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Comment Re:People that are otherwise rational (Score 3, Insightful) 121

Nonsense. Meat is the healthiest food on the planet.

If you factor the emissions associates with treating and "curing" metabolic conditions, the loss of productivity, sick-leaves, early deaths and so on brought up by overeating carbs and unsaturated fats, the opposite picture emerges. The anti-meat nonsense is pure ideology, greed and global politics combined. The opposite of the truth.

If you value the environment and like to minimize our impact on it, eat meat.

70 percent of the land mass of the planet is covered by grass. The only thing you can do with it, without intensive farming, requiring massive amounts of fossil fuesl, fertilizers and so on......is grazing animals. So, when you cut down the forests to plant palm trees to get palm oil to adulterate milk products with the claim that that makes it healthier (!?!?!?!) with it and make people sick and then you blame it on animal husbandry, you are so full of it that it leaks through your ears. I can give thousands of such examples.

Comment Re:What damages? (Score 1) 66

There are errors in some of the lyrics on these sites that are replicated everywhere. That is, you cannot find the lyrics without the errors. Anywhere....except if you have a booklet that came with the CD, I guess..

Just one example that I encountered recently. In the soundtrack of the film "Arizona dream", there is a number titled "TV screen". A line in the lyrics says "You are the target for the stars and the products on the TV screen". I hear it very clearly....Every lyrics site I checked had "planets" instead of "products".

See here for example
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgenius.com%2FGoran-brego...

Can some good soul (native English speaker) listen to the song and tell me did I mishear? The whole world says "planets" but I insists the word is products. Also, products is much more in line with the the lyrics. The stars that sells us products on the TV screen.....planets just does not fit IMO.

Submission + - The world's tallest chip defies the limits of computing: goodbye to Moore's Law? (elpais.com) 1

dbialac writes: Building chips up instead of smaller may be a solution to the problems encountered with modern semiconductors.

Xiaohang Li, a researcher at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia, and his team have designed a chip with 41 vertical layers of semiconductors and insulating materials, approximately ten times higher than any previously manufactured chip. The work, recently published in the journal Nature Electronics, not only represents a technical milestone but also opens the door to a new generation of flexible, efficient, and sustainable electronic devices. “Having six or more layers of transistors stacked vertically allows us to increase circuit density without making the devices smaller laterally,” Li explains. “With six layers, we can integrate 600% more logic functions in the same area than with a single layer, achieving higher performance and lower power consumption.”


Comment What happeneed to the Deccan traps? (Score 1) 39

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgeosciences.princeton....

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://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DpjoQdz0nxf4) 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.

Comment Re:Aging occurs in stages (Score 1) 57

Same here.

However, fixing food, sleep and exercise has been tremendous! At the moment, at 52, the physiological clock is back in so many ways. Even eyesight improved a little bit.
Energy levels, fat content, brain power, muscle strength, explosiveness and elasticity, heart, lungs, skin....I have that better now than when I was 40. Sure, there is no ultimate win against time, but the divergence between people as they age is so enormous as to be baffling to me for the longest time. I always thought genetics is the major factor in the divergence, not lifestyle. I was very wrong....

Comment Re:Get a clue (Score 1) 135

And the radioactive materials that are on Earth, they do what? They decay, releasing heat! Or do they start decaying only after we put them in a plant?!? All of that heat will be released. Taking a minuscule part of the material, generating electricity from that heat and then using the energy to do work (which of course is not 100% efficient but nothing is) DECREASES the heat load of the planet. Just like what you claim about solar. Radioactive materials decay releasing heat all the time; they are an ever present source of heat, just like the sun. Converting part of that heat into work HELPS!

You are like the fifth "nerd" here that keeps bang about heat load like a damn parrots while obviously being supremely ignorant about it. Are you sure you are not that one guy, posting anonymously?

Dude, to top it over, they say the heat from the radioactive decay is what keeps the stuff below our feet liquid and thus creates the protective magnetic shield around the planet! Without radioactive decay there is no life, brother!

Comment Re:Good for France (Score 1) 182

" But, you know, Europe can build things too."

No, we cannot. Not with prohibitively high energy costs, ever increasing poverty and migrants who are net negative to society and economy. The energy is outsourced to US and the Gulf and manufacturing is going to US and China. The emissions are therefore, increasing since these states have much more dirty manufacturing.

Here, if you a person that is willing to account for physics, chemistry, material science, economy, finance and common sense, listen to this:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...

I will comment a bit below for the benefit of the possibly normal person that might read this, rather than the usual elitist, pseudo-intellectuals with humanity worse than a plague ridden rat that inhabit /. today. If you think I am using inflammatory language I can easily prove the point. Most of you here are Marxists and communists apologists. Apologists for the most murderous political ideology of all times, 40 countries failed in exactly the same manner, 10 times higher body count than the next contender. QED.

Anyway, energy! Tell me again how Britain's only chance of wealth generation is net Zero. The biggest scam ever! And the speaker is right. The US started and perpetuated this nonsense, forced it down via the humongous propaganda machine (all the bills are out now). But then they bailed out, while Europe continues on a self destruction path that does nothing at all for the environment; in fact it is making it worse as stated above.

When I came to West Europe 22 years ago the GDP of the EU was comparable to the US. Now it is half. When I came, the Euro traded 1.5, 1.6 even 1.7 to one dollar. It is one to one now. When I came, the average income of a west European was 0.8 to 0.9 of the US. Now it is 0.6 and falling. Fast.
Tell me gain about the wonderfully progressive and Eco-friendly Chinese with their 1200 coal plants and counting.Tell the poor again, particularly in the East part of the EU that the answer to the double digit inflation is to buy an electric car! The un-elected, undemocratic EU elite totalitarians are, at the moment, the most despised group of westerners. My mom is cursing them and she has cursed like 3 times in her entire life!

Tangent on the war in Ukraine, but part of the whole scam:

What scammers the Americans are! I hope Trump manages to destroy all of that nonsense of endless proxi wars and interference in ALL other countries affairs America has been doing since forever.For the purpose of national security, of course!
He will have to fight both parties for that.....however, how does he have the eyes to negotiate peace, provided that the US is a major reason for that war by endlessly impinging on the national security of Russia and instigating a coup in Ukraine.The Russians are imperialist cocksuckers, cruel drunkards and in my state we know very well how trustworthy they are. However, Americans, how would you react to Mexico entering an alliance with BRIKS and installing nuclear arms facilities on the border with US? Trump is securing a whole Earth's hemisphere to protect America (that is what the Greenland brouhaha is about)! You were willing and would have started WW3 with nukes over the Cuban crisis, remember? And do you by any chance remember that the USSR threatened to install missiles in Cuba AFTER the US installed missiles in Turkey, on the doorstep of the Warsaw pact? You were the provocateurs and warmongers in that scenario, remember?

So the (US) West is also guilty for that war. Big time. Bi-partizan effort with the Democrats being worst offender this time around. And now an American VP is saying that the Europeans are the warmongers, while Europeans who had to be dragged kicking and screaming to help against Russia in the beginning are saying that there should be no peace and Trump is betraying the West to Putin? WTF!

So, behind close doors, Putin knows that he WON that proxy war, or at least made it unwinnable and unsustainable for the US and the West. So he will get the east parts where the Russians were actually pushed and oppressed according to the oft-cited (but not for this, no Sir!) Helsinki committee of human rights And the chairwoman was forced to resign for pointing out that yes, Zelensky is dictatorial and has routinely committed violations of human rights against Russians in Ukraine. And Putin will keep Crimea. And anyone who is claiming that Ukraine would have won and pushed the Russians out if only they had been given more money and weapons is a liar. The only thing that would have happened is more death and destruction until there is nothing left of Ukraine. Sacrificed on the altar of a US and NATO led proxy war.

Comment Of course! (Score 1, Informative) 72

Electricity too expensive to train AI models? Ban them, citing yet another crop of woke nonsense.

Europe is a soft totalitarian mega state now. The un-ellected Brussels sprouts who stagnated the economy for almost 20 years are doubling down. But ask yourselves you smug elitists, why does anyone care what EU thinks and does? Ah, because it is economically powerful...for NOW! Do these morons realize that their smug circle jurk of " global importance" is fast disappearing as Europe paints itself into irrelevance? That the only reason they matter is because of what was built and created by those before them?

Any politician in power in the entire EU in the last 25 years should be in jail.

Comment Re:Why are they oligarchs now but not last year? (Score 1, Troll) 170

"They had a lot less influence over the sitting President a year ago"

Brilliant insight!

Of course you are correct! It wasn't that they had more control over the president. Instead the authorities exercised control over them in a blatant, criminal violation of the First Amendment. The useful idiots (upper middle class westerners; the elite) had no problem with that, since it was their deranged propaganda. My goodness, for a decade Tweeter was running the entire West. Every gaslighting propaganda BS from the mainstream was "backed" by twitter posts and twitter storms. The deranged determined the Holy Truths.

And now, all of a sudden it is such a big problem that power listens to money? 150 billionaires declared their support during the last elections. 80 for Harris, 50 for Trump. Harris outspend Trump 5 times over; first presidential campaign to exceed 1 billion US dollars. Academia, "journalists", wall street, all the tech bros sans Elon, all of these were behind Harris. The rich and powerful white men were overwhelmingly behind Harris.

But none of that was a problem, eh comrade? When people said "do not give extra powers to the president because tomorrow another one will come that is not from your party and then you are screwed" did you listen? No. Cheerfully and with gleeful malice you were perfectly happy to be in the hands of evil corporations and totalitarian minded politicians as long as they sang " your tune".

And then , you people have the gall to claim that you support democracy and choice. Pretend that you are for the little people, for the environment! What a sham!

Comment Re:Oh goody, more bad science reporting (Score -1, Troll) 167

I see the contrary; the article is more honest reporting than everything in the last decade or so. You see, every difference is a result of an evil social construct run by (white) men. I am not trolling; this is the official position about everything in our society. At every level.

Any other explanation, particularity one that is rooted in (evolutionary) biology is cancelled. Often with violence. Anywhere in the western academia including the biology departments.

In fact, I fully expected the article to claim that the evil men were guilty for it. So I was pleasantly surprised. But the well meaning public, like yourself, is somewhat baffled that any difference between people are not the result of evil white men. Because you have been told lies for so long...

You see, when you have, for example, the Norwegian institute of fertility totally baffled and unable to explain the disastrous birth rates in Norway, this is the height of ridiculousness! A fertility institute that does not consider biology in their explanatory model?! And when the scholars point it out, they are cancelled and called names. Everything that happens there with fertility is perfectly explainable and expected in light of evolutionary biology. But if you model says the only reason is "society", " the patriarchy" and so on, your model will not predict the future correctly and when that future manifests itself you are caught "baffled and confused".

See this:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...

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