What exactly do you want to pump into the entire atmosphere? Particulate matter is widely regarded as pollution. Soot. Black lung. Volcano ash causes lung disease in people who live at a relatively safe distance from the exploding volcano but still in the range that ash falls. Chalk also caused lung disease in a high school teacher of mine. .I can just see the media raging over the new "Glitter Lung" that came from Switzerland.
USE THE ENERGY. It's fuckling FREE ENERGY.
https://energy.mit.edu/news/tr...
This will protect plants and animals from excess UV and infrared (heat) while generating solar energy.
Build solar-powered desalination facilities in arid countries. Green the deserts. Let there be crops and forests.
Build solar-powered carbon capture, you get free carbon powder for paints, cosmetics, or medicine. Run a giant freezer in polar lands to pile the ice back onto them
You want geoengineering? Cover the world in solar panels and generate more energy than the mythical nuclear fusion plant we've been trying to build for over 50 years.

Or to increase our professors' impact rating. I lifted half my thesis from Wikipedia and got paper references from there, and those paper's references.
Don't care. Why the fuck did I have to do a thesis? I already knew how to code when I was a kid. HTML is not rocket science, neither is CSS, JS, SQL or PHP.

Or 8. I guess when the only use for an operating system is to load a web browser and an ssh terminal...

They should make an OS that's compatible with both Apple and Android, rather than create a walled garden.
I run DOS, Windows 3.1, XP and 10 under Linux in various VMs.

According to Dubya, at least. :D

You can be very quickly fired if you have a fixed schedule and don't follow it, or even a flexible schedule and don't put in the 40 hour week.

Now instead of that I have to worry about why firefox freezes all the time and my microphone isuddenly stopped working.
Also my wife's files on her chromebook keep disappearing. It must be syncing with her grandma's chromebook which doesn't really have any files.

Doesn't surprise me it came from a guy involved with MS, J++, Pascal ðY
When typeless languages were invented they were considered a major breakthrough. You have AI that can do anything these days and you expect me to go back to explaining computers that numbers can't simply be numbers, there's a difference between a number 1 and the "1" keypress followed by a submit button click.

When I was younger typeless languages were considered a major programming triumph. I can't say after a 22 year career that I have made a lot of mistakes because I use typeless languages.

My employer requires me to login with a smart card, a personal PIN followed by random digits from an RSA fob. Digits change every 15 seconds. Laptop doesn't work without the card inserted.

First it was the dotcom boom then it was web 2.0. And in decades before that we had white flight and city centers were all rundown and abandoned.
Now we have an epic tourist boom because people were stuck at home so long and housing prices doubled in distant subirbs. Real estate has cycles. You have a new generation, trends change, tastes evolve and then you grow old and start nostalgia buying. How many times have you seen people ressurrect the yo-yo?

5 generations of my family lived in a peaceful town and paid a lot of taxes to build these tram lines which used to be our primary means of transportation. But now tourists think they are cute antiques and well there's 10 or 20 times more tourist than resident traffic.
I'd like the tourists gone. Gentrification pushed me out to the former slum area and now inflation doubled my loan payments. This is not a third world tropical island, we have multiple universities and can live off qualified labor instead of waiting tables and making beds.

Works fabulously well and runs every Steam game I have tried so far, not to mention dosbox and emulators etc

Take that resume and your excellent sales pitch and start a business devoted to, say, documenting and refactoring legacy code bases so they're easier to work with.
Build a snazzy website and start poking people you know.

What? BitchX was financed by the New Kids On The Block? I thought it was free, open-source software but ok.