retired engineer, sailor, and farmer. Living in Naranjito, Puerto Rico and working on carbon dioxide removal projects (moving to Virginia in 2026). Sometime gamer, wild eyed liberal. This is an AI-, LLM-, bot-free account <Alt-text profile picture: cartoon pale-skin face with white hair and beard, green shirt, and stars and planets in background.>
@RobCornelius You are on to us! Obviously too smart by half! So, look, send me a DM with your financial data that I can pass along to our Nigerian attorney; and they will be in touch to get you a share of the next ten million. But ixna on the amsca talk - VCs might be listening. The next share might be a little small, momma needs a new yacht.
@sockrates @[email protected] Thanks, I forget to mention that essential www. sometimes! Glad you were still able to find it.
@bug well, it turns out lemmy and mastodon are not quite as compatible as hoped. I subscribed to a lemmy community from mastodon, and every comment to every news items shows in Mastodon as though the community owner boosted it. I mistakenly thought the comments were being boosted by moderators of the news community - totally my bad. I have unsubscribed now until some day when they fix that (for each news item I was getting that I wanted, I was also getting about ten comments - out of context in time order - with the rest of my feed; not a good user experience!)
@setsneedtofeed this is not news! This is ?? You are destroying your “brand” - who wants to subscribe to this?
@saltylefty fwiw, this is not NEWS, it is some internet dude’s opinion about <something>. Fediverse subscribers to the news feed see this out of context and say wtf
@DocMcStuffin fwiw, this is NOT news, why is it in the NEWS feed on the fediverse?
@ghostalmedia why is NEWS boosting this sort of content? It is a comment (no doubt profoundly wise) out of context and is just clogging up fediverse feeds.
@Knickknack I volunteer with openaircollective.cc - focused on carbon dioxide removal, speaking of emerging sectors. It is all volunteer, and a good way to follow the burgeoning climate change mitigation realm. I’m using a lot of what I learned over the years in business to develop a wiki there: https://openairforum.org Come by some time!
@Knickknack @realChem I graduated in chemical engineering back in '83 and found myself in wastewater treatment consulting. I gradually transitioned to industrial wastewater and then hazardous waste remediation. It was a good gig! Retired in 2001, so it has probably all changed quite a bit. Good luck to you!
@realChem I retired from being a chemical engineer in the environmental remediation of hazardous wastes and petroleum. Went sailboat cruising, and stopped along the way to teach high school chemistry four years. Now I volunteer with OpenAir Collective working on CO2 removal (from atmosphere, not point sources - later is called “capture” instead of “removal” for some reason). Without chemicals, nothing would exist!
@sensibilidades @realChem MOFs are hot
@[email protected] @cybermatrix I was able to connect from my mastodon account, too, by the way.