Once you have a plant cover, it starts to be self-reinforcing, as the plants already grown provide shadow cover for the next generation. The pioneering plants get replaced by other species later, once the local micro climate has changed, and then you get an even more complex and more stable ecosystem. Of course, this takes many decades to establish completely, but it might be that it is self-sustaining much earlier.

Biologists study this all the time. Spoil tips, abandoned crop fields, volcanic ash, or the charred remains of a bush fire, they are ideal research objects on how Nature reclaims those areas. And the time line is vastly different depending on the environment, between a few years, and centuries. Until an oak forest has naturally regrown and gets into balance, it takes about 1000 years.

In the U.S., "champagne" simply means sparkling wine, in other places, it means "wine grown and produced in the Champagne region". Same with Parmesan or Budweiser or something.

And there isn't even a clear cut difference between the two, and especially in German, where many food items have different names depending on the region (don't you ever trust a dictionary, because for many food items, there is no Standard German word), a vote like the one the European Parlament just did does not work. The famous "Berliner" (jelly donut) is a prime example, which is not called "Berliner" in Berlin itself, but a Pfannkuchen (pancake), while the pancake is called Eierkuchen (egg cake) here.

Grützwurst, Erbswurst, Bettwurst - all words using the German word for sausage (Wurst), but none of them is made primarily from meat or does even contain any meat at all, and the Bettwurst is not edible, but a bed accessoire. And Burger? How about Bitburger (a beer) and Burger (a bakery and a trademark for different types of bread)? Do they have to change names? What about Schnitzel (cutlet)? How do we call Rübenschnitzel (sugar beet pulp) and Holzschnitzel (wood chips) going into the future?

This was a vote where the main goal was to "own the Left", without any thought about the consequences.

The problem is that in German, it's not Hamburger Steak, it's Hamburger Beefsteak, something everyone in Hamburg would understand. In German, Steak means the meat, and Beefsteak means the patty - quite confusing for someone native to English, for whom "beef" means meat from a cow. But when the words were borrowed by the Germans, they moved their meaning.

After this long commercial users will have planned for a hardware refresh. Their discards will be a feast far larger than the potential Linux user market (burp!) as always. I consider it a friendly Linux user hardware subsidy.

Home Windows users will amble on as usual. Clueful users (the tiny few who perform their own installs) long ago figured out how to run W11 on unsupported hardware and how to multiboot and/or run VM if they want W10 for something.

W10 VMs run fine on Linux hosts.

Until 2009, no other device could play iTunes Store purchases, and there weren't a lot of other legal downloadable music stores. This was one factor for the iPod to iPhone progression. Another was that Google required cellular telephony support in all certified Android devices prior to sometime in the 2.3 "Gingerbread" cycle, which made it impossible to make a direct counterpart to the iPod touch.

Problem with your calculation is that it is already outdated. Germany right now is at 57.4% renewables for the whole year of 2025, and not just a good month. The worst month in Germany in 2024 was November with only 45.1% Renewables, but two month, February and April (yes! those two!) came in at more than 60% Renewables. The whole of 2024 finished at 55.8% Renewables for electricity production.

By the way, February 2025 was the worst so far at only 42.1% - completely different than February 2024. On the other hand, June 2025 broke the record with 73.4% Renewables, while all three, August, September and October 2025 so far are above 60% Renewables.

If you want a look at the numbers, here they are.

Here's the problem - the "increase" in cases led them to start blaming random stuff and throwing out all these bans.

If you change the definition now, you'll have a corresponding decrease that they'll say their actions caused and they'll take credit for.

If they don't have the critical thinking capacity the understand the increase in diagnoses, they also won't properly understand the decrease.

You can play Apple Music from the Music app on the phone. Unless I missed something, you can't play it from other apps on the phone. And the Music app can't play files written by libimobiledevice, only the music library. You need iTunes to send music to the phone in a form that the Music app can play.

The public (nearly all tech-illiterates, use is not literacy) are easily appealed to by manipulating their emotions which happens to be the purpose of art, secondary even to money laundering.

Artists have easy, low effort jobs and want to keep being paid to churn out kitsch images AI could vomit out at least as effectively at lower cost to the end user. There is nothing left to invent.

Many people cannot compete so they want free money to subsidize their increasingly outdated skills. There is nothing special or admirable about modern "art". That's why art regurgitators want free money to make up for their inability to compete.

Indeed. Most readers won't be ancient enough to remember stenographer pools, mechanical typewriters, and telegrams. They'll have seen video but that cannot convey lived experience. They won't have experienced the transition between manual machine tools and vastly mor capable CNC machining, but we all live in the outcomes.

Post-slop AI (which will take a while and whose improvement will not be uniform) like CNC machine tools will empower imagination like any effective tool. It will also be misused like every other tool because most of humanity are silly and cannot be otherwise.

That's not exactly right. Engineering is Applied Science. You don't have many scientific breakthroughs by engineers, because that's not what they are trained for. They are very good at combining things we already know into new technology. They are not very good at spotting where we don't know things. There are many similarities though. Both need a solid background in Mathematics, and a thorough overview of Physics as we know it right now, as it applies to their field of work, and many problems can be solved with both the engineering and the physics approach, but calling Physics "obsolete" because we have Engineering, is like calling R&D in a company "obsolete", because we have skilled craftsmen.

My roommate tried that patch with my help, and iTunes stopped being able to sync purchased music to her iPhone.

I researched online and found these limits:
- iTunes app for Windows uses a driver called Apple Mobile Device Service to sync to an iPhone, which (like other drivers) Wine cannot run
- libimobiledevice for Linux can sync files but cannot update the music library
- The Music app included with iOS can play only music from the music library and cannot import files
- VLC app can play music from files but cannot play rented music from her Apple Music family plan, making it impossible to mix the two in a playlist

Complete bullshit.

While this part is correct, the second

has nothing to do with the article at hand.

What you are describing is a genetic drift within a species, like the Peppered moth, caused by changing environmental conditions.

What the article is talking about is species disappearing completely, and the fact that it's the most colorful ones. The Peppered moth never disappeared. It even changed back to a majority of lighter colored specimens when industrial smoke no longer darkened the birch bark.