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The trick is thermohaline circulation, basically salty water moves differently then fresh water in cold and warm environments. So to promote that effect the stage is tilted to allow warmer fresh water above cooler salty water below. Then a membrane moves the salt out of the circulation so as not to accumulate and clog the system.

The thing is that scaling this upward would present some challenges structurally to do large volumes OR the complexity would increase if they kept the same size and just made thousands of these little stages. Not to mention that, depending on what they're using for a membrane for salt removal, having a larger surface area could make it easier or more difficult to maintain. Easier in that you only need to clean it every so often (the membrane helps spread the load) or more difficult in that such a large membrane requires delicate processes to change out.

Also commercial production requires a fixed output, so with sunlight being variable any commercial installation would require storage.

But reading the brine discharge always makes me wish that grid based sodium ion batteries would be researched more. But can't have that because oil companies already put large deposits into lithium mines.

James Whitehurst has been appointed as Unity’s interim CEO

James Whitehurst is the guy who played a part of the "IBM buys RedHat" deal that's been "awesome".

Roelof Botha, lead independent director of the Unity board, has been named its new chairman

Roelof Botha is from South Africa and one of Elon Musk's friends. He's one of the guys from Sequoia Capital who established part of the massive finical instruments that Musk used to purchase Twitter.

I'm actually shocked Shlomo Dovrat or Egon Durban didn't receive some role in this. This would have been a who's who of the likely five that lead the charge on the Board for the whole episode. But that said, the ascension of these two is hardly the indication that the company has learned anything. Scapegoat is indeed just a scapegoat.

But after the appellate court upheld the trial court’s order requiring the Department to produce a corporate representative for deposition, the records were produced in March 2023.

So they kept saying they didn't have the records, when the court was finally like "Okay send someone over to be deposed for it", all those records suddenly appeared. Why? Because sending someone over to officially be deposed for it, marks the person responsible for the testimony that is very difficult to escape. That level of deposition, you don't get a "well I wasn't aware that Bob over there was hiding documents" or any backsie outsie like that. That official person says "we don't have the records" and suddenly someone finds the records, that official person's ass is going to prison.

That's why these documents suddenly appeared out of thin air, because the court was done with the department and was like, "Okay if you're so adamant about your position, put someone's freedom on the line." And it's not like a scapegoat can be picked, because that's also very uncool and very illegal to do that for this kind of deposition and given enough time, had they chosen to go that route, many more would be finding themselves in prison.

That's literally what it took. For the court to remove all the weaselly "Oh! THOSE documents?! Why didn't you say so?" chances to get out of being found out. They literally had to be squeezed into a corner from which there was no escape to finally fess up. I'm not in Florida, never live there, never plan on living there, but if I was a Floridian I'd be calling for the Florida Assembly to out everyone involved, all the way to DeSantis.

It's one thing if no one actually knew about the documents. But for suddenly all that recall to kick into full gear when the Court gets to this kind of position. No part of that looks legit. That's like a bunch of fuckers thought they could snake their way through all the courts for long enough and suddenly when the shit hit fan and there was nowhere else to go they started screaming "HEY LET'S SETTLE!!"

But I doubt the average Florida voter will even lift a single finger about this. There will be some, but by and large, most of the Floridan voters won't care that a Governor hid information about deaths and dangers of a virus. Hell even went after that Jones lady for trying to tell everyone that they were hiding the data with police raiding her home. Nope, most Floridian voters will allow this to sweep on by like a category one hurricane.

I don't think future generations will ever understand how people kept yelling "justice" and this BS is the only kind of "justice" we ever got.

Future generations will never understand how we waxed so on and on about justice and how this kind of "justice" was commonplace.

Just an FYI. The CalRx insulin is being produced by Civica Rx. They will be producing three insulins for the program. Glargie, Lispro, and Aspart. These are generic biologics that are interchangeable with Lantus (long-acting), Humalog (fact-acting), and Novolog (instant). Additionally, for the products where this makes sense, products will be available in vial and autoinjector formats. The $30 price is that of the vials and $55 for a box of five autoinjectors.

So main take aways should be CalRx will be producing analogs and will be providing a wide band of types for different needs.

Price look up codes are standardized by the International Federation for Produce Standards (IFPS). 80085 is assigned to "Pumpkin (jumbo)". So any place that sells that product has 80085 PLU stickers on it.

4.2 K (-269⁰C) and 3,695 K (3,422⁰C) respectively for those wondering.

Tutorial for pot of greed

Paul outlines his beliefs in his upcoming book: “Deception: The Great Covid Cover-Up,”

Yeah, all of this is just pretense for making a quick buck.

But I thought Republicans were supposed to fuck those or something?

Well that sounds like semantics that you take exception with, on how particular educational groups define things. Your frustration is well founded but misplaced on me. Indeed all things build and in different orders for different people no doubt. However, in the context of educational reporting at the government level, these are the labels that are applied in the various reports. And as all things, those things roll down hill.

clearer distinctions for these types of skills that meant more than “x-grade”

There are, but politics being what they are, those labels are less meaningful labels to folks that arguably have the most power to change the course of things (that last part is strictly my opinion, sorry/not really sorry I injected it here). In short, I concur with your observation.

what's the concrete advantage of the average person reading at a high level is

Sixth grade reading is being able to extract information from written word. Below that grade level, you're basically reading words but none of them need to have logical impact on some greater theme or topic. Sixth grade reading level is the ability to read things that matter. Eighth grade reading is reading at a level where you can apply introspection to the underlying theme or topic that's being extracted from the written word.

So, and this is simply my opinion, I believe it is important to be able to read things and understand how they apply to one's self in a logical manner. The ability to extract the impact that the particular piece has is critical to subsequently applying that introspective quality to the piece. So, yes, I believe being able to read at sixth grade level is incredibly important. It is difficult to understand how something applies to you if you cannot correctly extract what the point that is being discussed, actually is, in the first place.

they clearly haven't needed the skill in their lives

Well a lot of everyday life is not present in those terms. Your employer does not sit there and go "this machine is big enough to stick a arm into it and applies enough pressure to remove that arm from your body" without also following it up with "so do not stick your arm into this machine." In fact, legal requirements likely dictate a "DO NOT STICK ARM INTO MACHINE" or something similar sign right beside the machine.

There is a massive difference between the utility as a function of labor and employment and utility as a function of operating within a society. So do try to apply this at say a social level. Employers can change the condition of the environment one works in to accommodate a lot of leeway. So do try to think of it less in "what does this higher reading level provide in objective utility in a work environment?"

i also don't particularly care how well the average adult has their multiplication tables memorised

Well that is interesting that you bring that up because rote memorization of multiplication is third grade level stuff. Things like "all things multiplied by two are even" is higher grade thinking. There is actually a point where you stop thinking of multiplication as some table to be memorized and start seeing it as a pattern that has deeper meaning.

If I add a zero to the end of a number, "3 to 30 or 45 to 450" I have multiplied that by 10, and that has a deeper meaning all over in various engineering domain. In computer terms we call that bit shifting and there's optimizations in rendering pipelines and memory access that comes from this deeper understanding of multiplication. Or things like (x,y) coordinates, it is easy to just think of it as plotting point on a grid, but at some point you obtain a deeper meaning and start seeing (x,y) as (r,θ) and you begin to have an understanding of vectors and that understanding is critical to literally everything that might have to traverse your GPU. Want to change the heading of an airplane? You can do vector addition to know exactly what will happen when you change that heading.

And even then you stop seeing exactness of math and start seeing the general patterns of it. You begin to understand this kind of change in this variable has this kind of effect. And you can pick that kind of feeling up with on the job training no doubt. But with a deeper understanding of math you begin to understand more than what on the job training can give you, because you can break those actions down into more mathematical terms that can be manipulated easily within your mind, rather than the good old trail and error method (which obviously wouldn't be a good method for an airplane that you are currently flying).

There is also more to it than the surface level implications of education. Yes, we can just look at the surface level stuff and conclude that the "real" world reigns supreme. But having that deeper understanding, be it in written word or mathematical eloquence, gives us a richer understanding of the world we live in. Gives us more access to the potential of this world. We do not per se "need it", much like we don't pre se need things like medicine, refrigerators, guns, bulldozers, and what not. Our ancestors did without them for countless years. But having that deeper meaning gives us access to things that we would otherwise not have. This nice world we have of comfort is not a product of it being forced upon us, it is a side result of various people who went further than the surface level understanding of this world that was routinely offered.

So if you are curious of the advantage, look around you. That is the advantage.

It's really important for folks to understand what is being talked about here, because I run into folks even here that are like "that's a wall of text, I'm not reading that". And that's kind of the behavior that's being talked about. Like, if you find yourself in "read the headline, not the story" you might be in this group they are talking about in this article that is linked. And do not let me come off high and mighty here, I absolutely have issues with this some times because I get all kinds of caught up with life and do not have enough time to maintain my reading habits. It is a complex issue on why there is this deterioration of reading skills. And I will likely say something to the effect of "Internet BAD!" but do know it is more than just that, it is just that is the easiest go-to for a "short" comment.

So that said. Nice little sample question one would see on a test that would test this is:

In Lions of Little Rock, two girls form a dangerous and clandestine friendship, that is challenged by racial segregation. Name, in chronological order, the multiple episodes of racist threats and violence and how they increased the tension of the relationship between the two girls.

It's not a question of "Can you read the book?" It is a question of, "Did you extract information from the book? Can you connect the dots asked in the question based on the information that you read?" Lots of people who identify themselves as literate have a lot of difficulty doing these kinds of things. So we have to understand that, this is not testing if a kid can read the word "onomatopoeia", it is testing if a person can extract useful information from written words.

All of that is different from the "eighth grade reading level" where you are typically asked things like "extrapolate what you think the underlying theme the author is trying to present." Sixth grade reading is mostly being able to put things back in the order that you read them, picking out the descriptive terms that were in the text, and identifying what the entire point was for this particular piece of work, among other things. One does not have to really get creative here, sixth grade reading is just "in slightly finer detail" being able to regurgitate what was just read. Now to get kids ready for higher reading, there is usually questions about "do you think this person at this point was feeling happy?" That kind of stuff that relies of extrapolating meaning which is usually above the "sixth grade level reading".

And it is indeed shocking how many people cannot do this. But in order to be shocked, I think people need to understand what is being tested here. A lot of social media does indeed condition folks to allow this level of reading to atrophy. The number of people who toss around TL;DR is really high and some of that is because it does not interest them. That of course is fine, but some of it is because 50% of the way through their brain is tired of reading text. AND THAT, is problematic. And really I can only touch on so much of the issue in this comment without it feeling like it is going on forever.

There are all kinds of assessment tests online that folks can review and see exactly the kind of questions that are being asked. The whence and wherefores on this matter and the causes for it happening are indeed complex and obviously I cannot cover them all here. But one big one, in my opinion, is education and its intersection with technology. Technology does indeed make lots of things easier for us, but some of those things that technology unburdens us from we should probably reexamine that relationship. Perhaps we need better education with technology or maybe we need less technology with that education, they both have pros and cons to them. There are not easy answers in this for the kind of background American education presents, which that is also an addressable matter in all of this.

But, but, were there any drag queens or questionable books present?

Man they got fucking robbed. Amazon has it for only $944 The Amazon review though...

If you are concerned about wasteful spending I highly recommend going with this price from Amazon

EDIT: Yes, I'm pretty sure they paid $1,000 for it and then reported $19,000 pocketing the difference. As someone who has lived their whole life in Tennessee (and has worked for a period of time in State Government), that's Southern politics 101. Days where they aren't fleecing the taxpayer are few and far between here in the Southeastern US.

I thought the Dems might try to save him

It's his own party that ate him. Dems don't need to anything with them. Dems are trying to keep the country running, they cannot also play mom to every single GOP whiny baby that tosses a fit. The Republicans have got to get their shit together or don't and split into two parties. Because a schism this large that has them sabotaging their own Speaker of the House, like the unity in the party is gone at this point.

As far as Dems being on the hook about this, this is all I have to say about it: