Hep me Ronna, hep hep me Ronna

Glad they fin'ly get 'ronna it

I'll keep using Firefox (over 10 years now), with uBlocko. Unlike Google, Mozilla doesn't try to make Gorhill's life harder all the time, and Gorhill is a major hero.

That and the fact that it works great almost all the time, and keeps adding privacy features. Zero gripes.

I'd say the FOSS win already happened when they realized they had to give Win away to stay in the game. As for YOTLD, does it matter after Android?

This year will be my 10th on TLD. Except for my learning year (when I tried finding all the ways to break it), the OS has been a rock .. especially since LTS distros arrived. Still yearn for great apps that are only on other OS's.

We've already terraformed Earth. Look how well that turned out.

Maybe what we need first is huma-forming.

And then there's the missing count of how much CO2 is breathed out (and farted) by all human beings on the planet.

>Many autistic people are perfectly happy with how they are
If it's working for them, what's to complain about. For truly 'genius' autists, the filtering of countless social distractions is noise-removal, allowing for calm and sustained reflection and invention. When the 'awe' rewards 'normals' demand come along, they're 'forgiven'.

But, I think, most are not 'geniuses'. The differences may still lead to creativity and exploration outside of the ordinary, but without the 'awe'some reactions 'normals' often demand. (Napolean Dynamite effect.)

>Many others probably would feel the same way if they were treated better by their peers and society in general.

And so these sub-geniuses, like each and every one of us sub-geniuses, deserve to be treated with respect. Harder for the young, easier for mature folk.

Social media sucks. (A voice from your future.)

NASA is constantly finding 'water' on the Moon. Like on Oct 9, 2009 they slammed a Centaur-1 (LCROSS, cost $78M) into the surface (promising a giant cloud ... 'ejecta plume' ... you could probably see from Earth) and reported finding water. They find 'water' everywhere they'd like to go.

Oh but wait, kids. This time it's MOLECULAR WATER! FOR SURE. At least 100 PARTS PER MILLION. (Right where they put that thing that time.) WOLF! WOLF! So now let's put up a LOT MORE Lunar Orbiting Satellites to look for it!! Yeehah!

One thing I've noticed about GP posts (in English, anyways) is how the writing is very formal, academic-like and conforming to the rules ub de lingo dey speak. Ergo shud day wish to conforn us moe, dey wee hab to larn a fu tr1cks. Doan tellum.

This fact persists only because manufacturers have cleverly continued to wrap them in a Faraday shield. What else are they trying to hide? (Ever seen a propane refrigerator? They're using *heat* to *cool* something? *Yeah, right.* What's the real interdimensional source they're tapping?)

Wherever C-19 came from, the bigger and outrageous story is how it spread so quickly worldwide.
The answer is air travel. For weeks *after* China was fighting the virus - and clearly losing many lives - travellers from China were freely spreading all over the world. I can only hope to see that story fully written.

During the Plague 500 years ago, Venice quarantined ships offshore for 40 days. Those who don't learn from history.

Meanwhile, here in the US, while TSA was being paid to look for terrorists arriving in the US, it was doing nothing (according to travellers) about the infected arriving on our shores. Not only were we stupid about that, we were slow and stupid about preparations for this debacle. The 'Essential Business' of Public Health was forgotten for decades while the stock market climbed. And now we must all pay, for many, many years.

India has already doubled its renewables capacity from 40-80GW. It's well on the way to trading its coal plants for renewables.

"India plans to achieve 175 GW of renewable energy by 2022 through 100 GW of solar, 60 GW of wind, 5 GW of small hydro, and 10 GW of biomass-based power. At 82.5 GW of installed renewable capacity as of September 2019, India is nearly halfway to meeting its 2022 target.... India further commits to increase its renewable energy capacity to 450 GW..." by 2030. Its current grid-size is 365GW.

https://www.nrdc.org/experts/a...

The 2022 goal may be set back by Covid and supply troubles, but it shows what a determined, not-rich country can do. Compare to what the US has accomplished recently.

> Reducing plastic waste will only have a very limited impact on climate change.

I know what you mean. Apart from environment, this thought. The millions of tons of single-use plastic ... bottles, bags, straws, wrapping, cups and on ... there's so much of that.

Consider the energy needed for single-use plastics ... to transport ingredients, manufacture, distribute, and dispose of them. To the extent that any/all of those processes are fossil-based, single-use is a BIG CO2 source.

So let me get this straight, Oregon ...

"below 19mpg will cost $122, rising to $132 for a vehicle between 20-39mpg, then $152 for a vehicle that gets 40mpg or better, and $306 for a BEV ..."

You're going to charge gas-guzzlers LESS, and high-efficiency vehicles MORE ???, and TWICE as much for EVs?
This might make sense in Utah, which I expect to not get it, but shouldn't little things like GLOBAL HEATING cause people to pay a CARBON TAX for their gas use?

Clearly the people who favor taxing by vehicle weight have it figured out. Anyone who can afford to push a 100-ton truck across the state can probably afford to pay for the privilege. Time to start socializing the profits.