So yeah, here's part of the issue. Car shredders. Crushed cars don't just get dumped into big pits of molten steel, crushed cars get shredded with large high speed hammermills and the component materials - iron/steel, aluminum - get separated out by magnetic and eddy current separators. The rest is called Auto Shredder Residue and ends up landfilled. It's all the copper and the materials that used to be glass and plastic dashboards and o-rings in Macpherson struts and stuff like that.

If you haven't seen ASR, it's a relatively fine grain, probably mostly under 0.5", and with modern cars, it's mostly plastic.

If you drop a Tesla into a car shredder (the eventual fate of most cars), I think the batteries will end up as ASR. And then you're trying to separate cobalt battery components from the old stuffed toys left in the back seat.

How do we shred this better, and why are we not already doing this with municipal waste? Hammermills have windage losses and crazy internal wear. Low veolcity high torque machines need even worse maintenance. Robots to disassemble cars seems like a good idea, until you've actually worked in an automotive wrecking yard and seen that cars often no longer look like cars....

There we go. Heavy water, the ultimate in pricey bottled water.

Move over, Perrier. This one's got kick!

It's neat that we can taste the difference, and if bottled water suppliers can mass produce it as a beverage it will surely reduce the operating costs of some types of nuclear reactors.

Facebook is broken, and it's broken by design.

These tiny patches they add on to correct their worst outrages are nothing but measures to avoid the regulation that is absolutely required to stop the dread that Facebook has become. The basic problem is that they keep optimizing for engagement, desperate to keep growing the beast, and that the most engaging content is everything that causes outrage. They know this problem, and they won't fix it because fixing it might limit their growth.

At this point, Facebook is little but a cancer on society.

I direct your attention to https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.technologyreview.c... (Which Facebook seems to be ensuring doesn't show up in anyone's feed - you can post it there, but it'll receive zero engagement), and the Twitter thread that discusses how Facebook has been working on killing this story: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fglichfield...

We don't care. We don't have to. We're the Phone Company.

I mean, I guess I can excuse your lack of reading ability - the truth is just glaring at you from the summary itself.
'Talking to a CNN anchor in late 2019 Joe Biden said, "You can't do what they can do on Facebook, and say anything at all, and not acknowledge when you know something is fundamentally not true. I just think it's all out of hand."'

'[...] New York Times interview from a year ago he said he wanted it "revoked immediately". '

The fact that you've been modded to +5 when spouting nonsense shown false in the very summary of the article you're responding to is however a rather damning indictment of Slashdot's user-run moderation system.

Parent should have more mod points.

Dicks. Very few billionaires have teats.

As reported by Boomberg.com (the l they stuck in there must be a typo, right?)

Our toilets are much the same here in Canada - residential use toilets are gravity-fed with typically 6L per flush from a "close-coupled" tank which is mounted directly on top of the bowl. The tank is filled from municipal or well supply, which is typically at 50PSI or so, but the fill valve is the only part of the system under pressure.

They operate by momentum, not by pressure. m1*v1 = m2*v2. The pressure would be limited by the head, which is typically only 2 feet or so. The secret to their effectiveness is allowing 6 kilograms of water to accelerate as quickly as possible in the height allowed by the design and have it collide with the ...dark matter... to drive it away.

Most residential plumbing systems use 1/2" ID supply pipe which would simply not allow a pressurized flush like a commercial toilet to be effective. There are exceptions which use bladder systems to attempt to leverage the standing water pressure of the municipal water supply to drive the flush water down to the bowl as quickly as possible. These systems tend to be expensive, unreliable, and loud, although one day these issues may be resolved.

Improvements to the existing system will require very carefully designed bowls and trapways and exceptionally well-installed plumbing with regard to soil pipe slope and venting. My own home is outfitted with 3L per flush toilets which do an admirable job - I have yet to clog them, even after a visit to a buffet restaurant - despite being purely momentum-based close-coupled toilets without the additional complexity and failure-prone seals in dual-flush mechanisms.

Adding technology is not the answer to this problem. Keeping it as simple as possible but doing the basics really well is key.

Oh wait, we were supposed to actually do the research BEFORE we posted the conclusion?

My bad. Anyway, that's what the data(*) will turn out to show, so you might as well take it as given.

(*): As properly massaged by our highly salaried data-obscu^H^H^H^H^scientists.

It's like you think people getting sick, dying or staying sick for months(*) doesn't impact the economy. Your math's a poor excuse for deranged Trumpism.

(*) Possibly much more, we don't know the long-term damage but signs of serious organ damage has been found in a ridiculously high percentage of people who've gotten well - including those who were never hospitalized.

Seconded

Some few activists mean that, yes. The large majority doesn't.
The only leadership position Mariame Kaba (who wrote the article you linked) has is leader of the small organization she founded, Project NIA.
She's hardly anywhere even remotely close to a leadership position of the movement as a whole.

'The proposed amendment replaces that with "a department of community safety and violence prevention" that will take "a holistic, public-health-oriented approach."

It also provides for a law enforcement division with licensed officers.'

I'd look up the definition of "defund" before I accused others of redefining it. Here, let me help:

defund
[ dee-fuhnd ]
verb (used with object)
to withdraw financial support from, especially as an instrument of legislative control: Many university programs were defunded by the recent government cutbacks.
to deplete the financial resources of: The cost of the lawsuit defunded the company's operating budget.