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Thelen brought a jar of lithium iron phosphate to the podium. Grim-faced and wearing a navy blue suit, he poured out a small sample of the substance into a bottle for the audience to pass around. Then he began reading safety guidelines for handling it. “If you get it on the skin, wash it off,” he said. “If you get it in your mouth, drink plenty of water.”

Then, Thelen opened the jar again, this time dipping his index finger inside. “This is my finger,” he said, putting his finger in his mouth. A sucking sound was heard across the room. He raised his finger up high. “That’s how non-toxic this material is.” 

The No Gos were not impressed.

Worked fine for Midgley, after all.

Everyone seem’s to be doing that now and I hate it.

This is a good situation for a therapist. Nobody here is gonna be able to give you an accurate assessment.

¿Que?

Bring knowledge of CFCs to a time when we’re able to make them but not able to detect the ozone problems they cause.

Curtis Yarvin “joked” that we should turn poor people into biofuel, so…

A very reassuring technology to have!

But my worry was more about them changing their business model once they get big enough.

I’ve been using Kagi for about a month now, and I think I’m gonna stick with it. Paying with dollars instead of data/attention feels more healthy for everyone involved.

(Fully realizing, of course, that there’s nothing stopping them from doing both, and that’s why we need better laws. Voting with your wallet will never be a complete solution… but it is something I can do right now.)

That feel when my phone only rendered “geneva_convenience@le…” but I still knew it was .ml before checking

Bags of dirt: The fourth little pig

“They don’t need to collect dollars in order to spend them” does not mean “They ought to spend dollars and not collect them”.

I’m only describing that collecting X amount from tariffs does not imply that spending must necessarily increase by X somewhere due to some kind of conservation of dollars that the OP seemed to assume.

Found the Randall Wray enjoyer. :)

You’re not wrong. Burning is what they used to literally do in earlier times, and the conceptual model today is exactly the same even if there’s no literal burning.

People don’t like hearing it though. Idk why.