Located 10709 results from search term 'climate change'
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Commented in Mozilla CEO quits, org pivots, but what about Firefox?
You're absolutely right that it is worrisome, but here's a page to save the day!! Some of the Firefox-forks that are presented there are more than worth looking at or even change entirely to.
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Commented in AI and Employment: Is Universal Basic Income the Answer?
The key is balance. We want to make sure that none of our brothers and sisters are left behind, that they have food, shelter, clothing and a change to enjoy life. But we want to ensure that at every income level people retain the incentive to work to earn more, because that work is what will make society continue to function and the income continue to flow.
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Commented in Amazon is a ripoff
So true...Will anything change? Don't hold your breath.
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Commented in New study delves into the motivations behind climate action in the United States
Understanding the motivations behind climate action in the US is crucial. This study could provide valuable insights into what drives individuals and policymakers to address climate change.
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Commented in Time is running out on the Climate Clock
Of course the only way to stop climate change is to pay more carbon tax. I'm not a big fan of this religion.
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Commented in Millions of Reddit users face a blackout over pricing revolt
A 48 hour blackout is just a hissy fit, it won't change anything. If they stayed dark until u/spez actually changed the policy, it might make a difference.
11 year user, and I'm about done too.
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Commented in Amazon beats expectations in first quarter earnings as shares jump 11%
As of my knowledge cutoff date of September 2021, Amazon had a total of 500 million outstanding shares. However, the number of outstanding shares can change over time due to factors such as share buybacks or issuance of new shares.
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Commented in The TikTok Ban Isn’t About National Security. It’s About the Global Dominance of US Tech.
Instead of bullying and beating someone who does better [in tech], just so you have the illusion you are better, you could also improve yourself in order to keep up or even surpass. But that takes intellectual and creative effort. In a way the USA is just a lazy and fattening country, led by old lazy farts who think the world's never gonna change and that people never will see through that warmongering and polluting façade of a, in essence, one party democracy (given that it still is a democracy). It's just sad to see a minority of the world population trying to enforce itself and its' hollow ideas to the rest of the world.
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Commented in New French law will blanket parking lots with solar panels
There is currently no law in France requiring solar panels to be built above most parking lots. However, France has set a goal to significantly increase its use of renewable energy, including solar power, in order to combat climate change. The French government has implemented a number of policies and initiatives aimed at promoting the development and use of renewable energy sources, such as tax incentives, grants, and subsidies. Additionally, there have been efforts to increase the installation of solar panels on residential and commercial buildings, as well as large-scale solar power projects.
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Commented in Sleep Simulation: The Future of Sleep?
What I get from the article is mostly: less hours of sleep, is more hours of "being productive", as in: more hours of (wage) slave labor. I refuse to trade my hours of dreaming, resting and enjoying the best part of my life for some underpaying, high earning boss. Fuck. That. Shit.
Being more connected to our technology: shove that where the sun doesn't shine.
Then this:Sleeping is a big part of our lives, and it’s no secret that the less we sleep, the shorter our lifespan would be. But if we could find a way to reduce the amount of sleep we need, it would stand to reason that our lifespans would increase as a result.
Am I the only one who sees the utter bullshit of that quote? First stating a truth that if we sleep less our lifespan reduces and right after that trying to state that if "we" reduce our hours of sleep we'll increase our lifespan.
I admire the effort of sounding all utopian, but this pure bullcrap of an article tries to make us believe that we need to be more productive. Work work work work work, till you drop dead. In this world of overproduction, unequal divided resources, depression as one of the main diseases and also thanks to all that producing a more and more polluted world with a climate about to go haywire, yeah, let's sleep less and produce some more of that unneeded and unwanted shit.
Anyways, it's always nice to read that this kind of propaganda tries to manipulate us towards a dystopian world masquerading it as some sort of paradise.
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Commented in Greta Thunberg on the climate delusion: ‘We’ve been greenwashed out of our senses. It’s time to stand our ground’
The SnapZu-servers allow for reposts nowadays? I posted this same article half a day prior to this post.
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Commented in Scientists Find a New Coronavirus in Bats That Is Resistant to Current Vaccines
If TWIV does a program on this,I'll post the link.
“We don’t want to scare anybody and say this is a completely vaccine-resistant virus,” Letko says. “But it is concerning that there are viruses circulating in nature that have these properties—they can bind to human receptors and are not so neutralized by current vaccine responses.”
The good news is that Letko’s studies show that, like the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, Khosta-2 does not seem to have genes that would suggest it could cause serious disease in people. But that could change if Khosta-2 starts circulating more widely and mixing with genes from SARS-CoV-2. “
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Commented in Insurers force change on police departments long resistant to it
John Chasnoff, a local activist who fought for years to get St. Ann to retool its chase policy, said he is dismayed that the catalyst for change was money — not the injuries to bystanders.
This says so much about US policing.
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Commented in Physicists Just Entangled A Pair of Atomic Clocks Six Feet Apart
That's a good question, but then another one comes up: our idea of time is based on our seasons, the sun, the moon and how we divide our planet in timezones. The civilisations two million lightyears away may have a completely different concept of time or even none at all (since time is an illusion and top most a description of change). In that light, the answer would be no or probably not. So, is time more contextual than a fact?
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Commented in Will Europe Force a Facebook Blackout?
I don't see a problem here....! Facebook seems like a minefield of misinformation. I've never used it and I've been just fine without it. If Europe forces a blackout of Facebook maybe that will make Facebook rethink its privacy policies? Then again, Facebook has continued to screw with people's data even after the Mueller investigation, after all the misinformation, etc etc so it probably will never change its ways. Eventually I think people might stop using it, I don't know any young people who are on it.
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Commented in Today Is 'Overshoot Day', And That's Not a Good Thing
Impo,nothing will change till there is a massive die off of humanity.
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Commented in From a stellar nursery to a cosmic car crash: Zoom in on the James Webb images
And it is just the beginning. I think in a few years time, this telescope will have changed significant parts of astrophysics. And therefor even change our perception of reality, for instance they were wrong about the bigbang, like it never happened and it was just an assumption with mostly circumstantial evidence, so there is a story of "how it all started" (and served very handy the doctrines of the Vatican )?
Or that dark matter is just an excuse for something unexplainable? You know, those kind of things. :-)
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Commented in I’m nearly 60. Here’s what I’ve learned about growing old
I never thought I'd change the world...I'm donating my body to science,no funeral,no nothing. I'm just another brick in the wall,to quote Pink Floyd.
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Commented in Everything Elon Musk wants to change about Twitter
He forgot one change: deleting it all together.
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Commented in Facebook’s Playbook to Beat Competitors Has Had to Change With TikTok
It is a crappy attitude,but they won't change.
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Commented in Apple Made an Additional $6.5 Billion USD by No Longer Providing Accessories With New iPhones
This is so true..What's even more pathetic about your observation,is so many people do not even know,much less care that they are being screwed over. Once an OS is on my box,I see it as mine. No one micromanages me,no one forces me to use a certain browser and no one has the right to keep my ad blocker or anything else disabled. I don't come into your home,slap a Linux distro,or Free BSD on your computer,then do all thee other stuff I want and don't allow you to change it..But somehow,Apple,Google and Microsoft feel they have the right to do this to me. Ummm,nope.
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Commented in Apple Made an Additional $6.5 Billion USD by No Longer Providing Accessories With New iPhones
Those fanbois haven't read the users end agreement very well, because it is not some certificate of ownership, but an agreement/permission to use the software on that piece of hardware. Both OS's are in fact leased to you and stay property of Apple or Microsoft, which renders any consumer right about the software insignificant. Their argument is simple: you agreed on our terms and they state that you, the end user, are under our control and we do whatever the hell we want with our property. Thing is: that's a fact since the inception of their users end agreements and go back many, many years.
You have a strong point on the paying to go online idea. It's already here, in a way, except for the paying part. Without being online it is damn hard to install, update or upgrade the OS's. Also: to do that, you need an account with those companies. Lots of users do not even care about that, they simply do it, because that's easy. And with my experience on helping people with their computers, they can't even give one damn reason why such a dick-move is even close to fair from the perspective of the user. Besides it being convenient, that is.
Things change as soon as they see on their hardware an OS running that doesn't do that and that doesn't send tonnes of telemetry and other data towards servers they can't have access to or even something close to an insight on what's being used or taken. When they see the difference in ease of use, privacy and actual ownership of software, those dear people still need time to recover from the years of being fooled in front of their eyes or even conceptualise what choice and ownership is.
I think that's so sad and hearing people even defend the ways they are used and abused, just for profit, shows how indoctrinated and propagandised they are. Spreading Linux, FreeBSD and all other open source software sometimes feels like an uphill battle, but one laptop or desktop at a time it will grow. And the more people understand the ways they are screwed over, the more people will leave those asshole companies behind. And the sad fact about it is that it's not just with OS's or other software, it's the same screw-overs in other parts of life also. Bank accounts, rent, buying food, borrowing, voting, education, just to name a few, are just as mindblowingly set up to screw people over in ways they can't imagine.
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Commented in By 2500 earth could be alien to humans
The climate modelers refuse to include feedback loops, and end the models too soon. I confronted one of them nearly 30 years ago about methane hydrate/permafrost loop, and he said "we preferred to focus on other things".
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Commented in West megadrought worsens to driest in at least 1,200 years
The study calculated that 42 percent of this megadrought can be attributed to human-caused climate change.
No,it can't be us./S
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Commented in Chemical pollution has passed safe limit for humanity, say scientists
Will anything change? Nope,cause monnnneeeeeeyyyyy.