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That still gives us a 100 million years or so. Even our best drilling/mining tech is quite inefficient thankfully. The result of burning that energy on the surface will hit us way sooner.

We have helped liberate countries seeking democracy before. Was that just political cover, or would we help HK if they reached out?

Who, if anyone, should be 'world police'?

It would in some ways. Brain-drain from germany post ww2 decimated their hopes to rebuild, and exponentally accellerated our space, military, and energy sectors in ways that still influence US military dominance. I do, however agree, that the psudeo-communist despocracy is a net evil and should also be dealt with.

It is literally a symbol of having more money than you care about. The cost IS the feature. This is just ad copy.

It switches sides every 15-25 years, as youd notice, surely.

Parties have little in common with what they were even 20 years ago.

Why? Thats the whole problem.

So censoring hitler online means less police violence?

Please do show me the data.

Baseless nationalism is just as unwelcome from any country as it is fron the USA. Stop it.

Newspapers are curated and responsible for what they publish.

Which neither Twitter nor Trump posess in great margin.

'Are held' and 'can be done' are obscenely different to conflate them.

I am as annoyed by all the feelings getting hurt as you are, but this guy is directing a sizeable amount of money in some backward intra-nationalist way, which only slows down progress, even if it is 'only perception'. It is open bigotry plain and simple.

So when 'fact checkers' end up with a right-wing bias will that still seem prudent? History is full of people in power, expanding their powers only to see their opposition use them more effectively against them.

Privately owned areas are still often public (as opposed to publicly owned) spaces in the physical relam. While the digital is indeed different, you seem overly dismissive of this fact by omission and unnessarry capitolization.

HN has many employees of faang companies as users. Some paid to be here. You can work the rest out yourself.

After the 50th one, the novelty wears off and it just smells desprate. Don't do, or reward, this bs.

I often hear it stated as "We disliked Hillary so much, we voted for someone worse".

In the USA, anything seen from a public space, including the air, the street/sidewalk, even aimed at your yard, is legal. In most cases you can even film on someones private property if there is easement. There are exceptions, but rarely. Privacy was assumed, but never protected here.

Lots of things are celebrated in the media that are not quite true. While in some areas, on some days, renewables are outpacing polluters, their power peaks and wanes at different rates than demand. Coal is still the baseload energy generator, and will be required until massive energy storage is achieved, or we build more fusion/fission plants. With the exception of hydro, most 'renewable' generation stratigies come with temporal issues (wind, sun, tide, etc).

But nobody wants to think about the fact their teslas are runnig on coal, and we assume some random article we saw on renewables outpacing coal are the truth. It is not.

The retoric that china had 'better response' is strong there. Again, like tin square, that is public and more or less ceded ground. Even if that was not the case, why would they not want more control over the conversation?

Bingo. Its one of their biggest infosec ops. The rest are 'power users' and moderaters selling influence to the highest bidder. Its actually quite insidious.

I too have noticed the big 3 search engines serving more *eddit links than usual. And without retyping the url, (old.) the comments are hidden anyway so they are effectively a shade worse than useless.

Isn't that lifestyle its own addiction?

Maybe we shoud distinguish and not conflate some things.

1. Addiction (self-reinforing habit with negative outcomes) 2. Addictive activity (self-reinforcing habit) 3. Engauging in an activity known to become addictive selectively. (Aka; adults drinking)

We use all 3 interchangably, when the dangers, and outcomes, are very different.

At what point do we assert what we have known for years; that aggregted metadata is by its nature unethically privacy-invasive, and detrimental to human rights?

Not so much the law, but how it has been crafted to apply online, and the sheer amount of malicious compliance by Google et al.

I think making them optional or auditable would be a start.

And yet adult contact is down overall, sex workers cannot communicate online anymore, and covid is seen as a 'nothingburger' by half the people I meet reguardless of political leanings. Never underestimate a good disinfo wave. Hell, even Biden is singing the old 'we don't know if it is safe, better keep it illegal' refrain.

If buying a heated butter knife is "risk-taking" I am in the wrong timeline.

Seriously, just say sales. This is a textbook marketing study.

1. You yourself are muddling facts, and 2. the left wing seems to parrot it as well.

The fact is, there was some some oddness between china and the WHO, be it influence, manipulated data or just the appearance of such, it is still not ignorant for the layperson to be suspicious. The problem lies where suspicions become vile forum fanfic, and others start taking it seriously.

The answer is not to point at any side, but at ourselves for promoting the division of our humanity.

It was from using vit-e oil as the base liquid, found exclusively in one individuals homemade THC carts (although others are suspected as having the same mistake). The media really dropped the ball on tht one.

If childhood taight me anything, the minimum is just 2 buttons. Forward, reverse-left. Simple, usually effective, and maddenly oversimplified. I think I liked the one that only sent forward more, but it of course required a track.

People forget simple things like steering servos were not available to most kids until the 90s injection molding explosion that is so ubiq today.