I'm at a lose today for content. Sure there are thousands of cute animal picture on the internet. And there's always something whimsical, unique, and odd to be discovered. But today, with all that's going on in the world, it feels too frivolous to do any of that.

So today can we all just send up prayers, good thought, positive vibes, whatever your jam is, to the people of the Ukraine.

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20 comments (Latest Comment: 02/26/2022 03:47:04 by shelaghc)

Not sure if anyone else was planning to post today. I know Bob & Raine are up in NY tho.

In case y'all missed my post about it over on that other platform, on Monday night a non-profit indie library/reading room was the target of a Nazi harassment gang. The patrons that night were at a celebratory reading and discussion on the anniversary of the publication of Marx's Communist Manifesto. Most of those attending were black, which the unwelcome thugs made everyone in the neighborhood know with their hateful shouting. They even prevented the patrons from leaving, as the only door to the library was blocked from the outside. It took neighbors calling the police for them to leave (no one in the library did it, probably because they wisely don't trust PVD cops) and even then it took multiple units to show up before they moved on.
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8 comments (Latest Comment: 02/23/2022 23:02:01 by BobR)

We bought them two and a half years ago
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2 comments (Latest Comment: 02/21/2022 15:40:11 by Will in Chicago)

OMG guys I'm so sorry. Took a couple days off and it completely slipped my brain!



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3 comments (Latest Comment: 02/18/2022 16:01:53 by Raine)

Almost exactly 12 years ago, I wrote a blog about alternative solutions for generating electricity - both for homes and automobiles. This included options for electric cars. One of those involved research being done by a company called "EEStor". Their approach was to create a "super-capacitor" for storing electricity. Capacitors have some advantages and disadvantages compared to traditional lithium-ion batteries. They can be charged (and discharged) very quickly, which would make them an ideal power source in cars. They also would greatly reduce the need for lithium, which is getting scarcer and is dirty to mine.
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5 comments (Latest Comment: 02/16/2022 14:55:34 by shelaghc)