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by defrost 3mo ago
Do NOT use where speeds exceed 5 m.p.h. Not sure what you're thinking of, but these widgets you linked won't solve the problem of long rail sections heating up in the sun, buckling, and derailing freight trains travelling
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by defrost 3mo ago
> I think based on years of service in government roles or something like that More or less, with qualifications and levels of degree. Eg: Was the Second Malayan Emergency active or "peacetime": https://www.abc.net.a
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by defrost 3mo ago
So, who in the US is actually using identity politics as a distraction? I ask because as an outsider I overwhelmingly see US identity politics issues being raised by the new "Republicans" and to a lesser degree by the old Republic
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by defrost 3mo ago
It still has shuttered plants to do all manner of things - in the event of an actual need to boot these up again, it can be done.
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by defrost 3mo ago
Non-US PoV - US identity politics as an actual threat to panic and pearl clutch about seems to be largely a creation of the US right. Actual US identity expression "issues" (visible drag queens, actually trans people, sports quest
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by defrost 3mo ago
It's not inconsistent to * support noxious Nazi's speaking out loud and proud in the light of public day so that they may be judged and weighed on their "speech" * despise cockroaches crawling in the dark influencing pub
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by defrost 3mo ago
As no one has commented on the problem; 98% of "frontline workers" having direct experience of "Technology-facilitated abuse" (ie. have encountered at least one case of it out of all their cases) is very different to 98%
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by defrost 3mo ago
That is indeed the testimony of Steven C. Quay, one of "the lab leak people" that are asserted by GP to be probably wrong. Very few people would claim that there is no testimony for the lab leak claim, it's simply that relati
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by defrost 3mo ago
> you can't solve this problem by doing something I did not suggest. Agreed. What I did suggest is not putting up with corruption, waste, and toxic externalities "just because".
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by defrost 3mo ago
> Sorry but vinyls don't offer anything but nostalgia That's simply incorrect on the face of it, as others have pointed out vinyls offers a curated physical object per clump of music tracks. Maybe that's not for you, which
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by defrost 3mo ago
The supply of food is absolutely critical to a human population, even if truckloads of fish are left to rot in the sun outside schools? The supply of mineral and energy resources is absolutely critical to an industrial economy, even if
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by defrost 3mo ago
"can" but generally doesn't .. and the rare gold is buried in a mountain of bland crap and outright propaganda, state level and crank level. I have no objection to the potential vision you espouse, I have zero love for the ac
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by defrost 3mo ago
co-signed.
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NTP server that traveled back in time caused Aussie mobile outage(theregister.com)
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by defrost 3mo ago
but not ones willing to put the effort into properly fixing a pond.
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by defrost 3mo ago
.. and, also , ... The folk of the 1930s were entirely capable of making poor quality concrete that barely lasted 30 years (source, my father, born 1935, still alive despite having mixed many a batch of concrete and having laboured). The r
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by defrost 3mo ago
https://www.science.org/cms/10.1126/sciadv.aeb0754/asset/924... From: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aeb0754
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by defrost 3mo ago
The relevant quote* from the linked Australian research is: Technology-facilitated abuse is becoming more and more of a key feature of domestic and family violence. A 2015 survey of 546 domestic and family violence frontline workers fou
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by defrost 3mo ago
It wasn't economically feasible, the owners wanted out, no buyers stepped up. Numbers wise it was ~ 1.6 million tonne per annum in a global market that demands ~ 20 million tonne per annum, as a smaller producer in Tasmania with other
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by defrost 3mo ago
There's a multi author decade retrospective report: *Observing CO2 from space*: A Decade of progress from NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatories (OCO-2 and OCO-3) ~ https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/
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by defrost 3mo ago
An unclassified 2021 U.S. intelligence community assessment found no indications that any foreign actor attempted or succeeded in altering "any technical aspect" of the 2020 presidential election vote, including voter regi
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by defrost 3mo ago
> Would you care to elaborate how you don't think a phone is not “practically necessary”? Can you rephrase sans the cascading negatives. To restate, I have a full life in a G20 country, I don't own or use a smart phone. > I
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by defrost 3mo ago
FWiW you were reading a lot better before this self aggrandising me and my STEM background twaddle. Read the room, you can't chuck a rock around here w/out hitting two.
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by defrost 3mo ago
It has an antipodean non identical twin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo2JcTk4nBE
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by defrost 3mo ago
PoV dependant. It's a civilisation that has failed to clean up its own waste and byproducts threatening its own existence. For some, that's an outright failure, for others, less than stellar.
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by defrost 3mo ago
I'd love to know- ATM I've been on the hop all day and haven't had the time or the access to have a look see .. NASA datasets have less live website presentation this last year. The main point to be landed by that terse comm
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by defrost 3mo ago
> A phone is practically a necessity of modern life. It isn't yet. > Sooner or later people have to use it, unlike alcohol. So far I've avoided having a smart phone, I've not had a mobile phone since flip phones - I we
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by defrost 3mo ago
NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory, 2 (OCO-2) provides the most complete dataset tracking the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂), the main driver of climate change. Every day, OCO-2 measures sunlight reflected from Earth
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by defrost 3mo ago
> But there have been way higher atmospheric carbon dioxide levels historically Historically? In written human history? If we're talking the state of the planet throughout the past 4 billion odd years of existence, it once had no
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by defrost 3mo ago
Are you saying that no billionaire profits from the consumption of others? And, if some do, do they not maximise that profit by seeking to maximise the consumption of others?

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