I have seen children selling gum in Mexico.
Exactly my point. You said it’s an old trope that doesn’t happen anymore. It may not be pencils specifically everywhere, but it most definitely still happens in the general sense. You have the kids selling chicle in Mexico, people (especially kids) sell toothbrushes in east Africa, adults sell 10-packs of tissues all over the world, hell, I’ve seen people walking around selling bottles of water in Vegas.
This is based on a trope that doesn’t really happen any more.
It happens all over the world.
Yes, just do it.
Knowing another language is always good, and the best thing about JavaScript is that there is so much available source code to read out there. It’ll be super easy to learn and you’ll be shocked at how much you can do in pure JS. I once wrote a graphics editor that blew my item mind…
This will go viral, smart marketing.
I learned this playing Where In Time Is Carmen Sandiego.
Oh my disappointment when I got a 56K modem and only got 28.8K speeds.
I believe if there is a heaven and I end up there, I’ll be surrounded by computers I can play with on end without anyone bothering me. If there’s a hell and I end up there, I’ll be surrounded by people who need help with their computer.
I’d tell ya, but then I’d have to kill this account.
Not on nearly the same scale. If properly composted, about 40% of the carbon will be turned into gases by the creatures breaking it down (in the form of carbon dioxide) but most of it would go directly back into the soil. If disposed of improperly, like in a landfill, then yes, that number shoots way up (50-90%) as you start getting methane gas production in an anaerobic environment.
In any case, just to be clear, I was just giving some sample numbers on how wood is used to create electricity.
I’m not really giving a commentary on whether it is a good idea to do this or not. I’m not an expert tin the field and it is a heavily debated process. This study suggests it’s not good, but my gut feeling is that it’s still better than burning fossil fuels.
There is another big issue where sometimes the wood was being sourced from non-waste sources - like Canadian old growth forest being used to fuel power plants in England. That changes the equation entirely and I’m staunchly against it. Like, if they’re using sawdust from sawmills, yeah, we can talk. But reports were that whole logs were being used, and just fuck that. No fucking way!
Can you imagine just how much wood it would take to fuel a power plant?
Yeah, I mean it’s not exactly magic. There are 23 working biomass power plants in California and wood pellets are a huge source of their fuel.
This is 10 years old…
https://biomassmagazine.com/articles/californias-biomass-debacle-part-3-12749
But the key point is this:
25 biomass electric generating plants in operation, which combined produce more than 565 MW of power, enough for 420,000 homes, nearly all of Sacramento County’s residences. These plants use 8 million tons of wood waste as fuel annually that would otherwise be landfilled, left to rot and serve as a fire hazard in the forest, or open burned.
I think you’re missing the point that this is about powerplants burning wood (usually in the form of manufactured, high-density pellets) instead of fossil fuels, to generate electricity.
It is meant to be part of green tech because the carbon is cycled over decades (cut trees, burn, grow new trees) instead of pulling it from the ground, over 60 million years old, never to be put back.
After the Clownvoy, ‘trucker’ is a term that carries a specific kind of weight here
I don’t personally associate “trucker” with the convoy automatically. There were a lot of yahoos in the convoy who weren’t truckers.
FYI the way this is posted, it just looks like some weird image - at least on mobile, on Voyager.
You’d probably be better off not making it an image post and just making it a text post with the image (thumbnail) as part of the text long with the links. Or just making it a link post that links to the video directly.
Also, the Invidious link didn’t work for me.
True, I never had sex before 1996