Notices by mau 🏳️‍🌈#EndFossilFuels (mzedp@mas.to)

"...gravitation has relatively few practical applications. (...) working out the motions of the satellites and (...) also, modernly, to calculate the predictions of the planet's position, which have great utility for astrologers to publish their predictions and horoscopes in the magazines.

That's the strange world we live in, that all the advances in understanding are used only to continue the nonsense which has existed for two thousand years."

#Feynman

Richard Feynman - The Character of Physical Law (1964)

#Feynman

https://archive.org/details/the-messenger-lectures/Lecture+1%3A+The+Law+of+Gravitation+An+example+of+physical+law.webm

I was shocked that there was not a single book by Emma Goldman in my local public library.

So I looked her up, and came across this 1919 work I hadn't seen before.

DEPORTATION - Its Meaning and Menace

It seems deportation without due process to gulags overseas is as American as apple pie.

#EmmaGoldman #Books #Anarchy #USHistory

@liztai I think that honor goes to this guy. I didn't even know the name - I was so young I asked my aunt to put it up for me when I would visit - but I guess it was called "Push Box"/Sokoban(?)

@darnell@one.darnell.one @darnell@flipboard.com "Green hydrogen" is a fossil fuel industry meme, not a real climate solution.

It's too expensive and unreliable, and will play no role in the energy system.

The only use of green hydrogen is as a chemical feedstock.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-09/uk-shelves-hydrogen-town-in-blow-for-using-fuel-in-home-heating

@ai6yr @ATLeagle Maybe, but I'm sure there are also intelligent young conservatives who are having to deal with the dissonance between reality and their party line.

They'll crack, eventually, and start huffing oil fumes like good republicans, as the dissonance is too great - but they're not there yet.

It wasn't that long ago that some old republican politicians tried unsuccessfully to rebrand the party to a "green conservatism". There is SOME awareness.

@BlackAzizAnansi I'm actively and radically opposed to any use of fossil fuels since I realized how far past the point of no return we are.

When I say "got a macro lens" I mean 3D printed a piece that lets me use a microscope 4X objective with my camera.

Its pretty cool, and looks kinda funny.

#Photography #macrophotography #3DPrinting

I just got a macro lens and I wanted to go out to mess around with it but it started raining, so I'm stuck indoor looking at coins.

#Numismatics #Photography #Mississippi #USA #Coin #Macro

The USA seems obsessed with crime and punishment.

Everywhere signs warning against transgressions and rent-a-cops overly eager to harras homeless folks just trying to mind their business.

Nuclear took 20 years to reach 200GW, at a huge cost, causing several terrible accidents and producing a toxic waste that needs to be guarded for thousands of years.

Wind and solar reached 200GW in half the time for a fraction of the cost and without significant incidents.

@evan uninteresting to whom? why would it be wrong for people to post whatever the hell they want?

There's little doubt in my mind right now that Mastodon is going to thrive.

I've been on and off this site several times over the years, and the only thing that was ever missing was a lively community.

We've got that now. It should be self-sustaining.