Hmm. Have you been to Europe? While New Orleans certainly has old buildings, it's nothing like European old buildings and homes many of which were build hundreds of years ago in a cooler climate. These buildings were never designed to accommodate forced air heating, let alone A/C air handlers. It's going to require some very interesting engineering to bring mass cooling to Europe to existing structures. I'm sure it can be done, of course. Where there's a bill there's a way.

Which of course brings us to a core issue of climate change. The world's poorest people, who contributed the least to CO2 emissions, will bear the most cost to adapt.

Interesting advice. Here in Canada we design houses for the winter. That means good insulation, primarily. Coincidentally, this leads to cooler homes in the summer and makes for more efficient cooling too.

That would be ideal, but I don't think it's really necessary. Just keeping the list a subject of public debate is sufficient to prevent things from getting too skewed.

There is zero evidence of this, and the fact that you seem to believe it makes me dismiss everything else you might say out of hand, because you clearly either lack or don't engage critical thinking skills.

... two warning signs are red colour and bluing when cut, and this has them both.

Tried looking at wealth inequality?

“Obscuring negative associations” is doing a lot of unpaid labor there. First establish the association. Then establish that reliable sources treat it as significant. Then establish that Wikipedia is suppressing it rather than applying due weight. Until then, this is Russell’s teapot with a swastika armband.

You are right that science has no obligation to give every crank theory equal time. Climate denial does not become a coequal scientific position just because someone demands “balance.” That is exactly what sensationalist media and cable news (looking at you, Fox News) has been doing for decades—fooling low-information viewers into thinking crackpot conspiracies belong on the same stage as rigorous scientific research. On that point, you'll get no argument from me.

But you are smuggling in a false dichotomy. The alternatives are not “scientific truth” on one side and “social-media shouting” on the other. Science is not Twitter with lab coats, but it is still a social process. Peer review, replication, conferences, journals, grant fights, disciplinary norms, consensus formation, and paradigm shifts are not decorative plumbing. They are the machinery.

If you haven't read "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" by Thomas Kuhn, this a really good point for you to pick it up. If you have read it, then I would suggest you need to re-read it. Science is fundamentally a social process. It was Kuhn’s central insight. He did not show that facts are democratic, or that electrons take a caucus vote before tunneling. He showed that what counts as a good question, a valid method, a decisive anomaly, or an acceptable explanation is mediated through scientific communities operating within paradigms. The objectivity comes from the discipline of that process, not from pretending the process does not exist.

Wikipedia is even more obviously social. It is not a laboratory and it is not a journal. It is a consensus-driven encyclopedia that summarizes reliable sources under rules like verifiability, due weight, and no false balance. That means the climate denial article should not pretend denialism has the same standing as climate science. But it also means “Wikipedia doesn’t debate” is an absurd claim. Wikipedia is practically made of talk pages, RfCs, noticeboards, policy arguments, and edit wars with footnotes.

Truth is not democratic. Fine. But Wikipedia's neutrality is negotiated. If that negotiation is disciplined by good sources and due weight, it can work. If it is captured by factional editing, rule-gaming, or selective enforcement, then calling it “science” does not cleanse the problem. It just gives the hive mind a lab coat.

Every digital cinema camera I've ever heard of has XLR inputs. So if you don't mind being tethered to the boom operator, you don't necessarily even need a field recorder. It all depends on what you're shooting and where and how.

But yeah, decent mics are cheap enough now that even low-end DSLRs have at least survivable mono audio.

There's where your mental model is just wrong. The game server is in the domain of the seller. Some hardware breaking due to wear & tear or abuse is NOT. That is an incredibly important legal distinction.

What EXACTLY do you mean with "the game shuts down"? That is the whole point. The game SERVERS shutting down is not the same as disabling the game. If it's an online-only game, there could still be OTHER servers, not run by the seller. Official or unofficial. That is the whole point of "stop killing games".

Again, this is relevant for online games only, and is not about the game at all, but about access to a specific community or server. Even if I am the biggest asshole on the planet and every ban was absolutely justified - why should I not be able to set up my own server, invite my equally assholish friends and play there? There is no reason to disable the GAME, only the access to a specific server. These can be two distinct things. You buy the game, but you subscribe to a server.

They shouldn't create the need to refund. You're making up a problem here. Every refund ever was done at the point of sale for the price you paid. That's why invoices and receipts exist.

But that's not what it says. Every shop ever treated games as a SALE. Steam doesn't label the button "buy" anymore, but most other shops still do, and even on Steam everything else is handled exactly like a sale of a product. Shopping cart and all.

Because they want to eat their cake and have it, too. I'm sure players would be more hesitant to part with 60 bucks if it clearly said: "temporary, revocable at any time for any reason, permission to play".

Not necessarily. Canvassing can also bring broader attention to something. For example, I'm hearing about this, and my politics don't align with his, but now I'm curious what the issue is about, and might actually pay attention to it.

It definitely is. Every dollar a person makes on such a site comes from a dollar lost by another guy. And the numbers are staggering. Like a billion dollars. And they way they are set up, those who are already rich can set things up so that they make even more money from much poorer people. The more money you have to play with, the easier it is to win on the predictions gambling sites (not to mention cheat with insider knowledge). Fantastic video on this from a young lady named Dee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?.... Highly recommend for anyone who wants to know how this scam works. 70% of the takings go to 0.1% of the players (who also happen to be the ones with the most money to start with).

At least on the stock market, there is such thing as growth from companies making money, paying dividends, etc.

I'm not at all surprised to see Zuckerberg getting in on this. It's not enough to addict the world to social media and sell their privacy. He wants every last dollar they have. It's really quite evil.

No, here on Slashdot.

IME, grub is that reason.

You should have noauto in your options. Or today, better yet, use autofs.

You mean where they're still using scripts?

I've been maintaining serious Unix-like systems since I was a teenager, when at home I had a Sun SLC netbooting Xkernel from a 486 running Linux so I could run Netscape on a fanless system by my bed. Now I run Devuan with root on encrypted ZFS for funsies. You don't need to tell me about boot problems. I just don't blame my problems on sysvinit because I know which components are actually responsible, and it has never failed me. It does one job and does it well. I too have had my system be problematic because I could have done better with my fstab, but that's not sysvinit's fault.

You're pretty weird. Are you mad that he doesn't take your bait so you're going to come at me or what? Unfortunately, you are pretty boring. If you would like to make me mad, please come up with some new material. Peace!

FTFY