It's not your imagination - Japanese is more syllable-heavy than English. According to the paper, there are something like 7000 different syllable sounds in English (although some are much more rarely used than others) while there are a mere (as if 600-some odd a small number) 643 in Japanese. Stands to reason that you'll need more syllables in Japanese to convey the same information.

Everyone has always thought they know everything. Twitter just makes it easy for the rest of us to see it.

Fair question, and perhaps I shouldn't, but not really for the reasons you're pointing at. A better assumption (barring large scale CO2 removal efforts) would have steady state (for purposes of human time spans) be higher than where we are now, into mostly uncharted territory (> 5My).

Yes, thank you for pointing that out. /s

While I too agree that CO2 will likely be absorbed back into the system, even the sharpest drops in CO2 concentration in NOAA ice core data have a drop of ~100 PPM over 10,000-20,000 years, longer than our written history. That's not a time scale that allows us as a species to do little about it. We're going to be dealing with this one way or the other. The only question is how much it's going to cost.

Serious question: Why do you think so?

The rapid rise in atmospheric CO2 in the past ~150 years is essentially an impulse to what is admittedly a complex system. The "demonstration" is that system at something much more closely resembling steady state. So while this "demonstration" isn't a smoking gun of what will happen, but a suggestion of what is possible once the system settles (since I'm not sure we have a comparison of solar output, etc). But it's certainly not evidence that CO2 "isn't causing much warming". Seems to me you have a simplistic picture on how quickly the system would respond to a boost in CO2.

Or maybe it's because robocalls have more than doubled in the last two years, according to the FTC statistics.

Obligatory: Kane lives in death!

For those of us with degenerative a corneal disease, this sounds pretty wonderful.
Of course, the cost will be exorbitant and perpetually 10 years away...

Right to repair laws can't come soon enough.

The law has an "opt-out" provision, provided a referendum is approved to do so.

Both you and the parent don't understand the exact nature of the prefunding problem. Congress has been requiring the USPS to prefund the next 75 years worth of benefits over a ten year period. That means they have to "fully fund" benefits for decades of employees they don't even have yet, over a far shorter period than is remotely reasonable.

Given that the GOP (and Bush's tax cuts) are what created huge numbers of the non-paying citizens, you're being more than just a little disingenuous.

Maybe I'm missing something, but the GP is 100% correct. This is a case of the pot calling the kettle black. I fail to see how China making a manufacturer insert a backdoor is any "better" than relying on zero-day. This is just another hypocritical points-scoring exercise by a government.

I should have said "bonds far more readily" than O2. I didn't know about the bond duration though - thanks for that tidbit.

CO is specifically bad because it bonds to hemoglobin better (far, far better) than O2 does.

... where the police having this technology use it on a whim, without a warrant, and with absolutely no oversight.
Oh, wait. That's already happening and doesn't require a "sophisticated hacker".