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If you had paid with cash, that cash is GONE.

not if I have a receipt.

Fair enough, but they know what you bought.

Taking patent, trademark, and copyright laws to what they were in, say, 1790, might be a good start.

Regard today’s billionaires with the same contempt that one does of criminals.

Wait at least 5 years before buying a new computer.

Don’t pay by credit card.

My question isn’t totally rhetorical: I’m but an pseudonymous person on the internet.

Also, I don’t think it’s an engineering problem as much as a political one.

What is their ratios-of-brine to seawater do they use?

Presumably it’s toxic mostly because of the concentration of salt.

If it can’t be used—and up north salt is used in winter for roads—it can be cleaned a bit, diluted with more seawater and discharged back into the ocean.

((the brine of 1 mass unit of seawater that’s been desalinated) + 20 units of regular seawater) ÷ 20 = 20 units of 5% saltier seawater discharged

my favourite scene of that movie is when that drill instructor got shot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOZg8arCICU

https://youtu.be/nT8Q6j1amz8?t=1150 (cued)

They have 591 km of coastline.

lots of salt water + lots of solar energy = lots of desalinated water

The higher the percentage, the greater the incentive.

Is this all solar or just PVCs?

particularly if you have lots of PVC cells to sell.

Texas indeed has been blessed with much sunlight to make solar energy quite viable. This includes solar hot water heaters, and many trees to grow with vigour and bio-filtrate.

If it’s educational, it could go to Wikicommons.

Keep those, but find new ones elsewhere.

We have to make the alternatives. As Lemmy is an alternative to reddit, PeerTube could be an alternative to YouTube.