While that's meant as a joke, hunting a stray dog is considered "living off the land". Remember the organizational hit that the Environmental Protection agency just had? That means that dogs, birds, rabbits, deer, or whatever else you care to name that's living just as desperately in the woods are all going to get a little more chemically unclean. The same for grown-yourself produce. The pollution is already bad. We can't go back. We can't live where we are now because the rent is too high. There's no way forward since Elon's not going to put anything on the moon or Mars. The only planning that seems to be going on in the upper levels of government anymore is "If the peasants can't afford food, then they can't afford guiltiness either."

This is alright, and even anti-gmo's should agree. It's just cutting off the bad part.

If you want to deorbit the Space Station, go land it on Mars. It will offer tools, refined materials, and places to shelter in. Otherwise, it's just extreme vandalism of the current pinnacle achievement of the human race. Destroying it does not make anything Elon do the current pinnacle. Elon's buzzwords show that he has a lack of follow-up on both the matter of replacing the SS, as well as going to Mars. Big lies need big bait to gather the big money that Elon wants to scam the nation out of. If he COULD go to Mars, there would the clear technological structure to enable him or his chosen team to do so. Don't destroy the SS, turn it into a space dock and build something. If there's no SS, then Elon wouldn't have to have tangible results since there would be nothing useful up there.

As with every "great advancement" of the hard drive, the same questions apply every time. They can keep stacking the internal components as much as they want, but the real question is the durability and long-term storage accuracy of the device. Will the data on it last 50 years on a shelf? Will there be any component failure in the future? Capacitor rot, storage disk bit loss, etc. Are solid state drives more susceptible to this than hard disk drives? Everybody turns to China to get it's things made, but China's in a bad place right now. There's no guarantee that a device produced there will match up to the specifications submitted. And the suit-and-ties aren't likely to listen to the technical people who designed something when "under budget" (and under specification) lies are waved at their MBA-fed egos. For every piece of trash shipped out, there was someone who was expecting something different. And fake storage-amount hard drives have gotten better at being fake. Like fake flash drives and fake USB storage drives.

For an article on Slashdot it sure low-key villanizes common sense. Why get a new device that barely better then the one you have, and have paid off? Why use a new device that's poorly programmed, poorly made, and has fewer ways to repair? And "smart" appliances are even worse. Why would anyone need a tv screen for a refrigerator door? There might be some uses for bluetooth programming a microwave, but getting a droid to remove the food and serve it to you still hasn't gotten to an affordable market level. It must get worse when medical equipment is involved. The corporations have painted themselves into a corner because of the laws they created over that one! The only zombies are the corporations trying to not look like the malevolent undead.

A fractional improvement is still an improvement, but how is this supposed to lead to the creation of "magnetically levitating vehicles"? How are "sheets" of a material supposed to work as powerlines in a city electrical grid? "Sheets of various material is like a line of pie, or strudel. There has got to be a fragility threshold to test, and stay back from. It sounds like more overpromising. It would be stable in a circuit-board setting, though, so it could be interesting to see what happens to electronic company's material requirements then. Superconductor might be more fragile than the refined ore-sourced metals. Fragile to heat and cold, as well as motion. If gold is no longer the top of the list for electronic component construction, what will happen to it's value?

What will we do the next time this happens? When Windows 10 and 11 is declared to be "legacy" or other kind terms for "I want to sell you a new one, so I made the old one obsolete." This enforced lack of program ability is unnecessary and wholly constructed to push newer, less stable, larger and buggy OS's which in turn require newer computers to be bought. Y'know, just in case you _aren't_ buying a whole new computer setup every 12 months like a good corporate slave. Who said these guys could take things away from us? It's not like the old OS's require anything new, since they're staying in place. It's the newer versions that add unnecessary features, spyware to cause problems, and new ways to crash. This should be stopped in it's tracks.

We should put more effort into mapping the Kuiper belt, then. We might need to know where the good sized rocks are someday. Pluto was already a planet. Yes, it's small, but it's the only thing out there. Well, aside from Charon the orbiting 'moon' of Pluto. Delisting Pluto was a publicity stunt that got out of hand. We should be trying to educate Flat Earthers, not letting them play with the Big Map. If anything is found (probably Pluto again) Americans will just name it some derivation of Boaty McBoatface.

Star Wars has bad movies- yes, and we can't take them too seriously. Luke was whiny from the start- Yes, and he grew up fast. We should always grade mercifully. Which shocks and confuses some people when they finally stack a ton of mistakes up all at once and run into it thinking that they can never make a mistake. And the biggest mistake of Star Wars was the Rey movies, not forgetting it's competition of Jar Jar, sand memes, the Jedi Twins, and The Holiday Special. Bad movies are bad, but "worse than that" is not impossible.

This can only be bad news. I'd like it to be good news, but Kathleen Kennedy is involved. That's a bad track record. I wonder what array of underpreforming video games, toys that no-one will want, and Disney spacewasters will be created to promote and eventually beg for attention for these movies? There's always hope. There's space to bring back Han, have Luke written like Luke, and bring in the much better stories from the (1990-2015) novel series.

I'm sure that there's people who get their DST notification accidentally, like here on Slashdot. It's almost, but not, amusing to see so many people think that they're above the "concept" of time. Having to turn your clocks back isn't some form of tyranny, it's the normal adjustment to the changing of the length of the day and night. It is they who are wrong, they just won't do anything unless they complain about it. For to them the complaining, not the adjustment, is the point. I'm sure these people would spend as much time complaining about the proper direction of a toilet paper roll, or the "correct" design of a doorknob if given the option instead.

Perhaps now it will not take them over ten years and over 100 million dollars to make a bad sequel to a good movie. I can only hope that this will take power away from the "subvert your expectations" morons by getting movies done before too much meddling happens. Disney embracing AI could be great, and could create movies with new technological adaption like Tron. It could be bad by facilitating the speedy creation of live action adaptions that no one could possibly want. It is very clear that Disney cannot survive by making more Series Killer movies like Rescue Rangers, or The Last Jedi at the normal price.

This is all about blocking russian yt channels? As if we aren't already blocking Proud Boys and Trump, who are also russian-supported! This is clearly done by "divorced from reality" people. 20 with 33 zeros after it. Perhaps they meant it in ruble currency? But 1 russian ruble is $0.01 in american money and that's _after_ the waves of USA financial crashes the last few decades. It's a race of bad management to see who's unit of currency is worth less and the decision-makers aren't the ones suffering at the level of the common man. The laughable claim of "We want all the money in the world and we want Google to give it to us." is so pathetic it's laughable again.

So it's a crystal-form substance. What is the temperature that it stops absorbing at, and what is the temperature that it releases the co2 again? Because (wiki says) Venus is "At the surface it has a mean temperature of 737 K (464 C; 867 F) and a pressure of 92 times that of Earth's at sea level." Co2 is still an oxygen-containing molecule, and getting the oxygen out of it when needed is going to be on someone's "must-do" list someday. "Cleaning" a 96% amount out of a planetary atmosphere long enough to make the planet livable, then getting the o2 back into circulation- as well as turning enough co2 into nitrogen. (Earth air is 78% nitrogen, 20% oxygen.) So, of a planetary atmosphere, we've got to figure out how to turn it off, and back on again. If 200 grams of crystal takes up 20 kilograms of co2, how many pounds of crystal is needed to clean the atmo of Venus? Do they drop it loose, or is there some sort of device that it would work best as?

The problem here isn't the oil business's sales, the problem here is the amount of oil extraction sites. There's been excavations, drilling, fracking, over every sighting, sample, or just guesswork made by looking at a map. Since the oil industry can't put blame on the electric vehicle industry for the ones that were previously closed down, Oil is trying to put blame on the Electric for the normal shutdown of a "wild guesses" extraction site. Closing this platform is a money-saving decision made because it wasn't pumping out enough oil- if any. Which means Oil is raising gasoline prices because they're removing a unprofitable excavation and want to... raise prices so that they can blame Electric vehicles over this.