This is especially a shame because crushed glass can easily be rough and jagged enough to meet the same requirements as high-quality sand.

Even neurotypical people complain how difficult it is to maintain their attention span in focused mental labor. For those who live with ADHD, ad blockers are non-negotiable.

Ads are hostile to rational thought generally, but they are anathema to neurodivergent people with sensitivities or a focus-related disability.

Anyone whose business model is to afflict disabled people more than others deserves to fail.

The more greenhouses gasses are in our atmosphere, the more the lower atmosphere warms, and the upper atmosphere cools. Stratospheric phenomena that used to be confined to the polar regions are now global. This was consistently predicted as a component of industrially-induced climate change.

What are the odds that alien life has crossed space just to pester and confuse the locals, versus the odds that this is camera artifacts, misidentifications, and psy-ops? All of the latter are far more likely; in fact, they're confirmed to be happening.

Everyone knows that if you fuse four protons, you get two positrons, two neutrinos, an alpha particle, and SATAN. :D

My god, this is a horrible idea. Ever been in the kind of company where a top-notch HR director quits over openly voiced "ethical concerns"?

I was. My work was key to the company's success, and yet I got trashed by novice mid-managers and people who slept their way to the top. These were corrupt liars. A few decent people got out of there while they could, and they've been some of my most reliable references.

But can you imagine what crooks would do with this kind of database? I hasten to add, the ability to retaliate against workers who go on strike would only grow.

A great many CEOs do not understand or care about the people they employ, period. This would allow them yet more dirty tricks to all they have already.

It's amazing that people still write games and demos for an old machine that lacks basic features, like sending users notifications, and stealing their data. How quaint! Where's the Amiga demo with a like+subscribe model and backing everything up to the cloud?

I guess none of us kids in the 80s and 90s realized the importance of hardware-accelerated ad-optimization. No executive would have ever killed that!

As is, I haven't heard a single report of Amiga users' credit cards leaked from an insecure S3 bucket. Sounds pretty dead.

"What's that, Big Tech? You've allowed your platforms to spread medical disinformation and racial hate and conspiracy theories enough that people are already living in an alternate reality and making it impossible for us to work together to solve the big issues and now there's a metaverse? Great, let's put the goggles on. You're clearly the ones to trust with our perception of reality."

This whole thing makes me want to unplug more.

Trees are no different than any other species. You have to establish their habitat before you can expect to plant a lot of them and see them thrive.

What's missing here is landscaping to retain the right amount of water, and regulate its flow. Rainwater has got to be captured, retained, and allowed to move slowly through the landscape, and this usually means swales, berms, and lightly angled ditches. The next important part is the soil biome. We need to be farming for soil microbes to unlock its nutrients. Particularly promising are the anthropogenic carbonaceous soils, like Terra Preta in the Amazon and similar soils the native tribes used to start with char and compost. This created a microbial culture that actually absorbs CO2 from the atmosphere and adds its mass to the soil, effectively making the char "grow" as a structure to trap nutrients and create habitat.

This alone could do a lot of the work of sequestering CO2, and then, trees could thrive and top it off.

Adama: "It is an integrated computer network, and I will not have it aboard my ship."

Melting ice and glaciers, dry rivers, and ever more greenhouses in the air guarantee we'll see this headline again soon. This is going exponential.

Given how absolutely clown-shoes our response to COVID is for years running now, given headlines of yet more fracking and oil wells being funded, it's pretty inevitable. We're about to leave the Permian-Triassic mass extinction in the dust.

Better study what you need to know how to save an ecosystem in critical condition, because otherwise, only archaeologists will know we were ever here.

It's horrifying seeing this on the same screen as the stories about the Gulf Stream current teetering on shutdown, just one of many of our planet's life support systems presently on the brink. Good luck monetizing a mass extinction! Bitcoin's sure to mean f***-all to remnants around the polar regions a century from now.

I'll just say this. Last year, hospital workers I knew were exhausted and shell-shocked from the overwhelming patient load, lack of hospital beds, and death left and right.

This year, it's the same, except they're pissed off because at least in this location, it's entirely preventable.

I can only imagine how people in developing countries who watched places in the USA let vaccine doses expire while their loved ones died are feeling.

For one thing, I don't know why nationalist chickenhawks can't see that ratf***ing a super-power's response to a pandemic is about the most cost-effective way for its rivals to take it down.

Anyone in the anti-spam/anti-malware field has had the evidence around them for over a decade that the same organized crime that scams people or spreads viruses, also spreads targeted disinfo aimed at inciting violent division in the USA on behalf of the Kremlin. It's not the only bad actor here, but it's a major one. As a professional, I've witnessed this unfold in real-time multiple times.

To hell with the lying wretches, all of them, but there are innocent lives in the crossfire here.