I read up on weather radio products after this flood news. The "Specific Area Message Encoding" protocol enables you to receive only those alerts that cover your immediate area. Of course, you have to have a radio that decodes those signals and you local authorities have to opt in, so it's not a cure-all. From reviews, getting the right radio and setting it up properly are non-trivial tasks.

This is why we should outlaw bat ranches.

The linked materials are light on the technology. Four clicks in, they appear to be using banks of small-cell Li-ion batteries.

Also, written specifications and branding don't enable specific performance. That's done by the underlying technology.

Like landscapes in open-world games, is there an AI-powered speaker/app that continuously creates procedurally generated music? I guess it's just Deezer with the AI filter inverted.

Are you suggesting that Colossal is working on Phase 1 of its secret plan to Bring Back the Ice Age?!? ;)

Where is the Chevy Montana? Brazil has compact pickup trucks from just about every car manufacturer. They're everywhere! We'll, not here. There's the Hyundai Santa Cruz.

I suspect (weasely! I didn't read the research!) that the effects are measurable but the causes are vague. Not a large, double-blind, clinical study.

In at least one arena, it's still "on the horizon" (for a few years). The 2023 NASA Aerospace Battery Workshop had at least three papers on the topic (search for "solid").

Do the people being let go lack the needed skills AND are untrainable? The first step in hiring 10 people is firing 10 others? Where I work, if the company opens new "job requisitions" they first advertise those internally before opening them to outside/new hires. It's called lateral movement. Of course, if it's about cutting payroll then that's a different story, but here they mentioned talent.

Agreed. (no mod points)

Just leave the Loc-Nar in the trunk.

Reading these repeating headlines, it sounds a bit like an auction.

Weird, possibly expensive metallic bits on the sea floor? Cue the Glomar Explorer!

I agree that efforts should be backed by positive data/studies, but the various disconnected plans aren't mutually exclusive. Changing your thermostat two degrees has an immeasurable effect on climate, but if everyone does it it'll reduce emissions at the power plant. Same with combining errands into a single trip. "Death [to carbon emissions] by a thousand cuts." If they're already burning this invasive mesquite species, why not turn it to charcoal and till it into the ground? I don't get any carbon credits from my thermostat (though I do get "digital credits" for selecting "Amazon day delivery"), but that doesn't make it a bad idea.