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morninglighton Nobody pays for FOSS, we can force them to

Our school system has been using FOSS products for years.

In effect, it is a donation to a non-profit organization.

However, I'm not aware of any of the creators reaping a tax deduction for their donation.

Donating a used car to a non-profit has a well established path to this end.

Are any FOSS authors using a similar method to attain some payback?

morninglighton Largest wildlife overpass in North America reduced wildlife collision by 91%

We need more of these - for pedestrians!

morninglighton Detailed report on the use of solar geoengineering

If it gets too hot, we can always opt for a nuclear winter to cool things back down.

morninglighton Nvidia is the central bank of AI

Considering that LIBOR was discontinued in 2023 after a scandal of manipulation and fraud, YES! It's back to the future.

morninglighton Hot coffee could cause oesophageal cancer

猫の舌

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%8C%AB%E8%88%8C

morninglighton How to Build a $20B Semiconductor Fab (2024)

Ireland doesn't offer the political roadblocks that the US currently faces. Until that changes, progress will continue to be slow in this country.

https://spectrumnews1.com/oh/columbus/news/2025/02/28/intel-...

morninglighton Google will buy half the electricity from one of Finland's nuclear power plants

Does this mean that no U.S. privacy oriented data will be stored in Finland. No traceable HIPAA data or financial data and no national security data. ... or is it stored in Finland but encoded.

morninglighton Where did all the public bathrooms go?

One advanced civilization has tens of thousand of free public toilets.

https://lazyholidayplanner.com/essential-tools/japan-toilet-...

https://www.cnn.com/travel/gallery/japanese-public-toilet-ph...

https://www.toilet-map-jp.com/en

https://toiletrix.org/toilets/japan

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Public_toilets_i...

morninglighton Rice Deserves Better Than a Kochbeutel

The ARSENIC CONTENT may not alter the taste, fluffyness, shape or other observable qualities, but you might want to consider it.

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/arsenic-in-rice

morninglighton Pam Bondi Implicated in as Much as $5.5M in Insider Trading

PARDON ME!

morninglighton How the words we teach English language learners changed

Point your Duck at "VOA Special English"

morninglighton Schools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters

Is there any way to buy guns online and have them shipped directly to your doorstep?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bKu4c2Y405E

morninglighton Maura Gillison, Who Transformed the Treatment of Mouth and Throat Cancers, Died

“Although the 2000 JNCI paper changed my whole career, I was having so much fun that I didn’t realize its implications.” - Maura Gillison

https://connection.asco.org/do/asco-remembers-karnofsky-awar...

morninglighton Maura Gillison, Who Transformed the Treatment of Mouth and Throat Cancers, Died

"She suspected the HPV infection of the oral airway occurred through oral/genital contact."

"...the overriding risk factor for the cancer was multiple sex partners"

"...people who reported more than six oral sex partners through a confidential survey had a higher than eight-fold increased risk of developing cancer."

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/articles/2024/07/tracki...

morninglighton Maura Gillison, Who Transformed the Treatment of Mouth and Throat Cancers, Died

https://cancerletter.com/obituary/20260702_2/

morninglighton Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone

While living in Japan, our kid used a cellphone with 3 buttons.

1. Call mom, 2. Call dad. 3. Call Auntie.

These kid's phones were very common, inexpensive and worked great.

morninglighton Factories are just rooms

Sometimes, a factory is just smoke and mirrors.

https://constructionreviewonline.com/intels-20-billion-ohio-...

morninglighton Trump made more than $1B on crypto deals, part of 2025 windfall

Trump’s annual financial disclosure shows more than $580M in crypto-related income Guess he wasn't into Bitcoin? https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/30/trump-financial-disclosure-r...

morninglighton French physicist and media star loses doctorate after plagiarism investigation

The French can be profoundly petty. This smells like an act of personal / political revenge. Klein has a long standing as one of France's best-known scientists and a gifted popularizer of science. If a crime was committed then it is clearly his thesis committee that should be punished.

Shall we now impute dishonor on all those whose past writing cannot pass an AI examination? Do we start with Isaac Asimov, Carl Sagan, George Gamow, Michio Kaku, ...?

In any case, we need to hurry. You may not care, but there is some jackass in France who is losing sleep.

morninglighton Free financial literacy platform for kids – 90 lessons, no paywall

So, when will my kids be able to understand a 1040 and then do my taxes?

morninglighton White House will dump $700M of public funds into costly, unreliable coal again

The Stanley Steamer runs very reliably on coal, wood or even paper ballots!

morninglighton The Public Should Own Half of the Big A.I. Companies

The Public Should Own ALL of SpaceX.

morninglighton The Rich and Powerful Want to Live Forever. What If They Could?

YES!!! Old age and dying are actually good for inherited wealth.

morninglighton What killed the Florida orange?

Anita Bryant

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Bryant#/media/File:Anita...