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You are beautiful in c/[email protected]
New slippers came in in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

They were from Muji. Cotton slippers. The ones made from some kind of reed are gone.

I soaped some old drawers in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Good point. But I don't know how it'd off-gas or if it'd leak onto stuff.

I soaped some old drawers in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm a fan of using 3-in-1 oil for most things. Should be good for metal tracks.

Not food safe though. Not sure what to use on kitchen drawers.

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New slippers came in (slrpnk.net)
 

They are soft.

Old ones were nice, but got worn out. Same model was no longer available.

I soaped some old drawers in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

WD-40 is a rather poor lubricant. Maybe OP is also talking about wooden drawers or somewhere food is stored? In those cases I'd not use WD-40 either.

Why U.S. oil production could even go into reverse in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Probably as effective as any other carbon capture and storage scam.

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Why U.S. oil production could even go into reverse (www.axios.com)
 

Oil production in the USA may drop 🥰

Why 2026 Could Finally Be The Year Of Affordable EVs in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

And also the year of the Linux desktop!

The Most Impactful Things You Can Do for the Climate Aren’t What You’ve Been Told in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

No mention at all of having fewer kids? That alone has a huge impact.

Cleaned the coffee grinder. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (4 children)

What about two year dust?

Cleaned the coffee grinder. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

When I worked slinging coffees, we used a specific coffee machine cleaning substance. You poured in these pill shaped bits and they'd absorb excess oil as they ground through the machine.

Cleaned the coffee grinder. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Disassemble as best you can, brush out all the bits with a clean paintbrush, damp cloth to wipe everything. It's not factory clean but it's better.

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Cleaned the coffee grinder. (slrpnk.net)
 

I accidentally bought ground coffee instead of whole beans. So when the grinder ran out of beans, I took it apart and gave it a decent scrub. When I use it again, it should grind smoother and maybe even get the coffee tasting better.

Ploopy mice are designed and made in Canada, repairable, and open source in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I have the Ploopy Classic trackball and the Trackpad. Both are top notch products. 3D prints are excellent.

The firmware is open-source so I was able to flash my own layout for my own workflow. It's QMK, used in mechanical keyboards. You don't need to touch the firmware if you don't have the inclination, it works out of the box.

There's a small community of modders that have done wild things to the hardware too.

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As warming climate hammers coffee crops, this rare bean may someday be your brew (apnews.com)
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Drought leaves Canadian farmers unpaid, reveals holes in safety net (www.reuters.com)
 

Obvious missing element of the story: climate change.

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Lost cities of the Amazon: how science is revealing ancient garden towns hidden in the rainforest (www.theguardian.com)
 

These lost rainforest cities may seem to have little in common with today’s steel and asphalt behemoths but according to experts, early Amazonian metropolises are remarkable for what they tell us about the way ancestral urbanites lived off the land without trampling it. The new scientific tools have helped to uncover a pre-colonial landscape marked by ancient practices with implications for contemporary environmental management.

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Roman Empire’s use of lead lowered IQ levels across Europe, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
 

Scientists measured atmospheric concentrations of lead in ancient times and concluded the vast lead use of the Roman empire led to a drop in IQ in the population.

Roman children had only a fraction of the lead buildup that US children had in the 1970s due to leaded gasoline.

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Just how big are oilsands CEO salaries? | The Narwhal (thenarwhal.ca)
 

Good article except the use of the propaganda term "oilsands", it should be "tar sands".

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Giant sloths and mastodons lived with humans for millennia in the Americas, new discoveries suggest (phys.org)
 

For a long time, the common wisdom is that megafauna died out soon after humans arrived in the Americas. If humans have been in the Americas for much longer than thought, and co-existed with megafauna for millennia, then that narrative is wrong. It's a projection of modern humans' faults onto ancient humans. Moreover, it shows that there is nothing inevitable about human-caused extinctions. Humans are not a virus, Agent Smith.

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Cop29 host Azerbaijan set for major fossil gas expansion, report says (www.theguardian.com)
 

Azerbaijan’s president, Ilham Aliyev, told a climate conference in April: “Having oil and gas deposits is not our fault. It’s a gift from God.”

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Study shows EV owners have bigger carbon footprint than average because they are wealthier (phys.org)
 

Maybe EVs are not a comprehensive climate solution??

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How Agroforestry Could Help Revitalize America’s Corn Belt (e360.yale.edu)
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