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They are soft.

Old ones were nice, but got worn out. Same model was no longer available.

Oil production in the USA may drop 🥰

I accidentally bought ground coffee instead of whole beans. So when the grinder ran out of beans, I took it apart and gave it a decent scrub. When I use it again, it should grind smoother and maybe even get the coffee tasting better.

Obvious missing element of the story: climate change.

These lost rainforest cities may seem to have little in common with today’s steel and asphalt behemoths but according to experts, early Amazonian metropolises are remarkable for what they tell us about the way ancestral urbanites lived off the land without trampling it. The new scientific tools have helped to uncover a pre-colonial landscape marked by ancient practices with implications for contemporary environmental management.

Scientists measured atmospheric concentrations of lead in ancient times and concluded the vast lead use of the Roman empire led to a drop in IQ in the population.

Roman children had only a fraction of the lead buildup that US children had in the 1970s due to leaded gasoline.

Good article except the use of the propaganda term "oilsands", it should be "tar sands".

For a long time, the common wisdom is that megafauna died out soon after humans arrived in the Americas. If humans have been in the Americas for much longer than thought, and co-existed with megafauna for millennia, then that narrative is wrong. It's a projection of modern humans' faults onto ancient humans. Moreover, it shows that there is nothing inevitable about human-caused extinctions. Humans are not a virus, Agent Smith.

...the authors caution that the current pace of decoupling is insufficient to meet the global climate target of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

Less than half of the regions will be able to achieve net-zero by 2050

Azerbaijan’s president, Ilham Aliyev, told a climate conference in April: “Having oil and gas deposits is not our fault. It’s a gift from God.”