I am fortunate to have lived on the water for over 20 years in a location, East Coast USA Chesapeake Bay, that has scientifically documented many aspects of the climate changes that my own eyes have witnessed and photographed here at my home. I can walk out in my back yard and see these changes in this moment of time as they now exist and all of these changes have only become visible to me here in the last 10 years.
Erosion is a significant aspect of what I have witnessed however the ying always has a yang. Just as significant archeological discoveries are being made around melting glaciers so too are such discoveries also being made along eroding shorelines. The known history of the Chesapeake Bay is extensive and the items washing out of its shoreline are too, both known and unknown. Many of the paleolithic/native artifacts I have found can be explained by experts while some I have discovered cannot.
Change is the only thing guaranteed in this life until your life too forces change at its end. Change requires change and that means you but as a species we are wired into our daily pattern and nearly all hate forced change. As the old saying goes: "Nothing stays the same forever."
Yet again another failed attempt to move to biometric identification linked to a payment instrument thus allowing one not to need to carry that payment method on person.
This is not the worlds first biometric payments failure, as that belongs to PayByTouch, nor will it be the last. Having been deeply involved in the technology systems around the worlds first attempt at PayByTouch I do wonder why the "easy" is not embraced by more? I think I know however as it is likely religious in nature and the beliefs around such things. I can vividly recall being told to hide my employee badge while walking through the crowd of protesters holding signage about "Mark of the beast" and more in my attempts to enter the PayByTouch headquarters which used to reside at 1 Market in San Fran CA many years ago.
Wash, rinse, repeat : Everything old is new again. Just give it time as biometric payments will come around once again for absolute, third times a charm?
I guess the "biometric identification linked to a payment instrument" issue is mostly trust.
Do I trust the entity that identify me using biometrics ?
Do I trust it with my biometric data ?
If I link a payment method, do I trust it with access to my payment details ?
With Amazon Go at WF, I was fine to let Amazon know and store my hand biometrics, and I was fine enough with Amazon know what I purchase at WF, as long as I had something back (loyalty program).
Scaling this though would negatively impact the trust. Maybe I do not want Amazon to know "everything" I purchase everywhere (even though Visa/MC/Amex already know it...)
The challenges will be great and felt by all in some way.
I live downstream from W.L.Gore in Maryland, the creator of this miracle substance, and a few years ago I myself began asking questions. I came to learn that they just dumped the stuff in the stream for decades and that stream is the source of my family's water via the town system. I had my water tested and came back at 70 ppt of which I then spoke to some doctors. This inspired me to write up and speak before the political board of my town and they did not believe me. Hilariously however someone knew because they stopped publishing PFA numbers in our water reports in 2022 but as a result of my speaking a few months later they brought in Inframark Corp who runs our town water and sewer. After they spoke to the town board at the meeting the town board was no longer smiling nor doubting my words. They were told that they must filter the drinking water and the operation will capex at about 4 MM USD with an opex for filters of around 2 MM USD annually. The town board was floored, but wait there's more, Inframark then told the board that they also must filter the sewer too since it must be removed as liquid products we use have pfas as well as RO systems which just re-concentrate it back into waste water. This sewer system capex was quoted at 10MM USD minimum and no opex stated since the plant already runs and filters costs were not known at the moment.
My story is real world for nearly the entire East Coast of the USA but since the problem cannot be seen few know about it or even concern about it. A town close to me, Newark DE, just announced a few months back going to spend tens of millions to filter their water with taxes ballooning from that and more. While a town to my West stated needing to spend about 20 MM USD to filter theirs. This is an absolute issue and I'd wager, polymarket conveniently makes it easy now, that this post ages well with time, or maybe I should say unwell. I have also been speaking with a lawyer in a big state that is running a class action and his information of course should be blasted on the news as more and more folks continue to consume liquids from plastic containers. Veritasium did a great piece on it a while back too but I have yet to have my own blood tested. For perspective I immediately bought a PFA specific filter and I installed it by extending our existing 3 stage to a 4 stage kitchen water tap at a cost of 600 USD for supplies. I then bought a whole house PFA filter a few months later and installed it too, costing me about 2000 USD in supplies, it is the size of a large compressed air canister so room is needed. I have so much more on this PFA topic but I am already going on too long. Your health doesn't matter until it does and no pill is going to filter this stuff from your organs.
So the problem from the post then becomes: the water that we do have to drink probably isn't safe either.
This leads me to question how many other chemicals we continue to "create" that in time will too show health impacts to many. We are certainly leaving our mark in this layer of soil for some future species to find and ask their own questions about us, such as how smart we really could have been given what they dig up.
My software logic mind asks: I question why if Copilot is so great then why cannot Microsoft turn themselves around by dogfooding their own solution that they have forced on all of their users which then proves to the world that Copilot is great?
I am led to believe from marketing that A.I. has all the answers and with Microsoft having the greatest A.I. don't they have all the answers?
Don't worry sfn42 because those with their heads in the sand with be forced to face reality as that sand fills with water thus forcing them out for air.
As the study of the ice cores and the data gleaned from that ongoing study which contains many millennia of scientific data before our known intelligent human occupation some are not surprised. Many more however are going to learn from the result once again of failing to study history and apply what was learned from that education. Most are only concerned with their immediate vicinity that impacts them directly because until change is forced it is human nature to maintain a pattern. We only get 'pissed' when we are not the ones deciding to change our own pattern. This is the recognition of the pattern and the cycle of everything everywhere known and unknown. Change is the only thing guaranteed in life and your life too will conclude at some point as just yesterday I attended a close family members funeral reinforcing that conclusion. As we age we are confronted with a reality of progress, both in our personal lives as well as our global world. Younger generations choose not to accept that reality just as all the old grey hairs here likely did when younger too.
A major news site today released a story that relates to several recent HN past link shares and discussions including some of my own. As the ice melts on the caps so to does the pressure become less on those subterranean lands as the water is distributed in liquid form into oceans, where are the rising sea deniers as they certainly exist too. Our now spheroid will rebound in time and we have only understood tectonic plates for how long?
It is going to warm up in more ways than one if we do not first manage to directly eliminate ourselves versus the secondary affects which we can now directly measure and feel that are setting in from our human 'progress'.
This was my exact solution in the late 1990's that I formulated using a uid algorithm I created when confronted with a growing payment processing load issue that centralized hardware at the time could not handle. MsSQL could not process the ever increasing load yet the firehose of real-time payments transaction volume could not be turned off so an interim parallel solution involving microservices to walk everything over to Oracle was devised using this technique. Everything old is new again as the patterns and cycles ebb and flow.
The only thing one needs to understand for the future direction of power is contained within a single sentence in this document that many will glance over. Future generation plants will be built different as version one of the grid has proven to not work but this version one is so critical no one has yet attempted version two. The new design will be generate>store>consume albeit at a loss of some power in conversion but persistent availability will quickly overcome those losses as acceptable. This has already begun in some consumer markets as those fortunate enough to have solar with batteries comprehend my words exactly. Everything will have a battery to store energy, even things producing it.
A standing applause for those undertaking this effort as I look forward to losing even more of my future time given how much I lost to it in the past.
Many moons ago I worked with an individual whose wife was employed in marketing by a large well known video game company involved around UT. One day he came into the office and brought a load of leftover UT swag and it was a feeding frenzy. I still have and wear my long sleeve black UT embroidered tee and as a point of fact I just wore it again last week. Looking forward to the progress on this effort as an old head UT fan still.
I have located no accredited scientific studies yet that discuss how the loss of gigatons of ice compressing the entire planets structure from the poles will impact the planet as a whole. With even a basic understanding of mass and physics however one can deduce from that comprehension an irrefutable change will occur in the planets crust. If one were to research the pattern of volcanic activity from the start of human recorded existence alone then one may learn something new. Most of our species fails to think in time, only worried about today, however as the changes in our only planet set in from 'progress' more will be forced to look back over time and reconsider where we failed.
Search for “post-glacial rebound” or “glacial isostatic adjustment”.
This has been thoroughly studied and is well known to geologists, especially in Northern Europe where changes can occur over human time scales.
I remember watching a documentary about a landslide disaster that occurred because clay saturated by salt water had lifted above sea level due to GIA and the fresh rainwater had washed the salt out. Clay without salt ions is more liquid and eventually moved catastrophically.
Greatly appreciative of the intellectual verbiage guidance that will certainly lead me down a deeper rabbit hole for my interests. This HN site has been one of my greatest finds on all of the web and the knowledge I have learned and put to work from those here choosing to share such insight has forever changed me. Thanks again.
.. and pretty much why I worded the first line of my comment above as I did.
Sea level changes, glacial retreats, etc will all change crustal pressures and impact the frequency, placement, and nauture of volcanic activity in times to come.
Not a lot of that in Ethiopa for now though (to the best of my current "haven't specifically looked at the map for this" gut feeling).
Erosion is a significant aspect of what I have witnessed however the ying always has a yang. Just as significant archeological discoveries are being made around melting glaciers so too are such discoveries also being made along eroding shorelines. The known history of the Chesapeake Bay is extensive and the items washing out of its shoreline are too, both known and unknown. Many of the paleolithic/native artifacts I have found can be explained by experts while some I have discovered cannot.
Change is the only thing guaranteed in this life until your life too forces change at its end. Change requires change and that means you but as a species we are wired into our daily pattern and nearly all hate forced change. As the old saying goes: "Nothing stays the same forever."
Stay Healthy!
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