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Quoting from https://lemmy.ml/comment/3470836 (@JoeBidet@lemmy.ml):

Wait.

1/ publishing evidence of the Clinton campaign actively undermining Sanders who was then the natural candidate of the Democrats according to their internal polls (including by using antisemitic slur) + actively boosting Trump campaign because “it’s the only one we can beat” is “throwing the US presidential election to the Republicans”? How this genuine, authenticated information of public interest, published in the New York Times and WaPo is throwing the US elections more than the facts that were being reported?

2/ “worked with Russian intelligence” is absolute nonsense. What is your source on that? The Muller report says the opposite. If anything it is possible (but not proven) that the source may have been from within Russian intel, but a) Assange mentioned several times -way before that episode- that the entire architecture of WL made it impossible for them to actually know their sources, and we have all reasons to believe that (as it would be the smartest thing to do) b) if any journalist gets documents that are authentic and of public interest, regardless of the source, their duty is to publish it. If a Russian intelligence source had provided fake, doctored or otherwise altered material, and they would have been published as such, it would have been a real scandal. In the facts we are still talking of ground-breaking journalism.

I still can’t figure that some people cannot realize that Hillary Clinton did all she could to actually lose this election on her own (this and a fundamentally fucked up electoral system), and are actually finding scapegoats like Assange to avoid looking at this reality in the eyes…

• Proxima by Stephen Baxter
• The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
• Mission of Gravity by Hal Clement

I'm partial to thumbkey. It even has a Lemmy community: !thumbkey@lemmy.ml

Done. It was a little bitter, but that's just the flavour of the grain. It's satisfyingly nutritious without being full of sugar to mess with my teeth or give me a sugar crash. It'll keep me going for a few hours now.

If I'm smart, with my new-found energy I'll now set about making a proper big meal with vegetables and more substantial proteins with plenty of leftovers to fridge for the coming food crises of tomorrow and the next day and the day after. I might make a biryani. Oh but I should really do my assignments. I really shouldn't open any more tabs.

Damn, I'm hungry now. Having scales handy helps things happen predictably and quickly.

1. Stir in a bowl: 50g red sorghum flour + 250g water + butter + salt.
2. Microwave on high for 2 mins, then stir.
3. Microwave on very low for 5 mins, then stir.

You can make porridge with flour and water. Even better if you have interesting flours you bought in a moment of excitement but never figured out what to do with. Butter and salt help the palatability.

Here are the github repository, issues and comments immortalised for posterity in IPFS:

• ipfs://QmeeRa15gofL1UGxMGgb9vnv6VjA8MmNBNxPeAxB36KsNT/
• https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmeeRa15gofL1UGxMGgb9vnv6VjA8MmNBNxPeAxB36KsNT/
• https://bafybeihsjcljogr7k25knn6nsivwegas53ouko6pzmqtnzgqncrwwexeiq.ipfs.dweb.link/

The issues and comments are in github json format -- if anyone wants to collate them into a human-readable text or html file, please do so.

Edit: Its immortality of course depends on you to access and pin the content.

Meanwhile India's incredible train network suffers continuing decades of neglect resulting in poor performance and tragic rail disasters.

We need a fuckplanes community to complement !fuck_cars@lemmy.ml.

What's the scale of this?

Hmm.. would it be too much to paste some of these up around the local schools?

So.. I really don't know chemistry, and these aren't the highest quality references, but here goes:

• 4 mol of iron in a heat pack provides 1648.4 kJ of heat. ^[1]^
• 4 mol of iron weighs 223g. ^[2]^
• Recycling 1000kg of steel saves 642 kWh of energy. ^[3]^
  • Recycling 0.223kg steel saves 642 * 0.223 / 1000 = ~ 0.143 kWh
  • 0.143 * 3600 = 515 kJ

Huh. So maybe heat packs are a reasonable use of scrap iron's embodied energy after all. Assuming you have a sufficient source of uncontaminated steel filing waste and that it's economical to collect and process into heat packs.

...But only if you're heating your water using fossil fuels using an inefficient method! If your water is heated using solar or waste heat capture or a heat pump^[4]^, which would swing the balance way over to hot water bottles again.

1. https://brainly.com/question/16900421
2. https://www.convertunits.com/from/moles+Iron/to/grams
3. https://lbre.stanford.edu/pssistanford-recycling/frequently-asked-questions/frequently-asked-questions-benefits-recycling
4. https://www.eec.org.au/for-energy-users/technologies-2/heat-pumps

You're not considering the energy required to smelt the iron.

Iron filings (in a collected quantity high enough to make manufacturing these heat packs worthwhile) are not a waste product, they are recycled -- saving the smelting of that much new iron.

Sawdust+iron heat packs are a very useful and non-hazardous product, for sure, but aside from situations where a hot water bottle is impractical, hot water bottle still wins.