Slugworth talked with all the children. You can see Slugworth behind each one whispering in their ear after they won a golden ticket. Tevee even asked his mother what secrets they could sell to Slugworth. They all had the opportunity to be honest, but only Charlie did. Even Grampa Joe wanted to sell the gobstopper to Slugworth, but Charlie refused. That’s why he won in the end.
can you make a 3d printed battery that never needs replacing? or are you counting on planned obsolescence?
I love this. It’s really practical for a city. Though I’m wondering about the sail idea now on more rural roads. Roads turn this way and that, and the wind shifts. You’d need someone sitting in the thing orienting the sail. I wonder if you made it a little larger with a largish sail and you had a driver on roller blades and a sailor sitting in it catching the wind how fast could you get it going? Depends on the wind, I guess, but a boat probably has more friction in the water and sailboats go pretty fast.
Ooh, maybe you could add an outrigger, a pole that slides left and right with a wheel on either side, to keep it from tipping.
“not professional”, bah. Beat them at their own game. Tell them it’s evident they have much to learn, so we will be spending the next three weeks on sex education.
CO2 has never been a bottleneck for plant growth. It’s always been bioavailable nitrogen. This has nothing to do with climate science. If you got this wrong it’s because you’re a gullible fool.
Meanwhile we are standing up new fossil fuel plants to power AI and writing government contracts to buy more coal.
“Greenhouse gas measurements are like skidding into a car crash. The disaster gets closer and closer but you can’t stop it, you can clearly see the crash ahead, and all you can do is howl.”
Short version, a lot of forests near oceans are dying because of rising sea levels. Intrusion of saltwater is the biggest reason for the dying trees, though “drought, pests, and storms” also contribute.
So now we’re complaining about the enshittification of everything driven by the need to maximize profit in a capitalist system and blaming it on our grandparents? More divisive intergenerational warfare bullshit. If you want to find who to blame for this shit look at the capitalists demanding more and more profit from airlines, manufacturers, literally every part of the economy. It always comes down to class war.