What's the data look like going back 3000, 5000 or even several hundred million years ?
More importantly, can the data itself be trusted to be unfiltered and unmanipulated ?

Assuming we have any trust left in the Science at all. Covid should be a stark reminder of how politics and greed
can have a massive impact on data and the reliability of it. He who controls the data, controls the World.

We can cherry pick the data to show doom and gloom all day long by omitting long term data that shows planet
temperatures have not only been here before, but have exceeded it long before we even existed at all.

This planets climate runs on a cycle period that pre-dates human beings by a considerable amount of time.
At points in the past, there was zero ice to be found in Greenland at all ( indicating much warmer temperatures ) so
it's not like we haven't seen warming periods come and go.

The point I'm trying to make is the fact the Earth's climate cycles regardless of our presence and it changes radically.
It warms up for a while, then drops into an ice age for a while and repeats.

Nothing we do is going to change that fact. Though, a lot of people have figured out how to get very rich off of generating
hysteria akin to the sky is falling for the masses. No one wants to admit that humans beings are insignificant in the grand
scheme of things. When the time comes, this planet will shrug us off and not think twice about it. It will reset and start the
process all over again.

Hell, we may as well try to stop the planet's magnetic poles from flipping.
We'll have about the same success rate :|

I would be on board with a four day work week for the simple fact it would allow me an extra day to get
all the chores, projects and whatnot done that I can't do during the week due to well . . . . being stuck at
work.

As it stands, if I'm lucky, I get to enjoy a single day off before starting it all again the next week.

The inbalance of time between work-time and free-time is too much in favor of work.

Via: https://www.independent.co.uk/...

AstraZeneca recently admitted that its vaccine, initially called Covishield, could cause very rare side effects like blood clots and low blood platelet counts, The Telegraph reported.

The admission came after the company was slapped with a class action lawsuit in the UK, which claimed that the vaccine had caused deaths and severe injuries and sought damages up to £100m for about 50 victims.

Some studies conducted during the pandemic found the vaccine was 60 to 80 per cent effective in protecting against the novel coronavirus.

But subsequent research found that it caused some people to develop potentially fatal blood clots.

AstraZeneca’s admission that the vaccine could potentially prove lethal ran counter to its insistence in 2023 that it would “not accept that TTS is caused by the vaccine at a generic level”.

In April 2021, the World Health Organisation also confirmed that the vaccine could have fatal side effects. “A very rare adverse event called thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome, involving unusual and severe blood clotting events associated with low platelet counts, has been reported after vaccination with this vaccine.”

Poor nations are going to tell the rest of the industrialized World to go F themselves over the entire Climate Change thing.

They're going to remind those like the United States that they did absolutely nothing to slow down pollution of any kind while they
were going through their Industrial Revolution and to make demands on everyone else to do so now is simply hypocritical.

That whole " Do as I say, not as I do " thing :|

Was when the US Government tried to sneak in through the backdoor they install into Cisco gear only to find out it didn't work :P

The only difference between real Cisco gear and counterfit ones are whose backdoor is installed by default.

China's or the US :D

What these people say publicly vastly differs what they will do privately.

Corporations are going to go all in on this because the first one to cross the finish line will enjoy a major advantage over those who come in second or third.

Governments are going to go all in for the same reasons only they're looking at it from a National Security or Strategic viewpoint.

The Military is going all in because the race to a true AI has the same importance from a military viewpoint as the race for the Atomic Bomb did.

They must think we're all stupid to believe that any of the above are going to do " the right thing " :|

With the exception of reference books, nearly all of my recent book purchases ( within the last five years ) have been digital editions ( Kindle ).
( once I've read the story, I don't care about the DRM. It's unlikely I'll read the same series again. )

They're typically cheaper and take up zero room on my already overloaded bookshelf.
I tend to go through my physical collection from time to time and donate many I've read to the local library.

The big fiber rings usually have redundancy built into them where traffic is transmitted in two directions simultaneously and if one side goes into LOS ( Loss of Signal ) the end node instantly switches to the secondary path. ( Yes, I worked with these systems for a large Telco for many years )

Said secondary path typically* rides a completely different fiber within a different sheath.
There were always dual paths between any two nodes.

This is for standard traffic. Telcos usually give 911 traffic even more protection due to its nature.
Even at the end points PSAP Telco there are always dual connections which typically aren't even in the same Central Office for redundancy purposes.
( Trust me, they're paranoid about it )

Now. . . . .

If one of those paths were already down due to another problem, I can see where one fiber being cut can take the entire thing down.
If this were to be the case, however, someone is getting fired for not getting the other problem fixed and letting a complete outage take place.

They have the access and the means so of course they're going to be targets.

Same with the wait staff at your favorite restaurant.
They get paid by organized crime to carry palm sized card scanners which allows them to obtain your credit card details after you hand it to them.
( Which is why I pay cash only when I eat out these days. I got tired of my card getting compromised. )

Now imagine a telecom who outsources many of their Network Admin jobs overseas where they can pay them pennies on the dollar.
How difficult do you think it would be to get anything you want from someone when you offer them the equivalent of their yearly salary for some data or access ?
( I wonder hard about this given the recent data breach from a very large telco in the US. )

I don't know about all of you, but I would find it trivial to simply ignore YouTube.

I quit watching OTA TV and switched to cable / satellite because of the Ads.
I quit watching cable / satellite and switched to streaming because of the Ads.
When YouTube reaches the same level of annoyance with Ads, I'll simply quit watching it as well.

It really is that simple for me. There is very little I care about on YouTube that I'm willing to sit
through uninterruptible advertising. As more people reach the same conclusion, Youtube's Ad revenue
will start dropping.

Once they drop enough, YouTube might change their minds on this insanity.

Think of it as an insurance policy for when China decides to go all in on Taiwan.

The US Government has a spending problem that it refuses to acknowledge.

Their fix, instead of getting their spending under control, is to simply find more ways to get more tax dollars out of all of us.
It's been this way since day one, irregardless of Team Red of Team Blue. They work together to get us to fight amongst each
other so they can continue doing what they've always done.

While we're too busy arguing over stupid shit, they're laughing all the way to the bank.

Show me any member of Congress who has been there for more than ten years who ISN'T a multi-millionaire. :|
Then tell me how it's done legally on their salary.

I'll wait.

The problem with this is it's one sided.

They're up there looking for any excuse to increase your rates or drop you completely.
No matter what they find, they will never voluntarily LOWER your rates even if updates you've made would warrant such a thing.

The only concern I have is they should quit bitching about students who use ChatGPT to write essays if they're going to use AI to grade them.

It's fucking hypocritical.

They make announcements like this while:

The BitCoin Boys are using ludicrous amounts of power.

Data Centers are using ludicrous amounts of power.

AC isn't a luxury for much of the World, it's a necessity. ( Same for heating )
Only a few can afford to live where the Weather is nice enough to need neither.

The forecast is for AI to use even MORE amounts of power.

Yet, they ask the little people to conserve by using less and less so the rich can use more and more. :|