I am a scientist, I can assure you that scientists never prove anything. They can only show that the explanation they offer is consistent with the the observed facts. This is all scientists can do.

The safety of vaccines is very difficult to "prove". How would you do that? If you give the vaccine to 100 people, none of them would show anything reliably for issues which are below 1%. And 1% over a large population is a lot of people.

Periods when food is scarce do not hit people evenly. Some die, simple as that. You can't present any scenario where that happens that I will consider moving towards instead of away from.

>>i don't care if 1/4 of the internet goes down, i care about my site.
>To the 1/4th of the Internet that couldn't reach your site, as far as they care, your site is down

i actually mean that my site is down 100%, that is what i care, i don't care other sites being down (unless they are a requirement for my site)

>>do the CF downtime was bigger or smaller than a downtime on my side?
>Bigger. One is inclusive of the other.

again, you didn't understood what i mean, i'm saying that a downtime in my site due to CF is probably shorter than a downtime on my infra if i tried to replicate cloudflare on my infra

>Which would be better if 1/4th of the Internet could use that bypass config to reach your site, but they can't, their traffic routes through CF first and can't get anywhere else.

ignoring the 1/4 traffic, as i pointed above, but related how to bypass cloudflare.
right now my www.example.com site is a CNAME to www.example.com.cdn.cloudflare.net and them i have in cloudflare that www.example.com points to my backend ip. To bypass cloudflare, i can point my original www.example.com to the backend directly, bypassing cloudflare. yes, i will expose my backend IPs, but we can either change it or firewall block any traffic that isn't cloudflare after restoring the original config

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Think of the traffic on the Mississippi, Ohio and Missouri rivers, then extend that throughout 2/3 of the country and make that transit 2-way rather than mostly from upstream to downstream. I'm pretty sure they're ahead.

China recognizes over 200 languages and something like 180 ethnicities, they're one of the most diverse countries on the planet (either second or third, depending on how India counts their ethnicities). IIRC Russia is fourth, with around 100 languages spoken and almost that many ethnicities.

The pipeline is for natural gas, which is extremely important not only for electrical generation but for making fertilizer.

I think differently all the time. Certainly not in Apple slogans, so that's "differently", not "different". For purposes of anything like an actual plan though, I start with certain axioms, and then work pragmatically from those axioms. So, for example, one of those axioms is that mass, rapid die offs of humans are bad. Another related axiom is that unnecessary suffering is bad. Given those axioms, it follows that rapidly emptying human population centers without a specific plan of how people will survive is bad, because it will violate those axioms.

I am 100% all for as much independence in power generation and self-sustainability as possible. I just also recognize that the world is what it is and lots of people live in urban centers where they simply can't be self-sustainable and that specialization is one of the basic technologies that has allowed the human race to reach its current population. That means, to sustain that population, the specialized products that sustain the population need to flow from areas of production to areas of consumption. For electricity, that generally means a power grid. There are alternatives, but they tend to be more problematic, not less. For example, just having fossil fuel powered generators everywhere and expanding delivery of liquid fossil fuels. It could work, but why do it? There's driving trucks with loads of charged batteries around and swapping them with depleted batteries from people's homes. That one is problematic because the battery technology is not there yet to make it viable or competitive. Will it be someday? Maybe it actually will be, but it isn't now.

The power grid does not need to go everywhere. There does not need to be a singular grid, there could be many. Certainly people should not be legally forced to hook up to the grid when there are viable alternatives. However, for the time being, the power grid makes sense. You can propose alternatives to modern living all you want, but they have to be practical and people need to be willing to live with them.

They do have a massive canal network (portions of it dating back over 1000 years) and a lot of coastal shipping. Whether it would add 8% I would have no idea but it would undoubtedly be larger than in the US.

No, this is a real thing. One of the first sectors to move heavy equipment to electric was mining, now they have entire mines which are all-electric and mostly-automated. Driving a mining truck or running an excavator is pretty much no-brain work, jobs fit for robots. This guy lives and works in China and writes mostly about the business environment (with occasional digressions). All of his articles are accompanied by lots of links to other reading.

https://kdwalmsley.substack.co...

The mining company deployed a fleet of one hundred fully autonomous electric trucks.

Huawei built a 5.5G network and designed algorithms specifically for open-pit coal mines, with localized maps. As a result, the smart trucks operate at 120% efficiency compared to human operators.

As more intelligent mines come online and electrify, enormous savings in fuel costs will be realized. Diesel fuel typically accounts for up to half of all operating costs for mining operations; mining trucks consume up to 100 liters (30 gallons) of fuel per hours, and overland fuel transport and storage in remote areas drive capital investment needs higher.

Even with antifreeze, attempts to thaw bodies prepared that way have resulted in massive widespread organ cracking.

Seriously, WTF are you babbling about? First off Uighur is a single ethnic group, they're not multiracial. Transgenderism is barely a thing in China at all, and since Uighurs were mostly Muslim for the last 700 years there would be even fewer among them. You appear to be absurdly poorly informed.

I suppose the alternative is you were trying to do some wokeism/racial slur. It that's the case your troll-fu is weak and laughable.

The article states that they don't know the cause. They found a correlation between ultraprocessed foods and poor health, but they don't know what exactly in those foods causes the negative effects. They also cite scientists who criticize the definition, as some foods considered to be healthy are in the ultraprocessed category. So the article addresses both of your concerns.

Cripes, anyone who had been paying attention for the last quarter of a century could have predicted the "invasion of Ukraine". How many "red lines" did NATO think it could cross before Russia finally felt forced to act?