Unfortunately, that mandatory (??) pull from the article -every- post seems to get ... gave away the suspense ... so I figured that'd do ya ;->
Article notes how much taxpayer money was saved. Where I live they spend millions a year paying cops to take apart the encampments. Cheaper than Helsinki, where giving the homeless a home is mandatory ... and is pretty much wiping out homelessness. Oh, and as I recall, that kind of 'communism' was a big part of Christ's message they've conventiently forgotten.
The percentage of people who had housing at the 10-month check-in of the Denver Basic Income Project climbed to 45%.
They were separated into three groups. Group A received $1,000 per month for a year. Group B received $6,500 the first month and $500 for the next 11 months. And group C, the control group, received $50 per month....
And ... no surprise ...
Between now and 2050, climate change–driven sea level rise will expose more than 1,600 critical buildings and services to disruptive flooding at least twice per year.
While the report is focussed mainly on the U.S., its detailed perspectives, timelines and responses apply widely.
Great film... and nobody but Robin could have done that scene so well. Phew.
Did Magic Die When Art and Science Split?
Chose a title that reflects what the article actually discusses!
They're like thinking (OMG. Someone is different from me... someone doesn't believe the same as I do ... I can't ever feel secure with that ... got to ... got to fix that ... )
For centuries the treatment gays got was 'stay hidden or else'. No respect in that from me.
Fine Leiber-Stoller song there. English beat group the The Searchers covered it, made it to US#3 in 1965. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rXhXLsNJL8
Good old limeland ... even in the pokey, you get a cuppa. LOL.
The 'Sunshine' song was inspired by his current wife. 30 years in Ireland.
Stuck in there though... last charting album was in 1976. Looks to still have some faithful fans, last compilation album 2021, new album 'Gaelia' in 2022, AND he's planning a concert series for 2025.
They hold the keys to new physics. If only we could understand them.
We haven’t pinned down the masses of any individual neutrino, and we don’t even know which ones are heavier than the others. When it comes to our ability to collect raw data, neutrinos present a triple threat: they’re incredibly lightweight (even the electron weighs over 5 million times more than all the neutrinos combined), they shift their identity as they travel (and their rate of flavor oscillation changes as they travel through different substances, so there’s no one-size-fits-all solution), and they barely interact with anything in the first place...
In the big, big grocery store I use, there isn't much choice about plastic. Over (I estimate) 80% of the products (outside of fresh fruits & veggies) either are containerized in plastic, or is boxed or canned food which is wrapped-in plastic (e.g. cereal) and covered with or wrapped-in plastic. We need to see a big turnaround in this situation.
I don't see much recognition - from manufacturers or consumers - of how many tens of tons of tossed-away plastic are carried out of most of these stores every day. Consumers have few alternatives ... no sign that food packagers give a damn ... or that stores (most are corporate-owned) are struggling to make wiser choices.
It's a lot bigger problem than what container we use to carry our purchase to the car.
Research is uncovering the key role that fungi play in getting soils to absorb carbon.
Soil is a huge reservoir of carbon. There are around 1.5 trillion tons of organic carbon stored in soils across the world—about twice the amount of carbon in the atmosphere. Scientists used to think that most of this carbon entered the soil when dead leaves and plant matter decomposed, but it’s now becoming clear that plant roots and fungi networks are a critical part of this process
Poor governor of Georgia, one more in a long, long line.
I learned much of what I know about how facts are misrepresented by reading advertisements by the industry. Like the full-page regional newspaper ad along the lines of "One myth about nuclear power is ... instead the fact is this ... " back in the 1970s. Or my all-time favorite fact, one of the earliest: Safe, clean, 'too cheap to meter', said AEC chairman Lewis Strauss, in 1954.
Maybe it was catching? But the facts, like those countless millions of escaped curies, were invisible. Convenient.
This 14-year-old Fermi story might help: https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-detroit-nuclear-20161003-snap-story.html
Energy buffs give small modular reactors a gigantic reality check
Too expensive, slow, and risky for investors, and they're taking focus off renewables, say IEEFA experts
With a few SMR projects built and operational at this point, and more plants under development, the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) concludes in a report that SMRs are "still too expensive, too slow to build, and too risky to play a significant role in transitioning away from fossil fuels."
Way to start out with an ad hominem. Cheap too. Since you're 'certain' (and I know very well that's hard to come by for this sacred cow), your #1 reference?
He had more significant things to do with his life. Whatever, good for him. It worked for a lot of big-shots' kids. During Vietnam, Bush Jr. spent two years in the Texas Air Nation Guard. During Vietnam, Trump got deferred for bad feet or college 5 times.
That's thanks to the training (started with Rickover) and discipline and no shareholders. Commercial nukes don't measure up, e.g. when it comes to leakages and knowing what to do in case.
Really! It didn't hurt when I didn't exist before. And there remains a chance that we -will- get back. May it be in some time that is ... less senseless.
Another single basic mechanism (for some in the world, anyway) is: acceptance.
Not saying you have to like death. But it's all around us, and people who live closer to nature get to see death regularly, from carnivorous animals (little choice) to plants which green, bear fruit, and fade away in fall. Most people don't ever need to embrace death, but recognize it's part of the natural order.
Denial points us away from the real and is mentally unhealthy. Acceptance releases us from that potential fear and stress. It also encourages us to truly appreciate what we have, especially while we have it, and ever afterward for our good fortune while we had it. Life is change.
Acceptance reminds us to 'drink life to the lees', like Omar Khayyam. Not to waste our time on adverts, or fashion trends, or fretting about things we can't do anything about, or worrying about what might be. When we're sure we've done our best in this wiggy world, we need ask ourselves no more. Compassion for ourselves empowers us to share that with others.
Wouldn't that be 'ping' ?
GOSH I'd like to see that be 2 times longer, and have some price-ranges.
What the US needed was a pull-out-the-stops wartime operation. What we got was a lot of hot air and heel-dragging excuses. After all of these years, it's more than clear what side our 'leadership' is beholding to.
Ask the people of Vancouver, BC ... they've had a 50-mile 'Skytrain' since 1985. The 2023 ridership was 141 Million.
"Works perfectly" huh? That's better than most can claim before freezing! ACT NOW! for a BIG discount!
Variations on that song went back a long ways. (Here's some more on that: https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/01/25/the-house-of-the-rising-sun-2-2/
The earliest known recording seems to be this by Clarence Ashley and Gwen Foster. It's a banjo choon from 1933. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=147kS8O59Qs
And here are some snatches of lots of other versions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJNFqhMJ4DA
Del Shannon's 1961 US song 'Runaway' tops the charts
Starting at just after 1 minute in the linked video, you'll hear the sound of an early synthesizer called a 'Musitron'. It's the 'bridge' part of the new hit for Del Shannon, called 'Runaway'. Starting on April 24, 1961 It tops the US charts for 4 weeks ... and soon becomes a UK#1 as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaway_(Del_Shannon_song)
Several years before the first Moog is sold, the 'Musitron' is a form of Clavioline (invented in 1947, but heavily-modified and played by Max Crook.) It's also heard as the bridge in another Shannon hit, 'Hats Off for Larry.' This is certainly one of the first times that 'electronic music' tops the charts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clavioline
The making of 'Runaway': www.delshannon.com/runaway.htm
https://www.songfacts.com/facts/del-shannon/runaway
WATCH: N.B. tiny home village complete after ‘cranking out’ a house a week for 2 years
New Brunswick, Canada. 2-minute video. One nterviewee and husband had just spent 11 mo. homeless. 100 homes on a few acres. Project created by -one- person and a small team of 15 carpenters. Homes built off-site and then moved into place.
Found a full story (Jan '23) on CBC at https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/12-neighbours-tiny-homes-fredericton-1.6732157 No time limit, people can live there for life.
During a visit to Texas, Bill met with some of the remarkable innovators building America’s clean energy future and fighting climate change.
"If you want to see what the cutting edge of next-gen clean energy innovation looks like, it’d be hard to find a place better than Texas. Amazing companies are breaking ground not just here in Southeast Texas but across the state. Each one represents a huge boon for the local economy," - Bill Gates
Ten years after California passed landmark legislation to reduce plastic bag use, the tonnage of discarded bags has skyrocketed. What happened?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11906510
> It was a decade ago when California became the first state in the nation to ban single-use plastic bags, ushering in a wave of anti-plastic legislation from coast to coast. > > But in the years after California seemingly kicked its plastic grocery sack habit, material recovery facilities and environmental activists noticed a peculiar trend: Plastic bag waste by weight was increasing to unprecedented levels. > > According to a report by the consumer advocacy group CALPIRG, 157,385 tons of plastic bag waste was discarded in California the year the law was passed. By 2022, however, the tonnage of discarded plastic bags had skyrocketed to 231,072 — a 47% jump. Even accounting for an increase in population, the number rose from 4.08 tons per 1,000 people in 2014 to 5.89 tons per 1,000 people in 2022. > > The problem, it turns out, was a section of the law that allowed grocery stores and large retailers to provide thicker, heavier-weight plastic bags to customers for the price of a dime.
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Walter Koenig on the Lean Years After Star Trek: TOS – ‘The Phone Didn't Ring’
Star Trek legend Walter Koenig looks back on the good, the bad, and the hilarious after 57 years of the franchise.
“Everybody thinks if you're an actor, and certainly if you're an actor and on a television series, you must be doing very well,” Koenig said. “Well, I was barely making more than minimum the first season. The second season I was on the show … I had a contract. I was paid a week's wage whether I worked a day or a week. So I made a little bit more. Whereas I made $10,000 for the whole year in 1967, I made $11,000 in 1968. Well, that'll only go so far.”
PFAS chemicals, which contaminate water forever, can be broken down after all.
the chemicals may interfere with the body's hormones, raise cholesterol levels, affect fertility and increase the risk of certain cancers, according to the EPA."
Coastal land is dropping, known as subsidence. That could expose hundreds of thousands of additional Americans to inundation by 2050.
New study linked-to in this article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07038-3
Definitive answers to the big questions.
2021 NYTimes global warming FAQ (recommended by XKCD). "Definitive answers to the big questions." ( By Julia Rosen. Her research involved studying ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica. )
CO2 emissions reached record high in 2023 — IEA
Clean energy tech has helped limit the rise but the IEA warns steep cuts in CO2 emissions to limit a global rise in temperatures. There are, however, some positive signs, especially in advanced economies.
Progress seems to be stalled. Like people at a party's last-minute guzzling?
‘This is stealing’ ; Instagram account lets you squat in metro homes
At first glance, it looks just like another real estate pro hustling to rent homes on social media.
New York Is in Peril in Coppola's 'Megalopolis' Sci-Fi film
Production finished in 2023, expected release 2024. Starring Adam Driver, Nathalie Emmanuel and Forest Whitaker.