Jack

"The magnetic field is vital to our continued existence. It helps keep the atmosphere we breathe in"

I knew about reducing how much cosmic radiation we receive, but not about protecting the atmosphere:

"Many scientists have argued that the magnetic field is crucial for protecting the atmosphere from erosion by energetic particles coming from the Sun." https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-oxygen-magnetic-field-linked/

Also, "the planetary magnetic field has followed similar rising and falling patterns as oxygen in the atmosphere for nearly a half billion years, dating back to the Cambrian explosion, when complex life on Earth emerged."

kids

Tonnes of CO2e, averages:

 1.60 a roundtrip transatlantic flight
 2.40 one year of car use
58.60 one year, per child you have (dwarfing everything combined in the 3rd graphic in the sidebar)

Wynes et al. 2017 PDF

Shown in the most important chart in human history, because human overpopulation is the biggest and root cause for not just catastrophic anthropogenic climate change, but also the biggest and root cause of factory farming, industrial fishing, unsustainable pollution, biosphere degradation, mass extinction, ...

I don't think so. Murder is illegal, while the vast majority of people choose to vote for non-Green parties, to make it legal and to incentivize the Anthropocene mass extinction event.

Do you really expect me to believe the concept of free will has never crossed your mind when asking this question?

Free will is so obviously an illusion to me (since no-one in recorded history has ever been able to magic their way around causality) that I sometimes forget that most people, especially religious people, think they have free will. I should have stated that.

If free will is real for people tho, then God isn't all-knowing or all-powerful, which means it's not God - unless you use a definition of God that extremely few people in the West or Middle-East hold.

If he does a Fetterman, can he be quickly recalled?

I would mind: if you're all-powerful then why create fascists, human traffickers, greedy billionaires, and the majority of people who are making the biosphere uninhabitable for most genera? And why punish them with hell, when you created them that way? That's just sadistic.

I understand wanting a hell for bad people, because most people do extremely evil things:

• voting to be ruled by openly greedy, sociopathic liars (with only about 1-4% of voters choose ethical candidates);
• giving money to factory farmers and fishermen;
• contributing to human overpopulation;
• etc.;

but I still prefer honesty and saying there's absolutely no evidence that a biblical hell is real.

Some of them actually believe that if they can get you to say the magic words, you'll go to heaven instead of hell.

If I thought I could prevent someone from eternal pain and suffering, and instead have them go to a place where the creator of everything, including... uh... hell...

OK, never mind.

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Wow, 43.6%.

"A key factor in this achievement was the use of a new wind tunnel [...] magnetic support balance system"

This makes sense for flying objects, but couldn't this have been noted for objects with wheels - without the magnetic system? Or are the flow velocities relevant only for flying objects?

Don't map makers usually do this with a bordered box with long/lat inside the box? (Or in this case, at least an arrow pointing EbN.)

A problem with uBlock, SponsorBlock, DeArrow, etc., is that it makes viewing sites and videos by greedy assholes bearable, instead of making us boycott the assholes.

I do use uBlock (and SponsorBlock built into a program, along with a site that let's me avoid YouTube's site); but I really should be boycotting some sites and video channels.

I don't need liars like Trump and I don't need liars like religious people. Narcissistic, sociopathic civilizations need liars.

Yeah, "Quake theme" (track 1) for me, especially after a machinima used it; tho some of the "Ghosts" tracks are also favorites.