DamageReport
5/25/22
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Ukrainian officials offer their condolences to Uvalde -
Ukrainian officials offer their condolences to Uvald...
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Survivors of Parkland and Columbine shootings share their outrage over Uvalde -
Survivors of Parkland and Columbine shootings share ...
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Uvalde, Texas, shooting live updates: All of the Uvalde victims were in one 4th grade classroom | NPR -
Texas shooting live updates: All of the Uvalde victi...
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Results: Kemp wins Georgia primary for governor over Perdue -
Trump's pick for governor — who ran on election lies...
E.S. Levi
Cheap gel film pulls buckets of drinking water per day from thin air
Bat Matt
Don't bet on that one until it shows actual, concrete results and not just claims. There's been waaaay too many things in the past few years making that claim that didn't pan out.
Bat Matt
I'm hopeful, but skeptical.
E.S. Levi
It says the gel's been tested, and was able to pull a gallon and a half of water out of even dry air.
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I am, personally, a little concerned about what pulling gallons of water out of the air would do to the air and what that might mean for the people who have to live in and breathe it.
Zee
Yeah, as great as it sounds it seems like this needs a bit more research before putting it to large scale use
E.S. Levi
Mm, I'd think it would really be better for coastal areas where fresh water is the problem, rather than the deserts it talks about...
E.S. Levi
Places where the humidity will come right back.
Exacerangutan
yeah I'm a little skeptical, especially with regards to application, but it does sound potentially useful
Exacerangutan
e.g. in areas where there's plenty of water but filtration is expensive, capturing water vapor from the air with a self-enclosed system might be a lot more practical than maintaining properly designed solar stills, especially if the film production is scales nicely and becomes really cheap
Exacerangutan
and in fairness, if you're using a lot of water, you're also returning it to the environment at roughly the same rate you take it in... with very dry hot air air (~0.5% water vapor) that's about 5g per cubic meter, or 1.5 gallon per roughly 30ft cube
Exacerangutan
so as long as the population density's well under urban levels (which seems pretty dense for an arid region) i.e. around 4000/mi^2 the impact on air humidity should be pretty modest
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America is killing itself’: world reacts with horror and incomprehension to Texas shooting
The international press responds scathingly to the tolerance for gun violence in the US: ‘nothing fundamentally changes’
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Analysis, but it’s got some great responses from foreign journalists about our collective gun fetish and problem.
Ain'tpril
You can't take our guns what if the government tries to come for us just like the American revolution.
Exacerangutan
yeah or the civil war
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Abbott finished remarks during his briefing on the Uvalde shooting, and Beto O'Rourke stepped up to call him out for only focusing on mental health and having zero mention of any gun control reform.
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Abbott, Cruz to Attend NRA Convention Days After Tex...
Just days after the deadliest school shooting in Texas history, Gov. Greg Abbott, along with both of Texas' U.S. senators, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz and U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas 2nd District), was scheduled to attend the National Rifle Association's annual convention in Houston.
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Cornyn and Crenshaw have since said they weren't going to attend due t o "scheduling changes". Cruz and Abbott have not responded.
Exacerangutan
my favorite part of the NRA meeting is that Trump is going to be there but they're banning anyone having firearms or ammunition or knives or anything remotely dangerous because, you know, that's someone they actually care about protecting
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