"We need to be reasonable" about climate action?

If your house is on fire, you don't go "yeah of course the fire is a problem, but we also have to fold the laundry, vacuum the living room and do the dishes", do you?

The only "reasonable" course of action is to do everything we can, as fast as we can, to salvage as much as we can.

Nothing else will matter if we fail to do that.

#ClimateCrisis

A lot of people got excited by a report that a material called LK99 is a room-temperature superconductor. Researchers raced to validate the claim. Now the early results are out--and they don't look good.

Impressively quick work by scientists around the world! But accessible superconductivity remains an elusive goal. [Thread via the Condensed Matter Theory Center at the University of Md]
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1688747910471561216.html #tech #lk99 #technology

Me: *sees the time is 3:14* hey, it's Pi-o'clock

🤔 wait, 14 minutes isn't 0.14159 of an hour 🤔
*goes to fetch Soviet-era circular slide rule because why not*

Me: ok so 3:08 would actually be Pi-o'clock, time to post this to the one server on the internet where people might care

"Perhaps my half-Wookie-but-balding uncle needs an email account at the family domain, but I know for a fact that he answers every hair restoration spam and he doesn’t understand the difference between Netflix and his cell phone. His email should not be tied to a Unix account or, indeed, any system access whatsoever." - #ryoms

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