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aeolis_monson Phone battery creates striking alien landscapes (2021)

For more imagery of lithium mining landscapes, I strongly recommend Edward Burtynsky’s “Anthropocene” project:

https://www.edwardburtynsky.com/projects/the-anthropocene-pr...

This was a huge inconvenience to me. I was stranded an hour from home at 10pm, with no way to get home. What an absolute mess.

aeolis_monson Casio F91 smart watch reboot

I love my F91 (I’m wearing it right now!), and I love minimalist smartwatches. So this is right up my alley. I hope it keeps moving forward!

aeolis_monson Investigating the effects of bike lanes in Minneapolis

Are you talking about 16th? Moving from NYC, I appreciated the island of sanity that street provides in Denver’s car-dominated cityscape.

aeolis_monson The Sound of Bells – The acoustics, sound, tuning and history of church bells

One of my favorite sequences in any movie. I will never forget the visuals of workmen sweltering in front of flaming portholes in the bell's cast. Enduring a little inferno, to create the sound of heaven! Thank you for reminding me of it. :)

aeolis_monson Tired Mountain Syndrome

Sometimes the same hole is reused, though not usually:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon_Site

aeolis_monson Chesapeake Bay Impact Crater

This may have contributed to the immiseration and decline of the Jamestown colony, some thirty-five million years later:

"Chesapeake Bay is the remains of a giant meteor crater. The impact shattered rock for miles, letting seawater infiltrate. Few Indian groups lived in the saltwater wedge, presumably for just that reason. Jamestown was bordered and undergirded by bad water. That bad water, the geographer Carville V. Earle argued, led to 'typhoid, dysentery, and perhaps salt poisoning.' By January 1608, eight months after landfall, only thirty-eight [of the original 144] English were left alive."

From Charles Mann's "1493", which is a fantastic read; it's full of satisfying connections between environmental and historical forces like the above.

aeolis_monson Locast, a Free App Streaming Network TV, Would Love to Get Sued

Can anyone give a summary of the privacy policy? They're getting my location... are they going to sell it?

aeolis_monson Sedans Aren’t Dead, American Sedans Are

> They also just don't seem to want to make enough of them or ship them to markets where people want them. Canada was starved for inventory all last last year. None went to Europe. Asia, where they'd make a lot of sense, got only a smattering. And they don't seem to be improving on this.

They lose several thousand dollars on each car, so the reluctance to expand production is perhaps unsurprising:

https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1107604_gm-loses-9k-on-...