tbf, every time you’re installing basically anything at all, you basically trust whoever hosts the stuff that they don’t temper with it. you’re already putting a lot of faith out there, and i’m sure a lot of the software actually contains crypto-mineware or something else.

i bring the bag from home.

yes i know, i was well aware of that when posting it.

It’s really about what’s more important to you and where you set your priorities. Or maybe it’s actually about being short-sighted or far-sighted.

The US seems to believe that having “rich” people and a poor-rich divide will somehow foster or speed up technological development. I would say that is an almost religious belief. I don’t really agree with it too much personally, and also i don’t like how they approach their population as “wave slaves” who are threatened with starvation and homelessness if they don’t work; but also i’m not gonna interfere with US internal affairs.

I really do think that all the “corporation” things are short-sighted, and it is wise to take the “long-run” perspective and ask what will be in a 1000 years, in a billion years.

I do think that being a bully like the US is is short-sighted, an in fact disadvantageous in the long run, because it makes people distrust them, and that’s a thing that puts you in a disadvantageous position in general.

joke’s on you, i use a shopping bag

yeah me too, i get nasty rashes and stuff

What kind of info do you think they could have had? With boeing, it’s probably something about corruption, pocketing state subsidy money that should have gone to actual projects, or something similar.

People love mocking Russians when their “leaders” fall out of windows, but where are these people when corpos kill plebs within US?

You assumed it was about being fair. People just like to shit on russia to distract from internal problems, it was never about the “people falling out of the window” thing.

According to the police records, the man committed suicide by shooting himself twice in the back of his head.

edit: after reading your comment more carefully, you actually already mentioned that. oopsie.

Did he fall out a window?

Here’s a picture of the linux distro family tree:

There’s Debian, the distro.

There’s Redhat/Fedora, which is commercial,

there’s gentoo, where on installation, everything is compiled from source.

There is slackware, mostly for historical purposes (it was the first distro),

there’s arch for people who want to feel they’re better than others tinkerers,

there is openSUSE, which is like redhat but german.

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From what i’ve observed, people deal with “there’s no higher power” differently.

For some people, that i call right-wing, or authoritarian, having some higher power that tells them what to do, is the meaning of life. If they lose that something, then they become depressed and stop living, in any sense, a joyful life.

On the other hand, there are people, which i am comfortable to call left-wing, or hippies, or communitarian, who don’t need that higher power to tell them what to do, in fact, it rather obstructs them. They are joyful even in the absence of a higher, guiding power, because they can find their own meaning in life.

I guess everybody will come up with different answers to that.

To me, saying “there is nothing after death” is a simplified model. It asks you to live in the here-and-now, to live in the moment, because that makes you productive today.

Of course, the world won’t end when you die. You will leave an impact on the world, kind of a track. Like, when water flows over a landscape long enough, it leaves a river bed. That will stay, even after the water subsides.

So in some sense, death might be your end, but it’s not the end. I don’t know whether that helped you.

don’t forget the role that the Great Oxidation Event played in this.

Basically, earth’s atmosphere was devoid of oxygen from its beginning, and it took billions of years to change that. it wasn’t until life had learned about photosynthesis before large amounts of oxygen started to accumulate in the atmosphere.

however, oxygen is a necessary prerequisite for most animal/fungus consumers, as they use oxygen to break down the organic materials. that is probably when major fossil fuel production stopped.

yes, you are correct, it makes more sense to focus on electrifying our big consumers first.

however, cleaning up could happen eventually. maybe some politician in the future will sell it as some “jobs program” or sth.

not only that. algae are effectively plants without all the structural (wood) parts. that means, they consume less energy constructing bulky dead material, and put all of their energy towards the growth of the functional parts. that is why they can spread more rapidly and achieve a higher efficiency than plants.

Renewable energy has many parts. I have listed the 5 most important here.

As you can see, renewable biomass and hydropower are also part of renewable energy. That is because they have the advantage of being both power-sources and energy-storages. That means people will continue to use biomass and combust it in the long term.