I've been reading a lot about this and for the last 20 years largely the agw global warming advocates have INSISTED that food crops wouldn't flourish in higher CO2 environs (despite obvious logical and ample evidence - cf greenhouses commonly run at higher co2 concentrations for just this reason).

www.purdue.edu/newsroom/archive/releases/2017/Q1/rising-co2-due-to-climate-change-may-not-improve-agriculture,-model-shows.html
Rising CO2 due to climate change may not improve agriculture, model shows

https://yaleclimateconnections...
"A recent Department of Energy report falsely states that rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere will boost agricultural yields. In fact, climate change is much more likely to make food scarcer and more expensive. "

https://www.sciencedaily.com/r...
"Carbon dioxide could reduce crop yields" Are we conceding that now? "OK yes it will help them grow but they won't be as nutritious" is th new line?
Just want to be sure I'm current where the argument's at.

What's wrong with you?

Hey, we're going to have a room set up just for breastfeeding.

Should I put in a webcam connected to the internet?

Of course!

China isn't developing, it's AHEAD of the West. They have nearly zero crime, the streets are safe and clean, highspeed rail over the entire country, education and family are highly valued, teachers and fathers get respect in public, and most importantly NO WARS.

Their political system is highly criticized but there never, ever could be a Trump there. No PACs, politics isn't run by billionaire donations, no foreign aid and no bending the knee to foreign countries and bombing other foreign countries for their interests.

Morons are permanently locked out of the system at the leadership and grassroots levels.

Ever wanted a government by rationalist atheists? China is your country. Xi Jinping is a chemical engineer.

The most important billionaire, Jack Ma, was shut up in prison when he tried to use his wealth to fuck with politics.

Imagine an America that had the courage to do the same to Elon Musk, the Sacklers, Miriam Adelson, David Rubelstein, Bill Ackman and all the rest of the far right.

We'd be a different, and better country.

I don't get the Rust hatred. C has implicitly had an "unsafe" mode for much longer than Rust.

If you're a C kernel developer, you can jump on the Rust bandwagon very easily: just put the keyword unsafe in your comments and you can write code just like Rust developers.

Maybe, just maybe, this mistake was caused by the fact that the same sort of people who are likely to write bugs into their code are the same types of people who prefer "safe" languages because understanding the subtle nuances of how computers work is difficult. They would prefer a system where they couldn't make mistakes, rather than a system where they had to understand the code and the machine to a high level. There's a place in the world for these sorts of people, but it's not in OS/kernel development. The sort of I-can't-make-mistakes-with-Rust mindset probably lulled the coder into a false sense of security, with the predictable outcome.

"everyone that disagrees with me is stupid!" .... actually explains more.

Maybe assume that reasonable people can look at facts and disagree, and that's normal, with out assuming you have a magically-endowed monopoly on truth or morality?

Just saying.

What have the Romans ever done for us? ... He said, posting on a phone or computer invented by the free market, on an Internet developed by the free market, on a free website whose operations are funded by the free market, probably having driven a car invented by the free market earlier this morning, sitting in a room climate controlled by free market developed equipment.
Should I continue or are you so mired in "I hate the free market" double-speak that you are beyond reason?

Fwiw, You know the EPA completely lied about ddt?

Geez if we could only go back to living in caves and 40y life span socialist paradise.

.. it technically IS part of the executive branch.
And it's still funded by fees, not congressional appropriations, yes?
And the commissioners nominated by the president, approved by the Senate, yeah?

So nothing changes.

But please: feel free to resume your fetal position if you like.

Do you know you have TDS? You are having an argument with voices in your head.

Literally nobody is saying any of this.

I'd almost feel sorry for you people, you're obviously suffering from mental health problems. But then I remember you told us men can get pregnant and mutilated children's genitals.

There is no punishment we Americans can give you worse than the one you already have.

IIRC it was Buffet who suggested a 100% tax on gains from any stock traded less than 1 year from purchase.

Hell, even if they put a 1 month buffer, I think it would help.

Says "the voice of Satan".
Perhaps you forgot your sig?

Europe "we have free speech as long as what you say is approved, obviously"
US fell into that 2021-2024, I get it. You need to snap out of it. I hope you do.

I do find it ... curious ... that suddenly this aggressively pacifist bunch of milquetoasts who scurried like cockroaches when called out on their 2% defense budget "promises" (not just by Trump, but by Obama before him - WHO ALSO warned against EU's excessive RU-snuggling over NatGas as well...) are all marching in war-drum lockstep INSISTING that war is imminent? (And it's hard to tell if they'd rather fight Russia or Trump personally - their TDS is as bad as slashdot).
Germany ROARING that they're remilitarizing and Mertz pounding the podium very Kruschevian...sure. As if everyone will just *forget* that Germany a) did NOTHING since UKR was invaded in 2014. I think they sent some helmets when Trump was (the first) sending actual military weapons to UKR? b) Germany couldn't be dragged away from being all snuggled up to Nordstream 2 until that was ... no longer an option. (Let's watch the $43 BN in payments from EU to RU after the 2022 invasion... https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPo...)

The idea that "after Ukraine Russia will certainly attack Europe" might be politically useful but is breathtakingly stupid from anyone not in Latvia, Estonia, Poland, or Lithuania (who all have legitimate reasons to be nervous). To invent that Putin is somehow cracking his knuckles over the opportunity to conquer Europe as soon as possible couldn't be more laughable...unless it happens to now be coming from the EXACT PEOPLE who insisted in their younger days that the Russians would never do such a thing.

HILARIOUS.

Have US tech companies considered following the laws in the countries in which they wish to operate?

You seem to forget, as the slashdot ideologues will certainly remind you, that "hating Elon and everything he does" is likewise the 'fad of the day'.

The Sahara has turned a lush green wildland 230 times in the last 8 million years, as recently as 9000 years ago.

I 1000% guarantee you, if there were leftists then, they absolutely INSISTED this was humans' fault.

https://theconversation.com/th...

Hint: The warming effect of each molecule of CO2 decreases significantly (logarithmically) as its concentration increases. This is scientific fact. There was no "runaway greenhouse effect" on earth even when CO2 was MULTIPLES of where it is today.

Personal preference, perhaps.

I listen to podcasts while I'm working in the shop or driving around. Usually at 2x. It's usually media and news analysis or long form stuff that I'd not have the time to consume otherwise.