K, my hair is crimped and full of these plastic beads, but I still need a haircut. Should I use the clippy bit of the wire strippers?

Knives go dull much faster in the dishwasher

Much faster feels like a bit of a stretch to me. I’ve got a set of “good knives” that I hand wash, and a Victorinox chef’s knife that I generally abuse and toss into the dishwasher.

The Vnox does dull sooner than the “good knives”, but not dramatically so, and it probably gets ~50% more usage between sharpening (I sharpen them all together), largely because you can just toss it straight into the dishwasher.

Knives dulling in your dishwasher may be a sign that they are not so stainless and are rusting at some level. I find either really cheap or really expensive knives tend to be of a less stainless grade of steel. If you’re anywhere in the middle of the quality spectrum you’re probably fine using a dishwasher (unless you’re also seeing stainless steel flatware corrode, in which case stop washing your dishes with acid).

The risk of going rancid is pretty low in refined, or even better, MCT coconut oil. Most pro woodworkers I know use it (or products containing it, like ”Walrus Oil").

Not trying to be a “nuclear shill”, but it is worth mentioning from the article you linked:

The 1.8 million solar panels are expected to generate up to 690 MW and they’re co-located with 380 MW of 4-hour battery energy storage (1,400 MWh).

The capacity factor of solar is something around 25%, so that 690 MW solar array (even with batteries) produces about as much energy as ~160 MW nuclear… So 7x faster, but the costs are closer than you suggest. Solar is still cheaper because the O&M costs are minimal, but pretending 690 MW solar + 380 MW battery is equivalent to 1 GW nuclear is a bit disingenuous.

“Septic safe” is a pretty loose definition, and usually means “this will not break anything” not “this will naturally break down into something that is not harmful to the ecosystem outside of your septic tank”, but it’s usually a good start

Most powdered detergents contain high amounts of salts which aren’t particularly good for anything downstream of your dishwasher.

I’m unsure of a salt-free dish detergent, but I can gleefully recommend Oasis Biocompatible Laundry Detergent for everyone, but especially anyone with a septic or greywater laundry system. It cleans great and breaks down naturally into plant food.

I clear them a reasonable amount away from my house, because they may not be litter but they are a fire hazard where I live. But they still get to naturally decompose in dedicated spots.

It’s part of the experience - fresh nutrition for the soil.

It’s all fun and games until we find out the white dude running the startup used to be an Asian dude with a vendetta against Pierce Brosnan.

Pierce better start rethinking his annual trip to the ice palace.

Fed up with the delays, Commissioner Craig Greene, R-Baton Rouge, ended the stalemate in January and joined with the two Democrats on the commission in adopting what they say is a more consumer-friendly program than the one the utilities wanted.

That’s what happens when one party’s entire purpose in life is to just be bought and paid for. The reason they got to drag their feet for years to come up with nothing meaningful is because 3/5 members of the commission let them. I’m just glad Commissioner Greene finally came around, even if it’s only because he’s not running for reelection

Friendly reminder that those tiny elections down ballot are still inedibly important.

Because the title says “1000x more powerful than existing panels”. The article clarifies that this is existing barium panels, but the title (I would argue misleadingly so) does not clarify that they aren’t referring to existing silicone solar panels.

Especially misleading because of the use of the word “existing” because it sounds like they’re referring to something that has made it out of a lab, but I’d wager 99.99999+% of people have never seen an “existing” barium solar panel.

A less misleading title would be something like:

Experimental barium solar panel 10000x more efficient than past attempts, possibility of performance parity with silicon in sight

Or some such nonsense. You could move the second half to a subtitle and still be much clearer and less misleading than the original in title alone.

That’s the thing, it doesn’t have to happen. It has to catch enough headlines that Shell can say:

“As part of our environmental commitments we plan to sell only carbon neutral methane by 2040”

Then they proceed to do nothing in the “hopes” that this becomes cost effective in time, while continuing to invest in natural gas infrastructure, and while we continue to investing in using their “soon to be neutral” fuel.

Finally, when 2035 or so rolls around they quietly shift the goal posts and we keep on letting them pollute.

And if you’re wondering why this sounds familiar…

https://www.carbonbrief.org/shell-abandons-2035-emissions-target-and-weakens-2030-goal/

All getting hyped about CCS or “renewable” “drop-in replacements” for fossil fuels does is further entrench fossil fuel companies as the “center” of our carbon commitments, while they are 100% disincentivized to act.

Unless this tech is paired with a $1000/tonne carbon tax, its a scapegoat.

If it can be done cheaper this way…

That “if” is doing a lot lot of heavy lifting, and exactly the excuse a lot of fossil fuel companies and municipalities will use for inaction.

This is great in theory, but all it really does is give us a reason to cling onto a dirty, leaky natural gas grid. Much like CCS, this technology allows fossil fuel producers to continue business as usual under the promise of one day maybe sortof going green, and if this system leaks much more than ~1%, its not actually “carbon neutral” in useful human timescales, because its converting CO2 into something 50-100x more impactful on the climate

LMK if anyone finds the fuse my Kia uses to track my sex life per the TOS. Also unrelated, but please LMK if anyone finds my sex life. I seem to have misplaced it.