The calendar transition is necessary to understand to put Galileo's bullshit into a proper historical context.

A fake version of history surrounding "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium" is the basis for the anime "Orb".

Catholic priests, monks, or nuns also invented or discovered genetics, the primordial atom (Which was written off as an effort to invent creation/intelligent design as "the Big Bang"), the pendulum clock, the electric motor, the electric battery, and for some reason the bulletproof vest, among dozens of other inventions that make life possible.

Ok fine, while the Church was at it, we cured Malaria saving millions of lives, we bred a bee that is resistant to colony collapse disorder (CCD), we invented champagne (the real Dom Perignon was a monk), the calendar, the clock, the steam powered automobile (which was the first automobile, a vehicle that could move under it's own power), the internal combustion engine, broadcast radio that could carry human voice (Marconi's could only do morse code), and the megaphone which ideally should be used to shout at stupid people who claim Galileo invented heliocentrism.

Galileo didn't discover heliocentrism.

1517 Martin Luther publishes the Ninety-Five Theses. The Protestant Reformation begins decades before Galileo’s conflict and reshapes the religious and political environment of Europe.

1543 Nicolaus Copernicus, a canon lawyer and church administrator, publishes De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres).
This work introduces the mathematical heliocentric model. The term “Copernican system” comes from this publication.
Copernicus dies the same year.

1570s Church scholars recognize that the Julian calendar has drifted relative to the equinox. Because Easter depends on the lunar cycle relative to the equinox, the error creates theological and practical problems.

1578–1580 Pope Gregory XIII commissions astronomical work to correct the calendar and builds the Vatican observatory tower, often called the Gregorian Tower or Tower of the Winds, to support observations. The tower still exists today.

1582 The Gregorian calendar is promulgated after roughly a decade of astronomical and mathematical work led largely by Jesuit scholars such as Christopher Clavius.
This reform demonstrates that the Catholic Church was actively funding and conducting astronomical research decades before Galileo.

1609–1610 Galileo uses the telescope for astronomical observation and publishes Sidereus Nuncius.
He observes the moons of Jupiter and the phases of Venus, discoveries that undermine the traditional Ptolemaic geocentric system but do not uniquely prove heliocentrism over competing models such as Tycho Brahe’s system.

1616 The Roman Inquisition rules that heliocentrism may not be taught as physical truth.
Copernicus’s book is not banned outright but is suspended until minor corrections are made.
Galileo is instructed not to defend heliocentrism as fact.

1623 Cardinal Maffeo Barberini, who had previously been sympathetic to Galileo, becomes Pope Urban VIII. Galileo initially believes he has papal support.

1632 Galileo publishes Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo (Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems).
The book is written as a Socratic dialogue comparing geocentrism and heliocentrism and clearly favors the Copernican position.
The work cites Copernicus directly and does not claim to invent heliocentrism.
                Arguments associated with the Pope appear in the mouth of the character Simplicio, which is perceived in Rome as insulting. (calling the pope "simple" or stupid)
                Galileo claims proof based on his theory of tides, which is incorrect.
                He rejects Kepler’s already published elliptical orbits and insists on circular orbits.

At this time, heliocentrism was still debated scientifically. Many astronomers preferred the Tychonic system because stellar parallax had not yet been observed.

1633 Galileo is tried by the Roman Inquisition and found “vehemently suspected of heresy.”
He is required to recant and is sentenced to house arrest for the remainder of his life.

Isn't exposing young influenceable minds to violent militarism like this "Army" inappropriate? :)

Wait until you find out what the coca in coca cola was.

Just think 100 years ago there were kids running to the local soda fountain to get their hit of Colombian Nose Powder and no one cared. This is why most soda fountains were in drug stores. They were dispensing cocaine.

85 years ago your grandparents (or now great grandparents) were running around Europe killing NAZIs and blasted out of their minds on Pervitin... YES IT IS CRYSTAL METHAMPHETAMINE! How did you guess?

Got a cold? Great! I have just the decongestant for you! It's orally administered heroin! Made by Eli Lilly Co. They even had coupons during cold and flu season to get your heroin at a discount!

Why is Conservatism bad? Or Communism? Or Fascism? Or whatever MAGA is this week?

I don't want to hear about any company's latest enlightened hypocrisy on politics. If you make shoes, STFU and make shoes. If you make coffee, STFU and make coffee. If you make guns, STFU and make guns. If you are stupid enough to mistake your corporation for your customer's moral compass you shouldn't be running a corporation, and you are probably losing money for your shareholders.

As for Starbucks, the problem is they aren't liberal. They support all the things! until they have to actually pay their employees a competitive wage, or actually be socially responsible. Running advertisements on waste reduction, fair trade, and global warming to tell you how important they think it is is WAAAAY cheaper than actually doing it. If a company is telling you they are doing ANYTHING other than maximizing profits for their shareholders (which is what they are supposed to be doing), check your wallet because they're probably trying to rob you.

Gasoline isn't just short chain hydrocarbons. There are detergents, and other chemicals added to keep engines clean and keep exhaust clean. I assume having read the article that this doesn't come from thin air. What will the legislative or regulatory impacts on generating gasoline from thin air going to be? As someone with a PHEV this would probably completely serve my gasoline needs.

Why are we still listening to a guy who was paling around with Epstein, had a CENTRAL role in Epstein donating huge amounts of money to MIT Labs, and claiming PUBLICLY that forcing a child to have sex doesn't hurt the child?

Honestly, Slashdot... this entire post should be deleted. It's gross.

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/17...

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Porsche pushed the EV to the exclusion of almost everything else.

The company suffered huge losses. https://www.reuters.com/busine...

The CEO is gone: https://rennlist.com/articles/...

The new CEO is now trying to unwind the EV mess. https://www.reuters.com/busine...

So to answer your question, Porsche didnâ(TM)t sell more EVâ(TM)s they sold less of everything else. Now they and their parent company, VAG, are broke.

If you want to sell people on your "save the world through misery" bull***t, it has not worked, and it will not work. It has been rejected by normal people every time it has been proposed, if not at the point of proposal, at the point where people realized the damage that those policies were going to do.

Even the EU is rolling back the ban on ICE powered cars in 2035. Why? First people can't afford them, and the infrastructure to charge them is lagging far behind. Second, China is passing even Tesla in ev production, and while the EU hates Elon Musk, China terrifies them.

If you want to save the world find a way to make the planes produce less CO2. Find alternative lower carbon fuels, and mass produce them for aviation. If you think I'm spending 6-8 hours in cattle class to save the world, turns out, no. I will personally waterboard a volcano with a tanker truck of gasoline before I do that. The reality you need to face is so will everyone else who has a choice. No one will deliberately choose to be miserable.

I am curious if this is the correct metric to use to judge bias. I would love to see every question pulled from the transcript and checked for bias to see if this is simply a function of a left leaning crowd wanting to question right leaning journalists. It seems to me that the behavior of the moderator and the audience is a more sure gauge of bias than that of the guests, but perhaps I'm mistaken.

"U.S. authorities have secretly..." If it's on Slashdot it's not a secret. The US Government wants everyone to know these trackers are there.

wow a terrible platform full of terrible people doxing and targeting men got targeted and doxed. How on earth did that happen?

Oooh my, they're AAAALL Big Chungus sized and fugly af too.

Ooh, and if you leave your database open to the internet... that's not cybercrime, that's you being stupid

"Karma!" -- Fernando Alonso.

I only used that as a lead-in to the ceiling cat joke. Politics on slashdot are waaay too dangerous.

Absolutely no one should be trusted with this. The biggest problem with ever-centralizing government is that it is rapidly killing whatever privacy is left.
Democrats keep screaming that Republicans want to create a government small enough that it fits in your bedroom. Any sane person would realize the government is already there watching... the government is ceiling cat.