The article claims (though without citation except promotional material) that they’re smaller ground footprint, cheaper, and much more portable. Also they can generate more electricity per unit because they can be higher altitude with more turbulence. Interesting concept, and I think as many novel alternatives as possible that can all work in tandem are useful!

Dumb math slip on my part! Edited

In fairness, the population of Uruguay is about 1/100 as big as the USA, all else being equal there should be 1/100 as many families as well.

There’s a bunch of different systems that vary how close they are to standard print

Skimmed the first bit and they seem to site most claims in the introduction–they don’t cite anything in the abstract but you aren’t supposed to, it shouldn’t have any information that isn’t found in the main text.

Also, my understanding is the light effect isn’t to do with optical effects but cellular-level effects absorbed through surface membranes, which should be similar amongst animals.

The language is very odd though and does have either major typos or very very stylized and jargonistic phrasings, which make it hard to read.

Pretty clever move NGL

Side note but is Maduro goddamn huge?? Or are those agents chosen for their stature to make him seem bigger

Fair enough, I’ve got pretty tiny hands so the fastest I’ve ever been able to type was on one of those slide out keyboards on a pre-droid messaging phone

Better use of real estate for consumption. For pretty much any sort of input, whether that’s text or controls, onscreen buttons have always been terrible and workarounds like Swype only helped somewhat, and now even that’s getting enshittified. This is going to be a more niche device, as blackberried were, but for people who need a device primarily for email/messaging/other text input on the go the screen is plenty big enough to work and a keyboard is light-years better than any non-tactile technology could ever be.

Digital books, whether ebook or audio, make up about a quarter of the market. Can’t tell the length on those.

Or too liberal. Definitely expect to see this used against white University professors who are vocal about the regime’s crimes.

The Sound and the Fury is a Faulkner novel? It’s been too long though and IDK if it quotes Macbeth past the title.

You don’t need (and can’t afford) a suitcase full of gold unless you’re obscenely wealthy and can probably just charter a plane anyway. There are hundreds of accounts of e.g. Jews fleeing Nazi persecution (and Nazis fleeing the allies post-war) carrying wealth for bribes or starting over or what-have-you in the form of gold jewelry worn on the person or gold coins.

I think the “don’t hold it don’t own it” advice does make sense for a small amount of portable gold if you’re considering a scenario like a fascist government taking over and needing to flee the country with any wealth you can, predicated on the assumption that other countries are still relatively stable.

There are also a lot of silly people who hoard pounds of gold for apocalyptic currency which you’ve pegged.

In fairness, if the US dollar collapses, say, but the euro is fine and you find a way to get to Europe, you’re much better off with a few chunks of gold that will be worth relatively what you bought them for than with wheelbarrows full of hundred dollar bills which are now worth less than paper.

Supernote is an eNotebook and is writing focused rather than book focused, but it uses a stripped down fork of android and you can easily side load other android apps onto it including e.g. F-droid. You can use it without an account and with no network connectivity (loading content via USB), or your choice of cloud providers, including recently self-hosted storage.

I mostly read library books so unfortunately I have to go through Kindle, but you can use the Kindle app on the device and it works pretty well. Not as many features as a dedicated device, but the basics work great.

Major caveat: it’s not backlit so you need a book light/lamp/headlamp, which is a big pain.

I meant that they’re all behemoths rather than quality wise! But yeah, Chevy has improved and is ok now from what I understand, the rest I wouldn’t trust.

Sorry, I meant that they’re all too huge for European roads. Quality wise it varies considerably, Chevy group has kind of stepped it up and honda/the Koreans have slipped (though miles better than Stellantis group with Dodge and jeep still).

The Japanese and Korean vehicles for the American market aren’t any better to be fair.

Had a volt, I don’t even think they were selling them 3 years ago. I had a 2011 or 2012, one of the original models before the update, from from 2019-2022 or thereabouts. Had to replace the radiator, 12 volt battery, reset the traction battery, and replace the coolant system hoses. Again, huge PITA but got more than double the MPG of the 2001 sedan it replaced and held its value decently.