"Nine of the people killed during protests were demonstrators taking part in Black Lives Matter protests. Two were conservatives killed after pro-Trump “patriot rallies”. All but one were killed by fellow citizens."--- http://tinyurl.com/3zwzd78y

BLM protests were overwhelmingly peaceful. Where violence occurred, it was right-wingers attacking peaceful protests. Violence against property was confined to very small areas, such as one block in downtown Portland. The idea that "BLM riots" existed and were an important threat are right wing agitprop.

Uh, did anyone RTFA? No mystery was solved. One possible solution was discarded because it appears the "missing" neutrinos did not oscillate to an alternate form. One fallback solution is that the original model for fission was wrong but the current result does not actually strengthen evidence for that solution. TLDR: NoQED

If we start aerosol injection before the Earth reaches zero carbon emissions, there is a strong probability that we become addicted to the reflection of sunlight. Carbon keeps going up and we keep injecting more and more aerosol. You can't stop the aerosol because CO2 is so high that without aerosol reflection, we would immediately burn up. (Yes, this scenario is mentioned in Ministry for the Future). The only responsible route is to stop all CO2 emissions and then, if we still need aerosol, we can consider it.

My first was a DEC LSI-1173 made by a third party OEM in 1978. TSX+ operating system which was a Unix knockoff. Mounted it in an old rack from a PDP-8 and used it to control lab equipment in a biochemistry research department at the University of Alabama- Birmingham.

So now the CDC says they will produce "data for action" rather than "data for publication". And they will promote based on public health impact rather than number of scientific papers. So they have learned the wrong lesson. The muddled messaging about covid resulted from a desire to affect the behavior of people. Rather than tell people the truth and let them come to a conclusion about whether the action recommendations are correct, the CDC wants to skip the part about telling the truth and jump directly to the part where they tell you what to do. To avoid panic, for instance. And that is exactly why the CDC gave the wrong information about masks and vaccinations. They wanted to promote certain actions even though those actions (like not wearing a mask) might lead you to contract covid. Because they wanted all the masks to go to medical personnel. The conclusion may be correct but they lied to get people to go along. So we can't trust anything they say. The CDC is more interested in "public health" than my health.

Perhaps the Germans will now notice that the Russians are attacking nuclear power plants in Ukraine. Just this week they have been shelling the Zaporizhzhia plant and have made threats to destroy it if Ukraine attempts to re-capture the area. Nuclear power does not buy you safety from Russian aggression. On the contrary, it makes a lovely target. Wind and solar are less expensive, less polluting, and safer than gas or nuclear. The existing nuke plants should be maintained only until more wind and solar can be brought online.

Nobody said anything about interoperabillity. In order to bust the monopolies built on exclusive access to "friends", the government should require that users of any socila media should be able to notify existing friends on a different social media that they have moved. So the interoperability would be limited to a onetime, one click function that says "alert friends to my new user name on media X with an invitation to become a "friend" there. That means that you would have a chance to move a group of friends from a crappy social media to a better one. It is only that user choice that provides the competition needed for improvement. Not sure why you would say this stymies new social media from starting. I think this is a necessary ingredient to any new media.

This is exaclty right. Social media would improve dramatically with competition and choice. No, you shouldn't be able to "take your contacts with you" without their consent. But media sites should be required to allow a "come with me" offer from one site to another. An offer to existing "friends" to be friends on a different site.

I think that would be 271.3 kelvin. Not Centigrade.

Do you think Jeffery Epstein liked to read sci-fi? Maybe he and Gates had other things in common.

Here is the most recent citation on work converting CO2 to methane on Earth.
https://cleantechnica.com/2021...

No, it's not greenwashing. There is no methane on Mars. The whole point of building Starship with methane engines is that methane can be made from water and CO2, both of which are available on Mars. It's called the Sabatier process: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... SpaceX has already started making methane on Earth and plans to scale up so it can provide fuel for all its launches.

In addition, Musk plans to make his own methane from CO2, so the Starship will be carbon neutral. SpaceX has to do this anyway because they will use the same technique to make methane on Mars.

Yes, I like videos of cute baby animals. Mostly larger African animals like rhinos, hippos, and giraffes. I've been fed lots of those on Facebook and that was fine. Until last week when the video was very different. it depicted a baby giraffe born only hours before. It was being stalked by a pride of lions. The mother giraffe was trying to protect her infant but the lions managed to separate them. So this is a very effective emotional driver for someone like me who takes joy in the frolicking of infant creatures. Things did not end well for the baby giraffe. The very next video offered was a man and his young daughter being harassed by street thugs. Ends with him using a shotgun to blow away everyone in sight. It was no coincidence that the emotional trigger was the same in the two videos. Parent trying to protect a threatened child. I was being led in the direction of violence as a tool to secure safety. I don't think I overlooked this in previous video offerings. This seems to be something new and the appearance of the story on Slashdot reinforces my suspicion.

There are 1600 Starlink satellites in orbit which are a majority of recently orbited satellites with ion engines. They use krypton rather than xenon and they seem to work very well.