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I can see the communicator on the chest being used as a flashlight with the powerful LED we have today.
But 90s TV show prop departments would probably have had one hell of a time trying to make that work, and practical, so instead they gave everybody futuristic looking flashlights aka "palm beacons" [0]
Except these companies do way more than just serve innocent ads, as the Snowden reveals have showed; They are complicit in way more than that.
Assuming said steel is actually of the quality it's certified as [0]
[0] https://asiatimes.com/2017/10/nuclear-tentacles-kobe-steel/
As such it's not something Apple PR invented, but rather hijacked.
Which is quite similar to meta data that's collected on phone calls, such data is regularly the basis for governments killing people [0]
[0] https://www.justsecurity.org/10311/michael-hayden-kill-peopl...
> The whole internet stopped working.
Not that surprising, considering these companies already had direct influence over 70%+ of internet traffic back in 2014 [0]
By now that number is probably in the 80-90% range as it's a problem the vast majority of people are either completely unaware of, or sometimes deny it to be even a problem in the first place.
[0] https://staltz.com/the-web-began-dying-in-2014-heres-how.htm...
Respect is earned, while fanboyism is rarely a good thing as by definition it's something rather biased.
Which has very little to do with Apple PR, but everything with how CPUs/GPUs are overwhelmingly made from silicon.
Which made the process of entering login credentials for my uPlay account (wanted to try some Assassins Creed game) kind of creepy.
The final experience was predictably a bit latency heavy and lots of artifacting/unclean picture quality from the video compression.
Tho the Microsoft version of it on the Windows 10 Xbox app, sees a bit more use from me due to GamePass; Way more streamlined, easy and quick way to test a game before I decide actually download several GB worth of it.
What prevents that from catching on at scale is, the "big boys", like MS, FB or Google, mostly not playing ball and never implementing these in their own messaging platforms, to keep their gardens neatly walled from each other.
As intraplatform exchange is not really in-line with what most of these platforms are striving for these days; Interactions with their own platforms and the advertisers on it.
Which is not a new thing; They did the same the last time they had government participation under Red/Green, ended up sending the Bundeswehr to "defend freedom" in Afghanistan.
Thus the running joke about Greens in Germany is how their "green" does not stand for the environment, but rather for the olive green of military uniforms.
Street view in Germany sucks because very rarely there will be a pixelated building front?
[0] https://staltz.com/the-web-began-dying-in-2014-heres-how.htm...
Because investing in IT security usually has no apparent profit incentives, so most companies leadership will consider it something of very little importance funding wise.
Particularly in the current climate where even minor hacks, and simple ransomware infections, are regularly made out as some kind of "act of God"/allegedly done by some super advanced "state actor", to create the narrative how it just wasn't preventable with the resources of a private company.
Which outsources all the responsibility to ominous intangible parties based on wonky, and often politically motivated, attribution, while holding nobody responsible for running outdate software in exploitable combinations, thus creating the problem in the very first place.
This is a common misconception that conflates world view with religion, when these two concepts are not really that synonymous[0]
They do exist, but the way this topic is usually talked about in public, and what numbers are often presented, one would have to assume the overwhelming number of lung cancer patients are smokers, but they ain't, at best they make up half, not even because most people with lung cancer stop smoking.
What is common is that pretty much everybody tried smoking at some point in their live or another, particularly when younger. That's what these "Most lung cancer patients smokers/used to smoke!" headlines are regularly based on.
But the number of people that are strict "never smokers", who never even touched a cigarette once in their live, is actually quite low. Yet those are regularly used as a comparison group.
The equivalent for alcohol would be counting every liver cancer as the result of alcohol on the basis of a patient having consumed alcohol, regardless how much or how often, before.
While creating a ton of new ones, which is sadly in the nature of most solutions; They tend to create new problems.
The question is how much "environmental capital" do we have left trying to figure out something actually long-term sustainable.
Also makes me wonder how much similar hubris exists with other topics; Afaik to this day there is still no medical scientific consensus weather damage from radiation is actually cumulative or not.
By now we have myriads of other compounding factors, particularly for cancer, that make it increasingly difficult to filter the actual signal, of what causes these issues, from all the environmental "noise" we keep creating by changing our one and only habitat in such massive, and lasting, ways.
[0] https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-ci...
There is nothing "manufactured" about not wanting to cook natural water bodies and the flora and fauna that live in said water.
Even very minor changes can have massive effects for everything living in, and around, such waters, as they are part of a bigger ecosystem these changes will also end up affecting wildlife outside of those waters.
> They could easily solve this just by offering giant 38-40C (100-104F) pools open to the public near their plants.
Did you do the math how big they would need to make these giant pools to effectively dissipate the heat? Where is the water for those giant pools supposed to come from?
> Or, just have a parking lot sized winding halfpipe before draining into the river, or otherwise easily make up for the missing cooling tower capacity.
From what material will that winding halfpipe be made, to have good thermal conductivity, while still having the stability to support such a massive structure and the pressurized water going trough it?
> In Iceland thermal plants will release boiling temperature water into rivers that didn't have it before, nobody thinks twice about it, as people are used to the natural equivalent.
Iceland is also not exactly known for its summer heatwaves, even without those I'm pretty sure they still monitor the temperature of those rivers to make sure it doesn't pass certain thresholds.
> You'll want to make sure to give the fish a way out, but otherwise the only notable side effects are some algea buildup.
Algea that will deprive the water of oxygen, thus killing a lot of other flora and fauna if they build up too much.
It's not a new problem [0], it's become somewhat of a regular issue in parts of Europe during summer heatwaves [1]. As the heatwaves will become worse, and the water scarcer, this will become an even more regular issue.
France is currently affected particularly badly because a big chunk of their reactor fleet is also going trough long-overdue maintenance.
[0] https://qz.com/1348969/europes-heatwave-is-forcing-nuclear-p...
[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-electricity-heatwa...
[0] https://www.delish.com/food-news/a27091162/mcdonalds-kiosks-...
I'm just not too sure about that; Fossil fuels took millions of years, and massive natural forces, to accumulate in their modern day form, very similar to uranium and other energy resources. That's a lot of energy that went into "making" them over a lot of time.
But humanity is "unloading" all that energy, with all its effects including thermal radiation, into the atmosphere at extremely faster rates than it took to accumulate. And we've been doing it at a literally global and industrialized scales.
We even recognize the problem of thermal pollution on a "micro" level when we throttle and shut down generators, reactors and industrial processes that threaten to overheat the natural water bodies they use for cooling.
I see no reason why these issues can't accumulate and scale up to global levels.
Disregarding that possibility, as if humans couldn't screw up the planet on such scales, are exactly what made us run head first into global warming trough CO2 emissions and littering most of the planet with led and plastics.
While thermal pollution in Earths atmosphere is a very real and relevant issue with energy generation and all kinds of other human activities; A whole bunch of French fission nuclear reactors are regularly shut/throttled down during summer heat waves due to lack of appropriate cooling.
The combination of these factors sometimes makes me wonder if the game Oxygen Not Included is a crude simulation of what we are doing to this planet. There the biggest end-game problem is the asteroid colony overheating due to creating a whole bunch of extra heat inside of it from using up fossil fuels, yet lacking any good way to actually vent all these massive amounts of extra heat from the little biosphere.
The WHO declared COVID-19 a PHEIC on 30 January 2020 [0], about a month after it arouse original attention in international media by very late 2019 [1] [2] [3]
> The WHO was so China centric that Bruce Aylward was outright ignoring questions if they contained the word “Taiwan.”
The very same would have happened if any WHO official was asked something in relation to Palestine [4]. Which, just like Taiwan, is not a sovereign nation recognizes by the UN because certain other UN members are actively denying these territories that recognition.
That's why WHO, and UN officials in general will act like certain places don't even exist; Their mere mention of these territories, like sovereign states, can be interpreted as the UN, giving them, at least unofficial, recognition.
> China lied about the nature of the pandemic, lied about the severity, gave fake statistics and information, and the WHO never questioned or looked further into any of it.
I'd be really interested what your alleged timeline for events looks like. By late 2019 China was publicly admitting investigating a SARS like outbreak. When do you locate the actual outbreak start? Months earlier?
That's the only way the WHO could have taken "months" to declare it a PHEIC, yet any public awareness about any of this only existed by late 2019.
[0] https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/covid-19-public-heal...
[1] https://www.dw.com/en/china-investigates-sars-like-virus-as-...
[2] https://apnews.com/article/00c78d1974410d96fe031f67edbd86ec
[3] https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-12-china-probes-pneumoni...
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_recognition_of_t...
The Race for Herd Immunity [0]
[0] https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/germany-s-vacci...