Here's that first sentence with them...

They've known for a while now, and been talking about it for well over a year.

They've known for a while now, and been talking about it for well over a year.

On Jan 1 2020 a new IMO (International Maratime Organization) regulation went into effect. The shipping industry drastically lowered the sulfur content of its fuels and the SOx content of ship exhaust plumes dropped by about 77%. (Other aspects of the fuel change also reduced some particulate pollution, too.)

The COVID sequestration also reduced shipping (and cloud-seeding exhaust from it), along with aircraft contrails and upper-atmosphere dust, and dust-generating industrial processes and transportation activity, which (like volcanic dust) also reflect sunlight over the ocean and lower temperatures.

I've seen claims that the reduction in ship exhaust plumes, alone, are enough to account for ALL the sea temperature rise since 2020, and that with the low-sulfur fuel in continued use the bulk of that excess heating will continue even as activity ramps up post-COVID.

Interactions with AI are already protected in these cases by compliance with RFC-3514

Regarding the "hockey stick" graph. (Taking absolutely no position on whether Mann was honest or not, competent or not, etc.)

I was under the impression that the Hockey Stick graph had been shown to be defective as an indicator of warming, primarily because it took tree ring data as one of its proxies for temperature, but carbon dioxide concentration increases alone have been shown to substantially promote tree growth even in the absence of temperature increases. So how much of the sudden rise in the graph is from temperature increase (if any) and how much just from increased CO2 levels is unknown.

But I don't have any links to reliable scholarly articles examining this issue. Do any of you?

Thank you for your tireless efforts to make the raspberry pi such a popular and well supported platform! Now that the open source community has done so much of the work for us we plan to capitalize on your efforts and leave you in the gutter. You should have gotten a clue during the parts shortages when we prioritized commercial vendors over getting hardware into the hands of the enthusiasts that made us what we are today.

See you around, schmucks!

Yep this is an absolutely IBM move
They would prefer that thoes targeted quit; they don't want them to return to the office

When I was in college my best friend's dad worked for IBM. He received an ultimatum: relocate from Washington State to New York or lose his job. So he relocated. At that time the company was generous enough to pay for said relocation.

When my friend's dad got his W-2 he discovered that the relocating expenses had been valued at about triple what they should have been and reported as income. Cost him significantly more in taxes than it would have had he paid for it out of pocket. And completely screwed my friend's tuition assistance that year.

IBM did not want anybody in this guy's division to stick around. Those that tried to were severely punished as an example to anyone who would dare fail to take the hint. The division, by the way, was typewriter repair.

The root problem is not line jumping; it is capacity.

It seems like one of Walmart's business units main function is to provide services to criminals.
If I was an accountant or an IT guy for the mob I bet I'd be indicted along with the rest of them.

There are those that the law binds and there are those that the law protects.

Larry Niven was always really great when he collaborated with Jerry Pournelle.
It's too bad he never got around to writing that story with Frank Herbert...

The Ark is blindingly obvious. Right smack in the center of the picture there's even a little house in the middle.
All snark aside when I see stuff like this I remind myself that the human mind is a pattern recognition machine. We are very good at picking out patterns whether they exist or not.

When I was a kid I used to stare at the static on the TV screen when it was tuned to a channel it wasn't there. After just a few seconds-- far less than a minute-- I would start to see shapes in the noise.

I expect people far smarter than myself have already done some sort of statistical analysis to show that the pattern that we see is likely something other than just noise+brain. I hope they keep in mind that when flipping a fair coin any sequence of heads and tails it's just as likely as any other, including all heads or all tails.

"changing perceptions" through marketing? that sounds like an arms race with the other side. Long time ago we thought the right way to change perceptions was through good education and development of critical thinking skills.

Where did it all go wrong :)

It all went wrong when each sides of the discussion concluded that scientific papers supporting the other side were marketing fake-news, trying to gaslight them into supporting a scam to let the opposing side acquire money and/or power, rather than actual science.

Warmists think evidence against any aspect of their side's story is akin to smoking research sponsored by tobacco companies. Skeptics think any evidence for a global warming story has been corrupted, ala early drug war research on psychedelic drugs, to feed government power grabs and attempts to put rent-seeking taxes on commerce (e.g. Gore's carbon-credit exchange).

Now neither side believes academic papers on the subject. We'll just have to wait and see what the climate does.

Following this paper's prescription, of course, would just put the nail in the coffin on any remaining hope of convincing the population to pay attention to the sort of propaganda it prescribes. (Assuming the very existence of the paper hasn't already done that.)

He who knows and knows he knows is wise; follow him
He who knows not and knows he knows not is ignorant; teach him
He who knows and knows not he knows is asleep; awaken him
He who knows not and knows not he knows not is a fool...pity him

I still haven't seen any slowdown casually watching youtubes using the following:
ubuntu 22.04 / brave / ublock origin / sponsorblock + a vpn (or not)
android 1 / firefox / ublock origin + a vpn

If it's something I want to watch later (even after youtube decides to "disappear" the vid), then 3dyd under wine. Also no slowdown.

You need to learn how Corporate real estate works.
Closing offices is exactly what they're trying to avoid.

Whoosh...