That’s great, but don’t get complacent like last time. Drought is always just around the corner.

https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-santa-barbara-desal-20150303-story.html

Will be interesting to see what Maduro’s trial judge says.

We’ve already burned our bridges. If we ever get out of this mess it’s going to take decades to rebuild trust from our allies.

Sad to see this photo of them celebrating like this is some sort of football team win.

Time to ban “hot dog” for not containing dog meat.

Looks retro. All it needs is a crt.

HP to use “AI” as cover for sacking 6000 staff.

Misleading headline making it sounds like all battery recycling poisons people. Half assed battery recycling is half assed.

Also sodium ion or some other lead-free formulation will likely replace lead acid 12v batteries over the next few years.

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Remembering when the Live Aid food was left to rot.

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1985/07/13/Food-rotting-in-Ethiopia-report-says/7042490075200/

Please stop linking to cbs news.

In exchange for his own mansion and a yearly stipend.

“an X-ray table that could read cards face down on the table”

So does this mean all the poker players are going to end up with cancer?

Trash can Mac Pro.

Sure. Outsourcing all of your pharmaceutical development to other countries:

• means you are screwed in the event of a war (economic or physical)
• means you have no control over quality of said pharmaceuticals
• means that expertise is no longer available in your own country and you are again beholden to others because those countries can charge whatever they want or refuse to sell it to you at all (see battery tech, microchip tech, solar tech for other examples).

You want to go over there and learn how to adapt their tech? Great. (We did that with the Japanese auto industry in the 1980s and we imported rocket expertise after WWII.) But things like drugs, food staples, and construction materials should be made at home. There’s a reason we subsidize farming.

Personally I think the feds should be manufacturing generic drugs to ensure availability and quality, and to provide some competition to bring prices down.

Pfizer CEO is wrong.

Lithium phosphate batteries don’t need nickel. Or cobalt. The industry has already started using them.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/10/its-back-the-2027-chevy-bolt-gets-an-all-new-lfp-battery-but-what-else/

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/01/cars/tesla-lfp-battery

But sending your money to China is just fine?

Next up, no labeling “hot dogs” as such, unless they include dog meat in them!

When you piss everyone off and leave a vacuum, someone always steps in to fill it.