Introducing Friction 0.9.6 Beta 1. This release includes several changes to the user interface and some additional new features. We are now in feature freeze, please report any regressions etc.
🤔 The US government is the most well funded in the world. We have Federal agencies dedicated to emergency management (FEMA). We have a robust network of highways. We have the best access to electricity and fossil fuels. Most US citizens are adults. Despite all this, when there is a hurricane, we struggle to evacuate a few million people from the path of a slow moving weather event.
If most Gazans are children, who have no fuel or electricity, how do they evacuate a million people?
@ellie@mekkaokereke If you're going full prepper, also consider investing in a supply of wear-out parts: tires, tubes, brake pads, chains+gears, batteries.
Otherwise, you have only about 1500 miles until something wears out or breaks, and you cannot assume supply lines are functioning.
Traditional porcelain and ceramic toilet bowls could be on the way out. A new 3D-printed bowl developed by scientists at Huazhong University in China is so slippery that nothing sticks to it. Science Alert has more: https://flip.it/uATfwQ #Science#Inventions#Toilets#Cleaning
Chapter 27 in The Mote in God's Eye, By Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle: the Moties make a toilet for the earthmen that is frictionless like this, and uses no water.
All very good, but what will we read about that silicone oil (or the other bits) in a few years?
More "forever chemicals" to screw us up?
This is the kind of super good idea we tend to take to without doing any homework...