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Beemats allows you to create floating wetlands of hydroponic plants
  • We've been doing research on new methods/tools for placing items at a distance. One is more accurate, but doesn't give as much distance. It's called stick. The other can give greater distance, but accuracy can be a problem. It's called throwing.

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    Democrats propose ban on officials receiving payments from foreign governments after Trump probe
  • In case you wanted to know: From the Congressional Research Service: The Emoluments Clauses of the U.S. Constitution: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/if/if11086

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    Do you like olives?
  • The great thing, for most people, about a food being gross is that you don't have to eat it. Is someone forcing you to eat olives? I mean, maybe you've just not tried fresh olives?

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    Some the oldest known masks in the world, stone, found near Jerusalem, ~7000 BCE
  • If stone, they must mass a Kg or more. Dang!

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    How Originalism Ate the Law: America is captive to a legal theory that dictates our laws on guns, abortion, and so much more. We need to act.
  • And apparently assumed that the constitution should be re-written every 17 years or so. That's the 'constitutional convention' ploy, which I'm not so sure it it's a good idea or not, at this time. smh. we're so fecked. wait, where's I put my optimism... it's around here somewhere.

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    Overgrown ruins of Murud-Janjira, modern India
  • Looks like there's a ferry. Let's go.

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    Survey finds that 60 firms are responsible for half of world’s plastic pollution
  • I did notice Altria / Phillip Morris were also in that list. :-(

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    Survey finds that 60 firms are responsible for half of world’s plastic pollution
  • Perhaps so, alas. And the rates of obesity and diabetes continue to rise. sigh.

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    Survey finds that 60 firms are responsible for half of world’s plastic pollution
  • Imagine how much plastic waste could be eliminated if we just boycotted these companies.

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    Argentines are recruiting friends, strangers into Worldcoin’s cash-for-eyeballs scheme
  • How do you feel about government backed currencies?

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    The Astonishing Discovery of a New Type of Brain Cell
  • The Real MVP! Thank You!

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    Live Updates: Prosecutors Say Trump’s Attacks Are Threat to Trial
  • My point being that one doesn't need a fixer, unless one does illegal things. Can we not have criminals in places of power? Soonish?

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    What if bikes had been invented earlier?
  • Have you ever seen wooden/ bamboo bikes? Renovo was one manufacturer. And currently, (https://www.lightwoodenbicycles.com/) TimberWolf Cycles.

    There are others: https://www.treehugger.com/awesome-bikes-made-of-wood-4869156

    I saw one in a museum, from the 1880s, made of hickory. It reportedly weighed 18 pounds.

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    Simple EV cars
  • Most EVs have a 10 year / 100K miles warranty, at least in the US.

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    Simple EV cars
  • Aptera for reals.

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  • Messaging on kbin.social - How?

    I see that there is a messages link in the drop down menu associated with my username. But when I go there I don't see how to send a message. I'm sure this is pretty basic stuff, it's just that I'm suffering from PTSD from being a reddifugee and can't seem to figure it out on my own. TIA! Much appreciation!

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    Photobiomodulation and Red Light Therapy Community : https://kbin.social/m/photobiomodulation/

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