I’ll listen to them her later!

To me - that looks like something from a sci-fi movie about the size of a smallish PC tower and it’s called the “device”.

just a cover for the buttons?

Just that.

My plan is to use a cotton swab to very gingerly push the buttons. I assume the panel is less likely to fall off. Why? I only did a few test pushes with a swab but it seems better than a fingertip. The swab focuses the push right on the button and the swab seemed not to be nearly as sticky to the panel as my fingertip.

Why didn’t they make it just five fucking buttons? Sigh.

I had to scroll a bit to get to the punchline. Emphasis mine.

Despite the initial honeymoon period, milk-based fabrics soon fell out of favor around the world. Despite press hype about its luxury, lanital was much weaker than wool, and it broke easily. Threads often came out when ironed. But most damning was the putrid odor these fabrics sometimes gave off: “when damp, [lanital and aralac] smelled like sour milk, causing many consumer complaints.”

Yikes.

It’s all fun and games and saving precious minutes of time and effort until you fall over and give yourself permanent spinal damage.

For about 10 seconds I thought about actually making them. But I think I’ll do what I always do when it comes to doing something not involving the net or a computer. I’ll keep thinking about doing it.

Nice cabinets

One of my favorite things about recent storytelling is in tv series is it can be acceptable for archaic stuff and anachronisms to intentionally be on screen - like Batman spinoffs like Gotham. A small time hood might be in an apartment with a 1980s neo-noir vibe, he’s wearing a suit that has a bit of a 70s vibe, and he’s watching breaking news about himself on a 1960s cabinet tv where the breaking news segment somehow manages to seem sort of from the present and sort of from the past.

I wonder if it was fun or more stressful for the people responsible for the look of that series to be responsible to create a vibe for a city and an era that never existed.

What Is a Sand Battery? Polar Night Energy’s Sand-based Thermal Energy Storage Explained - YouTube

Polar Night Energy’s sand battery is a large-scale high temperature thermal energy storage that uses sand or sand-like materials as its storage medium. It stores energy in sand as heat. It has three main purposes: To store excess wind and solar energy, to participate in grid balancing markets, and to produce heat and power without burning. The sand battery has a lot of potential to save emissions. Cleaner energy production is possible. Together, we can power the change from fossil fuels to renewable energy.

I really liked the video but one thing irked and annoyed me.

1:34 “A product to convert heat into electricity is being developed.”

And they don’t explain that at all!

MSNBC had this doctor on to talk about the horrible situation in Gaza.

3 years ago, MedGlobal was born - MedGlobal

By Dr. Zaher Sahloul, MedGlobal President and Co-Founder

Three years ago, I was in Yemen with three other medical volunteers, providing internal medicine and pediatrics services to people suffering from the effects of war and famine. MedGlobal had just been formed. In between medical consultations, we talked about the goals for the future of our organization, dedicated to providing innovative healthcare to crisis-affected and low-resource areas.

I don’t know anything about him - I copy and pasted that for context.

I was listening to in the background so I don’t know how long the interview was. I think ~7 minutes at least. I noticed something very unusual. Almost zero questions. Stephanie Ruhle was interviewing him. Ruhle isn’t rude but it’s her habit to pepper guests with questions. She always does that. I’ve never seen her be so quiet. Also - MSNBC’s PR shtick is that they ask questions and it makes you smarter. I forget an recent tagline - it was something like “Never stop asking questions”.

It’s the norm that anchors/reporters ask a lot of questions. In one way - the lack of questions was really great. He was highly knowledgeable and informed the audience in stark terms about how awful things are. That’s the first time I’ve seen that on CNN or MSNBC. But the producers must have had him on because even though he didn’t pull punches about the medical situation - they knew he was very politic and he’d avoid “politics”.

The end result was that the agent of the chaos, Israel, hardly came up at all. It was like these horrible unfolding health problems were happening all by themselves due to unknown or poorly understood causes.