phoenixz

We're at the point that geo engineering is a must for our survival, thanks to politicians not caring and businesses caring only about their execs and share holders.

Having said that, if geo engineering is successful, it will be abused immediately to just continue polluting. Calling it now that politicians will spin this as a great thing, totally not so that their rich donors can continue to abuse the planet.

Also, in the beginning it won't be successful. It will fail as politicians won't allow the required investments and push for shortcuts and buddy buddy kickbacks from friendly companies,, overriding scienctists and engineers in the process. That will destroy loads of lives and even more of the environment. That will become a scandal, them the politicians will do a mea culpa, and continue the same shit on a lower level whilst everyone ignores that large corporations yet again fucked over the world for profit.

Engineers and scientists will then pick up from there and manage to do the impossible and little bu little, progress will be made. Loads of profits will be made too, that's always the main goal, but humanity still might be salvageable

Wow, does this show my age?

Saddam was a huge thing 30 years back, crazy to realize that now people already forgot.

Sorry, nonsense

People have been dying from heat in droves since decades ago. I recall 10-20 years ago a heatwave that overflowed morgues in France.

Not saying that climate change isn't real or not disastrous, it is and so much more.

Just that this title is misleading at best

Yeah just.... Why? Why all those devices? Why auch a mess?

Snap and systemd are the worst things to happen to Linux. Both in Basic, maybe, not a bad idea but the implementation is horrible

snap

Aaaaaand we're done here. Fuck snap, no, bad dog!

Carbon capture as a solution where you use power to filter out CO2 from the atmosphere is ONLY a viable strategy if we can make 100% carbon free power.

Until then you'd use 100 CO2 generating power to (after all losees) capture 30 CO2, it's dumb. If you use a solar powered system instead, you still are losing as now someone else that could have used your solar power is using 100 CO2 while you pull only 30 out...

Once everything runs on CO2 free power, THEN it makes sense to start carbon capture, until then it's only playfully pretending while making the situation actively worse.

Trees doesn't work either, they die and release all that carbon back into the atmosphere

You send mail to Gmail and Hotmail and it's actually accepted? How?

I agree, alot of the young guard prefers bling over whatever actually works great. Having said that, giving older software a bit more bling is a good idea because said young guard is the future and you always want to lure people with the bling and keep them with the great functionality. Right now they see bling and if it's shit, oh well, that's just how it works

Since Linux is caps sensitive, at least I always use lowercase.

I guess I use kebab case for any file used for IT projects

... How? Seriously,

I've been saying pretty much the same thing about Biden. It's almost "yeah, whatever, he's not trump" but you can add to that that part of his decisions may lie in the fact that Biden (and Harris too, btw) didn't wanted to alienate the voters that have a close stance with Israel. If he loses those votes, he might lose, Trump wins, Palestinians are effed beyond. Politics sucks that way, but us politics with the "winner takes all" makes it so much worse