A robin took up an preexisting nest on our porch and I’ve been snapping pictures when the momma is away.
How appropriate.
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Which sounds reasonable until you think about what costs we refuse to externalize (road repair) and which costs we happily externalize (pollution).
It’s an interesting discussion I’ve had with coworkers recently where there’s a strong sentiment with some people that renewable energy needs to stand on its own, but the same argument could be made for fossil fuels and needing to account for environmental damage in pricing. Subsidizing renewable energy (tax credits, avoiding gasoline tax, etc) is an indirect way to compensate for the externalized costs of fossil fuels, which wouldn’t be palatable or popular if done directly.
Money needs to come from somewhere for roads, but it’s very hard to decouple infrastructure funding concerns from environmental concerns since no one is willing to tackle the problem head on with something like a carbon tax.
Best I can do is lick boots.
Who the hell does this Solomon guy think he is calling me out like this.
Did you try to size your solar panels to your usage or are you doing small scale solar?
I’ve been thinking about solar, but the prices are pretty harsh, especially without the federal credits.
And don’t even get me started on all the healthcare the meat bag driving it needs.
It’s wild that they were originally built for a five year mission and they’re still ticking almost 50 years later.
Not that this makes the story any more sensical, but they sold the allbirds branding and shoe business to private equity in the last month or so for $39m, so allbirds the shoes will still be around (although I’m sure become shitty) and the allbirds company doesn’t seem to have a business model at all right now.
“You can’t quit, you’re fired!”
“The truth is, look, you may have supported President Trump for 10 years like I did and like you have. But this is not the same man,” Greene insisted. “This is not the same man that we supported.”
Press X to doubt.
The Sega Channel was an online game service developed by Sega for the Sega Genesis video game console, serving as a content delivery system. Launched on December 14, 1994, the Sega Channel was provided to the public by TCI and Time Warner Cable through cable television services by way of coaxial cable.
By June 1994, 21 cable companies had signed up to carry the Sega Channel service. US fees varied depending on location, but were approximately $15 monthly, plus a $25 activation fee, which included the adapter. The Sega Channel expanded into Canada in late 1995, with an approximately $19 monthly fee.
The service would go on to garner as many as 250,000 subscribers; however, Sega had anticipated having over one million subscribers by the end of its first year, and had made the service available to over 20 million households.
In late November of 1997 it was announced that the Sega Channel would be shut down on June 30, 1998, but it ended up staying on for another month, finally being discontinued on July 31, 1998.
We had this when I was a kid. It came strangely late in the console's life, but it was cool. This was before cable modems were a household norm and it felt like the future in a way that console gaming didn't recapture for another couple generations. In retrospect that monthly fee was over $30 adjusted for inflation and it's wild that my parents were actually willing to pay that.
Nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll consisted of the detonation of 23 (or 24) nuclear weapons by the United States between 1946 and 1958 on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Tests occurred at 7 test sites on the reef itself, on the sea, in the air, and underwater. The test weapons produced a combined yield of about 77–78.6 Mt of TNT in explosive power.
Authorities had promised the Bikini Atoll's residents that they would be able to return home after the nuclear tests. A majority of the island's family heads agreed to leave the island, and most of the residents were moved to the Rongerik Atoll and later to Kili Island. Both locations proved unsuitable to sustaining life, and the United States provides residents with on-going aid. Despite the promises made by authorities, these and further nuclear tests (Redwing in 1956 and Hardtack in 1958) rendered Bikini unfit for habitation, contaminating the soil and water, making subsistence farming and fishing too dangerous.
The female population of the Marshall Islands have a sixty times greater cervical cancer mortality than a comparable mainland United States population. The Islands populations also have a five times greater likelihood of breast or gastrointestinal mortality, and lung cancer mortality is three times higher than the mainland population. The male population on the Marshall Islands' lung cancer mortality is four times greater than the overall United States rates, and the oral cancer rates are ten times greater.
I watched a documentary on it some years back, it's fascinating and horrifying how cavalier these tests were.
Mechanical television or mechanical scan television is an obsolete television system that relies on a mechanical scanning device, such as a rotating disk with holes in it or a rotating mirror drum, to scan the scene and generate the video signal, and a similar mechanical device at the receiver to display the picture.
Mechanical scanning methods were used in the earliest experimental television systems in the 1920s and 1930s.
In the U.S., experimental stations such as W2XAB in New York City began broadcasting mechanical television programs in 1931 but discontinued operations on February 20, 1933, until returning with an all-electronic system in 1939.
The article doesn't do much to give an idea of what mechanical television was really like but you can see something similar in action here.
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I’d never buy one at these rates. I have one from back when it was $75, just waiting until they release plex2 or some shenanigans to sunset the legacy lifetime pass holders.