I don’t know, but if I had to guess like everything else it comes down to money. It’s energy intensive to desalinate seawater to the degree it’s drinkable, and now we’re talking about adding even more energy to refine it even further to make it suitable for human consumption. That makes any recovered salt expensive compared to natural salt deposits. Much easier (read: cheaper) to just scrape salt deposits that have already evaporated.
The problem with desalination is that there’s a super-concentrated salt sludge that needs to be discarded after the process. Dumping that back into the ocean creates excess salinity which fucks up the ecosystem in the immediate area.
Not saying that desalination isn’t a good idea, just that there’s more to think about than “put seawater in, get tap water out”.
Bluesky is still running on VC cash. We haven’t seen how they plan on monetizing it yet, but if anything that is where their major fuckup will happen.
What do you mean “trying”?
The bad news in a good way. Yes, I can do that. The bad news in a good way. Well, here it goes…
Which is how you know he knows fuck-all about America, cause we’re kinda indifferent to both collateral casualties and gun violence being the number one cause of death for children.
If they think their editors should be ignoring all that, then what the fuck should they be doing?
Hey, they didn’t vote for the white woman either!
People are free to believe whatever they want. However, the second those beliefs are shown to be factually incorrect, and those people refuse to acknowledge that, then we absolutely can and should criticize them.
You want to believe in Bigfoot? If the thought of a wild cryptid makes you happy, fucking go for it.
You want to believe the earth is flat and there’s some global (lol) conspiracy to prevent people from finding out the truth? Here’s a bunch of videos and articles on why that’s wrong. Oh, you still believe it? Get the fuck out of here.
Americans spent a record $41 billion over Black Friday weekend. People don’t have that much money to spend when the economy truly is shit. The real egregious part of it all was corporations using COVID to gouge consumers even long after the supply-chain issues had been resolved, and the most dysfunctional Congress in US history refusing to do anything about it.
they elected Biden and right-wing news told them for four years their material conditions worsened and ignored that 1) cleaning up Trump’s COVID mess left America in a much better spot than every other developed country and 2) how they felt about the economy and the facts about the economy didn’t match.
Apparently Americans can’t remember what happened four years ago, so this wouldn’t even register by the next election cycle.
Patron Saint of Adjustors.
Do the proponents of that really think that the power in that space wouldn’t be held by what essentially amounts to digital currency warlords (anyone with a lever to apply power and the matching lack of morals to do so)?
Why do you think those proponents and digital warlords are separate people?
No, I have the 13. Although I’m not in front of it right now, so I could be misremembering.
Framework laptops do this- and the switch that kills the camera also slides a shutter over the lens as well.
So that’s a fun question:
Can the right’s motivational spite overcome its immense racism?
Don’t worry; Alex Jones isn’t orange enough for the legal system to ignore.
“Is there a train coming soon?”
“Oh yes, they are building it now!”
Was it a Eurotrip?
Trump exhibits zero-sum thinking- if someone else is getting something, that means he is losing something. Thus if Carter is getting respect, Trump thinks he is losing respect.