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Donald Trump May Have Won Iowa—but He Just Lost a Slew of Lawyers
  • Yeah, 50,000 of the most zealous R's in Iowa voted for him And about the same amount wished for pretty much anyone else. Hardly a ringing endorsement.

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    Any Interesting (**Not** Disturbing) Podcasts?
  • Explore artistic photography - The Candid Frame
    Explore the wine industry - I'll Drink to That
    Explore good food and cooking well - The Splendid Table

    honorable mention:
    Stay Tuned with Preet
    Beyond Organic Wine Podcast
    The Art of Manliness

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    Direct air capture: An expensive, dangerous distraction from real climate solutions
  • I read somewhere that you could pump CO2 into a saline aquifer and have it stay there indefinitely. Should we be capturing the CO2 from breweries and doing this? Ethanol fuel production? I mean all these plants are doing direct air capture already. If we just route the off gassing underground it would seem like a cheap way to leverage existing technology.

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    [Solved] Trees supposedly take 30 years *before* they absorb CO₂. Why?
  • In the US PNW coast area Douglas Fir trees are harvested for lumber within about 30 years, plus or minus. Maybe the person you were talking to was considering the harvest of the tree to be the moment when the CO2 is "reclaimed"?

    Wrt to when the tree pays off the carbon footprint generated by raising and planting the seedling, I guess it's less than three years.
    Fun fact: Douglas Fir reach peak carbon fixation rate at about 120 years.

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    Rep. Elise Stefanik files ethics complaint against judge in Trump's civil fraud trial
  • This is terrible journalism too. The entire article gives voice to the ravings of a hack while giving no account of a potential explanation, context or opposing view.

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    What is the most underrated vegetable in your opinion
  • Green beans. My wife keeps growing different kinds of beans and I find myself yearning for the perfect green pods. Scarlet Runner was surprisingly fantastic last year, eaten green. This year she grew Yard Long beans and those were wonderful too.

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