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Submission + - Bill Gates Rejects 'Doomsday' View of Climate Change (msn.com)

fjo3 writes: According to Gates, who has long stood out as a vocal defender of the need to fight global warming, prioritizing the fight against rising temperatures above all else means that issues such as human health and equality risk being overshadowed.

“Climate change is serious, but we’ve made great progress,” he said in the memo. “We need to keep backing the breakthroughs that will help the world reach zero emissions. But we can’t cut funding for health and development — programs that help people stay resilient in the face of climate change — to do it.”

Submission + - Vaccine Skeptics Said That COVID Shots Would Cause Mass Death. We're Still Here. (reason.com)

fjo3 writes: Millions, perhaps even billions of us who got ourselves vaccinated against COVID-19 should be dead by now, or if not yet, very soon. For years, prominent wellness influencers and other internet personalities have predicted that mRNA vaccines will lead to mass casualties. Infectious disease clinician Neil Stone has helpfully (and amusingly) compiled a number of such dire predictions.

Submission + - Trump says U.S. cattle ranchers 'don't understand' tariffs after some slam Argen (cnbc.com)

An anonymous reader writes: The admonition came after some ranchers have openly criticized Trump’s proposal to import beef from Argentina in order to bring down prices for American consumers.

Trump claimed that those ranchers “don’t understand that the only reason they are doing so well, for the first time in decades, is because I put Tariffs on cattle coming into the United States.”

Comment Re:People should learn to read (Score 4, Insightful) 79

If someone is crazy enough to storm a stage with a gun, I don't care what they say, or where they point that gun - always assume the worst. I would have dived for the floor, because I am not a brave person. But well done to the two people who took the gunman down, saved his life, and prevented the entire crowd from being traumatized. I have seen some dark stuff on the internet (Daniel Pearl; the Christchurch massacre) but I have never seen anyone kill themselves right in front of my face, and I can only imagine it would be a memory I would want to forget.

Submission + - Hackers jam busy US road with 50 self-driving cabs in cyber attack (the-sun.com)

An anonymous reader writes: The so-called ‘world’s first Waymo DDoS” was apparently organized by 23-year-old self-proclaimed tech prankster and San Francisco resident Riley Walz, who posted “the plan” to his X account on October 12.

However, the actual incident occurred in July, according to Road & Track.

“At dusk, 50 people went to San Francisco’s longest dead-end street and all ordered a Waymo at the same time,” read Walz’s post. Attached were pictures showing the autonomous vehicles lined up with seemingly nowhere to go.

The plan resulted in the Jaguar I-Pace vehicles which Waymo uses being caught in the synthesized self-driving traffic jam.

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