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David Watson

Aug 02, 2021

Maladroithe@Maladroithe

"Wulm fucdk," she says through a mouthful of centipedes

2:27 PM · Jul 31, 2021

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Miriam Venturini@VenturiniMiri

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3:20 PM · Jul 31, 2021

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Having my work machine be 20 feet from my bed probably doesn't help either.

Paul Kedrosky@pkedrosky

No free lunches: "Producing a solar panel in China creates around twice as much carbon dioxide as making it in Europe" Behind the Rise of U.S. Solar Power, a Mountain of Chinese Coal wsj.com/articles/behin… /v @edward_tenner

5:10 PM · Jul 31, 2021

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So, despite this, obviously either way, if the panels get used, they'll be taking carbon out of the atmosphere on net. Theoretically if they keep driving the price down, it'll make their own coal power plants uncompetative to use. If you want to read more, I found this article with more data, although I have no idea how accurate the analysis is.

Balaji Srinivasan@balajis

This is actually a good idea. Channel all that nationalistic competitive energy into something that's both visually interesting and technologically useful. The Engineering Olympiads, kind of like the Math and Science Olympiads, but for the physical world.

CoolPineapple ∞ @CoolPineapple18

We should have a construction Olympics see how fast things can be done. * 100m’s tunnelling race * Synchronised house building * Power station lifting * Water treatment aerobics https://t.co/66jcsUok1k

1:32 PM · Aug 1, 2021

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This is a cool idea, although I suspect the reason we can't build trains and subways faster is complex approval processes, which are even harder to make competative games about.

Kaitlan Collins@kaitlancollins

Let’s try that again. The CDC says, as of yesterday, 346,456,669 total vaccine doses have been administered. That’s about 816,203 more than the day before. This is the fifth straight day of recording more than 700,000 shots in arms.

8:36 PM · Aug 1, 2021

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This is good to see!

YS@NYinLA2121

greatest volley in the history of the world