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  • Scientists break down plastic using a simple, inexpensive catalyst and air

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  • As per the article:

    What plastic

    polyethylene terephthalate (PET)

    How scalable is it

    They're working on increasing to industrial scale.

    The description of their process sounds fairly exciting, in that it doesn't need a solvent, uses a cheap, non-toxic catalyst and produces PET precursors. If they manage to get it to industrial scale they'll go some way to solving the plastic problem.

  • China bans compulsory facial recognition and its use in private spaces like hotel rooms

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  • The rules also ban the use of facial recognition equipment in public places such as hotel rooms, public bathrooms, public dressing rooms, and public toilets.

    Why was there facial recognition, or any other sort of camera, in those places in the first place? Has something been mangled in the translation, is it a fuss about nothing, or were organisations genuinely going "hmm, we need to check your face before you can use the restrooms"?

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  • Thank you for the summary. I don't have time to go down a rabbit hole at the moment, so this was just enough to sate my curiosity until I do have time.

  • Shell Sounds

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  • It sounds like you've had more than one traumatic trip to the beach. I've never really seen the point of listening to a shell to hear the sea, you're at the beach, it's right there, being noisy at you!

  • What does it feel like when you concentrate?

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  • As @Tahl_eN@lemmy.world said in another comment, there's concentration and there's flow (aka the zone).

    Concentrating takes effort, is often tiring, and requires disipline to block out distractions. It can feel good to consentrate on a problem or task, give it all your mental energy, and achieve your goal. It can be a fragile state though. If a distraction does break through it can completely disrupt your thought processes, causing you to lose track of everything you had in mind, and effectively sending you back to square one. Practice helps avoid that, but concentration is inherently mentally taxing.

    Flow is different. You will probably only reach it through concentration, and may not jnitally be aware of the transition, but you'll know it afterwards. The complex becomes simple, stuctures untangle themselves at a thought, you feel mental clarity unlike any other time, everything you'd been struggling with becomes effortless, and time ceases to have any importance. It's more like a trance or meditation than a normal mental state, and you can stay in that state until your body physically runs out of energy. I've ended up sitting at my desk for nearly 24 hours without rising, and without eating or drinking, utterly engrosed in the task at hand, not noticing the sun setting and rising again, and felt entirely calm and rested at the end of it.

  • She hoped Trump would revive her farm. Now she worries his policies could bankrupt it.

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  • I didn’t vote for the guy and even I didn’t even imagine the level of destruction and chaos that’s come so far.

    It's been pretty astonishing. I was expecting a lot of vindictive attacks on those who he though had wronged him, and an element of tearing down anything that might regulate his buddies' industries, but this is a level or 5 beyond that. It's like their trying to go as fast as possible, doing as much damage as possible before someone stops them. In fact, I suspect it's exactly that, they know that some form of opposition will eventually form, and are trying to get as much done as possible before that happens. I imagine they can't believe their luck at how long it's taking.

  • As Economic Indicators Point to Recession, Trump Moves to Hide Key Data From Public

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  • It'll turn nasty long before then, when they're told (again) that it's all the fault of those 'immigunts' who are taking their jobs and eating their food.

    Once that bloodbath starts, few of those involved will think to change target, and most of those who aren't will be hunkering down, waiting for it to blow over.

  • Trump says he wasn’t the one who invoked Alien Enemies Act: ‘Other people handled it’

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  • So, he's admitting he's ignorant and not in control of this administration. I wonder if his worshipers will ever notice that their idol isn't the one pulling the strings?

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  • Thank you for putting the effort in. The party apparatus isn't going to want to change, but I'm not sure that it's managed opposition as such, so much as those who are 'in' being happy with their lot and doing what they feel they need to to stop that being taken away.

    There's two ways to use that to change the situation, either demonstrate that their comfortable position will be taken away if they don't change their politics, or take it away by finding a candidate you can rally enough support behind. Neither is easy, and both require getting people involved en-mass at the lowest levels of politics, which is going to be hard work with the party pulling against you. It's not impossible though, AOC and Sanders are both candidates of a different stripe and have, so far, held their places. Imagine how different things would be if they were replicated even a few times?

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  • This is way. Democrat voters want change, but they're not speaking to the system in a language it understands. The party changes not from the top down, but from the bottom up. That only happens when people with different views stand for, and win, lower level positions. Every voice changed lower down on the totem pole changes the presure on the people making decisions further up. Ultimately enough movement lower down means the top eschalons are pushed out and replaced too.

    Whether it's possible to find enough candidates to start filling the party, I don't know, but just focusing on the primaries (or lack thereof) for the top job is missing the wood for the trees.

  • HP Inc settles printer toner lockout lawsuit with a promise to make firmware updates optional

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  • Why allow depreciation? You wouldn't have bought it with the reduced functionality, and it's going to cost you time and effort to remove it and replace it with something else. Inflation will reduce the value more than enough.

  • Democrats troll Republicans for ghosting their constituents

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  • "They basically want to kill me": GOP efforts to turn Musk into a MAGA martyr are backfiring

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  • Nothing? At least, so long as he's bankrolling his pet they will look the other way.

  • Democrats troll Republicans for ghosting their constituents

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  • I suspect that is some sort of sunk cost falacy combined with a narative that says only he can get the bad things to stop; once it get's to the point that your cities are being destroyed, you probably wont, and certainly wont have the opportunity to, change leader. It's critical that as many minds as possible are changed before getting to that stage.

  • Best rootless remote X solution?

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  • I normally just use X forwarding over ssh. For simple, X native, apps it usually works nicely, but if you're using something that draws its own UI (electron apps, browsers and the like often do) it'll be extremely painful or just fail.

    I believe there is, or was, a way to run a vnc client rootless, but I think you needed to configure the server in a specific way too. It's been a long time since I tried though so things will have changed.

  • Steve Bannon admits Maga operatives ‘working’ on third term for Trump

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  • This seems like the most straightforward scenario. Nothing prevents trump running, or being elected, as Vice President, on the understanding that the duely elected President will step down on day 1. When they wrote the constitution, they didn't bank on a populist fascist, so the language assumes everyone plays fair.

    Whether trump is in any state to do anything by then is a different question. If they find someone more useful they may simply shuffle him out of the game by declaring him mentally incompetant.

    The absolute best case scenario is that they're just saying this because they know it outrages non-magas, and they love doing that. I've not seen much to support that as the probable outcome though.

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  • Faggots can also be meatballs, you can walk in to a supermarket and buy some faggots, or make them yourself.

    The use to mean "a bundle of sticks" is definitely more rare now-a-days though, you're correct.

  • Australian woman admits trying to sell human toes online

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  • Ba-dum-tish!

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  • Faggot is a real word with actual, non offensive, meanings, 'paki' is not.