UPDATE: THE DOCKWORKERS WON Per AP, More Perfect, Labor Notes: Shippers agreed to a 61.5% wage increase over 6 years, details still being negotiated, but current contract will be extended to January 15th while they working it out. Some reports there's also an agreement on automation.
Spruce Pine is a major global supplier of high-purity quartz. It’s an essential ingredient for microchips and solar panels.
Spruce Pine is a major global supplier of high-purity quartz. It’s an essential ingredient for microchips and solar panels.
Yeah I was thinking of posting or writing something about this! One possibility I'm concerned about there - which the press hasn't picked up on - would be chemical waste runoff from quartz processing getting caught up in floods & potentially causing further problems for locals.
Oh man, @adamquinn.bsky.social. How could I have forgotten until seeing this headline?
Spruce Pine is a major global supplier of high-purity quartz. It’s an essential ingredient for microchips and solar panels.
Spruce Pine is a major global supplier of high-purity quartz. It’s an essential ingredient for microchips and solar panels.
Three Mile Island is coming back online as AI companies like Microsoft scramble for more and more energy www.npr.org/2024/09/20/n...
Three Mile Island, the Pennsylvania power plant that was the scene of the worst commercial nuclear accident in American history, will reopen and sell power to Microsoft.
One thing they don't tell you about being 32 is that all the alt social media apps start generating graphics that call you "elder certified"
