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Comment 4Chan has been dead for a while (Score 1) 59

They had been making u wait 900 seconds to post. Unless you gave them an email address.

Who's got that much time on their hands? Who doesn't have to worry about having their privacy violated because they are the violators?

The database that got exposed showed that there's only 1 country in the world that matches this criteria. Then it become clear why 4chan had so much bbc and gore posting.

Comment Trees Already do this Sustainably (Score 1) 33

Why not just plant trees? In fact, forests are growing and trees are spreading due to increasing CO2.

Plant some trees. Turn those trees a few years into houses, books and furniture. The carbon has been successful 'sequestered'.

Or just let the trees grow and grow some more soaking up more CO2 as they do. As the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere decreases, the trees will grow less, so it's natural and self-balancing.

Comment Re:Sure it has (Score 0) 67

There is no climate crisis. And if there was, you'd plant more trees. Except that plants grow faster all by themselves and trees spread their seeds naturally. If there was a 'climate crisis' caused by excessive CO2, it would take care of itself quickly enough.

Why waste time and energy on CO2 instead of serious environmental problems like plastic pollution, and forever chemicals?

That shows the real problem with the climate alarmists and their real agenda. They want to draw attention away real problems caused by the industry and caused by consumerism.

Climate alarmists are anti-environment.

Submission + - Plato's final hours recounted in scroll found in Vesuvius ash (theguardian.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Newly deciphered passages from a papyrus scroll that was buried beneath layers of volcanic ash after the AD79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius may have shed light on the final hours of Plato, a key figure in the history of western philosophy.

In a groundbreaking discovery, the ancient scroll was found to contain a previously unknown narrative detailing how the Greek philosopher spent his last evening, describing how he listened to music played on a flute by a Thracian slave girl.

Despite battling a fever and being on the brink of death, Plato – who was known as a disciple of Socrates and a mentor to Aristotle, and who died in Athens around 348BC – retained enough lucidity to critique the musician for her lack of rhythm, the account suggests.

The decoded words also suggest Plato’s burial site was in his designated garden in the Academy of Athens, the world’s first university, which he founded, adjacent to the Mouseion. Previously, it was only known in general terms that he was buried within the academy.

The text also reveals that Plato was sold into slavery on the island of Aegina, possibly as early as 404BC when the Spartans conquered the island, or alternatively in 399BC, shortly after Socrates’ passing.

“Until now it was believed that Plato was sold into slavery in 387BC during his sojourn in Sicily at the court of Dionysius I of Syracuse,” Ranocchia said. “For the first time, we have been able to read sequences of hidden letters from the papyri that were enfolded within multiple layers, stuck to each other over the centuries, through an unrolling process using a mechanical technique that disrupted whole fragments of text.”

Ranocchia said the ability to identify these layers and virtually realign them to their original positions to restore textual continuity represented a significant advance in terms of gathering vast amounts of information.

Submission + - Russia arrests former world chess champion Garry Kasparov (mirror.co.uk)

ArchieBunker writes: Russia has arrested Garry Kasparov and charged him in connection with foreign agent and terrorist charges — much to the former chess champion's amusement.

The city court in Syktyvkar, the largest city in Russia's northwestern Komi region, announced it had arrested the grandmaster in absentia alongside former Russian parliament member Gennady Gudkov, Ivan Tyutrin co-founder of the Free Russia Forum — which has been designated as an 'undesirable organisation in the country — as well as former environmental activist Yevgenia Chirikova.

All were charged with setting up a terrorist society, according to the court's press service. As all were charged in their absence, none were physically held in custody.

"The court has selected a measure of restraint for Garry Kasparov, Gennady Gudkov, Yevgenia Chirikova and Ivan Tyutrin, charged with establishing and heading a terrorist society, funding terrorist activity and justifying it publicly," the court said according to Kremlin-backed outlet TASS. "The court granted the investigative bodies’ motions to remand Kasparov, Gudkov, Chirikova and Tyutrin in custody as a measure of restraint."

Kasparov responded to the court's bizarre arrest statement in an April 24 post shared on X, formerly Twitter. "In absentia is definitely the best way I've ever been arrested," he said. "Good company, as well. I'm sure we're all equally honoured that Putin's terror state is spending time on this that would otherwise go persecuting and murdering."

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