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Comment Now let us use two app stores at once PLEASE (Score 1) 21

It is totally byzantine if you need an app that is only on one App Store or happen to travel. Actual case that happened to me. United app for boarding pass, mobile roaming app from another country's phone company. Media subscriptions from U.S. App Store which was my default. Apple had me cancel my media subscriptions, create another id with an iCloud email address I don't otherwise use, and every time I need to spend time to make sure something I need will work in advance. Apple PLEASE let us use multiple app stores at the same time without forcing such destabilizing kludges. Even now I never know if what I need to work will work, or if my subscription or billing will work.. The billing screen also has issues like that.

Comment Re:How much water is that, anyways? (Score 1, Interesting) 27

I can't tell if you're intentionally being dense or not.

Suppose that water headed for California almond farms instead was diverted to Arizona golf courses. What's the problem, right? Not like the water was destroyed or something.

You may as well ask, what's the problem with inflation? Not like money is destroyed when you spend it.

Comment Re:I'm cool about it (Score 1) 43

Reminds me of a lot of the themes from Jurassic Park that are glossed over in the movie version.

"Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves."
-- Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

Comment Re:Marine aerosols [Re:Which record?] (Score 2) 43

An improvement is an improvement, and your own claims support it. The fact-based article is not "editorial"..

No article was linked. Your assertion, on the other hand, contained both a fact ("the pollutants were actually causing clouds to form, cooling the environment") and an editorial ("a bad idea".) The fact is accurate. The editorial addition is an opinion.

If you had linked an article, probably this one, you would discover that it nowhere contained the editorial you added to it, "a bad idea."

Comment Marine aerosols [Re:Which record?] (Score 3, Informative) 43

Simultaneously, do we not remember the article from June 2023 on science.(com? org?) where they describe how cleaning up ship fuels ended up being a bad idea because the pollutants were actually causing clouds to form, cooling the environment?

The phrase "a bad idea" is editorializing. It is true that sulfate aerosol emission from shipping had a cooling effect, and reducing these emissions had an (unexpected) warming effect. Whether reducing these emissions was a bad idea or not depends on whether the beneficial effects of reducing sulfate pollution outweighs the negative effects of the slight reduction in cooling. The cooling effect of the marine sulfates was estimated at about 0.12 w/m^2, which is small compared to the anthropogenic greenhouse effect, currently estimated at about 3.5 W/m^2.

Comment Waste heat [Re:Which record?] (Score 1) 43

Though at the same time, human heat engines will have some sort of impact on the environment. To claim otherwise is fallacious.

True, but it turns out that waste heat is a very small contributor to the global temperature change compared to greenhouse gasses. Basically, if you emit one erg of energy from a heat engine, that's one erg of energy one time, and done. On the other hand, if greenhouse gasses absorb one erg of energy and reradiate it downward, that same carbon dioxide will keep on absorbing and reradiating energy for the lifetime of the greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, estimated to be hundreds of years under current conditions.

It's the difference between a one-time input of energy and a continuous input of energy.

Comment Re:Meta (Score 1) 21

To be honest, if I had that much money I too would chase pie-in-sky ideas.

But this VR chase is stupid. Meta should purchase the Second Life or Roblox franchise, get a web-based world working well with FaceBook, and THEN gradually add 3D and reach stuff. He has it backward.

Comment Re:Games On Streaming Devices? (Score 1) 13

They aren't streaming games. Netflix has a bunch of low-quality games that run on the device, with simple controls so you can use a remote or pair your phone to use as a controller. It's not a brilliant experience. Think of it as the sort of thing you'd want to do only if you were trapped in a hotel room.

They also have mobile games that run on your phone but require a Netflix login to play. These are usually older games that still have some clout, so Netflix paid for the rights and ported them to mobile... for example Red Dead Redemption.

That's what this probably is, a mobile game. They already have Football Manager Mobile that you download on your phone and play with a Netflix login, if you're into that sort of thing.

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