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Comment Re:it's all innuendo (Score 1) 40

The retraction note is all innuendo. It doesn't cure any actual wrongdoing, nor the actual basis of it's suspicions. just that "questions have been raised".

Meanwhile, studies that were quoted by grifters in the first true post-truth trial of Monsanto causing cancer were all ghostwritten by greenie hippies.

It's also not like it's the _only_ study of glyphosate safety. There have been 13 reliable mouse studies since 1984 ( https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/a... ), that found no effect on mice in any reasonable concentration. But now the anti-glyphosate grifters are going to glomp onto this study and pretend that nothing else exists.

Comment Re:And in what region did they test this new featu (Score 1) 25

Which of course also conveniently earns them $$$ when there is significant data traffic from deployments in us-east-1 to deployments in other regions.

Except for us-east-2. Traffic between us-east-1 and us-east-2 costs the same as traffic within us-east-1.

Comment Re:A useful skill to have. (Score 1) 245

Cursive is not generally less movement in the 2d plane of the paper

The problem is that the most-often taught English cursive style is bad. Spencerian cursive _is_ faster than block letters, because it allows you to smoothly move the pen. It's also slanted because slanted movements are faster than straight up/down lines.

Comment Re:Plastics and oils (Score 2) 73

Green energy requires oil based plastics and oil based chemicals

Not really. Plastics require hydrocarbons that can be sourced from anything, including coal or wood. Oil is just the most convenient source, but it's certainly not the only one.

And anyway, only 6% of oil is used for plastic production. Even increasing the demand for plastics won't materially affect oil consumption. Fossil hydrocarbons are also used as a feedstock for other industrial processes (fertilizer production mainly), but adding up all these uses accounts for just about 15% of global production.

Comment Re:China gov't over-subsidized in (Score 1) 207

...order to induce R&D, but the side effect is a glut of cars and mass collapsing of brands. Chinese citizens got dicked by a tator, who treats them like guinea pigs.

There is no "glut of cars". China still has a lot of unmet internal demand. The problem is that EVs are becoming a commodity in China now. So all the business models designed to exploit high-margin expensive products are becoming obsolete.

Dealerships are suffering the most, there is simply no margin for them to exist anymore, so they're doing all kinds of tricks to make sure they appear to be useful to carmakers. The double whammy is the fast depreciation of EVs. Just like with computers in the 90-s, people know that in 3 years a new EV will be better in all regards. So why waste money on expensive value-add services provided by dealerships?

Comment Re:Path to citizenship? (Score 1) 70

Is there a viable path to citizenship from that?

You can get permanent residence easily, this gives you access to the all-important Chinese ID card and all the rights of residents. Including an ability to register a business. Naturalization is possible and technically you don't need anything special for it, but it's exceedingly rare. You also need to renounce your other citizenship(s) for that.

China is now becoming a popular emigration destination for Russian scientists. It's now very hard for them to emigrate to Europe/US, but China is easy. It's also helpful if the emigrants still want to visit Russia from time to time.

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