The GP is referring to the events in Dealey Plaza.

Coal was just an example. Natural gas an petroleum are both replete with issues too.

Your unsubstantiated statements appear to be based on dated and/or flawed information. On the other hand, here are some studies showing that life-cycle emissions of PV are on the order of 50g/kWh, orders of magnitude less than coal:

• https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy13osti/56487.pdf
• https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338384189_Review_on_Life_Cycle_Assessment_of_Solar_Photovoltaic_Panels

GP appears to be alluding to externalities.

But your unsupported claims that solar are wind are more destructive are dubious. Certainly fossil fuels have enjoyed far more explicit subsidies and externalized costs. Do you have a reputable source pointing how production, use and disposal of PV and wind infrastructure exceeds, say the impact of mountaintop removal or strip mining for coal, the release of mercury from its combustion, creation of toxic coal ash ponds that spill into rivers, etc.? Not to mention all the side effects of emitting gigatons of carbon dioxide?

Plenty here are not happy that a reasonable project to reduce emissions and electricity rates was stymied for over twenty years by a few divas whining about some faint toothpicks on the horizon.

But there are rational reasons. While it's great that it helped you quit, it's also getting a lot of other people hooked. Vape pens may have been invented as a cessation device, but for many they are the scooter that seems safe and attractive... The only thing they have going for them is that it looks like few people move on to cigarettes from vaping.

Tom Nicholas just released the first in a three part series yesterday, "Why Everything is Addictive Now." It explores this and other favorite topics like enshittification and is worth a watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuTQbOo3Y30/

Doh, posted in wrong window. This was meant for the UK ban on disposal vapes.

Tom Nicholas just released the first in a three part series yesterday that explores this and other favorite topics like enshittification. It's worth a watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuTQbOo3Y30/

Perhaps it's best not to rely on general search to find things that a more specialized site would provide good results for? e.g; allrecipes.com And if one is not familiar with such sites already, searching for "recipes site" yields this among the top results, along with Bon Appetit.

Unemployment is rather high in certain groups, but doesn't the system mostly just create two classes of worker with CDD (fixed term contract) vs. CDI ("normal employment")? That does not seem so different from 1099 independent contractors / "gig" economy, etc.

It's a dissertation for a doctorate in *architecture* (using computational analysis and optimization), not a dissertation in computer science. That being said, the abstract does seem like word salad.

Allowing myriad organizations to use it was a feature, not bug. But the extra hoops were definitely a problem. "Oh, not enough people use this minimally publicized tool we provide that's only accessible if you say the magic word, conveniently saving us from having to actually donate even the pittance we might have otherwise done so... I guess we'll just remove it then"

In my experience: YouTube ads << American TV ads << British and French TV ads

Discoverability.

I switched to Waterfox Classic when FF screwed the pooch with UI mess, but it's no longer maintained. I've been using Palemoon recently and it's fine, even leaks less memory. It's extension repository is smaller, but you can usually just download the FF XPI and install that if there's something you really need/want.