Justin

They also have Liberapay, OpenCollective and Patreon:

https://pixelfed.org/support-our-project

Right, and wouldn’t the rings be pretty fragile considering how long they are? So it would probably have similar bioactivity as like olive oil.

Space elevator companies seem to think that materials exist that are strong enough, just that they are not long enough.

https://www.isec.org/space-elevator-tether-materials

Very much layman conjecture, but my assumption is that this material is stronger than carbon nanotubes and graphene.

Paper link: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ads4968

If enough employees join the same union at a company, they can vote to install a union board to negotiate a CBA on their behalf.

This isn’t correct, this sounds like they are thinking of the US’s National Labor Relations Act. In Sweden, the coercive option that a union has to implement a collective agreement (“kollektivavtal”), is only to organize a strike against the employer until a collective agreement is signed.

This is why Tesla employees in Sweden have been in a strike for over a year, and why many unions in Europe are engaging in solidarity blockades against Tesla. As Tesla has refused to sign a collective agreement with its employees, something that would be illegal under the US’s NLRA. Obviously, strikes are very costly for a company, as they must both preserve the positions of those striking, but also buy in labor from non-unionized employees to replace the shortfall. But it’s obviously a worthwhile cost for some people’s political goals, as the Tesla strike nears its second year.

There is also a large loophole in Swedish labor law, where a company can simply sign a collective agreement with another union than the union that the employees are members of. All employees are then banned from going on strike, as they technically have a collective agreement. This is a loophole that Klarna exploited in order to prevent their tech workers from unionizing. I believe that the courts have not yet ruled on whether this is legal or not.

everything is degradable with enough heat

It would probably be strong enough, but not viable to manufacture.

it’s very lightweight though, so it could reduce plastic usage by mass, by reinforcing plastic/other materials.

There’s also no reason why polymers need to be made out of oil: See PLA, cellophane, viscose, etc.

molecular chainmail

The EU and its allies is bigger than Trump’s rogue oligarchy

Fuck NTI group, they killed Creative Tools and now they’re copyright trolling makers

Notorious

I’m still pissed at the HDMI forum for banning Linux from using HDMI 2.1

https://www.phoronix.com/news/HDMI-2.1-OSS-Rejected