It looks cool, but that is a horrible handle. You want it to be wood or plastic so it dampens vibrations as much as it can, and smooth so one hand can slide down the handle from near the head to your other hand at the end as you swing. A couple minutes breaking up concrete with that and your hands would be numb, tingly, and probably bloody. Gloves would help, but using this will always suck.

They can’t reproduce, should be fine.

That is so cool! Did a bit of searching, this looks like like a good place to start. I’m not visually impaired, but am still very interested in learning to echolocate!

National Library of Medicine

EchoRead Programme: Learning echolocation skills through self-paced professional development during the COVID-19 pandemic

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9623408/

I hadn’t seen that before, that is interesting. These detergent sheets are quite a bit cheaper though, and have no plastic in the product or packaging. We love them!

https://www.amazon.com/Poesie-Eco-Friendly-Plastic-Free-Biodegradable-Hypoallergenic/dp/B09VPDX476

Looks like it. We use dissolvable sheets for laundry soap, toss them in like a pod. No plastic, and short washes on cold leave no residue. And if it’s a smaller load just you can just rip a sheet in half and leave it in the box. Plus they are super cheap. We’ve been using them for a couple of years, love them!

https://www.amazon.com/Poesie-Eco-Friendly-Plastic-Free-Biodegradable-Hypoallergenic/dp/B09VPDX476

Airbags are not forbidden in aircraft. They just haven’t been considered to offer enough safety benfit for their weight and cost in most cases. That is starting to change though, and airbags integrated into aircraft seatbelts are becoming more common. They can be found in first class in a number of commercial aircraft, and are sold to be retrofitted into private planes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airplane_airbags

https://www.amsafe.com/product/airbag-restraint-systems/

There are many reasons I doubt this car will make it into commercial production, but the airbags will be OK.

My first read, I thought that was the source of the mentioned poisoning.

That is a real shame, I met my wife on OK Cupid. We liked it for all those features that are gone now. I’ve recommended it to several people over the years, guess I’ll stop doing that.

As for being politically motivated, maybe? But my first guess would be that the changes were driven by immediate profitability factors. Because really, what is more important than quarterly and annual profit reports?

Eating a dictionary to improve your vocabulary would be equally effective to that theory, and for many of the same reasons. (As far as information transfer is concerned)

There is a vaccine for chickens and turkeys for the bird flu. But poultry barns only use it when there are already outbreaks in their area, they don’t consider the cost worth it most of the time. And no one is giving it to wild birds.

I always saw it as being part of messing with the kids, he looks at the warning lights on top of the fence first. And for my headcannon at least, Grant is savvy enough to know that’s no way to test if the fence is live or not, lol.

Tiles are great, I’d love to have a roof last 100 years. But they don’t get as much use here because of issues with ice damning up the bottom edge and pooling water up under the tile, which then freezes and expands and dislodges or damags the tile. That can be overcome, but it’s easier and cheaper to use shingles.

A fiberglass mat core with asphalt around it and grit stuck in the asphalt on the top.

And the person who found it isn’t doing a good job either, putting new shingles over old. The old should be removed.

Very true. Unfortunately, this process just pulls gold from dilute sources and gathers it into nuggets, from small ones to very very large. No gold is being made new though, that would be great.

Well, that is the amount gold that is mined or recycled every year that is used in electronics. The thing is though, a lot of the gold used in electronics is never recovered. So a considerable amount of the gold used in electronics is removed from from circulation in a way the gold in jewelry or bullion or coins isn’t. It isn’t the primary driver of gold’s price increase, but it is a significant factor.

Gold prices have risen steadily for a long time, partly because of its use in electronics. Over $2500/ounce now. But another quirk of gold is the ease with which we can make very thin coatings of it over other materials, sometimes only a few atoms thick. So it is commonly used, but in very very small amounts per device.

The first change needs to be teams pay for their own stadiums instead of them being taxpayer funded from cites and states. I don’t care if it will drive tourism, use that money to take care of the purple in the city and make the city a nice place, even make it a nice place for a stadium, but make the team owners/pro leagues pay for their own damn stadium.

Metric measuring systems are superior in almost every use case, with the exception, I think, of how temperature feels to us. As arbitrary as Fahrenheit seems, it does seem like a more natural scale to talk about the weather or body temp. The smaller units are nice for these purposes too. 0 being very cold and 100 being very hot feels less arbitrary than -18 and 38, even if celcius is more logical and easier to use for many other things.

Shoot, the page is gone. I really wanted to see the AP article addressing this very important issue, lol.