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‘hybrid lithium-sodium battery…200MW/400MWh…dual daily charge-discharge cycle, <580 GWh/yr…investment >CNY 460 million ($63.8 million)…occupying 34,000 m2…capable of autonomous adjusting voltage & frequency during grid fluctuations/outages…various modes, including fast/slow charge-discharge cycles’

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

These are good measures that produced many units at a reasonable cost, and there would likely be thousands more people living on the streets without them. But, on net, homelessness is still getting worse because of policy and circumstances mostly out of Portland's control.

submitted 7 hours ago • 4 comments

(me making fun of your crop rotation idea and thereby holding our people back another 5000 years) jeff thinks the beans have to take turns lmao

submitted 666 days ago • 48 comments

There are no good args against more housing near transit, if you're in CA call your reps and tell them as much

submitted 11 hours ago • 3 comments

Happy birthday Skinny! At 50, she’s the oldest known harbor seal in the world. Skinny will be sealebrating all day today at her home at @orcoastaquarium.bsky.social—follow along to join in the fun! #SkinnyIs50

submitted 11 hours ago • 9 comments

I made an attempt to greatly cut back my use of em dashes because I realized they were showing up like 2-3x per paragraph in my college writing

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

The ICE goons just love to play dress-up

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

Pandemic's over, folks

submitted 13 hours ago • 3 comments

Once viewed as the path out of the pandemic, mRNA vaccines are now being vilified — & not just by fringe figures. The attack on this important platform could render the US far more vulnerable in the next pandemic & trailing China in the field of scientific advances. www.statnews.com/2025/06/02/m...

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

Going up the West Coast, place names transition pretty smoothly from Spanish to English to native. Mendocino to Lincoln City to Quillayute

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

I think the anti-DEI thing is projection partly because these people can't imagine getting political power and not using it to reward their dumbest and most venal buddies with jobs

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Thinking about the "sewer dungeon" the protagonist of Consider Phlebas was condemned to die in when he was first introduced. Amazingly not the grossest part of that book

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I will grant him and his family every bit of respect that they are due

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