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Comment Jesus (Score 1) 39

Fuck off with the "AI everything".

I can't do a fucking decent Boolean query of my outlook emails.
Excel combo drop-downs still don't even recognize the mouse wheel.
There are probably 100 things with MS Office that I would suggest fixing before you fucking bolt on a not-really-Al, thanks.

Oh, and onedrive is fucking cancer.
So is teams.

Comment Re:We are so screwed (Score 2) 197

In the military you generally learn two things.
... Two, you learn to unquestioningly obey orders. That is not really a trait associated with any kind of utopian society either.

To be fair, since military service includes officer training, you should also learn how to give orders in such a way as to mobilize personnel to efficiently accomplish a specified goal.

Comment How then? (Score 1) 43

If corals are going to go totally extinct in the next century or two due to a degree or three (c) of warming, how is it that they as a species have lasted HUNDREDS of millions of years, most of which were several degrees warmer than today?

And don't talk about "speed of change" - corals have likewise survived (and frankly thrived) major extinction events for the last half-BILLION years that were EXTREMELY, traumatically short & intense, such as Chixiclub (66mya) which warmed the earth by +5C for more than 100k years. This makes the puny 1deg C global warming for a century laughably trivial.

Comment Re:Let me get this straight... (Score 2) 43

So the coral reefs, which formed during theCambrian Period, and also vertebrates, which was about 540 million years ago, when the average temperature was about 10c hotter than it is now, and when CO2 was over 1500% higher than its is now, are at risk of things getting a bit warmer?

Just a reminder, those "corals" you reference which formed during the Cambrian Period are all extinct. No survivors, no descendants. They all died, 100%, in the end-Permian extinction. After a while-- tens of millions of years-- new species rose up to occupy the same ecological niches, and we also call those corals, but they are unrelated, and in fact even use a different mineral for reef forming.

Comment Re:Corals are Ancient (Score 5, Informative) 43

You can go visit Chazy Fossil Reef today and see coral fossils 480 million years old, from when Northern Vermont was a tropical marine environment.

Not exactly. You can see fossils of organisms that are called "corals", but they are not related to the organisms we call coral today.

Rugose and tabulate corals became extinct in the Permian–Triassic extinction event 250 million years ago, and a different form of reef-building organism arose ten of millions of years later.

Comment Re: USA *deserves* the kick to the ego. (Score 1) 90

Yes, of course the reason the US space program is struggling is because it's actually enforcing the law re illegals, not because the previous administration tried to import millions of future voters.

And of course it has to do with the current president, not the decade+ previous administration(s) where the STATED primary mission of our space program was "Muslim outreach" and lately diversity*. Not to mention the $billions wasted (and nigh-hilariously) /failing/ to replicate a launch vehicle design that's essentially 60 years old?

*Notice the Artemis program name, and that it had a diverse crew before it had even basic mission parameters or a functioning launch vehicle? What was their first publicly stated goal, again? To put a woman on the moon? Is that how a pure meritocracy should work, you announce desired characteristics of your "best" before they're chosen?

Finally, the "seeming lunatic who is destroying our Democracy" is the only guy aggressively funding and accomplishing advances in launch programs?

Comment Teetering on the edge of relevance anyway (Score 2, Interesting) 65

BL was groundbreaking as a looter-shooter.
BL2 was probably the pinnacle of the franchise. Great writing, great characters, good story. Child Schmafficking.
Tales was probably the peak writing/narrative delivery.
PreSequel was...we don't talk about the pre-sequel.
BL3 was completely disappointing.
BL4 The fact that Gearbox was militantly woke by this time is basically irrelevant (wrap your trannie franken-unit in the pride flag, I don't care I just want a good game) but their writing has been utter shit since TT. That a $3k PC chugs to run it - is asinine.

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