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Comment don't mention the war? (Score 1) 254

I notice in this thread and others a lack of comment of the impact the ongoing wars have on the climate. Yes I may have a diesel car. But I'm not dropping 1000 bombs per day on Ukrainians. That shit will take centuries to clean up, if we are to measure by the ongoing efforts to clean up WW2. And it's not stopping. And the reason it's not stopping is because eg France bough 40 billion $ of oil/gas from Russia last year. And France's government will ride a private jet to Cop30 where they will tell me to stop using my diesel car. If those are the terms of the deal, I'm seriously tempted to say "fuck it, let the world burn".

Comment Re: lab equipment (Score 1) 137

VMWare were very good at this - and probably still are, but people don't like them anymore. Their hypervisor and guest OS drivers came with a "VMCI device" which offers a wealth of information and management options without exposing a classic network interface. I'm not aware of an equivalent in the VirtualBox / KVM world. I've heard of "vsock", also written by VMWare, haven't tried it yet.

Comment Re:No, thanks. (Score 0) 140

You can, for a bit more money, get a 2-person compartment and for even a bit more get that to yourself

This doesn't scale thought, it would make train trips horribly energy inefficient so where's the green incentive then? It's also a very good reason to pick the plane: it efficiently packs 200-300 people and flies them 1800 km in 2 hours.

Comment Re: biological sex vs gender identity. (Score 1) 254

To anyone silly enough to try debating this topic: remember that very often the people you argue with are not rational. They truly madly deeply believe to be what they say they are. To the point where they irreversibly chop off functioning body parts and attach non-functioning ones. The debate should have taken place with their parents long ago.

Comment Re:Chemical composition (Score 4, Informative) 206

Indeed, my reaction to reading even the whole article was a "huh?" - surely those people can't be so naive as to think butter = fat. There are likely hundreds of other ingredients, varying on animal source (goat, cow), nutrients fed to the cattle, region in the world, exact species so many factors in play. This article basically says all the work a Swiss farmer does to produce the best milk in the world is useless as the result is just some fat - if ever there was a reason for the to abandon their neutrality and go to war!

Comment Re:Actually surprised (Score 1) 122

I am surprised none of the geeks here has suggested photos on paper. Proven to last for centuries, high quality media easily available, and very good error toleration. For films - film. Same qualities paper, just with one important snag, which I did encounter: it is highly flammable. Storage needs to be done carefully.

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