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Comment Re:We really do need to figure out carbon capture (Score 1) 176

FFS The ocean is a net in gasser. Yes, the Ocean moves more CO2 each year then humans do, but humans are around 9% of this number, not 4% And the number was growing solidly pre-pandemic. And the ocean is acidifying from this, making the ocean 25% more acidic. "But the ocean is alkaline, so No Big Deal ".. Sadly the life of the ocean is hit hard by the change in acidity, and it mucks with things hard. So dumping CO2 into the ocean is a crap solution, or preventing it's outgassing (same result) The ocean has been doing the heavy lifting for a while, otherwise the atmospheric CO2 would be around two hundred PPM higher from the last 30 years alone. A good carbon capture system would be great, but nobody is doing it at a scale that would make a noticeable dent in humanity's net CO2 release.

Comment Stripping Citizenship is BS. (Score 4, Insightful) 141

Once you're a citizen, that should be it.
If something is wrong after that point, just treat them like a citizen.
We shouldn't treat a person who has earned citizenship as anything less than a person who was gifted it through no work of their own.
If we had reason to prevent it, it should have stopped before we bestowed citizenship on a person.

Comment Re:So can we actually talk about solutions? (Score 5, Insightful) 309

I hate that the conversation is all about tipping points and deadlines.
I just isn't
Environmentalism is now the story of an obese diabetic man that throws a tantrum if you suggest that either an occasional salad or fewer cigarettes might be a good lifestyle change.

Comment Screw That, Automatically Block Scammers. (Score 5, Interesting) 212

8 scammers in a 90 minute window today...
I've complained to my phone company, and my government officials. They gave me the polite "fuck off, not happening"
The phone companies aren't cooperating, the government has no interest in the fight. Everyone I know deals with this crap.
Dammit, I JUST GOT A DAMN SCAM CALL WRITING THIS.

Comment I'm sure scammers won't take advantage of this. (Score 2) 92

This is really not ok to just unleash on people without doing a little bit of actual tech work to validate the messages as being from real debt collectors..

Really any halfwit scammer can start harassing people about their Verizon Bill in the Amount of $54.23 and eventually find a person who owes roughly that. and Boom people are handing over CC information.

Really I want to see some sort of "Verified Bill Collector" animation scrolling along the top of my phone when I get a text or call from one.. And a nice way to click in and verify exactly who they say they are, and what Debt they are collecting on.

This was ok in the days of landlines, but FFS we're in the 2020's now.

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