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Comment Re:Ditto ships reducing exhaust particulates (Score 2) 32

One proposal I heard is that we could reflect heat back into space using those very ships.

All we have to do is add some sulfur to the fuel oil.

We actually have that sulfur because it's a waste product from desulfating the fuel, which is legally required.

So if after we desulfate the fuel we then add back in the sulfur that one simple trick could help fix global warming.

Comment Re:slowing growth in fossil fuels (Score 2) 82

> You really do deserve your holiday in the sun, amirite.

I know lots of people who virtue signal and not a single one has stopped taking hot showers even though they could.

They'll trade in their Prius for a Model X though. CO2 payback should occur in 2055 if they also install an acre of new solar in their yard and don't need to replace the battery before then.

Oh, and a new flagship iPhone every twelve months.

Maybe I'll meet somebody someday who actually walks the walk.

Comment Whitelist DHCP options (Score 1) 106

It's a good point and most people would be happier with a DHCP client that only pulls address, mask, and gateway.

It might make a secure default but would break some valid configs out there.

Interestingly most of my stuff is static again in the devops era and with security in mind so DHCP is mostly for guest and IoT here at this point. We need to be able to cold-up without dependencies like DHCP. The guest network is the only wifi without a 63-bit PSK so it's also useful for new device onboarding.

Comment China (Score 2, Interesting) 45

China is 40% and likely growing to 70% over the next two decades.

What's the plan?

China Badger don't give a fuck.

If the plan is to pray for China to have a change of heart then they should put their money into churches.

Otherwise adaptation.

The bonus of adaptation is it works even if the computer models have errors.

Which, of course they do.

Comment Re:That's just RAG. (Score 0) 71

Spike protein does shed - it's been measured. There are papers on NLM/NCBI. Your news sources told you that, right?

Spike is probably only a concern for breast-feeding infants, blood transfusions, and sexual relations.

There are already 'pureblood' dating apps available so the market is responding. The Japan bloodbank is moving on it too to minimize cost overruns.

Comment Re:Really? (Score 0) 152

Plato was a big thinker but he suffered from "left-brain poisoning" which leads to over abstraction, including racism, classism, political parties, communism, and other mental disorders. "Plutonic Ideals" were supposed to be a though experiment originally.

Aristotle did major work to fix Plato's fuzzy-headed thinking.

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