ColdStream

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by ColdStream 2mo ago
James Hansons Senate hearing was in 1988, so at least 38 years since it was brought front and center. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_Hearing_of_James_E._Han... Hansen is still going and has been ringing the alarm
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
I think the only reason it doesn't come to this is the risk of liability over possible blow backs. Say they start sulfur injection or whatever, and a year later there are crop failures in India. While it could have happened anyway, the
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
Well he didn't help, but this is a good example of why so many military's call climate change a 'Risk Multiplier'. There was already an issue but it has just been amplified.
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
That's because there is the chance that it will benefit them short term over others. F U I got mine! Or just ignorance.
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
Alas, a lot of people are reactive and not proactive. There is also the factor that most people see themselves as the virtuous ones, and they do not appreciate a Cassandra pointing out the awful truths that undermine this narrative.
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
It is also fairly disheartening to see a lot of proposed responses just quietly get shelved because it was economically not idea on the short term. A lot of them were fairly weak to begin with and even they couldn't hold. I don't
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
I think there is some nuance to this. It isn't likely that we will go back to the way it was before industrialization, we are too far past that. But we will head to a new normal that could be manageable. Problems have solutions, predic
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
Sounds like a good plan to me. Probably a dozen reasons why we cannot that I am unaware of, but from my arm chair it looks good.
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
For the longest time the free software foundation (well Stillman) were against all mobile phones because of their ability to track people. In the last year they have finally admitted that they were not going to win that battle and have gone
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
I have seen a few slightly different figures but it is something like 40% of oil still needs to be imported to get the right mix for the current economic setup.
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
Yep, many people are more than happy with the system while they are the winners, but the tide can change quickly and it cuts hard on the way down.
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
That is what Bill gates once said. For all the success he had, he also acknowledged that there was a lot of luck involved as there were a lot of other companies and people that had better technology than Microsoft had but they didn't h
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
To be fair, we didn't need vibecoding to flood the App store. It was flooded less than a year after opening.
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
With Teams and Sharepoint out of the way productivity shall increase 70%!
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
Not surprised at all. While there is some chill in the air, this has been a very mild winter down south. We will be heading into summer right as the impact of the "Super" El Nino starts to show up. It take about 6 months from on s
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
There it is, about 4 times faster than my machine. The single core performance of the M-series is something special.
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
That is usually the moment when I start looking for alternatives or at least an alternative to their standard apps. I had an Oppo phone that managed to serve me a single ad in the file manager. I immediately swapped it to the Fossify file m
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
It is a fun way to benchmark your system. I managed to get 4.1hz on my 13th gen i5 work laptop. Let's see an M-series chip blow that out of the water. ;) EDIT - It was 4.1Hz in advance mode. Actually runs at between 22Hz and 44hz depen
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
It is funny how some things start to look similar. Back in the mid 1970's due tot he oil shock, there was the move to lots of Japanese cars as they were much more fuel efficient due to their more limited fuel supply. It was said that y
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
Depending on the machine I use. My laptop is one of the few machines that can run entirely on open source from Firmware, drivers all the way to the top. Thus I run Trisquel. Definitely not for everyone. But on other machines, I just run Min
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
Absolutely, that was some of the best years of Twit.
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
I am surprised that it isn't attacked more often, but I also suspect that it is more resilient than we take credit for and/or many are just holding out until it is necessary. Having AI agents rapidly iterate the attacks and attack
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
It is still limited at the moment but also far better than I would have imagined.
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
Almost definitely this. It explains the build up of forces, signaling of land grabs, hardening of boarders and increase of surveillance. It is all about built a fortress. There is a lot of dramatic stories in the climate change space but wh
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
I have always figured the fermis paradox is that civilizations run out of resources before they can become large scale sustainable. Having wars over a shrinking world would accelerate this however.
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
True but it also looks like a Hail Mary shot for them. If they make the move and it doesn't work, the internal pressures from the people could topple a lot of the power structure. They probably won't move until they have a very de
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
It is all starting to feel like a stalemate between the US and China, each hoping the other fails from their own internal issues before it comes to actual battle.
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
There is a good chance of this. Nukes need ongoing yearly maintenance to be operational, without that they are basically just a flying tin can. The whole movie trope of stealing an old nuke and using it doesn't apply to the real world.
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
Pretty much this. If a single nuke detonates over say Leipzig, it would be the most deadly single attack on European soil in history.
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by ColdStream 2mo ago
Up until a about a decade back, here in Australia/New Zealand, politicians behind door always talked about the tyranny of distance. Simply due to distance we were largely kept out of or behind larger global flows. Nowadays it is seen a

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