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Comment Re:Estimates based on conjecture (Score 3, Insightful) 52

Actually, you are the ignorant one here because you want to justify your denial. Because scientists are aware they are just human, there are a lot of safeguards in place. The first one being the scientific principle. But I guess you lack insight into what that actually does and why it was created.

Global warming is a settled issue but we are spending millions of dollars on studies to confirm it on the theory that what is lacking is proof.

This nicely illustrates how deep your ignorance goes. This is not why these studies are done. The reason they are done is to refine and get more detail. That will be invaluable for evaluating the impact of things that could still be done and to prepare for the effects.

Comment Re:Using an economic lens (Score 1) 77

I think they are holding out to sell the buildings at full price.

Never gonna happen. Full price was before 10 years of decay and rodent infestation + neighborhood gone to shit. Nevertheless, high supply, low demand is supposed to result in low prices.

What a nice idea! But then the commons are not only not commons, but they become properties and whatever herdsman gets the biggest herd will buy it all up and you get a monopoly.

One, how so if the agreement is ownership in common. And two, how is it worse than it all being owned by a (land)lord who rakes in the better part of the profit while considering herding animals to be beneath him?

Sounds like you drank the cool aid.

Comment Re: this is getting old (Score 2) 52

You must live a sheltered life in your long dead mom's basement.

Literally everywhere things have gone from bad to worse.

New deserts are forming apace in Southern Europe and in Central Europe snow is now a rarity.

Asia is turning into a sweltering hell in the summers, India is enjoying gulf-desert temperatures.

Tree species are dying out, and with them all the wildlife they hosted.

Model projections of the 90s (30 years ago) have been proven correct:

https://phys.org/news/2025-08-...

Lucky you who have no kids and grandkids to worry about.

Comment Unpopular opinion (Score 1) 7

Wrote and tweaked a video generation prompt multiple times until it produced something resembling a usable output = "Low effort AI slop."

Film yourself acting like you're high on speed with your phone's selfie camera while ranting about someone putting lobster tails on an EBT card at Walmart = "Such amazing content creator skillz!"

I suppose I just have a different definition of what constitutes "low effort".

Comment Re:Bill Gates is still flying (Score 1) 52

she's in prison in israel

They deported her back to Sweden. It seems like lately she's more concerned with her pro-Palestine efforts than environmental activism. Honestly, it strikes me as an odd pivot since climate change is a global issue - people not getting along in the middle east is just business as usual.
 

Comment Re:The problem is the education system (Score 1) 148

Tables are not knowledge. They are data. They are "basics" for nothing knowledge-wise. What they do is they produce a nice, meaningless rote-learning exercise that can be examined easily to produce an entirely meaningless grades. They are nothing but a waste of time and create a false impression of "something having been learned". Hence, no, we have absolutely no issue if a kid cannot answer "12x11" from _memory_. If an older kid cannot find out what 12x11 is or does not see that it is somewhere "a bit more than 100" and accepts a false result that is one order of magnitude (or more) off, then we have an issue.

It is fascinating how many people mistake data memorization for "learning". Obviously, when you teach actual understanding, then most kids do not do so well. May explain why worthless memorization is still a favorite of many "teachers". May also explain why Math teaching fails routinely and most people fear Math. Math is actually very easy on this level.

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