Clearly I have been spoiled my whole life. I have not eaten at McDs or anything like that in many years. The idea they add addictive chemicals to basic foods seems unlikely to me; how would that even be legal. It's just shit food lathered in salt and sugar. Which are both very addictive I suppose. I never get takeaway food except in very rare situations when I'll go pick up a pizza from my local Italian place, so I would not actually know.

Iâ(TM)m sorry but paying actual money for grilled cheese on bread is just daft. Takes what five minutes to slice some bread, slice some cheese, lightly toast bread then grill the cheese.

News like this just reminds me that fiction like https://qntm.org/mmacevedo is likely to be fact some day. And that ought to scare any rational person.

I have a friend with a very comprehensive Plex server, and a very nice web UI for requesting content. Whatever you ask for magically appears within a few minutes usually, even really old and obscure stuff. I donâ(TM)t know how it works - Usenet presumably- but it does and itâ(TM)s magic.

I pay for Netflix, Disney, Amazon Prime, and Apple TV+ which is already plenty of $ per month on content. Pretty much everything else gets streamed via services that are either geo-blocked here (HBO etc) or only available via Murdochâ(TM)s various organs, which I will never support financially.

The fact I canâ(TM)t pay a reasonable fee to watch whatever content is out there is a fundamental market failure Iâ(TM)m happy to address by watching streams off a mateâ(TM)s Plex server. Also I know heâ(TM)s never likely to remove content from his server as heâ(TM)s an enthusiastic hoarder and his Plex is happy to deliver 4K streams to my box.

I was lucky enough to see James Lovelock speak at The House of Commons in London about a decade ago. It was one of the most captivating and interesting talks Iâ(TM)ve ever attended. One of the worldâ(TM)s most original thinkers. RIP.

I canâ(TM)t think of a pizza delivery place here in Australia that doesnâ(TM)t make you pay for your pizza when you order it, presumably to avoid such âoeprankingâ.

Does anyone who wants to see Black Widow (I just saw it, itâ(TM)s fun), not know itâ(TM)s on? Itâ(TM)s impossibly not to know itâ(TM)s on, even without any ad spend. Every Marvel fan knows itâ(TM)s on, and fifteen seconds with the IMDB app will show them where itâ(TM)s on, and help them pay the $39 for a premium lounge ticket.

Maybe Disney just realised that they actually have no need at all to advertise a film thatâ(TM)s been so long-awaited.

Yep. I use my LG 4K TV as an HDMI monitor for my Apple TV, and for my old Nintendo 64. Mario Karts looks blocky but still brilliant.

I get my Netflix / Prime etc thru the Apple TV (no ads, no tracking etc) and the TV itself has no need to be online at all.

as would United Fruit

> Note: I don't know what the leaders in other countries are like, but in Canada they're a bunch of lying scumbags who have no accountability for breaking the rules.

It's pretty much the same in Australia and the UK I think you'll find, and many other places.

Surely every large number can be made more explicable by measuring it in terms of football fields.

As anyone with common sense knows, a passenger plane weighs a lot, especially when full of fuel. The weight difference between even the skinniest and the largest passenger does not amount to even a rounding error when looking at their fraction of the overall weight of the plane itself, let alone the fuel.

What counts much more than your weight is the proportion of the plane you inhabit. Take a business class flight and approximately triple your share of the overall CO2 emissions in a fully laden flight. Fly in a half-full plane and your share of per-capita emissions obviously doubles in comparison to flying in a full plane.

This idea gets dragged up every year or so and amazingly the enumerate press pay attention to it. Fuckwits.

Youâ(TM)d have better luck getting fair or reasonable reporting about Apple from almost anyone but The Guardian. Even if what they write is true, itâ(TM)s always going to be framed in such a way as to make Apple appear evil. The Guardian hates Apple almost as much as Forbes does. The Guardian hates Apple almost as much as it hates Julian Assange. Almost.

Climate change and global warming are not the same thing. Human industrial activity is causing a rapid buildup of greenhouse gasses. This is causing the planet to warm. That's global warming. The global rapid increase in mean temperature is causing climates to change as more and more energy is shoved into the system, historical temperature regulators like the gulf-stream slow, move, or just change, reflective snow melts, permafrost melts releasing more GHGs, suboceanic clathrates collapse due to increased water temperature (also releasing more GHGs), and so on. These changes lead to things like "arctic vortexes" and regional drops in temperatures as well as other weather extremes. But the overall global trend is increased temperatures.

So to sum up:

1. Humans are causing global warming.
2. Global warming is causing climate change.

Global warming and climate change are related but they are not the same.

Increased levels GHGs are also causing the oceans to change PH, becoming more acidic. That's almost as serious an issue as climate change IMHO.

I just tried it, several times, and consistently got 6 as my answer.

Also just to try I did the sqrt of 2 minus 2 thing that appears to flummox windows calc users and the iPhoneâ(TM)s calc happily reports 0.

This article appears to be bullshit.