That's not how evolution works.

Yes, life can adapt to higher temperatures, but as the article shows it's not instantaneous as the populations are crashing.

But the problem is the whole point of climate change is the climate won't stop changing. Even if they adapt to the current increase it will take time to do that, and for the populations to recover. But before that happens we'll be looking at another degree and the populations will crash again.

The longer the temperatures keep increasing the more the populations will decline and closer we get to the point of whole ecosystems collapsing.

I always figured a big part of that was expanded use of agricultural pesticides. The thing that gets me with this story is it's inside the nature preserves, so the answer isn't local pesticide use, it's something much larger.

Which does feel weirdly foreboding. I don't think most bugs have a particularly large range. Give them enough local plant life and they should thrive.

And the nature preserves should be pretty free of pesticides, meaning something else, like climate change, is causing the issues.

Where are you getting this from?

The support for reunification is 12%, not 40%. And there's no more "independent provinces" in China, you think the Taiwanese haven't noticed what happened to Hong Kong?

And China would not see it as "randomly invading a country", it would be retaking a rebel Chinese province. And China has been prepping to retake Taiwan for years, they even built a replica of the neighbourhood around Taiwan's Presidential palace to train their troops.

That's kind of my point. If China knew for sure that the US wouldn't intervene they'd invade Taiwan tomorrow. And if China launched a surprise invasion and conquered Taiwan in hours the US wants the option of backing down without a major loss of face.

So strategic ambiguity (plus the US doesn't want to formally ally with what China considers a rebel province) is the policy.

But if China invades Trump might still react, and that might escalate. So his non-backing of Ukraine makes the situation with China very dangerous.

Ukraine was a friendly nation moving closer to the west (and the US in particular). Not a formal ally, but it had formal interactions with NATO.

I don't think Taiwan is much different. They cooperate, but there's no formal obligation for the US to defend them and the official policy is ambiguity.

And this is one of those cases where I think the "simpleminded" analysis is the right one. Even dictators need to justify their actions to their populace, meaning international politics can be very low bandwidth. The rule "no wars of conquest" was a very simple and effective one. In Russia's eyes this got sullied by the NATO intervention in Yugoslavia. And more likely by the US invasion of Iraq.

If Bush doesn't go into Iraq, and if he played the NATO expansion into Eastern Europe better, I'm not sure Georgia or Ukraine get invaded.

As to Taiwan, again, simplemindedness wins. How far the US goes to defend Taiwan depends heavily on political expectations. And if Ukraine demonstrates that the US has low resolve for defending a friendly nation then China will be encouraged to act, and that expectation of low resolve makes it harder for the US to sustain a defence of Taiwan.

That's why Biden ignored "strategic ambiguity" and said the US would defend Taiwan in 2022. To discourage the Chinese from deciding to invade during the distraction of Ukraine.

Giving a Nuclear armed nation an open pass to invade neighbours and launch wars of conquest inevitably leads to escalation. And that leads to Nuclear war.

The best way prevent Nuclear war is to arm and support Ukraine until Russia with draws, ideally back to the 2014 borders.

The best way to cause Nuclear war? Cut off Ukraine, let Russia take the whole lot. Then China realizes the US's resolve in particular is weak, so they take the one-in-a-lifetime opportunity to invade Taiwan. And that's your shortest path to Nuclear war.

Problem solved.

> the CG actors will be indistinguishable from human actors.

Given that this video is already 5 years old, The Deeper Metrics of Christmas, Deep Fake Poem by Impressionist Jim Meskimen, I'd say we are already past the uncanny valley.

I could see a day that SteamOS runs natively on PCs. Linux under the hood, Proton on top to run Windows games.

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Path of Exile 2 is a boring, tedious, Ruthless Souls-lite grindfest.

So 347.59 nautical miles (wtf?!?) or 2.08620849876e-11 parsecs.

It isn't that hard to solve a 3x3x3 Rubik's cube. It just takes some practice and some algorithms.

Technically you only need to learn a single algorithm: R U R' U'.

But it is best to learn at least T-Perm and Ja-Perm.

Alternatively, there is also the Old Pochman Method for solving a cube blindfolded:

For corners
* Altered Y Permutation: (R U' R' U') R U R' F' (R U R' U') R' F R

For Edges
* J Permutation: (R U R' F') (R U R' U') R' F R2 (U' R' U')
* T Permutation: (R U R' U') R' F R2 (U' R' U' R) U R' F'

> Microsoft Natural Keyboard Elite.

> I don't understand why more people don't use ergonomic keyboards.

Is that the one with the shitty diamond cursor keys? Yeah, that one was utter garbage.

Most ergonomic keyboards SUCK for multiple reasons:

* Touch quality is EXTREMELY subjective.
* The separation of left and right isn't far enough apart.
* They don't have enough of an "up" slope. This should be near vertical.
* Because the middle row T, Y, G, H, B, N, keys aren't doubled up.
* They suck for gaming -- I don't want TWO keyboards -- I just one one that is GOOD in both work and play.
* Good ones tend to be expensive as hell.
* They tend to fuck up the glyph font to be damn near unreadable.
* They tend to be this wireless shit.
* They tend to have limited switch options. Can I get it Brown MX? Cherry MX?
* If I am going to pay a fortune for it, can I get custom key caps?

My Das Keyboard 4 Professional while not ergonomic has beautiful Chery MX switches.

... and the occasional decent post.

Sadly the site has been shit for decades.

* ZERO CONTEXT for why something is up-voted or down-voted
* Full of redditards -- people who downvote you just for asking a question
* God forbid you have a _different_ opinion
* Full of echo chambers
* The larger the sub the large the ego of mods with a stick up their ass
* With Google dropping usenet it sadly is the most popular place to go for certain topics
* Under-paid, over-worked mods.

The smaller the sub, usually the better the S:N ratio is.

The editors have been next to fucking useless for decades.

Oblg. You had ONE job!