Baguette

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[–] Baguette@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Those are the exact brine lakes I talked about that exist in the bottom of the ocean.

Brine is too dense to be above seawater. They accumulate in the bottom, creating essentially small pockets that kills almost every normal life. Only extremophiles live near it, and even then its usually just surrounding the edges of the lake.

You also can't exactly guarantee that the brine you make ends up here. They are in the bottom of the ocean, not exactly a place you can pump brine to.

[–] Baguette@lemm.ee 9 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Are there any brine reservoir in the ocean? That doesn't seem to be a thing. It either mixes properly with the ocean if proper mechanisms are set or it just ends up sinking to the bottom of the ocean and killing everything there.

There's storage inland, but that also has its own problems.

Nuclear waste in the ocean follows a similar idea (although larger in scope). You can't just dump it and be done. You have to create a plan to slowly release it (over decades) to (hopefully) not adversely affect life

[–] Baguette@lemm.ee 15 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

Salinity doesn't really work like that. You can't just dump a bunch of brine and expect it to just mix with the rest of the seawater. A lot of that depends on temperature, currents, etc. You might just end up forming a brine lake in the ocean if the brine just so happens to end up at the bottom without ever mixing. Not to mention brine isn't always just concentrated salt and water. It can include byproducts from desalination.

Reference:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/slaking-the-worlds-thirst-with-seawater-dumps-toxic-brine-in-oceans/

[–] Baguette@lemm.ee 8 points 3 weeks ago

Kid me was pretty stupid. My mom, sister, and I went on a trip to Hawaii with my mom's coworker. At that time, I was really bad at swimming. One of the beach trips we went to snorkel. I was left unsupervised for a while and ended up following a sea turtle way too far out. I ended up getting water in the breathing tube, and I panicked. I think I was flailing around for about two minutes going up and down the surface of the water until my mom's coworker noticed and dragged me back to shore. Was pretty sure I would've just drowned if no one noticed.

[–] Baguette@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Chinatown is a more unique environment. Lots of foot traffic, sidewalk vendors, and really tight knit community. Its not a scaleable solution though. Hard to make that kinda of super dense area everywhere

[–] Baguette@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wonder if they're including those that are living in internet cafes and such. I remember that being a pretty prevalent problem a bit back. Wikipedia says they counted it on 2007, but no notes of whether they continue to include them or not as homeless.

Not discounting their achievement though, they have their shit together, at least way more than the US

[–] Baguette@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Good for you! I'm still waiting for the day the tech world unionizes and push back on the recent horrendous decisions

[–] Baguette@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes and no. In a perfect world, people would be able to uphold their ethics. Unfortunately, in the real world, people don't have that luxury. A job is their lifeline to basic necessities, and sacrificing their job might mean going to debt for many. Especially if you are young and without many options due to the lower level pullback in the tech sphere.

[–] Baguette@lemm.ee 12 points 1 month ago (6 children)

The issue is that people who find an issue with it and don't want to do it will get told off by management. Then management just replaces them with someone who is willing to do it (for job safety, or simply because they don't care)

Thats just how big tech is

[–] Baguette@lemm.ee 49 points 1 month ago (2 children)

In their memo announcing 5 days RTO they also said they'll be increasing contributor to manager ratio. Guess they meant that by firing a bunch of managers

[–] Baguette@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Female xlr end

The connection part is where the 3 slots are, (metal touching metal), the outer part/shell is moreso a way to hold it in place

Its a lot easier to tell when its on an audio interface or whatever audio device

[–] Baguette@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So you won't watch an hr+ movie?

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