Thanks for stating you changed your position rather than just deleting your comment, it's moments like this that make Lemmy a better place.
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It's not just the size, or the sound, but the fact you could comfortably concuss an elephant with it, or stop a bullet and go right back to typing. Those things were built like tanks.
That's just crazy talk. If we don't listen to the billionaires the line might not keep going up quite so fast. For the purposes of this argument, please ignore TSLA, the climatologists obviously got to that one.
Anyone assuming anything on the fediverse is anything but public is wrong and hasn't spent any time thinking about what the fediverse is. That may well be a problem that needs to be addressed, but the fundamental design of the protocol means, at the very least, server admins can see everything the users on their server do. This is a problem on any system that does not use end to end encryption.
Realistically there is only 'public' and 'I didn't press send'.
That lets you test that you're not directly connecting to US servers, but doesn't confirm that the services you talk to aren't talking to US servers. It's a good start, but you'll need to validate those seperately.
Depending on your OS, you might want to just add as many US IP blocks as you can find to your firewall. It looks like there's a list here, but it'd be worth validating it against other sources too.
Not really, each time is roughy the same; lots of people run around panicing and yelling that the world is ending, things change a bit and everyone settles down again. Afterwards things may be better, or they might be worse, but they're 'normal' again and so the panic receeds. People look around, and the world is pretty much exactly as it was before, and the individual changes are understandable. Much more insidious are the slow changes, that you barely notice as they happen, but leave one generation wobdering why the next doesn't just buy a house if rent is so expensive.
I've had the dubious pleasure of living through the threats of global cooling, acid rain, continent spanning wars, nuclear armegeadon, global financial collapse and goodness only knows what else. The nice thing about end-of-the-world panics is that you can only be right once.
I'm being a little flippant, but humans have a knack of pulling back from the brink in time, usually not before causing themselves a great deal of pain, but before things change beyond recognition. We do face a number of potentially catastrophic challenges at the moment, anthropogenic global climate change (I've found calling it climate change, rather than warming helps more people listen, rather than rejecting it out of hand), capitalism that's largely out of control, fascists running major goverments, brainwashed populations and a miriad of other issues. Maybe this is the time where the end-of-the-worlders are correct, but I'm banking on us solving these problems one at a time.
Funny story.
That's not funny. Not funny at all.
As per the article:
What plastic
polyethylene terephthalate (PET)
How scalable is it
They're working on increasing to industrial scale.
The description of their process sounds fairly exciting, in that it doesn't need a solvent, uses a cheap, non-toxic catalyst and produces PET precursors. If they manage to get it to industrial scale they'll go some way to solving the plastic problem.
This may just be a terminology mismatch. I would consider the tasks you've mentioned to just be part of your day-to-day work, and yes, if you're not doing those you can expect to be pulled up by your line manager/pm/whoever's running the show. I usually see accountability talked about in terms of the quality and timeliness of the deliverable. If your team's deliverable isn't on time, it's not because developer 'A' failed to deliver their ticket on time, it's because the team as a whole didn't manage their resources appropriately, didn't spot the slippage and didn't adjust or escalate the issue in time. If there's a bug in the code, it's not because developer 'B' forgot a bounds check, it was down to the whole team to ensure the quality of the deliverable, probably via code review.
Holding the individual solely responsible for this sort of thing is counterproductive, as it tends to lead to people trying to cover up mistakes, which rarely goes well, and means others don't get a chance to learn from it.
None of which is to say that the indivuduals shouldn't be held to the quality of their work. If the work they're delivering consistently isn't up to scratch, whether that's found through code review or a bug report, they first need help to improve, and only if that doesn't work should they face the inevitable consequences.
You've unleashed chaos and destruction on a planetary scale with a single wish, wiped out all known life and you say "worthitifitlookscooltho"??!?
You may have a point...
When it's a grouping that we lack the definition for, then the group doesn't really exist, even if it's members do and we all gave a good idea of what are, for instance, fish. Basically the group 'fish' contains all the things you think are fish, which is problematic as someone else may have a different idea of which things belong in the group, and while that's fine when talking coloquially, you can't really use it when trying to discuss things in a rigerous fashion.
Even in cases like this justice must not just be done, but be seen to be done. It seems her guilt has been established, which is good; her sentencing comes next. It seem unlikely that there are any mitigating circumstances to reduce the punishment, but that judgement must be seen to be fair. The French citizenry are not renouned for their forebearance in the face of injustice, so I would be tempted to trust their system for now.
ETA: In fact, it seems like the punishment has already been decreed: five years ineligibility to run for office, four years in prison (two suspended), and a fine. That puts her out of tbe running for president, and likely tarnishes her enough to keep her down even after 2030.