I've seen a similar number in a lot of proper scientific sources, so this article may be bunk, but the number is correct I think.

For example this article: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.171003 They claim 27,26% in China.

And this article: https://www.rivm.nl/bibliotheek/rapporten/2024-0106.pdf They claim 24.88% in the EU and state it's among the biggest if not the biggest contributor to microplastics.

I'm all for debunking stuff, but about a quarter seems to be the currently accepted quantity to the best of our abilities to measure.

There is a bit of confusion between the amount tyres contribute into the ocean, how much into the ocean and waterways and how much in the environment as a whole. A lot of it ends up in the soil, so it doesn't contribute to plastics in the water, but still in the environment.

Isn't Cadillac coming in 2026? Why does Mick need to sit out 2025 for that?

Sure, but most customer protection laws around the world say you can't round up. If you say the customer gets 3.4 oz, you need to give them at least 3.4 oz.

Plus I doubt they are that accurate when they produce this kind of stuff, that's usually +-10% without impacting the end product.

It's not? My calculator says 3.3863 oz. If they were forced to correct the incorrect 3.6 they weren't going to go with 3.4 and risk it getting corrected again.

I loved the Elden Ring mechanic. In earlier DS it was always nice to be running low on resources and finally come onto a bonfire. The relief and sense of achievement was great. But it also meant staying on the path, not go exploring and often running past enemies that weren't worth the hassle. With the open world of Elden Ring this would have become a huge issue. There would have been this entire world to explore, but without resources that quickly becomes tedious. Rewarding players for engaging with the world and the enemies is just what was needed.

I do feel they went a bit overboard with the bonfires in ER tho, sometimes you get one within sight of the previous one. One could argue this is to prevent run backs but the Stakes of Marika already fixed that. It's pretty jarring to go back to earlier DS and be like there had better be a bonfire right around the corner, because I'm about to die.

I'm just going to sign all my mails at work with pls long time to think

Awesome work!

Here I am with my dumb brain figuring out what harddrives have to do with drinking...

Isn't Eric the one that got rushed to the hospital because he forgot how to breathe for a while?

Can someone explain the joke to the Europeans? We don't have either of those and I have no idea what this means. I know Best Buy is a electronics store and Home Depot is a hardware store, but I have no idea what the parking lots have to do with it. In Europe it's more common for shops to be all close together with a shared parking lot in between.

That's a pretty small cooler you have on there, you might want to upgrade in the future.

Where are the dogs? They are behind me aren't they?

... You died ...

They would need to create some software for it as well. Otherwise it's just a small hard to use computer. If the UI is actually adapted to be usable in this form factor, it would be an amazing product.

I would love to have a new form factor to shake things up. Something small and portable, but without being just a touch screen, devolving into basically a tablet or phone. Something that uses actual physical buttons to do stuff.

Excited to see what they want to do. If it's just plans to put off the shelf components into a 3D printer case I would be disappointed. There's plenty of designs for that already and people make their own all the time. But if they take it to the next level, yeah that's worth funding for sure.

I'm interested to learn more

And it's not like the sci fi super smart AI that's all knowing. No it's the dumb GPT kind that's like an intern on weed.

Once I found out a lot of the so called traditions were only made up less than 50 years ago I stopped putting any stock in them at all. And for a lot of traditions once you start looking in to them, they were made up to sell stuff.

I'll post and respond all day, but if nobody is interacting, it's going to stay quiet.

Well I just wanted to respond because I'm also trying to comment as much as I can and even post every now and again. But the issue I've seen is Lemmy draws a certain kind of person, which means a lot of like minded people in the comments. I see your response here, read it, like it and then think: "Yes I agree, nothing to add". So I don't respond, which makes it feel pretty quiet.

Another thing I've seen is not a lot of people even bother opening posts, they just scroll through the feed, get their dopamine and that's it.

Nah that's a common misconception, a lot of the ocean is mapped to enough resolution to know there's basically nothing there. A lot of the ocean floor is a barren desert with nothing much going on. Some parts have been thoroughly studied, where interesting stuff is going on and where we've put infra like all of the undersea cables (which are a lot). All of it is mapped to some resolution and some parts at higher resolution (you can see on Google maps lines where ships have gone through with better mapping abilities). So saying it hasn't been "explored" or "mapped" is simply false, it has been mapped and has shown to be not interesting. So no nobody went down there, nobody got pictures or centimeter level mapping, but we know how water and sand looks so why bother? It's this implication of something unknown and mysterious, whilst in reality we've just been efficient in what to find. And yes there are new species found in the ocean every day, but you'd need to be an expert to even tell them apart from other species we already know about. There isn't something big and interesting we don't know about. It's a nice story to tell, but it isn't real.

I know you are joking, but for people that don't know: Solar Stills are total scams. They might work in a pinch as a survival tool, but for long term it's a non starter.

They have many issues, for example in places that don't have a lot of water and thus would be the most needed, they simply don't work. If there isn't a lot of water in the air, there isn't any to extract. Even in perfect conditions these things produce very little water, in most conditions you'd be lucky to get a couple of drops. Second issue is the water isn't clean, there is so much stuff floating in the air, you can't drink the water that comes out without filtering / boiling first. If that step is required you might as well go with ground or surface water sources. And if there isn't any ground or surface water sources, there won't be any water in the air most likely. Third issue is you are creating a hot and humid environment, which is an excellent breeding ground for all sorts of nasties. Think legionnaires disease and all sort of other bacteria and fungi. Within days it becomes a serious health hazard. Last issue is the materials used are almost by definition cheap and exposed to hard uv a lot of the time. This makes them degrade quickly and fall apart. Leaving plastic waste and chemicals leaking into the water it produces, until it just falls apart.

There have been so many crowd funding campaigns for clean water from the air over the past decades. Maybe some of them are simply naive and well meaning, but almost all are plain old scams. Feeding off the desire of people to help other people, only to fill their own pockets.

And furthermore, the problem with access to clean water is capitalism. There is plenty of water available, we have the means to extract it from the ground, surface and sea. We can process it, clean it, recycle it. Use trucks or pipes to transport it to places that don't have it. The only issue is, that costs money and the people living where the water is needed don't have a lot of money. So bringing water to these places simply doesn't generate a profit and thus doesn't get done. It isn't some kind of huge technical issue, there are many rich places in the desert that have plenty of water. Think oil states in the Middle East, or places in the US like Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico etc. Capitalism is the issue, not technology.