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Incentives (carrots) and enforcement (sticks) are the only things most big polluters will respect. And that will require strong political will, leadership and outreach relationships to accomplish, one region at a time.

Actually, power lines aren't necessarily clean because they have significant losses, and would cause more emissions if they carried FF-generated electricity thousands of miles (losses as high as 60%). A better strategy is generating as close to consumption as possible, e.g., solar/wind/etc. right next to consumption to minimize losses.

Sorry but tablets will never replace laptops because laptop OSes are infinitely more flexible than tablet OSes. You just can't (at this point) squeeze out the same productivity doing any type of real engineering, development, 3D-modeling, quant office work or one of many thousands of tasks from a tablet. Tablets have their places... for quick and simple things, niches and some detailed apps that are self-contained.

Given the advances in AI/ML, there oughta be a Harlequin romance novel generator.

I know some sane, elderly homeless people. They generally prefer ready-to-eat, non-refrigerated foods, not canned foods.

1. Canned foods are heavy.

2. Canned foods usually aren't very appetizing, especially the pantry and seasonal rejects people usually donate.

3. Canned foods usually require eating and opening utensils.

Canned foods aren't what the homeless want or need. Instead of "beggars can't be choosers" arrogant rationalizations, maybe donors should do some research to figure out what recipients actually want and/or need?

As mentioned, shrewd food bank buyers will likely do far better at making use of funds on behalf of recipients than any consumer would buying small quantities not on sale at Whole Foods.

What does race have to do with anything? Is this some sort of racist dog-whistle?

They didn't flip the cars, they stole them.

:/ Thinkpad T480 (T490 doesn't) has the ports, is light, durable, is user-serviceable and 10 hours of battery life with the bigger extended battery (which isn't very big). Great as a hackintosh. When other manufacturers blindly copy Apple (like removing the dual batteries of the T series), they lose future customers.

My grandmother received an antibiotic that made her virtually deaf (ototoxicity of an aminoglycoside).

IIRC c. auris is sometimes a culprit. And now that there's mycotic-resistant strains and very few antimycotic drug classes, it's not a good trend. We need more antimycotic drug classes.

There's problems and solutions that need policy and political will to implement:

- consumer-sorted recycling is a BandAid virtue-signal and ineffective because it gets mixed up, under-sorted and contaminated

- post-consumer waste-stream separation works. Stanford does it because five bins was ridiculous

- all trash should be recycled, composted at-scale to reach near zero landfill stream

- Structural waste reduction by source-return reuse, recycling

- single-use plastics should be eliminated

- plastics that cannot be recycled should be banned from retail sale, packaging, products and landfills

Maybe very large taxes on landfill waste would compel recycling and manufacturing to get their acts together?

Dirt-based farms are antiquated and inefficiently use resources compared to fogbox and airponics. Healthy soil is great, if it's for grassland vegetation browsed by managed mega-herds.. otherwise, the trend (climate change and lack of roaming mega-herds) is towards desertification.