well played, well played lol

https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/...

You mean the house with geothermal heating?

The house with solar installed *decades* before it was cool or fashionable?

The house that he pays a *premium* on his electric bill to promote renewable sources?

He buys from renewable sources to offset the CO2 release. Something every major corporation also does.

Is it big? Sure. Even has a heated pool! He's rich as are most people in national politics.

He used *his* money and invested in making it as green as possible.

The only potential silver lining is 'politics as usual' wasn't getting even close to solving the problem in the US. Biden's efforts were welcome but looking at the scale of the problem we face, the 'Manchin problem' held far too much back.

Trump and company will make things exponentially worse.

And the masses may need that 'worse' before starting to vote in favor of real and effective solutions. Assuming Trump doesn't bumble us into WW III.

China is installing more renewable energy every year than we have ever installed.

China has installed 20-30,000 miles of true high speed rail in just the last 20 years.

Both are massive investments in a carbon free economy.

They also installed a huge amount of coal in just the last couple of years. Plants that are *already* being idled 30% of the time b/c they have enough energy. They're also the more efficient types our 'clean coal!' morons claim are totally fine.

https://cleantechnica.com/2023...

Reality isn't all or nothing but multiple steps and *progress* towards a goal.

China is walking that walk, while the US is actively running backwards.

The North East coast will see 1-2 FEET of sea level rise if the AMOC shuts off. Why? because the 'drain' no longer drains so there's a huge pile of water that North America is rotating into.

Native American's have flood myths far starters. It's a very widespread concept.

https://mythologyworldwide.com...

Ancient flood myths are far more likely due to 2 things:

1. Floods happen everywhere
2. Baths are cleansing

Humans make up stories to explain and control societal behavior.

MTBF is useful information, but I think it would be more useful in conjunction with factors like active spinning time, total spin up/down counts, cumulative head seek time, total IO, etc. Presumably time-in-service affects the MTBF more than the age of the drive, but to what extent? Is a NIB drive that's two years old going to be as reliable as one that's only a month or two old? So many variables....

Wait we are putting untested code into the codebase? I dont care where untested code is coming from - it is never Ok. If AI code passes tests, then I don't care. If Linus Torvalds develops code himself and puts untested code into Linux... FORK immediately

The internet is really the best medium for sarcasm.

Pretty sure this opens him up to a legal malpractice suit. Probably more lucrative than whatever the debt was.

If someone "in Germany" has already done something you're just now doing, you are 'not' a pioneer.

It doesn't say "...a pioneer among German States".

Last I checked, Munich as in Germany so no, they aren't pioneering the use of FOSS "in Germany"

"This move makes the state a pioneer in Germany"

Um https://www.zdnet.com/article/...

lasting ecological shifts will hinge on design and long-term care.

We don't really know that for sure. It may improve the odds, but neither desertification nor greening require human intervention, nor is human intervention necessarily going to achieve the desired outcome. Life, uh... finds a way. (Except when it doesn't.) But for all we know (and what seems most likely absent evidence to the contrary), this is just a temporary oasis of sorts that will last only as long as the structures on the site.

you know I did the Kessel run in under 6 GigaWatts - HS