What’s the role of the “new coal” (forest biomass) in this equation?

California burns “organic residues,” including from forest crops, to generate power. But can so-called waste wood, even with ag residues too, sustain this use? Or will whole trees have to be cut?

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Personally, I’d prefer computer voices be identifiably different from human voices. Draw from film aliens or robots? Or cartoon characters?

Or maybe always sing or speak in verse?

But now the imitative capabilities mean that even if AI shifts to non-human voices, there’ll always be that potential

I visited this location in very early 1986. At the time, having previously visited the slaving forts of El Mina and at Cape Coast, this one on Gorée struck me as being rather small for the numbers mentioned

Is it conclusive that the “House of Slaves” was not used at all for the slave trade?

The Malian film, Guimba the Tyrant (1995) which seems to be set in a pre-colonial period, has one scene featuring a neem tree - which was introduced to the region from India during colonization.

That kind of spoiled the effect for me.

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Unless it’s a reduced price on something you actually need to buy.

Still, I remember once hearing a radio ad saying “The more you spend, the more you save,” and thinking, “The more you spend, the more you spend!”
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When did “Black Friday” start being used for the post T’giving shopping deals day?

Uh-oh

Apple Podcasts app generates transcripts that are pretty good in my experience - but I’ve only really used them to search out a quotable.

Air filtration devices?

UV devices?

Improved ventilation?

Some of the synonyms sound fun, too. In language learning, one of the approaches I find interesting is learning & comparing use of synonyms, near or quasi synonyms, & related words.
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tonter%...

This is insanity. We can’t burn our way to carbon neutrality. And crop-based biofuels are basically just an inefficient conversion of solar energy plus a host of externalities.

In times of change or uncertainty, when there’s no good vision of the future, people tend to reach back to an idealized (even sanitized) past.

Have noticed nostalgia for Moussa Traoré in Mali (2000) and Mao in China (2006). One reads of Stalin rehabilitated in Russia. Etc.

I also decided to follow all accounts of Baha’is. Would like to see more. Community accounts are particularly interesting to see.

On this topic, I found this episode of Hasan Kwame Jeffries’ Teaching Hard History podcast to be informative. I knew about the Triangle Trade, but Christy Clark-Pujara provided context and details I was unaware of.
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“New Zealand’s premier hacker conference, Kawaiicon, quietly launched a real-time, room-by-room carbon dioxide monitoring system for attendees.”

This is a great example for conferences and public meetings. Thanks to Kwaiicon for doing it!

Are there other examples?

Scary scene - glad neither the kid nor the dad was hurt.

There’s a magnet school on a 4-lane 1-way road in my area. I’ve been on it at pickup time when the school lights are flashing and found I’m almost the only one to slow down. TBH, I don’t often see anyone on the sidewalks there, but still …

Thank you