Fossil is bad. Fossil is bad! I said it first. Way back when nobody knew. I knew. I knew all along. But you gotta play it smart. Can’t show your cards. Not a lot of people know about fossil, but I always knew. Ask the ones who know and they’ll tell you. A lot of people will say I didn’t know. A lot of people will say I said to drill. Never said it. I always knew. I always know.

Last week there was a day when the AQI went over 50. I have asthma and noticed I was having trouble breathing. It was burning my eyes and giving me a headache and a stomach ache. I ended up spending most of the day inside, and if it had even been a little bit worse I would have just called out. A mask didn’t really help. You could see a smoky haze in the clouds, obscuring the mountains a bit, and even hanging in some of the bigger fields.

That’s at 50. The highest I’ve seen it is somewhere around like 120 to 140, which makes my breathing bad enough that I just seal up my room, crank my carbon filter and air purifier, and stay inside until it passes.

Then I look at the AQI maps and scroll over to India and China. Yikes.

I can’t imagine what 400 must be like. I don’t think I’d survive. I would never be able to go outside.

Is that even a meaningful amount of money to Chevron? These lawsuits need to start being measured in percentages of the company’s value rather than fixed dollar amounts. Ruin a coastline? We’re taking at least 20% of your company.

Oh no! Not our capitalism! Where will we get all our poverty?!?!

I dropped my full sized keychron a while back and the pcb got screwed up at the usb c port, so I’m stuck on a 60%. It’s nice to have the extra desk space, but I’d be completely lost if I didn’t have a macropad. Even still, it’s kind of a pain in the ass sometimes. Eventually I’ll be not-broke enough to justify getting a new pcb, hopefully, but I’m not even sure how to order just a pcb from them. Giant pain in the ass.

I do like my little Newman board, though. It has some nice linears that I lubed up and I’ve got a tape mod on it. I miss qmk but it’s better than a membrane at least.

Originally I picked it up to use with my phone so I could get work done on the road without slowing my typing speed to a crawl and grappling with autocorrect. Made a decent backup!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW7CkbQ_3vQ

Somebody forgot to center their edgy graphic.

Lemmy is absolutely overwhelmed with bad faith posters with dubious motivations.

Heat doesn’t go up. Hot air rises because it’s less dense than cold air. You know what’s less dense than hot air though? Vacuum. That’s a good thing, though, because we don’t want to be hemorrhaging atmosphere.

Even if we could build a physical heat sink sticking out of the atmosphere somehow, it would be less protected from solar radiation than anything inside the atmosphere, so if it were facing the sun it probably wouldn’t work.

Even if we had the resources and like, enough readily available materials on Earth to make some sort of retractable heat sink sticking out of the night-side of the planet, it’d probably require more energy consumption to create than would be worth it.

Probably the best way to cool things down is to quit burning so much shit and quit knocking forests down.