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Comment Re:remove health care from jobs in the usa the wor (Score 4, Insightful) 232

The US spends more than twice the amount on health care as any other country yet leaves millions without access to care and the rest of the population with the worst health indicators of the developed world.
Where does that money go? Profits for the medical industry. Insurance companies, pharma, hospitals, etc.

Comment Good. I have too many chargers (Score 1) 68

Just looking through my junk boxes I have about 40 charger blocks of various sizes and power outputs... including about 5 newer ones with USB-C higher power output.
I don't think I have ever had a power block fail.
Happy that they aren't including more potential electronic waste with every purchase.
Of course, knowing Apple, they won't reduce the price.

Submission + - Western Executives Shaken After Visiting China (futurism.com)

mspohr writes: Western automotive and green energy executives who visit China are returning humbled â" and even terrified.

As The Telegraph reports, the executives are warning that the countryâ(TM)s heavily automated manufacturing industry could quickly leave Western nations behind, especially when it comes to electric vehicles.
You get this sense of a change, where Chinaâ(TM)s competitiveness has gone from being about government subsidies and low wages to a tremendous number of highly skilled, educated engineers who are innovating like mad,â British energy supplier Octopus CEO Greg Jackson told the newspaper.

According to recent figures by the International Federation of Robotics, China has deployed orders of magnitude more industrial robots than Germany, the US, and the UK.

Submission + - Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating (theguardian.com)

mspohr writes: However, scientists are concerned about a third factor: the possibility that the planet’s carbon sinks are beginning to fail. About half of all CO2 emissions every year are taken back out of the atmosphere by being dissolved in the ocean or being sucked up by growing trees and plants. But the oceans are getting hotter and can therefore absorb less CO2 while on land hotter and drier conditions and more wildfires mean less plant growth.

Rising CO2 emissions not only impact the global climate today, but will do so for hundreds of years because of the gas’s long lifetime in the atmosphere, the WMO says.
Ko Barrett, the WMO deputy secretary general, said: “The heat trapped by CO2 and other greenhouse gases is turbo-charging our climate and leading to more extreme weather. Reducing emissions is therefore essential not just for our climate but also for our economic security and community wellbeing.”

Atmospheric concentrations of methane and nitrous oxide – the second and third most important greenhouse gases related to human activities – also rose to record levels in 2024.

Comment Re:Geostationary satellite are hard to upgrade (Score 1) 21

Too far away?
I don't think you know how these satellites work.
They have communication links. You don't have to send a technician up to the satellite to upgrade the software ;)

"They collected phone calls and text messages from more than 2,700 T-Mobile users in just nine hours of recording.
The researchers also obtained data from airline passengers using in-flight Wi-Fi, communications from electric utilities and offshore oil and gas platforms, and US and Mexican military communications that revealed personnel locations and equipment details. The exposed data resulted from telecommunications companies using satellites to relay signals from remote cell towers to their core networks."

Comment Time to face reality... (Score 1) 155

Jem Bendel is a person who has explored how we can live with our new reality of a broken climate (as sell as societal breakdown).
He has a book "Breaking Together" which explores options for living with climate change.

"In the introduction, Professor Jem Bendell frames the book’s central thesis: that societal collapse is no longer a distant possibility but a lived reality for many. He begins by reflecting on his earlier “Deep Adaptation” paper, which argued for acknowledging the inevitability of climate-driven societal breakdown. The widespread reaction revealed deep denial and resistance within academia, media, and politics. In this book, Bendell expands his scope to explore not only climate but the converging crises of economy, energy, biosphere, food, and culture. He stresses that collapse is not merely an external threat but something we are already experiencing, to lesser or greater degrees, through deteriorating health, economic instability, political strife, and ecological disruption. "

https://jembendell.com/2025/10...

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