Here We Are In The Future

Just call me Atlas

[loycos]

"You're the only one I have left..."

[bwat5-blog]

Okay beautiful but also WHY!?

[sayruq]

[wearenotjustnumbers2]

Remember the 6 year old girl who was surrounded by Israeli tanks and the red crescent couldn't reach her? Her name is Hind Hamadeh. Here you can hear the phone call her 15 year old sister, Layan Hamadeh, made with the medics. She was killed exactly a moment later including all people in the car, except for 6 year old Hind who was stuck in the car with the dead bodies of her family, Israeli tanks and IDF surrounding her, shooting, preventing anybody to reach her.

That was last night (29.1.24). Today, still nothing. The fate of Hind remains unknown.

palestine red crescent ambulance team went to rescue her yesterday evening, but they have not returned as of now. We lost contact with them about 18 hours ago, and we still remain unaware of their fate and whether they succeeded in evacuating her or not.

Please, share Hind's story as much as you can on any platform. We need to know what happened to her. Put yourself in her place, how terrified she must be. Don't scroll past this.

This is Hind.

[nizariat]

“Give me a daughter with your stubborn heart, or your even temper. Give our children your dark-bright eyes, or your enchanted smile. So that even when we are gone, the world will find within them all of the reasons why I loved you إعطني إبنة لها قلبك العنيد أو حتى طبعك إعط طفلنا عيناك السمراوين اللامعين أو إبتسماتك المسحورة لكي حتى و بعد رحيلنا، سيجد العالم فيهم كل الأسباب التي أحببتك لها”

— thisisjustjared

[ultraviolet-divergence]

Solar Panels Are Starting to Die, Leaving Behind Toxic Trash

Photovoltaic panels are a boon for clean energy but are tricky to recycle. As the oldest ones expire, get ready for a solar e-waste glut.

…the solar e-waste glut is coming. By 2050, the International Renewable Energy Agency projects that up to 78 million metric tons of solar panels will have reached the end of their life, and that the world will be generating about 6 million metric tons of new solar e-waste annually. While the latter number is a small fraction of the total e-waste humanity produces each year, standard electronics recycling methods don’t cut it for solar panels. Recovering the most valuable materials from one, including silver and silicon, requires bespoke recycling solutions. And if we fail to develop those solutions along with policies that support their widespread adoption, we already know what will happen.

“If we don’t mandate recycling, many of the modules will go to landfill,” said Arizona State University solar researcher Meng Tao, who recently authored a review paper on recycling silicon solar panels, which comprise 95 percent of the solar market.

[ultraviolet-techno-ecology]

This is not a condemnation of solar power itself - but a lesson in how green capitalism undermines it’s own efforts by attempting to create a consumer market for what should remain infrastructural. 

The type of photovoltaic panels are being sold to individual homeowners as a responsible purchase to help the environment. However the reality is that these panels are simply cheap enough that a market can be created, which is untrue for other solar systems. 

PV panels are inefficient, especially when they are simply bolted to a roof. The more efficient systems of solar power are not things which can be sold to the average homeowner, and thus are not as popular within capitalism. This inefficiency is precisely what will generate the e-waste in question. 

Efficient systems of solar power are centralized facilities where mirrors are used to reflect sunlight onto a particular location. The most common version of this still uses PV panels, however they are able to use less panels and get much higher output through auxiliary systems - mirrors, sun-tracking, and so on which remain unavailable to consumers. 

The far more promising method of solar power does not use Photovoltaics at all. Concentrated solar thermal has more in common with geo-thermal than it does your typical PV grid. These power plants use a field of mirrors to reflect a huge amount of sunlight into one location, transferring a lot of heat to that one location. The heat is converted into electricity via a steam turbine.

Additionally because Solar-Thermal is a heat based system, power can be retained in the form of heat using systems like molten salt. This reduces the demand for efficient systems of storing electricity itself, one of the greatest challenges to both photovoltaic and wind based power systems. 

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[jenroses]

sound on, his voice is something else.

[saintbullart]

this feels like if all of humanity were to reset and humans had forgotten how everything worked and had to teach each other what things were. this is the Wall turorial

[lacefuneral]

[leiandroid]

be running up that road // be running up that hill // be running up that building

[gatorbeast]

these are all the same sort of animal. do you understand.

these are all small skittish creatures that love to bite and are found in drawers of garages and classrooms. they’re all related and in the same small biter family. weird little kids who play with them while they’re distracted and have empathy for them can tame them and become these beasts companions

[dragongirlteeth]

Actually this is an example of convergent evolution, scissors and hair clips are not from the same evolutionary line as pliers, alligator clips, and staple removers. The pliers and alligator clips come from an ancestor species more adapted to scientific and industrial settings, whereas scissors and hair clips evolved in home and office settings. Staple removers are a bit of a contentious case, since they have metallic, spring operated jaws, but are primarily found in the office environment. Some theories suggest that they're an industrial species that found itself adapted to the office setting, perhaps by migration in an engineering building.

[5hio]

[taikova]

watch for rains

[mochiwei]

I love aquatic plants

[neotrances-deactivated]

itsso unbelievably funny seeing babies in public like ones that look like they just popped out a day ago and theyre looking around just silent…little feller don’t even know they on earth..they not even conscious…

[neotrances-deactivated]

month old baby in a crowded 7 eleven watching hot dogs roll on a steamer unaware theyre even alive:

[dontbeanassbutt]

boy, blowjobs sure are a mouthful

[tangentlines]

jeez, that pun was hard for me to swallow

[spicy-vaginal-tacos]

penis

[high-school-fling]

thanks for your contribution

[mymodernmet]

Shamsia Hassani, Afghanistan’s first female street artist, has been publishing her heartbreaking response to the Taliban coming into power.

[soy-celeste-deactivated20230905]

Her name is Katalin Karikó. Hungarian. Daughter of a butcher. Her thesis work became the basis of the mRNA vaccine technology. Read the article here.

[rat-tail-butch]

My favorite bits from the article include how Dr. Kariko celebrated the fact that the vaccines that used her mRNA research worked

“On Nov. 8, the first results of the Pfizer-BioNTech study came in, showing that the mRNA vaccine offered powerful immunity to the new virus. Dr. Kariko turned to her husband. “Oh, it works,” she said. “I thought so.”

To celebrate, she ate an entire box of Goobers chocolate-covered peanuts. By herself.”

[jheselbraum]

Everyone say thank you to Doctor Kariko since she literally saved all our lives

[bidoof]

Change.org - Petition To Hire 1,000,000 People To Put Their Fingers In The Shoot Hole Of Peoples’ Guns So They Can’t Shoot Them

[mycatisnamedfrank]

It’s still gonna shoot… And they’re gonna lose a finger

[bidoof]

No. The finger blocks the bullet. We can do this

[domozillla-deactivated20181216]

This is a gun we’re talking about. The projectile is fired using an explosion, not by compressed air of a toy gun or the elastic forces of a sling shot. People would be lucky if they only lost their finger.

[bidoof]

The finger blocks it

[dildomuncher3000]

The finger won’t block it - the shaft is only there for keeping the bullet straight, all the propulsion happens behind the bullet. The bullet would rip through the finger, not that many would actually fit without the victim being a child, and beyond.

[bidoof]

The bullet would go forward a little and then hit the finger and stop it’s not that hard to understand

[fifty-percent-possessed-deactiv]

People are going to lose their hands. Go watch Mythbusters. They did an episode on this, the hand fucking exploded.

[hungwy]

No, the bullet would start to go but stop at the finger. Thats basic physics. Also hands dont explode normally they did something wrong.

[blipblerp]

Why the dingleknockers would you even consider sticking your finger in the barrel of a loaded gun?? the amount of force propelling the bullet at that close of range would shatter the finger at the very least; this is a petition for 1,000,000 people to loose the use of their hands. If a bullet explodes the back of a persons skull when they shoot it in their mouth it sure as hell will explode a finger.

[gorps]

No the finger would stop it

[joryboi]

I’m loving the idiocy of this post.

Ppl with brains: ummm finger go boom…

Others: no bullet stop. U no kno fisics >:V

[foulserpent]

no the finger would stop it

[indianworiorprincess-blog]

You guy who think the bullet would stop at the finger have never shot a gun and can volunteer to it their fingers in the barrel of my 9 mil and I’ll I’ll the trigger and see if it will stop the bullet. Dumdasses

[foulserpent]

the finger would stop it

[heritageposts]

date of origin: 28th of december, 2015.

[memeclassheroes]

[ninjapancake314]

[schrodingers-blursed-kitty]

@mama-germany

[jedi-valjean]

Move in together. Problem solved

[broadwaytheanimatedseries]

That witch hasn’t said a single word but im calling it now - Himbo.

Also yes move in together, platonically or romantically doesn’t matter, I’d watch the hell out of that wlw mlm solidarity fantasy sitcom anyway.

[susiephone]

A fair maiden knocks on the goth lady’s door and says she’s here to find love.

The goth sighs, points across the road and says, “Witch is over there. He doesn’t do love potions because consent but he might be able to make you prettier, although 90% of the time it turns out the spell didn’t do anything but make you more confident.”

The maiden blushes and sheepishly explains that she knows he’s the witch, she just talked to him and he sent her over here.

Goth looks over her shoulder to see the himbo witch standing outside his house giving her a grin and a double thumbs up.

[mauzymorn]

YES TO ALL OF THIS

[sexycraisinthanos]