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Criminals ruin everything.

I’m typing this on a ten year MacBook Pro

Lucky you, I guess, because I sure haven't had such good fortune.

that is running a currently supported version of MacOS

How is that possible? The almost-dead MacBook I mentioned is younger than yours and is stuck on Monterey.

and runs as fast as the day I bought it.

Probably. I didn't say anything about how fast they are, because all common platforms in use today still run reasonably well on decade-old hardware.

If it had 10ish GB of RAM, at least. Browsers eat RAM like popcorn.

I have a pile of Dell and Lenovo Windows laptops of similar age that can still run but are basically doorstops or suitable for beater Linux or BSD machines, definitely not daily drivers.

I'm guessing you didn't pay $2500 for them, though. That's down to specs, not manufacturer. Apple hardware is almost invariably high-spec and therefore quite fast, but Apple thankfully doesn't have a monopoly on fast computers.

The display server has no way of verifying the process ID on the other end of the Unix-domain socket connection, and therefore cannot verify the executable image. It also cannot verify that the settings app hasn't had any malicious code injected with ptrace, LD_PRELOAD, or the like, since the injected code can remove any traces of that before connecting to the display server.

Sex work is not rape any more than working at mcdonalds is slavery.

I would call the latter slavery, yes. Wage slavery, to be precise. Certainly no one aspires to flip burgers and not even get paid enough to afford to eat one.

Comparing the two reeks of too much theory with too little experience. It is over simplifying things in a way that is troubling because it devalues the intensity, horror, and evil of things like rape and slavery.

Tell that to all the homeless people roasting on the streets of Portland right now. They may not be getting whipped, but they are suffering all the same.

The centre-right government said it wanted to send a signal to the world.

That Denmark negotiates with terrorists?

The pendulum swings away from Reaganomics, does it? Good. Good riddance.

At least two of the BRICS countries have a colonial present, so this demand is rather hypocritical.

“I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.”

🎼This was a triumph🎶
🎼I'm making a note here: “huge success”🎶

Seriously, the experiment is over. The stuff works great. That is not a valid excuse.

You have to already be healthy to do that, though. It's pretty hard to ride a bike when you weigh 200+ pounds.

The browser. You are forced to use Safari. Safari does not allow extensions or otherwise block ads. I use Firefox with uBlock Origin on my phone.

Being blasted with ads is your idea of a better experience? You and I clearly don't live in the same reality.

Yeah because you know, dollar bills have inherent value, right?

Dollar bills have the inherent value that some very grumpy men with guns will kick down my door and take me away if I try to make them myself.

Cryptocurrency is only worth something until a technical weakness is discovered and exploited, or until governments make it illegal, or until the creators of the currency reveal the back door they left in the system (such as that supposedly-lost Bitcoin wallet with a few billion coins in it) and cash it out, and then it's all over and your digital tulips aren't worth the flash cells they're stored in.

No, it’s not completely useless.

Only to criminals.

People have been using it to get around censorship by banks.

Get around laws against money laundering, smuggling, extortion, and theft, I think you mean. Banks aren't in the business of censorship, and even if yours is, there are plenty of others to choose from who'll be more than happy to take your money and not ask too many questions about your politics.

Sure, it’s fine to not like it, but having a knee-jerk emotional reaction to it is pointless and makes you look like you’re just being told what to think.

Yeah, that's what all the scammers say.

I'm afraid you are severely mistaken. This is only the sixth mass extinction in Earth's history, and the first one that was caused by a species that knew what it was doing. Even on the scale of billions of years, what's going on right now is highly unusual.

Nor would any of the other mass-extinction events have been considered “life proceeds as normal”, if there were any humans around to witness them. Certainly a huge asteroid hitting the planet and shrouding it in dust for years would have turned some heads.

Well, they sure aren't pleasing me.

I am a source. Over the last few decades, most computers and phones around here worked fine throughout their service lives and either are still in service or were replaced because they became obsolete, but about half of the Apples suffered hardware failure of some kind—two Macs died, one MacBook's video cuts out if the lid is opened more than a couple of inches and its keyboard is very glitchy, and one iPhone's battery life has become terrible despite reporting 90% battery health. Seriously not impressed with Apple hardware.

You want to take out that CO2, you need to spend the same amount of energy to take it back.

Non sequitur. Nobody said we had to turn atmospheric carbon back into the same fuel it originally came out of.

Electrical trucks are not worth it because of battery weight.

This is only an issue for long-haul trucks, so, obvious solution: electric trains. No battery required.

Also, battery fires are a BITCH and are almost impossible to put out. All it takes is one electrical fire from a car in a tunnel that will kill a few hundred people to make people reconsider battery cars. Now imagine trucks.

There are plenty of EVs on the road already. If that was as likely as you're trying to make it sound, it would have happened many times already.

Yeah, lithium-ion batteries are volatile, but they aren't that volatile. Solid-state batteries are even less so.

retards (yes, that is the acceptable word for people that have a good brain but refuse to use it)

I won't comment on whether it's acceptable, but it definitely isn't correct. The R word refers to people whose brains are impaired, not merely underused.

Call me cynical all you like but I see a humanity ending problem in front of us and it can be solved but share holders and the rich must be kept happy before that!

That's the real problem, not the technology. We can solve this problem. We don't even have to sacrifice our modern civilization and creature comforts to do it. But we won't, because some very lucrative businesses would become obsolete in the process, and their owners would sooner burn down the world and rule over the ashes than tolerate the loss of their wealth.

Most rich people don't just stand around outside waiting to get shot. Especially not if they know someone is gunning for them. They may be morally bankrupt, but they're not stupid.

Even if we stop pumping carbon in the air tomorrow it will still take centuries until the atmosphere is back to normal, barring any carbon capture.

That would, however, stop it from getting any worse, which is kind of a big deal because it's getting worse at a frightening rate.

Making all out cars electrical is also cute. It’s a nice thought if it weren’t that all that electricity still mostly comes from CO2 emitting sources so including conversion losses electrical cars may actually send more CO2 in the atmosphere.

You severely overestimate the energy efficiency of gasoline engines. A big reason to get rid of them is not only the fuel they burn, but how much of it they waste.

We need nuclear power plants like there is no tomorrow in all countries, even the “bad” ones.

You severely underestimate the resources required to build those. It costs some $20 billion to build one nuclear power plant. There's a reason everybody's focusing on solar and wind.

Small modular reactors may be cheaper, but they also generate huge amounts of radioactive waste. Radioactive waste isn't a serious problem now, but it will be if we start powering everything with SMRs.

Atom cracking will not save us. Not unless there's some kind of breakthrough.

We will likely end up with some form of atmospheric engineering where we’re going to meas with the atmosphere, seeding clouds, or pumping other chemicals in there that negate the effects of CO2. I’m unsure what the results of that will be though

1. It works.
2. Big Oil chants “spray, baby, spray!”
3. It works too well. Global freeze occurs. Everybody dies. Game over.

Either way, you and I will NOT see the end of this, that is for our children’s children

Have you stepped outside at any point in the last several years? Global warming is no longer a looming future threat for someone else to deal with. It's here and now.

Nothing changes and life proceeds as normal? Have you stepped outside in the last few years? Things are already changing.