From the Carboniferous.

When I read "vertically integrated social media", I though of gossiping via a skyscraper telephone system.

...before we invented decent systems like Oberon...

Probably without. First, choking deprives your brain of oxygen, making such intellectual efforts as calculating the value of pi much more difficult. Second, any attempt at choking a shotgun-armed mathematician is not just unlikely to be successful but an outright bad idea in general.

You know what's the funniest thing about radioactivity? The most dangerous stuff is dangerous precisely because it decays at an appreciable rate in our lifetimes, and conversely, the stuff that last the longest is the one you don't have to worry about too much.

After 20 My, the vast majority of the HLW will be gone. "Deadly" is an exaggeration. Sunlight is about equally deadly.

They'll finally get a suitable billboard! It's been forty years overdue already.

True, nuclear waste is not pollution unless it escapes in an accident. Fortunately, the volumes are so small that unlike with many other by-products of our industrial civilization, this one is actually amenable to being stored in controlled conditions, indefinitely.

That's why it's good that there's a EU directive that by the end of 2020, all new constructions will be required to be low-energy or passive houses.

Ditto. IE works; Firefox, Chrome didn't even notice. ;/

Well, after you piss off half of the world with your covert ops, pulling strings in the background, supporting criminal organizations etc., you're pretty much committed to a path of "how to deal with people who're smiling at me if I don't know whether the thing they're holding behind their back is a knife".

Careful, he might be a Vim user.

First, indeed, if it were "nearly negligible", nobody would care about it. People care precisely because it isn't. Second, I wouldn't hold my breath about Jurassic temperatures being "human friendly", given that CO2 levels are not the only thing affecting average global temperature and average global temperature is not the only thing affecting human habitability. Have you considered how extremely continental Laurasian and Gondwanian climate must have been? Extrapolating from average Jurassic temperature levels and planting it onto modern geography seems difficult at least.

I thought that sterile birth was successfully demonstrated in the 19th century and that the only problem was that contemporary physicians were dumb as fuck? Poor Semmelweis. But you shouldn't need antibiotics for huge improvements.

Just download the Appropriate Technology Library while you still have the time and print it out. ;-)