"The WHO, which tightened its air quality guidelines in 2021, warns that no level of air pollution can be considered safe but has set upper limits for certain pollutants."

OK, I stopped reading here. Just like "There is no safe amount of animal protein". Or "No safe amount of ionizing radiation". Total nonsense....

The chemical compound pollution that comes from the exhaust of a modern day car is 98% less than what it came out in the 90-ies. Particulate's main source in a vehicle is the tires. The amount is exponential with weight. Also, in any modern urban environment transport is just about the smallest contributor to particle pollution.

All the above statements are the conclusions of a multi-year EU wide scientific project in which I played a small role.

YET:
1. The powers that be want to see 90% reduction in car ownership (Whaaaaat?)
2. Electric vehicles, which are WAY heavier are perfectly OK - no problem with particle generation there!
3. Synthetic fuels that are carbon neutral are an evil scam by greedy German auto corporations!!!!! - never mind that if the fuel is carbon neutral then you have zero extra investment in infrastructure, lighter cars (much less particles) and fully developed and matured scraping systems at the exhaust (see the 98% reduction).

Funny fact: One of the Chinese representatives in the project said that if China moves from Euro1 to Euro2 legislation, as they intend to do, for the exhaust gasses (We are introducing Euro7 here - the reduction of emissions between the issues is not linear but progressive) that would offset anything that the West can ever do for pollution. So, instead of wasting billions upon billions with constantly worsening ROI (diminishing returns) perhaps we can invest where we get the biggest bang for the buck....

You don't know much of biology, do you? God loves beetles, have you not heard that biology joke? It is because there are more species of beetles than just about anything else. Darwin commented on it; Terry Pratchett used it in one of his science popular books....

How does Canon does the lithography? I could not find that info.

The 10 times cheaper than ASML approach was the selling motto of electron beam lithography. At the end, e-beam lithography could not achieve the throughput necessary for a chip foundry. The technology was purchased by ASML and is now used as an online inspection tool.

If it is not e-beam, then it is EUV light. How does one created an EUV scanner at 1/10th of the price (while keeping industrially viable throughput) is beyond my extremely limited understanding. Anyone know? And that from a Japanese company! The Japanese a famous for perfection and attention to details but cheap they are not!

Everything but the simple solution that works - no carbs.
Gotta think about the insulin profits!

No, what you ate didn't have a chance to kill you because it only could after a couple more years. You'll find that an unhealthy diet doesn't kill people at about 30 years. It kills them at 50 or later.

Not true. Cancer is creeping to ever younger people. Plenty to do with carbs and unsaturated plant fats. There are more carcinogenic substances in broccoli and Brussels sprouts than in cigarettes. That is why every child rejects them at first try. Taste and smell have been educated for hundreds of millions of years.....

I eat only meat, vegetables (mostly leafs), some fruit (seasonal) and bit of milk products (soar milk and cheese). I also eat once every 24 hours.

Since I am doing this, I have stopped taking pills every day. I had skin issues that required ointments and doctor's visits. Gone. General health, productivity, energy levels are all up. How much emissions have I saved by fixing my health?

I have none of the usual health issues plaguing men of my age. Nothing at all, apart from the usual and expected age degradation of this and that... Covid was a breeze.

If you calculate my calorie intake I should be dead or at least starving. When you are on keto you really eat A LOT less. Calories are not created equal. By now the whole calorie in calorie out is being proven to be SO simplistic as to be misleading most of the time! Juts like the BMI coefficient, that would place a bodybuilder with 5% body fat in the morbidly obese category!

Also, I feel a lot warmer (increased metabolic rate) which resulted in 25-30% reduction of my energy bill for heating and showers.

In every measurable way my lifestyle is way better for the environment as a meat eater than any other alternative.

There is no equivalence between plant and animal protein. Legumes are not a solution for anything. As well as the "plant based fats" which, apart from coconut and olive oil are all cancerous industrial products that were successfully shoved in the human diet to the detriment of all and the huge profits of few.

70 percent of the land mass is covered with grass. The only thing you can do with that without using huge amounts of fertilizer is grazers. I posit that the greatest loss of life, health, money and resources in the last 60 years is the high carb, unsaturated fats "healthy diet" that has produced half a billion diabetics alone and is wreaking the medical systems everywhere.

Now, imagine if USA's medical expenses dropped by half...medical research and manufacturing is extremely costly. What would that do to the environment? The benefits are incalculable, yet, this singular low hanging fruit is not only unrecognized by the so called "greens" but their "science" is pointing in the opposite direction! Cows are changing the climate!

What it all boils down to is that we are doing the opposite of what we should be doing to minimize our impact on the environment. The worst strategies in food and energy production are (ha-ha) holy cows, untouchable by fact and reason. We hold many such delusions. That is why 30 years after peak child (1994) just about everyone is saying there are too many people on the planet. Which is, indeed, the most abominable thing to say and believe, even worst than "that was no real communism".

So, yes, there is a point about fertile land exhaustion. But we don't need all that wheat, rice and corn. So, the masters of our world are "calculating" how many people can the current system with the brain dead policies support. Well, none at the end. None at all.

You want to save humanity and the planet? Make kids. Eat meat. Build nukes. BTW, the fact that the (refined) fission materials from the Cold war are just decaying somewhere without being burned for electricity is an abomination. There were 8 times more nukes at the height of the Cold war than there are today. I did a very rough calculation factoring 7% annual increase of demand for electricity (globally) and these materials came to satisfying Earth's needs for the next 50 years! And these materials are just decaying, emitting heat. They are already there....use them!

Oh, projecting human sensibilities and motivations to aliens. How insightful!

The sad state of the nerds these days....

Read something from Stanislaw Lem, sir. Regarding aliens and first contact, I recommend (if you can find it in English) his literature essay reviewing Strugatski's "Roadside picnic".

The other day I listened to an interview with the Prime minister of Israel. He mentioned that he never reads novels, but instead reads history a lot. But after he was recommended (and read) a novel about a future cyber war he was spurred into action of improving Israel's cyber security efforts. The novel thought him about the importance and significance of cyber security.

Part of the discussion was about AI. And then I thought that the warning about the dangers of AI "simply" because of creating something that is smarter than all humans combined, whether conscious or not, in fact the very message for which Elon is constantly being ridiculed or ascribed profit motives on /. ,the bastion of nerddoom/s, is the loud and clear message of Lem's short story " Lymphater's formula". 62 years ago were told about it and if politicians and legislators (or maybe some pretenders calling themselves nerds) would have read it, it would not have been such a surprise of what might happen if we can't manage AI well.

It is ridiculously funny that /. bigmouths who are constantly bitching about corporations, government or TLA's screwing with people fully fell for the multi decade scam of the TLA's to discredit the topic and make it so that every mention of it would be social, political or business death. And you big "anti establishment" mouths are dancing on CIA's tune like puppets.

It's poetic!

A train is a train is a train.

But only between Ferengi!

of these kinds of articles. Nothing to do with anything but " Elon bad".

I thought I left Pravda and Izvestia behind....

Many years ago, when the Bush administration was gearing for the Iraq war, a western journalist told me many months before that it would happen. How did she know? The media fuss. She said that the media always prepares people for the next enemy to be combated, whether a state or something else (war on....fill the blanks). The only change these days is that a) the political masters are from different party and b) it is much worse now with the total control of the tech bros over all discourse .

Spreading North than ever before.

What do you mean by ever before? The entire history of Earth? History of the species? History of civilization?

So what happened 1200 years ago when grapes were growing in Greenland? How far North did malaria travel?