"Memory isn't scarce anymore" for as long as it is expensive, it will be scarce. If you're rich, you don't get to define what is scarce or not, since what isn't scarce for you might be for someone else

yes that includes storage. Not everyone is able to spend 100€ on a hard drive, and that's in well off countries.

Picked some cherry tomatoes from the community garden.

Thinking of what Thich Nhat Hahn said about a flower. You can see the sunlight, the soil, the cloud, the insects - all within this cherry tomato. You can see the people and the librarians that maintain the seed library from which the seeds came from and the harvested seeds will go back to. You can see the folks that will eat it and live another day. You can see the people that those folks can help by their actions after being fueled by these tomatoes.

It's a small thing. And empty thing. A thing able to be filled.

A wonderful thing.

#communityGarden #gardening #thichNhatHanh #buddhism #solarPunk

Bill McKibben, environmentalist, author, and journalist, writes in this well-researched and inspiring article -

"In the past 2 years, with surprisingly little notice, renewable energy has suddenly become the obvious, mainstream, cost-efficient choice around the world. Against all the big bad things happening on the planet (and despite all the best efforts of the Republican-led Congress in recent weeks), this is a very big and hopeful thing ..."

https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/46-billion-years-on-the-sun-is-having-a-moment
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You don't see toys like this around anymore. The Atomic Energy Lab set was available from 1951 to 1952 and sold for a whopping $50.

"The set came with four types of uranium ore, a beta-alpha source, a pure beta source, a gamma source, a spinthariscope, a cloud chamber, an electroscope, a geiger counter, and a manual."

More here 🤯:
https://interestingengineering.com/culture/radioactive-toy-deemed-world-most-dangerous

#Science #Toys