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Comment Re:another token gesture (Score 1) 100

Yes, it's often a bullshit calculation when airplanes are compared to trains or cars. Infrastructure is usually not factored in, it's about fuel efficiency of a full airplane (which is often the case) vs. full cars / trains (which is rarely the case) and the same distances are compared (although a plane usually flies a more efficient route than land based transport). To some destinations, going by train or car could even consume more energy overall, but all we are told by not the brightest of all people, is that a train is 20 times more efficient than a plane, period. Sometimes it's like even the environmentalists want to keep up their wasteful travelling habits, but greenwash them by condemning planes - while the obvious solution would be just to travel less in general. No matter by what means, unless it's by bycicle or walking. And to stop commuting so much.

Comment "...that their friends' softcore porn habits..." (Score 1) 120

Why only softcore? And who watches softcore porn anyway since we got easily accessible hardcore porn with the emerge of greater bandwidths in the 90ies? (I still can remember sharing images on a floppy disk or having to time your jerking off to glacial download speeds)

Comment sure, but that's John Gruber (Score 2) 95

he's not a shill, but Apple can usually count on him to be unreasonable positive about them. He also called the ridiculously tiny updates to Final Cut Pro last week "best evidence that Apple remains keenly commited" - while it lags more and more behind with every substantial update the competition does.

Comment The one episode I watched from Ms. Marvel (Score 1) 245

was actually much more inventive, entertaining and well done than most Marvel or Star Wars Series on Disney+. No clue if they kept it up, but I'm quite sure, nobody watched it. That series has a target audience of young teen girls who probably rather watch youtube, instagram and tiktok. Captain Marvel otoh had the novelty of being the first Marvel Film with a female lead, but was ultimately a pretty generic and forgettable film. I don't remember anything except that somebody is a pilot and that Nick Fury lost his eye to an alien that looks like a cat. It's pretty easy to see why putting 200+ million into producing that movie was a bad investement.

Comment Re: Betteridge's Law (Score 2) 239

According to the article: "Anophthalmus hitleri has become the focus of a trade in which specimens have been bought up by neo-Nazi enthusiasts, a process now said to be driving the creature towards extinction.". So there's that. Although, different names obviously can't cure stupid. Also, it's a beetle that only lives in 5 caves, so it's probably not hard to make it extinct.

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