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Comment Re:No problem with the Pentagon, though (Score 1) 23

There are other obvious differences too. The US isn't currently committing genocide, hasn't murdered over 70,000 people and maimed or permanently injured many more in the last couple of years.

Ironically the accusation that criticism of this behaviour is antisemitic is itself antisemitic. Conflating the Jewish identity with Israel and its war crimes is the tool that Zionists use to silence critics, including other Jews. There is currently a big legal struggle in Israel over the conscription of ultra-orthodox Jews, who where there before Israel existed and who don't want to be sent to die or commit crimes on behalf of genocidal war criminals.

Comment Unite and rule... (Score 1) 33

"We MUST have one Federal Standard instead of a patchwork of 50 State Regulatory Regimes," Trump wrote on Truth Social last month.

I wonder which broligarch lobbyist wrote that for him - I'm pretty sure the phrasing didn't spring from his dementia-addled brain.

On the plus side, Republicans voted sensibly for a change. Colour me surprised that they both defied Trump and acted in the best interests of their constituents. (Oops, my bad - apologies for the redundancy in my previous sentence).

Comment Re:No kidding (Score 1) 50

100% yes. It's called 3D print it in something with a low melting temperature. (Maybe PLA.) Then, pour ceramic around it. And use it to cast an actual fucking metal part. LOL.

Came to say the same. And depending on the geometry of the part, you might not even need ceramic. Some people also do "lost PLA" sand-casting.

Comment Nah... (Score 1) 113

'the climate debate is long over'

I suggest you get outside the bubble of the opinions you generally live within if you think that is true in the wider community, however much it might be within the science community. There are a lot of politicians playing up to the views of people who don't want to believe. Convincing them is a hard task, and every time something like this happens politicians who are happy to use the lie to gain power, will do better.

Comment this (Score 1) 40

That worked so well for Loki (do you remember them?). What Valve is doing is bringing Windows APIs to Linux

This is entirely the thing. Loki games can or at least could be coaxed to work on Linux with Loki_Compat libraries, but last time I tried to run Alpha Centauri for Linux even that wouldn't work — and I'm even still using X. But add to that, the Linux versions of games are frequently inferior. The Loki games are included in that, for example in AlphaC for Linux you cannot ctrl-shift-a automate formers only near their supporting base. Fast forward to a more modern game like Civ VI, and there's a huge slew of features and even leaders you can't get access to with the Linux version. Meanwhile, the Windows version runs better on Linux than it does on Windows.

I haven't heard the OS/2 thing, what's that about? I figure it failed because Microsoft was already doing "good enough" with Windows, plus NT had relatively meaningful security and OS/2 didn't.

Comment Re: Has Climate Doom Modeling Turned Into Clickbai (Score 1) 113

I'm in the UK, and I clearly remember a school textbook with drawn pictures of Trafalgar Square fully iced up. This would be early 80s.

I'm in the US, and I remember news articles about this idea. They passed quickly. If you wound up with a textbook with such ideas in it presented as anything other than a possibility which had been or could be researched, that is unfortunate, but it is not indicative of anything widespread.

Let's not deny that bad information has been given in the past.

Nobody is denying that at all. Nobody is even denying that there was a global cooling article fad. What was different about the global cooling scare from AGW's broad scientific consensus is that it didn't have broad scientific consensus.

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