock Biden in by getting delegates to commit before convention. Those who are trying to get him to step aside, on the other hand, are a bunch of Democratic congressional representatives, donors, and other party figures -- not the national party committee itself.

    Edit -- just since yesterday, apparently the DNC has dropped its plan to hold the "roll call" by which they were going to get their delegates committed before August. A group of Democratic senators who had written and co-signed a letter in protest of that activity have withdrawn the letter, saying their purpose is achieved (i.e., saying the DNC isn't going ahead with the bullshit). But now maybe all bets are off since the president has contracted COVID?

  • Trump documents case dismissed by federal judge

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  • Why is it even OK for any case involving a former president to be tried before any judge that he appointed?

  • World’s first hydrogen-powered commercial ferry to run on San Francisco Bay, and it’s free to ride

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  • I need to correct myself here and get more specific. It's not only about what generates the electricity that powers the hydrogen extraction/isolation. It's true that the current electrical grid is powered by a mix of activities that includes burning a lot of natural gas.

    But it's also true that the current cheapest (and therefore by far most common) means of hydrogen production is steam methane reforming, where the source of the hydrogen atoms is natural gas. And the byproducts are some carbon monoxide and dioxide.

    In short, achieving truly green hydrogen production would require not just a green energy source but having that source be so inexpensive that it would be cheaper to make the hydrogen by electrolysis of water instead of by reforming methane. I don't know enough to speculate how difficult or likely that will be.

  • World’s first hydrogen-powered commercial ferry to run on San Francisco Bay, and it’s free to ride

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  • I'm glad they at least mentioned, for those who read far enough down the article, that ultimately it's powered by burning natural gas elsewhere to charge the hydrogen fuel cells [edit: please see my own response below]. I wasn't sure if the AP had reached that level of ecological transparency/honesty yet so that's good to see.

    Someday when California's energy grid is 100% renewable this type of craft will be an amazingly clean way to get around. ... Unfortunately it's not too likely that we will ever see that future before the global economy and most present political structures collapse.

  • Oklahoma, Alabama Now Have AI-Powered Vending Machines That Sell Bullets

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  • COVID is coming for California, and it's already hitting the SF Bay Area the hardest

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  • Based on having read this same SFGate article about five days ago, I made an online appointment for a booster shot at a Safeway store's pharmacy, semi local to me in San Francisco. My previous booster was circa last November so it had been more than six months, and the recent news stories about a surge of covid detected in the city's sewer outflows and also a general rising wave of cases locally seemed to give good reason to stay on the six month program rather than wait until it had been a year.

    The appointment was easily made online, but the pharmacy telephoned me and told me their advice was to just wait closer to a year unless I was over 65 or immune compromised. Neither applies so I cancelled the shot.

  • orc man speaks the truth

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  • I am sad for the disappearance of the subjunctive mood in English

  • Singer sues hospital, says staff thought he was mentally ill and wasn't member of Four Tops

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  • Good for $25 off any elective procedure costing twenty thousand dollars or more!

  • How Governor Hochul Decided to Kill Congestion Pricing in New York

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  • Imagine congestion pricing hurting the city's economy more than allowing public transit to fall apart will...

  • Tesla CEO Elon Musk could leave if $56 billion pay package not approved, shareholders warned

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  • Along the same lines, let's not forget L. Ron Hubbard, who founded Scientology some years after telling a sci-fi writers' convention that starting an actual cult would be a great way to make far more money off science fiction than just by writing it.

  • Could the U.S. Ban Fossil Fuel Ads? This week U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres called for bans on fossil fuel ads, but legal challenges would make nationwide restrictions difficult to implement

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  • TRUMP GUILTY ON ALL 34 COUNTS

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  • Former President Trump is found guilty in historic New York criminal case

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  • Exactly. Even if he gets an appeal, even if he wins such an appeal, even if his sentence gets commuted or otherwise obstructed or diluted, we can truthfully refer to him forever and always as a convicted felon on 34 counts.

  • New study suggests the Atlantic overturning circulation AMOC “is on tipping course”

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  • The Guardian article mentions a likelihood that in the Amazon region the wet and dry seasons would trade places, making it nearly impossible for many species located there to adapt in the time frame at hand.

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    "Our feasible supply scenarios provide compelling evidence of the urgency of demand-side actions."

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  • It's going to hurt, this century and even this half century.

    The population is in massive overshoot beyond planetary carrying capacity (i.e., its resources that we find useful/necessary and their natural rate of self renewal) by anywhere from 8:1 to perhaps 10:1.

    For anything even remotely resembling a smoother landing in the inevitable population decline (i.e., a slower and more just+equitable process involving more natural attrition and less war, murder, famine, and pestilence) the humans currently enjoying the highest levels of technology/development/lifestyle would need to cut their consumption by 80-90 percent -- they would need to start living as if it were (perhaps, approximately) the 1700s. This would need to be phased in both very soon and very rapidly.

    Of course, those same population groups also have (for the time being, at least) the resources and might to resist that needed reduction by whatever means they can, including war and/or creation of closed enclaves that no longer allow immigration or participate in many forms of external trade. While blaming almost anything and anyone other than the real mechanics (simply massive and growing resource deficit relative to population) of what's going on.

    It's just going to suck, this time ahead. We who are alive now have to bring this situation home and lay it to rest in the least awful ways we can, and we are rapidly growing very constrained in terms of remaining options.

  • A new rule requiring companies to disclose climate risk is coming in 2024. Here’s what you need to know

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  • This, and also I downvoted for the inclusion of the utterly useless "Here's what you need to know".

  • I’m sorry, but I cannot help you with finding pirated movies. Piracy is illegal and unethical 😉

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  • I mean... it's not artificial intelligence no matter how many people continue the trend of inaccurately calling it that. It's a large language model. It has the ability to write things that look disturbingly close, even sometimes indistinguishable, to actual human writing. There's no good reason to mistake that for actual intelligence or rationality.

  • Reddit abandons user privacy - Ars Technica

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  • You had me on board until... Hershey's chocolate? That's not even chocolate anymore, it's like putrid brown wax!