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Comment Re:Lithium coin cells magnetically stick to vaxxed (Score 1) 135

How does it behave on the control group?
Don't have one, you say?
Then you don't have an experiment.

But just out of curiosity, does it behave the same way on your entire unbiased selection of vaccinated people?
What?
OK, did it at least behave differently when you did those things before the vaccine?
Aw, seriously, dude.
You suck at this.

Comment Re:This is one of the big problems (Score 0) 44

we could let civilization collapse for the bottom 90-95%, leave the top 5 or 10% living in luxury and the problem would solve itself when 95% of the population goes back to the stone age.

You mean the republicans ARE actually working to fix global warming, just in their own special way?

Comment Re:Captain Obvious (Score 1) 44

The ozone depleting gases are also extremely potent greenhouse gases. They constituted several percent of the man-made greenhouse contribution at the time, even tough the actual volumes were tiny compared to CO2. This "low hanging fruit" on greenhouse reduction was well known and an indeed an extra selling point. But sure, it was not the primary objective, and would probably not have been enough to drive an agreement on its own.

But the CO2-releasing effect of UV is news.

Comment Re:Joy (Score 1) 44

No, continuing to increase external pressures on the system even while see the cracks forming and widening does not exactly constitute the "doing nothing" option you seem to insinuate. Stopping emissions dead IS the conservative option as far as the climate is concerned. Just not for the short term economy, and especially not for some very rich and powerful companies.

Comment Re:Probability for intelligent life (Score 1) 71

The various hominids probably occupied roughly the same niche in their ecosystems, and may have disappeared mainly due to the arrival of new competition, being assimilated, displaced or straight out killed by other groups, rather than simply failing on their own. More of a cup than a race, then. Doesn't mean the other contenders could never have gotten anywhere.

Most cultures have stories of weird humanoids lurking in the woods. Usually portrayed as extremely dangerous and our natural enemies. Makes sense that the eventual sole survivors of this mess might have a weakness for such notions.

Comment Re:Probability for intelligent life (Score 3, Informative) 71

There are definitely birds (who do descend from dinosaurs) that rival plenty of similarly-sized mammals in intelligence - who knows what could hypothetically evolve from them given the right evolutionary pressures.
But the exact circumstances that allowed a specific line of mammal to go as far as we have must be rare, since no other branches of life here seem to have.

Comment Re: get rid of "hate crimes" (Re:GIGO) (Score 1) 81

Yep. Same way terrorism is ethically and legally worse than the basic crimes or acts of war employed.
People try to use the term for basically anything they don't like these days, in the hope of capitalising from the stigma associated with it, but the core of the concept is violence aimed at striking fear into the civilian population, as opposed to reducing military capability, which can be more readily defended as "defense".

Comment Re:Lingo change - Oh! (Score 2) 334

Metallic sodium does not explode from water vapour in the air.

You can put a lump on your desk and nothing much will happen.
Cut off piece so you get a nice, clean, corrosion-free surface and still nothing happens.
Put the piece into liquid water and things get interesting.
There has to be enough water to react with enough sodium to release energy at an explosive rate.
Otherwise all you get is corrosion.

And just about anyone who knows about the dangers of metallic sodium will already know that it is the same as natrium. In most languages it is known only as natrium.

Comment Re:Thou shalt do overtime (Score 5, Insightful) 117

Personally I agree with this to some degree. You get the job done.

The job is never done. Scope expands to fill the time available.
Are all jobs done after specifically 55 hours but not 40? Why not 100?

Finding the right balance between profitability and sustainability is non-trivial, but expected performance is not a given universal constant. It is a matter of experience with a certain level of effort. If expected input was 40h, 'the job' would need to be shaped to fit, just as it has for 55 or whatever.

But that is ignoring all the reasearch showing that for many office-type jobs, the added value of overtime is often marginal or even negative.

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