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Word usage changes over time, often not retaining its original meaning, as the article points out. I find it more interesting how the European use is more broad, where Americans separate the individual recreation from work or school into the term vacation.

The sell of the paper is a new fuel storage medium. The positive part is that creating a fuel from existing carbon sources means (hopefully) less petroleum pumped out of the ground to contribute more carbon. The negative is that it leans more to that than the permanent sequestering, and I can't seem to pick out a net energy use anywhere, but basic physics tells us it will take more energy to do the process in entirety, even if most of it results in large scale storage. I doubt that happens because removal of carbon vs. putting into a new form to be used is like burying money. Which leads to something I've noticed pop up only in the past month or so...a new term added. "Carbon capture, utililization, and storage". CCS has already been very heavily into the production of carbon products to support their efforts, after all they have to make a profit, right? The only real storage done is a product to inject into the ground to help retrieve more oil. Again, they aren't going to just bury the money, that's foolhardy for a business.

Sorry for more negativity in the thread. Just calling a spade a spade. Those who don't like the feeling that gives can just ignore it and focus on the new science that will save us.

A third question is, can it scale up to what's needed to begin to make a dent in the problem. The answer will unfortunately always be no, not even close. That's how much we've put in the air and oceans, the numbers are huge.

It's complicated. The breakdown of methane in the atmosphere depends on hydroxyl radicals that are created at a regular rate. If you have more and more methane released, and/or you have other chemicals that also react with those radicals, the overall average half life will increase. Both those things are happening, so the old half life really isn't as accurate as it used to be. Guess which number the IPCC still uses for its models though.

The funny thing is that even though there are people on both sides dead set they are right, if they hear someone say the opposite pronunciation they still understand what the speaker is referring to. So there's absolutely no context lost, it's just preference, and I have a feeling given the age of the name GIF those preferences are very regional, as the internet had not become a national/international thing yet.

You're right that the subjects don't have equal weights in reality. But at the time of Godwin's Law becoming a thing, the idea of fascism being an okay thing seemed about as ridiculous in the general public eye. We as a society do seem to forget the lessons from the past, or maybe some things hide and give the appearance of being gone.

In the U.S. I blame the underlying racism and "heritage" of the southern states (that spread to other states) which never really disappeared thanks to the fumbling of the Civil War resolution, but lay waiting for decades for new opportunities. It's no wonder that neo-Confederatism and neo-nazi seem to be found in similar places, ironically often wrapped in an American flag.

Complacence is part of the problem. There's a great 1943 video called "Don't Be a Sucker" that unfortunately is still timely in its message.

Or the "emit CO2" AOE spell.

to be published in a limited gold embossed leather bound volume with 500 pages of commentary, March 2024

Tolkien fanatics: "Link?"

Also...link?

I always took Godwin's use of Hitler/Nazis as one of many final limits of arguments that the "losing" side would reach for in order to save their claim when they could not find rational reasons to support it anymore. Nazis, aliens, Deep State, etc. It's a mental flailing of absurdities to save face, and once there the point of debate is lost.

Save Southern Heritage Florida

Not all heritages are best to save. What would General Lee himself say both about trying to glorify that past as well as having statues to the losing side? I'll bet supporters either don't know, or aren't honest enough to admit they do know.

They didn’t create the first MP3 player, but they created the first massively commercially successful one.

Going back to what others have mentioned about Apple, the iPod's success was a big part because of the intuitive interface. If it's easy to learn and use, it will become popular.

Recycled water isn't directly toilet water, so the title is misleading to bias the react and get the click. Isn't much of urban water already recycled to some degree? And in reality, all water is "second hand" and has been somewhere else in its history on this planet. It's only a question of it being processed naturally or otherwise to be potable to drink.

Let's focus on the chemicals we've put into the world's water that can't easily (or at all) be filtered out. Toilet water is not the problem.

15 days.

Or two weeks.

Depending on your version of hope.

Way too many good movies to have a single best, but that one is one of my favorites certainly. If I recommend it to someone I avoid any spoiling of the twist because it was so great when it happened. It might be obvious before that point for some, it came from left field for me.

And while I heard the sequel wasn't all that great, I felt that even if a sequel could be good it was totally unneeded. It'd be like trying to make a second Highlander movie, if one could even imagine that.

IBM is how he got into the PC infrastructure via licensing. He saw what the execs didn't, that anyone could build hardware but what ran on it controlled the world. And I don't know how true it is, but my understanding is that Gates was so shrewd he bet on getting that agreement before he even had the software in hand. Which if true says even more about the IBM execs who agreed to something sight unseen.

Later Geordi shows him that authority when ejecting the warp core before Will gives the actual order to set off the Riker Maneuver.

Some music doesn't have to be deep to be good. I never got the impression people in the pit at a AC/DC concert were analyzing the lyrics.

The Time Traveler's Wife is an interesting twist on things, including free will. I haven't seen the series version.

Definitely a debatable subject, but if there was a line of billionaire to start taking away "earned" income, she wouldn't be at the front. Plenty of others that are far less "worthy", depending on how the debate of worth goes.

If it was up to insurance companies, they'd classify "being born" as a pre-existing condition. That parameter is just there to protect their assets from the "greedy" sick people who file claims, and they'll push that line of what is and isn't covered as far back as they can. Don't give them the line to move.