"Rare Earth" is a terminology that was created in, IIRC, the 19th century because at the time the elements appeared to be rare. As it turns out, almost all of them are available in vast quantities if you know where to look.

If I'm understanding silicone-carbon batteries, silicone works better and it's not exactly hard to find nor is it hard to extract.

Yeah, nothing like losing all of your teeth except for the two blue ones left so you can bite the gold metal.

I don't understand the opposition to this at all. You just keep 2 sets of records: one for people who take drugs and those who don't. Those who take them get to show what the human body is capable with enhancements and those who don't get to show off what it can do without them. Having a legal outlet for those who allow those to take them may actually reduce the incentives for them being used in the Olympics.

But are we certain that gas wasn't overtaken by renewables because of the lack of availability of gas from the farts of the obese? After all, a lot of people stopped going to the buffet for 3 hours because they're now using Ozempic. That's not putting America First.

...and to further clarify my response, going to social media for "facts" backs that up.

Ah, I see you fall under the "I didn't bother fact checking" camp.

Nah, but there's plenty of penguins there to taunt him because GNU Hurd still isn't ready.

Why not? What's holding them up? There are a few people down there at the polar station who look over the facilities down there and there are probably computers down there that run Linux with FSF software. Maybe even on the coasts. Or maybe the FSF can establish a base down there with Richard Stallman leading the effort.

If you want to bring up genocide, go look at the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. That's Genocide. That's people seeking to kill one another en mass (estimates are 800,000 to 1 million) and it took only 100 days. 6 million Jews were killed during the Holocaust. But based on your attitude, you probably either ignore that or deny it ever happened, even though Auschwitz exists, along with the sign that says, "Arbeit macht frei". Then there's the 600,000-1.5 million who were killed during the Armenian Genocide in 1915. And you're seriously going to call the war between Israel and Hamas a genocide? 32,000 people did die and Hamas refuses to tell us how many are Hamas members vs civilians. They died because of a war that their leadership started. It is a pin drop by comparison with actual genocides. Genocide doesn't start with, "Hey, clear the area. We're about to bomb it. Here's a relatively safe place to go," and then too much of the population ignoring the warning because they figure they'll be safe. Now lets add Hamas placing arms in bomb shelters such as schools and hospitals so that civilians became casualties, and the population density of Gaza, one of the highest in the world. That's how we reached that number. If Israel wanted to commit genocide, they have the money and the resources to do it.

Your defense of the laws against homosexuals is comical as well. There's typically no judicial process involved in that. They're just killed. And Hamas has had years to turn around and legalize it, but they've chosen not to.

No, you drew conclusions that weren't there. Gazans largely support Hamas, or at least until large swaths of Gaza got leveled. For some reason Hamas isn't particularly popular anymore. I wonder why. Were there no Hamas and a friendly government, there would have never have been a war. No attack on Israel on October 7th and there never would have been a war. Gaza was largely self-ruled by Hamas before the war for nearly 20 years, within behavioral boundaries that had to be set up by both Israel and Egypt. You know that Israel offered the return of Gaza to Egypt years ago? Egypt didn't want it, even though it was part of the 1979 peace treaty. Those tall fences? They're along the Gaza-Egypt border as well. But I'll admit that I'd have a lot more sympathy for Gazans if they'd pick up some guns and kill Hamas. I've read about people in areas where Hamas was driven out trying to do just that, but there's not been enough of a union between them to fight what remains of Hamas and kill them off. And notably, I did mention that PA is the good guy, but you seem to overlook the vast corruption by Hamas. PA has far more accountability because they're far more accountable to the west. And look, I do support the idea of a prosperous Gaza. I don't support a terrorist organization running it.

BTW, let's not forget that Israel is a small sliver of land on the global stage and that Palestinians, yes Palestinians, serve as elected members of the Knesset. I bet wherever propaganda source you've gotten this nonsense from left that out.

Regardless, you've got some issues here and I'm not going to continue calling you out. Finally, I'm not saying this as an insult. I'm saying this as somebody who just read what you wrote. Overall, your response is largely one of somebody a few types. One is a young person unfamiliar with history. Your extensive typos give away that that is quite likely one factor. Go read balanced, factual sites on history and real genocides. Another fact is you may be using something far more serious than pot. If that's the case, I'm not sure what drug you're using, but you really need to seek treatment and I wish you the best in your pursuit thereof. I'm again not being sarcastic with this. Please read facts, not internet posts, to formulate your ideas. When you do read internet posts, fact check them.

When was the last time a war happened when usually the civilian population was warned that the area they were in was about to get bombed? If they chose not to leave, the risk was in part their own responsibility. Hamas provably positioned their war infrastructure in such a way that civilians would be killed, because they knew the west values human life. Hamas doesn't and is more interested in staying in power than their own people. They're such a terrible group of "leaders" that they're afraid to give up their small arms because they fear that the locals will come out and kill them because of their behavior. On top of that, one of the funniest signs I saw was "Queers for Gaza." or something along those lines. If you set foot into Gaza and are openly gay, you would be executed by Hamas. Notably, none of Israel's Arab neighbors made any attempt to defend Gaza. They all hate Hamas and Iran, and they've realized that Israel isn't their enemy. Hezbollah is largely composed of Palestinians who left Israel at the end of the creation of the Israeli state. Anyway, the Arab hatred towards Iran goes back thousands of years, when Iran was then known as the Persian Empire. For example, during the Roman/Ottoman era, the locals were constantly fighting off the Persians. As for the Palestinians go, I do believe in a two-state solution. The PA has demonstrated an ability to self-govern and in the case of the PA, Israel is clearly the bad guy. In Gaza, it's the reverse.

Nah. The curbside recycling thing is an outdated policy derived from early recyclers who did the sorting on their own and knew what the various symbols meant. The general public doesn't and shouldn't need to know or care about how to sort their recyclables, minus maybe paper products which can get contaminated by fluids. It's also trivial to determine that "this is made out of paper." Instead, we need a simple system: throw it into a single trash bin, put it at the curb, and let trained experts determine what's what. Many people don't even bother recycling, regardless of what local laws may require. When the the laws do exist, they aren't enforced.

Iran thinks they have the upper hand because their government had redundancy built into it and survived. We think we have the upper hand because we killed much of the senior leadership, but naively thought the Iranian people would rise up and take over the government. Notably, we didn't kill the president of Iran and we could have. Iran has a functioning republic, but it sits underneath the clerics who are dictators. The only things that are likely going to end it is an invasion by the US, the arming of the 70% who don't like the Iranian government or a capitulation by either Iran or the US.

Name a successful end-to-end Starship mission, from takeoff to landing all of the re-usable parts of the rocket.

The "growth" is about the jobs being held are low-wage low-class jobs, combined with Wall Street showing record profits in part because of that and in part because of offshoring. Meanwhile, middle class jobs are hard to come by.