silence7 @ silence7 @slrpnk.net

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Signal makes it believable by providing source code and reproducible builds. It doesn't rule out the possibility that they've done something clever with the random number generator, or have the app store you use give you a compromised app, or provide any protection against endpoint compromise, but it's about as good as you can get.

Third party apps derived from theirs, which explicitly promise to log all your messages to a server somewhere, like TeleMessage, are, for obvious reasons, far less trustworthy.

Yes, but the stations in wealthier areas have enough donations that they'll likely stay alive. Just poor rural areas will lose public broadcasting

Even more to the point: every time we shutter a coal-fired power plant, the miscarriage rate downwind from it falls.

Most "pro-life" sentiment is about having an excuse to vote for racists, not actually trying to do anything to protect fetuses.

The harm is the point — they see people who are harmed by this as unfit, and deserving of the harm.

Yep. Call your rep and senators and tell them how mad you are about it.

They're choosing people who are in the Nazi group chat and also did an internship at one of Musk’s companies.

No senior folks because more senior people won't break the law because their boss says so.

What we do in the present and future is a human decision. How bad it gets is up to us still, not something locked in by physics

We are past two important points:

• we passed the point where you would not be able to tell the difference something like 30 years ago
• we passed the point where we likely locked in 1.5°C of warming quite recently. That's roughly where you walk into a minefield of risking major ecosystems with each additional bit of warming, and the stretch goal that small island nations wanted because it might have left them habitable.

Importantly neither point is one where we expect civilization to suddenly end.

Probably not. We're still in a place where it's probably possible to end up with a civilization-supporting planet. But it requires phasing out fossil fuels. And starting now. And the oil executives who bribed Trump don't like that.

It looks like a planned gradual turnup

I'm pointing to an old one because the causes are well known, there isn't any current propaganda campaign to confuse people about it, and its a wide-area unanticipated failure.

That kind of facility tends to have its own backup power, often with a week or so of fuel stockpiled on-site.

Back when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, there was a period where the only building with power was a datacenter. The lights prompted soldiers to break in, and the system admin wound up having to pretend that they'd discovered evidence of somebody nefarious forcing the door, so they'd clear the building and leave.

I think that one is coming from the UK Daily Mail which is generally unreliable.

During one of these events, it's really common for all kinds of misinformation and rumors to fly, and even to come from otherwise trustworthy people.

I'll note that the US had some very large-scale blackouts in the 1960s which were caused by fairly ordinary technical problems.

In the US, the towers that provide mobile service are required to have a few hours worth of battery backup. The EU may require more, but I'd expect them to go down not too long after the main grid goes out.

Problem is that you need a chunk of that data to do things like figure out if people are cheating on taxes. It's hard to run an effective government without data.

Prosperity has never been his main aim. Tariffs serve to create attention for him, and leverage to collect bribes.

I pretty commonly hear:

• Trump disavowed it
• nobody would be that bad
• you've been brainwashed by the media.

Exactly. The problem here isnt that China did something bad; it's that the US government sabotaged the future prosperity of the US

It's not going to be just 25 when all is said and done. Multiple other countries are looking at ways to recruit American researchers or bring home their own nationals who have been working as professors in the US.