
French company Airseas has developed the Seawing, a kite to help propel cargo ships, which it says could cut their carbon emissions by an average of 20%.

I aim to be more human. I aim to be less apathetic as a human. Apathy grows, like a tree, and I aim to prune my own.
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That assumes a level of competency I doubt musk is capable of.
Super sorry for the delay - life stuff got hectic
I think whatever you are planning would be perfectly fine for my needs, since I don’t need much. I was more just looking to see if it already existed but if it leads to a cool collab, that’s pretty awesome too and I’d love to use whatever comes out of it :)
I mean I’m down but idk how to do shit until I find a guide for it 😅
So like I’m super nervous but I’m into it.
@[email protected] might be into this also. Idk how mentions work but now you both got one, and I feel fancy.
You and @[email protected] would probably be good to chat about that :)
I don’t know shit about shit. I’d love to pretend I do but I don’t and getting competent people together is probably a win
I don’t know how to do anything techy, unfortunately, so I didn’t understand most of what you wrote.. most I know how to do is basic tech support troubleshooting type stuff 😅
I’m moving away from anyone that would be my neighbors now, and while I also plan to support the small local community I end up in, my friends are already a bit scattered around a 4-hour radius from my projected landing spot, and they all have people they love and trust, and I still want to support the dispersed community I care about now, as well as being part of an underground pipeline for people to safer spaces.
Being online isn’t ideal, but it may prove to be necessary to maintain inventory and needs for such an extended network. Idk shit about logistics.
I have a few interface points already established who will be delivery/distribution points for wider networks, but if others want to contribute their goods it will get prohibitively difficult for one person to manage
Fedi platforms designed for mutual aid
Are there any fediverse or self-hostable sort of platforms made for mutual aid? Ideally with some sort of inventory system?
I’m looking to set up a one person super efficient “farm” to be the hub of a mutual aid network (it’s going to take a while to ramp up but I intend to support everyone I can as soon as I can, as long as they are worth supporting.. oooh sorry conservatives 6x prices for you..). I’m looking for a self-host able or fedi platforms, that maybe I can link to nearby mutual aid cells, perhaps. Or get them to join by mouthy-words?
It’s a bit disappointing that these are just going to be recycled and not actually repurposed. Went through all the trouble to collect them, perfectly good and useful for various things, but nah, just destroy them.
Better than landfill, but it’s reduce, reuse, recycle, in that order, for a reason.
Music is important for some humans some of the time. It is not necessary for all humans at all times. So like you are wrong and stuff.
I like a lot of music, but I don’t want it most of the time because there are better sounds to listen to, like nature.
I won’t be responding to your pathetic trolling attempts from here on tho. You clearly don’t know shit about humans, despite claiming to be one.
Turns out we aren’t all the same and don’t all want the same dumb shit the lowest common denominator wants, like pop music. Some of us want peace and quiet even if we can understand and appreciate what about popular music makes it appealing to others.
I feel sad for you that you don’t see a possible rich existence without music..
One of us is lacking in life, but it certainly is not me.
Then you should try dysmantle, if you are at all into destroying your environment/surroundings!
You can break down everything, but it doesn’t replenish so like it gets kinda bleak if you destroy everything.. but by the time I finished the game I game up breaking the buildings cus I had all the materials I needed.
All the same it’s on an island so you don’t feel too bad.Various human-inhabited islands also has no trees so it’s just a thing.
It’s related to the main post, and not a flex, just a thing that happened.
Some of us legit dgaf about music.
My favorite game sound track is from dysmantle.
There’s no music in 99% of the game; only at campfires and cutscenes.
It took me 42 hours (out of roughly 100 to complete the game) to notice the lack of music, because I always turn music down to 50%, sound effects to 75%, and leave dialogue/voices at 100%.
Edit: this post has attracted a downvote troll! Yay! Please disregard downvotes on any post under the OOP, because some asshole needs a hobby :)
I’m a decade younger, but until about 5 years ago we could get a dozen large eggs for $0.99 (caged). Probably highly dependent upon the area (urban/rural, quality of surrounding land, overall cost of living in relation to wages, etc.).
They are currently over $6/doz here. I’m not sure by how much as I haven’t bought since they were $2/doz., which has been years now.
I live there and I had no idea 😅
Most vehicles now have locking fuel covers, don’t they?
None of those things apply to me so I’m still hopeful. :)
I just hope my 40s suck less. I’m almost stable and my country is probably going to collapse. And then the ecosystem around us will follow suit, yaaaay…
I have some people to jointly buy land with, and a zero waste, zero emission farm plan in place to weather the storm. Maybe. If we can all get our shit together super soon.. it won’t be much but it’ll be ours and we’ll defend it fiercely. It’s the American way.
We’ll definitely be a local stop on the railroad, though, and I already know others who will do the same.
I mean sure, but 20-something’s are dumb, as a rule. I was, you were, everyone is. That’s why the lower threshold for president is 35. When you are old enough to hopefully know better.
We should really have had at least one other metric, but apparently we didn’t.
Radio waves, tho..
The first mobile telephone was in the 40s using radio.. that’s plenty of time for more niche adaptations.. not saying they did happen, only that they could have. The battery pack or generator would be huge (which is why they were in cars).
But ring a number for a bum jingle, why not?
#alternate technology
Others are just a huge wick and a fan, also known as swamp coolers. Aprilaire whole house humidifiers work this way. Those are quite effective as well, and no heat or steam.
Hotel? Museum? Confusion? It can be yours today!
Sleeps 16! Newly renovated! 6,000+ sqft! Indoor pool in your very own gymnasium building! Apparently great for doomsday preppers for some reason! What’s not to love?
(You may recognize this house from a comment on my prior post, cuz I wasn’t really thinking about posting this one separately, but hey might as well liven the place up)
The SeaFoam House of Horrors
This whole house is painted seafoam green inside. Whole thing. And it does not have electricity, so you get natural seafoam green light, and either darkness or a fire hazard. What a gem!
Kitchen? Yep.
Living room? Yep.
Bathroom? Absolutely!
Wonder why it’s been available for 846 days 🧐🤔
Building a coop - question about size
Greetings! I’m new here!
I just got notice from the city that a chicken license (one of 10 for a town of 15,000 people) came up and I’m first on the waiting list! So exciting! Please excuse the excited tangents.
We had chickens when I was 8-14, so I have a rough idea of the care involved, and am not overly concerned about the long-term maintenance. Since that was like 20+ years ago, however, I’ve been doing a lot of looking, just to brush up. Ultimately tho they have been kept for most of human history so I’m sure I can manage. :)
However, my experience, and most resources, are for larger flocks than I’m allowed, as well as more… comfortable climates.. so I’m here to ask some questions and learn.
This question is about the coop, because the run and access to various things is pretty well handled, but building it right is going to be important. I’d really rather not wake up after a snowstorm to clucksicles.
The location for it is going to be next to the garage, on the northeast sid
Giant kites could pull ships across the ocean – and slash their carbon emissions
French company Airseas has developed the Seawing, a kite to help propel cargo ships, which it says could cut their carbon emissions by an average of 20%.
I checked for posts about this and didn’t see any. Hopefully the cross post works properly.
Archive links: https://ghostarchive.org/archive/hKYX9
Show User Instance on Comments
I went digging through settings (always do) and couldn’t find an option to show the instance of commenters.
It’s very helpful to me to have that information. The app I was using, memmy, had it, and I really like the context it provides for users of niche instances, but memmy doesn’t support direct messages and doesn’t handle images well, so it was time for a change. (Of literally all available iOS apps and the couple PWAs I tested, Thunder seems to handle hexbear/other inline images best at the moment - well done!)
Is there a way to enable that? If not, I’d like to request it 😁
Contact management
I am looking for a contact manager to replace a google account or iCloud account.
I am currently on iOS (and actively dislike it after being on android since forever) and looking to increase my privacy by cutting ties with my google accounts.
A Google account presently manages my contacts, and I do not want iOS to take over this job, I’d rather manage them myself.
I tried searching for FOSS contact managers but all I found was client relation software which isn’t what I want at all…. I don’t think.. I just want my phone numbers and names saved for easy personal use.
Is there anything good for managing a personal phone book?
Consider Supporting Default Vote Breakdown
I was using memmy because it used the default option for voting breakdown to show up and downvotes separately.
I would like to see all apps add a toggle for those of us who want a granular breakdown on voting (the same suggestion has been made to memmy and will be made to any others I try which don’t have it, and I’m on android as well!), for our mental health or for whatever other reason (for me the total vote count up/down is a mental health feature, and why I’m drawn to the fediverse. I want to know my overall reach and how many agreed, disagreed, and, inadvertently, the vote to reply ratio (which tells you a lot about how strongly someone feels about their agreement or dissent). I don’t want that hidden behind an aggregate number when it exists there as data already that need to be suppressed.
I have downloaded and installed your app and have found it does not have this, so I would like to request it. It can be a toggle for those who want to know aggregate data, but it is my opin
Consider Supporting Default Vote Breakdown
I was using memmy because it used the default option for voting to show both up and downvotes separately.
I would like to see all apps add a toggle for those of us who want a granular breakdown on voting (the same suggestion has been made to memmy and will be made to any others I try which don’t have it, and I’m on android as well!), for our mental health or for whatever other reason (for me the total vote count up/down is a mental health feature, and why I’m drawn to the fediverse. I want to know my overall reach and how many agreed, disagreed, and, inadvertently, the vote to reply ratio (which tells you a lot about how strongly someone feels about their agreement or dissent). I don’t want that hidden behind an aggregate number when it exists there as data already that need to be suppressed.
I have downloaded and installed your app and have found it does not have this, so I would like to request it. It can be a toggle for those who want to know aggregate data, but it is my opinion t
Meet Tiabeanie! Curiosity knocked out the kitten!
She’s one of a pair, but easier to photograph 😻