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Comment Re:What's the difference? (Score 1) 61

Humans have mass produced cows. Yes, it's natural that through genetic evolution cows would have evolved and farted out methane. Humans have copied and pasted cows infinitely to where the insignificant methane output is now actually a big deal because we're exponentially larger than when the original studies were done.

Cow farts are a non-zero, provable, part of climate change.

No, I'm not a vegetarian, I love me some steaks. I still have to admit that cow farts are bad.
The Military

Ukraine's Drone Enthusiasts Are Signing Up to Repel Russian Forces (apnews.com) 92

"In better times, Ukrainian drone enthusiasts flew their gadgets into the sky to photograph weddings, fertilize soybean fields or race other drones for fun," writes the Associated Press.

"Now some are risking their lives by forming a volunteer drone force to help their country repel the Russian invasion." "Kyiv needs you and your drone at this moment of fury!" read a Facebook post late last week from the Ukrainian military, calling for citizens to donate hobby drones and to volunteer as experienced pilots to operate them. One entrepreneur who runs a retail store selling consumer drones in the capital said its entire stock of some 300 drones made by Chinese company DJI has been dispersed for the cause. Others are working to get more drones across the border from friends and colleagues in Poland and elsewhere in Europe....

Unlike the much larger Turkish-built combat drones that Ukraine has in its arsenal, off-the-shelf consumer drones aren't much use as weapons — but they can be powerful reconnaissance tools. Civilians have been using the aerial cameras to track Russian convoys and then relay the images and GPS coordinates to Ukrainian troops. Some of the machines have night vision and heat sensors.... They can also be used to assist search-and-rescue operations....

Small civilian drones are no match against Russian combat power but will likely become increasingly important in a protracted war...

The Associated Press points out there's now more than 15,000 members in one drone-focused Facebook group "who have been trading tips about how to assist Ukrainian troops." The operations chief for a Kyiv-based drone company tells the Associated Press, "Now in Ukraine no one remains indifferent. Everyone does what they can."

Comment Re:Trees? (Score 1) 188

They specifically mentioned trees in the article. Way better than nothing, but mineralizing carbon into rock is permanent, instead of trees that can die and rot/catch fire and release carbon back into the atmosphere.

Comment Re:No chance of succeeding (Score 4, Insightful) 226

They were 60 seconds from getting into the Senate floor while Senators were still inside the room. If Eugene Goodman hadn't led them away, the day would have had a much worse outcome. This isn't even speculation, in the video where he confronts part of the mob and leads them away, you literally see the door to the Senate floor is wide open. It wasn't even sealed until after the mob had been led away. If the traitors had made it in, there would have been multiple more kills from Capitol police mowing down anyone that entered the room, or they would have stormed in fast enough to overcome the police and Senators would have been straight up murdered.

An actual change of government probably wouldn't have happened, but the day was incredibly close to being way worse than it already was.

Comment Re:Fighting the future (Score 2) 285

You are assuming that people that don't normally deal with tech will suddenly deal with tech like an experienced user.

In reality, those people will either wait until a dvd or bluray is available, or (ideally but not going to happen) the ISPs will string out fiber and appropriate bandwidth.

Comment Putin must wake up every morning and laugh (Score 3, Insightful) 29

With a minimum amount of effort, he's completely destroyed the US. It'll be 50 years before we can even start to get our soft power back, and the lower half of the average American intelligence has been mobilized to protest anything that someone can throw up a crudely designed webpage for and make some Facebook posts about.

Comment I hope you watched the commercial in the article (Score 5, Interesting) 107

Because fucking LMAO it didn't show a foldable phone at all. Aside from the women in lingerie, all we saw was a book that was covered in shiny gold coloring. The model specifically moved in ways so that they never show the screen at all.

This is a cash grab and/or complete vaporware. Anyone who prepurchases this is going to lose their money.

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