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Comment Social media makes people gullible. (Score 1) 188

Angry about imaginary events.
Misinformed about actual events.
Afraid of imaginary outcomes.
Apathetic to actual outcomes.
Gullible.

And Politically conservative social media takes off like a rocket every election year.
I wonder how many of these people have spread Kremlin misinformation?
I'd say all of them. Gullible.

Comment Karpov belonged to Putin. Until ... (Score 0) 67

Karpov has been in the Dumas for 10+ years.
Politics are anti-western / anti-US.
He defended the invasion of Crimea. Defended Putin directly.
Supported the current invasion in the spring, was sanctioned by the EU, snubbed by FIDE, etc.
Sounds like he belonged to Putin. Another sock puppet.

Until just recently, when he called for peace. And then what happens?

You hang with dogs, you get fleas.

If you support genuine fascists - and then change your mind - you may be prone to accidents.
Like the string of the Russian big oil execs who recently fell out of hospital windows. To their deaths.

Comment Cars are made better today. (Score 1) 196

Cars are made better today. We've owned a dooffy-looking SmartCar for 9 years. Take it to a mechanic for annual maintenance. I've never seen the engine, never checked the oil. And it is not just this this make / model. Cars used to be crap and required more repairs. Think 1970s.

Without that high-technology, there would be no airbags, no anti-lock brakes, etc. Worse engine performance, higher fuel consumption, more pollution. That tech is here to stay.

Yes, of course the pandemic has created supply chain issues. For everyone.

Submission + - Biden restores California's ability to impose stricter auto pollution limits (cnbc.com)

gollum123 writes: The Biden administration is restoring California’s authority to set its own rules on greenhouse gas emissions from cars, pickups and SUVs, a move that rolls back a Trump-era decision and puts California at the forefront of combatting climate change in the U.S. The decision reinstates a Clean Air Act waiver that allows California to adopt stronger fuel economy standards than those of the federal government and set the precedent for the rest of the country on how to mitigate vehicle emissions. The state’s past ability to control vehicle emissions led to some innovative strategies in the auto industry, such as catalytic converters, which convert toxic gases and pollutants in exhaust gas into less-toxic pollutants, as well as “check engine” lights. Seventeen states and the District of Columbia have adopted California’s tighter standards. Under the Clean Air Act, the state has the ability to receive permission from the federal government to set its own rules on tailpipe standards that help lower emissions from gas-powered vehicles. California established the first tailpipe emissions standards in the country in 1966.

Comment Intel points fingers ... (Score 1) 243

All this as tiny AMD's server chips consistently beat giant Intel's top offering. Ask serious gamers.

And these last few years, we have been hearing about several serious security flaws baked almost all of into Intel's chips. Some can be repaired at BIOS level, others can not. Permanent vulnerabilities, only recently disclosed.

Now Apple has their own RISC chip. Even less market share for Intel.

No wonder Intel are pointing fingers at Apple.

Comment Just imagine ... (Score 1) 68

Just imagine that someone invented a method of converting Terawatts electricity and human intellect
into a symbolic currency with no intrinsic value, with no link to any material asset, not backed by any government (except North Korea), and which you can not actually spend at the local store.

Oh, wait ...

It consumes resources and produces nothing. I wish they were curing cancer, folding proteins, solving problems, ... but, no. Money is everything.

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