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Abstract: We test whether Hg in marine sediments over the last 550 m.y. of the Cretaceous is a reliable proxy linking Deccan Traps volcanic eruptions to late Maastrichtian global climate warming and the mass extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary (KPB).

From what I have seen and read about this, it is quite possible that the traps were emitting unimaginable amounts of gasses for tens of thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands of years. In this video essay from Kurzgesagt (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjoQdz0nxf4) it is suggested that the traps emitted the equivalent of tens of thousands of our civilizations (!!!) for great many years. Gases that swung the climate like mad: sulfur-based "coolers" and carbon-based "warmers". Plus the mercury, where our current emissions will not even register on the scale back then (and also why the greatest source of Hg in the air today is coal and oil burning - we are re-emitting the poison that the Earth spewed in the past).

In the last several years though, there seems to be a concerted effort to bury the contribution of the traps and put all of it on the asteroid again. Could it be because the traps show that the greatest danger is beneath our feet and has nothing to do with our civilization? Compare the apocalyptic claims of irreversible this and catastrophic that, which will surely happen next year, or at the latest by 2030 or at the very, very latest by 2050 with evidence that tens of thousands of civilizations worth of emissions, going on for a lot longer than our singular civilization has existed didn't result in irreversible climate change and wholesale destruction of life. In fact, adding the asteroid as the cherry on the cake, KPB extinction event is, as far as I remember, the mildest extinction of the big 5(?). Only 75% of everything living perished...

Kurzgesagt goes on mentioning that all the big extinction events were caused by volcanic activity.

Forget trying to learn Lie Group theory from Youtube. Just when you get to a crucial point: Lie groups provide a natural model for the concept of continuous symmetry....

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You mean those extra 20+ mil that contribute to Social Security and Medicare, that work in jobs native born American won't be caught dead doing. The inflation was cause by Covid whacking supply chains and, afterwards, people buying everything not nailed down.

Now we have high inflation, a decreasing workforce which will depress GDP, lower contributions to Social Security and Medicare and also national defense, and crops rotting in the fields. Think you'll get some help to help you through your dotage? Nope, them sort of health care jobs are mainly done by migrants who are now to scared to help Ma and Pa Kettle, and they won't be there in the future for your sorry ass. Jesus, grow a brain.

The expansion of the sun won't happen before 2.5 billion years, an asteroid could happen tomorrow.

Want a start on fixing the asteroid problem? All NASA has to do is tell el Bunko that a solid gold asteroid of monumental proportions is heading for Mar-A-Loco and that were we find a way to divert into an orbit, then el Bunko could own it. NASA would shortly get tired of winning.

"Without subsidies or predetermined U.S. contracts for this pathetic SpaceX", you mean. Elmo's company would be dust without Uncle Sam funding him.

It gets a bit better, according to TheRegister: https://www.theregister.com/20...

"The real magic happens when you stick your mouse pointer on top of Mico and quickly click several times. Then the avatar turns into Clippy. It’s still Mico, mind you, but with a Clippy skin, which means a lot to anyone who used Office toward the end of the last millennium."

Uh, you realize the Federal Reserve already does this with the dollar, right?

Google reported using 32.11 million MWh in 2024. Average cost per megawatt hour for industrial customers in the US was $87.50, so we can estimate (with wide error bars, but the right order of magnitude) about $2.8 billion in electricity cost for the year. Google's net income in 2024 was about $100B, so electricity costs are a small fraction of profit. Electricity expenses are included in their cost of revenue, which was a total of $146B.

I believe the second-order effect of being able to scale faster will easily swamp the first-order effect of saving money on electricity.

It was only after Myanmar's military closed up the call centers when SpaceX decided it was "unlicensed" for that country. They knew damn well what those call centers were doing and they did nothing until now. What's the matter Elmo, did some shit splatter you?

"but also for Trumpianism" What? Do a "deal" with el Bunko where he pockets his take? That sort of el Bunkoism?

How exactly what I describe here is a Troll, when I am actually sharing my experience as a user of a technology? I luterally feel nauseous (wanting to vomit) when riding as a passenger in a Tesla. Rarely happens in an ICE vehicle, happens in electric vehicles, especially Teslas. No matter how much I get moderated as a Troll, doesn't change what I end up feeling as an EV passenger. There is something about the way these things ride, it makes me want to vomit.

Google makes so much money even their enormous electricity bill is probably only a small fraction of profit, yes. But if they can cut the amount of power they use, they can add more compute without having to increase the amount of electrical capacity in a data center (or build more data centers), which not only means less capital expense but also means they can increase compute in less time. So it's definitely a concern.

I already hate getting Teslas for my Uber drives and I do quite a bit of Ubering, so to speak. If the number of these Tesla vehicles goes up significantly and I feel like throwing up during *EVERY* Uber drive, I will no longer use this method of transportation. Teslas make me absolutely nauseous, especially when going up or down the hill.

"Quantum Leap" was RIGHT THERE! How could you miss it?

It gets better. The soy bean farmers have lost their markets in China due to la Presidenta. China decided to buy from Brazil and Argentina because of the new tariffs from la Presidenta. Milei of Argentina took the initial $20 Billion (with $20 Billion more promised) and gave a hearty thank you to la Presidenta, and then turned around and cut Argentina's export tariff on soy beans. Chine gave a hearty thank you to Milei for this. Now, la Presidenta is promising to bail out the soy bean farmers in America due to the stupid tariff war he started.

He also promised to ball out the soy farmers and pay troops with all the winnings of his tariffs. He won approx. $179 Billion from those through the first 8 months of those stupid tariffs. The U.S. normally gets about $80 Billion during that period. So he's only up about $100 Billion. Given the money he intends to steal from the poor to pay the rich for his tax bill means the U.S. is still way under water, the tariff money does not begin to cover the largess.

And to "use the tariff money" is a pipe dream. All tax and tariff money goes into the Treasury's General Fund. Is isn't sitting in a special mattress so saying he's going to use that money is just another of his lies. He's also claiming he got $17 Trillion from tariffs. Oh? the entire GDP of the U.S. in 2024 was $29.12 Trillion, so he's made up over half of the U.S.'s GDP? His figures are even dumber than that. The U.S. gov. expenditures for 2024 were about $5.9 Trillion. So where is the extra $11+ Trillion? How come the U.S. is still running deficits? He's above a lie in the same way a brick is above the Sargasso Sea (thanx Douglas Adams).