Well said!

It seems to me that the unfortunate reality is that hitting people with facts has either already succeeded (that’s most of us reading this thread I would guess), or it will cause eyes to glaze over, and the cognitive dissonance to kick in to high gear; so we do need to do something different to persuade the rest to do something useful.

But, simply “making friends and telling stories” (to trivialise the article) is useless, there are very many resources on ‘nonnormative non-violent’ action and at least one study that confirm that it is statistically effective (dense scientific paper). Here’s some resources:

• Nonviolent Direct Action and the Struggle for Climate Justice: A Perspective from 350 Seattle
• Foreign Policy News Nonviolent action: Why and how it works
• Organising Stories and Lessons from the 350 Organising Story Telling Lab
• International Center on Nonviolent Conflict 198 Methods of Nonviolent Action

Why the down votes on this? I had a quick look at the github repo and it looks pretty neat to me. I must be missing something…

Anyone care to enlighten me?

Fair enough, good point.

We have bifacial panels, cost was comparable, and rated at ~15% additional output. Now almost 2yrs old.

“The carbon dioxide problem is the defining problem of our life, of our existence,” Varanasi says. “So clearly, we need all the help we can get.”

Indeed.

All $hit highly processed “foods” anyway. Better off without them.

Just this: echo 'Suella Braverman' | sed s/S/Cr/

Why I left there decades ago and have never gone back.

I remember bring so hopeful when they first landed it, and were getting it back to port. Remember Elon saying something like ‘it feels like the dog that caught the bus’. Seems so long ago now!

I just finished The Deluge by Stephen Markley (all 900pp!)

It’s basically a US-centric “narrative” of the 2030’s, told from the PoV of about a dozen different characters, with the thread of climate change prominent throughout.

Really it’s hard to describe it as good or bad, an enjoyable read etc. It is certainly well written, and characterisation is exceptionally good and detailed, but for me it was by turns scary, amusing, depressing, profoundly sad and wrenching in its humanity. I have no reason to doubt its accuracy based on the science.

It took me almost a month to read because I had to take breaks to get my “cognitive dissonance” recharged.

I would definitely recommend it.

It would make a good streaming series on Amazon Prime or Apple TV.

Good!

People run around with their hair on fire about the quality of LLMs and fake this and that, and take over the world etc, but IME ChatGPT is actually quite useful if you treat it like a search engine on steroids, and treat the “search” results with the same intelligent filtering.

I used to do a fair bit of Delphi (pascal) coding and really liked it. I agree with readable, type-safe and oop, I’m not so sure about modern and truly cross-platform. My .02$.

Thanks, fair enough.

These look so good! Have to try them!

That’s great, but one part I don’t understand is the compelling advantage of growing drug crystals (from the article) in micro-g. I get that maybe they are larger & maybe fewer defects (?) but why is that important for this application?

Hmm… interesting you mention terminal really slow to open up. I still experience this also - the first time I open a terminal (only), and only if I try to open it shortly after I boot the machine. I’ve tried several times to find out why this is, but without success (without a terminal it’s hard to find out what’s blocking the terminal…)

The other thing I dumped was the latest Ubuntu Studio Chromium install, because it installs a snap, which is laggy to fire up, which also drove me crazy. I use the Mint chromium build now, which is a real native build, not a snap, and works great.

Ubuntu Studio (XFCE desktop). It’s not the fanciest desktop, has one or two rough edges, and there are one or two tweaks I make right away on any new install, but I can get most things done without thinking about the OS at all now.

I like the UI eye candy of KDE, but I find it too weighty for an everyday use distro.

I used to use Debian plus XFCE, but it’s a bit too spartan for me these days.

Fair enough, I couldn’t disagree at all.

Would be wonderful to sneak a peak at a historical analysis from ++50yrs: either it’s Putin’s masterstroke, or he’s struggling to tamp down prima donna Prigohzin with his buddy Lukashenko’s help. Occam’s razor would certainly point to the latter.

That’s exactly right. I imagine Putin & his lackeys are very busy indeed right now. Just I would definitely not count him out like many articles seem to be.

Edit: spelling

Yeah you may be right, I even hope you’re right. But I don’t think Putin cares about saving face in the west.

I would guess his biggest challenge would be keeping the Belorussian people in line. I know little about the country, I should probably read up!