Frankly, I’ve never really understood the logic of bailouts. If a company is not solvent, but it’s deemed to be strategically important then the government should simply be taking a stake in it. That’s what would happen on the private markets with another company buying it out. The whole notion that the government should just throw money at the failing companies with no strings attached is beyond absurd.

Completely agree, MacOS is turning into a dumpster fire. They keep adding features nobody asked for, and making the whole thing more bloated and flaky in the process.

China’s on it https://www.activesustainability.com/environment/green-great-wall-china

It’s weird how you keep repeating this when Ukraine is literally a fascist dictatorship. Maybe go read up on the whole concept of democracy.

MS ended support for it, so it won’t get security updates or fixes going forward.

As a side note, Karp seems to think most people’s concern with surveillance is that they are going to get caught cheating for some reason. For instance, when giving an example of what he thinks is a valid skeptical question to ask about what Palantir is doing, he said, “Is this product being used to take away my right to go have a hot dog with a coworker I’m flirting with while being married? Which, honestly, I think is the god-given right of people in this country.” He later brings this up again, saying that most surveillance technology isn’t determining, “Am I shagging too many people on the side and lying to my partner?” Your guess is as good as any as to what that’s all about.

The big problem with Mercury is that it’s actually very expensive to get to in terms of energy, hence why we’ve had very few missions to it. On the other hand, Venus is a surprisingly good candidate. While it’s hellish at ground level. There is a layer of upper atmosphere that has effectively Earth like conditions in terms of temperature and and ambient pressure. And you have a ton of volatiles in the atmosphere that could be harvested. So you could technically build cloud cities there. The main problem is that the atmosphere is fairly corrosive, so you’d need materials that wouldn’t degrade in it.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20161019-the-amazing-cloud-cities-we-could-build-on-venus

The moon could theoretically keep an Earth density atmosphere, but only for a fairly short time of maybe 1000 years or so. However, even if that could somehow be achieved there would still be some problems. For example, in longest days of the night, the atmosphere might freeze. It would also have a high wind volume, at the day/night terminator. It would lose a lot of its atmosphere due to Solar Wind and simple lose by having too much energy.

That’s right, your bed time is authoritarian.

who could’ve possibly predicted this 🤣

weird way to spell lemmy isn’t full of fascist scum

ah makes sense

You’re a literal fascist supporting open fascism but you’ve made it abundantly clear that you are too stupid to understand what you’re supporting. Literally nobody here is buying what you’re selling, go back to reddit where you can hang out with the est of your fascist friends.

China has an actual carbon neutral plan, and short term use of coal is part of that. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/chinas-energy-transition-in-5-charts/

A study showed that China’s use of coal is perfectly in line with their targets https://www.carbonbrief.org/chinas-2060-climate-pledge-is-largely-consistent-with-1-5c-goal-study-finds

the key bit of the article

China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels. This trend will continue simply because renewables are cheap; if you doubt the appeal, count the solar panels on Pakistani roofs. The work China does on cutting emissions at home—ever cheaper renewables, more abundant storage which makes those renewables more useful, better electricity markets, long transmission lines and all sorts of associated expertise—will thus be increasingly relevant, and sellable, beyond its borders.

as the quote goes, the only two things that are infinite are the universe and human stupidity and I’m not sure about the former

Russia actually operates 8 nuclear powered ice breakers right now, and they’re making more. https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/here-comes-yakutia-russias-newest-nuclear-icebreaker/422559

I feel like a bot could do a better job holding an actual conversation.

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that’s right, authoritarian just like your bedtime