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> thus far there haven't been any [crazy consequences], despite centuries of human-driven weather changes. which obviously is not true, right?

@1 the part of the salt being an essential ingredient did escape me so thanks for pointing it out. It does make the whole thing more believable because then maybe (if it works) you…

It's good to hear from an Australian that environmental policies like fire management and cloud seeding have made ecological disasters a thing of the past in your part of the world…

Maybe my comment in this thread can encourage him to take the calculation further, like trying to find out how many Wh are needed based on physics alone to accelerate the requisite…

Under the conservative prime minister Scott Morrison, the government has yet to strengthen its climate pledge under the 2015 Paris agreement, as many nations have done in the past …

That doesn't read like an endorsement of planned geoengineering.

No we're not engineers because we find it OK when the poll results get displayed before you even vote. Engineers would study a problem including user experience and user expectatio…

That's not "opposition to the science", that's a sane response to a madman's proposal to intentionally f*k with the biosphere at the grandest scale.

> solar radiation management first [...] Marine cloud brightening you mean, like, throwing a spanner into a machinery we hardly understand and see whether "it sticks"? Give me a hu…

> Generally this is not seriously discussed by experts as a solution to global warming not because it is not feasible, but because it would diminish the sense of urgency Let us say…

> surplus renewable energy is where you lost me. Hell coal is projected to get burned by the megaton for another half century or so because China and India have those resources and…

Your assessment of the properties of the display specifically seem to go counter what I perceived as a convincing argument by the OLPC guy brought up in a TED talk at the time, nam…

It would perhaps be a good thing if one could write SQL clauses in their logical ordering; as [1] explains: * The FROM clause: First, all data sources are defined and joined * The …

[Q] Do we really want to be perceived as book burners? [A] Tbh I don’t care too much what a bunch of normies that probably didn’t even know the book existed think. The book would s…

Also worth to understand and remember, from the linked thread: "digitisation does not = preservation. All they’ve done is replace a long term, resource-light asset with a short ter…

IOW similar to https://github.com/goodeggs/teacup and a few other libraries that produce markup from inside a programming language with minimalized syntactic fuzz?

The answer is we do plunder the planet like there's no tomorrow, notwithstanding what one ought think.

Are those citation quotes you're using around "experts" or scare quotes? The article literally says that the tunnel has been called a death trap by someone on Reddit. The word 'exp…

The number itself is meaningless without giving some baseline. How many is 'many'? As compared to what? Also notice judgemental assumption creeping in, whether intended or unintend…

It looks like any input is interpreted as "draw something"

Æsthetics do play a rôle here

Yet linguistically, it really doesn't hold up. Words are built up from phonemes, which undergo some alterations depending on their order and the context to become the phones (as in…

> The Alliance for American Manufacturing blasted this latest move by Tesla. “I'll be blunt: Any company doing business in Xinjiang is complicit in the cultural genocide taking pla…

Nitpick: the place is apparently the city of Baotou 包头市; pinyin: Bāotóu; Mongolian: Buɣutu qota, not Baitou; source: linked article, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baotou

git is as simple as possible while being as powerful as possible This is far from being a foregone conclusion and would need a careful analysis to justify. FWIW Fossil manages to m…