Preflight_Tomato

Yeah, it's fine for now. If you're doing anything more than the absolute basic, you'll need 16+ now (on Win 11). Somewhat related, but my work computer was stuck, slow, and crashing at 99% utilization on 8GB until I added a card (my money). Now it stays around 85% on 16GB.

& also you probably know to spec it appropriately; most slow laptops I see have 8 gigs ram.

The unit symbol should follow the quantity, as this is how it’s generally read and spoken. Just because it’s tradition doesn’t mean we should keep doing it.

I guess I could install Ventoy on the raspberry Pi's SD card, but I prefer it to be bare, since the idea is to keep it simple.

If a hypothesis is untestable, then it is a guess, and not scientific.

Primary every democrat.

"man" used to mean person, it was gender neutral. In fact the root "men" just meant "to think", so a man could be any sapient being.

It was only changed several hundred years ago. "mankind" and other similar universals were meant to represent every human and became exclusionary only under patriarchal interpretation. "mankind" of course endures as universal, but we see lots of "firewoman", "mailwoman", etc., where the language becomes fundamentally gendered.

"the data are" also sounded odd to me when I first heard it. After practice it became fine. Now I see it as a green flag that someone may be scientifically literate.

Literally the poorest condition house would cost 100% of 8 years of take-home pay of my engineer salary where I live. That's before accounting for loan interest on 20% down payment (I have 5%) which would push it up to 18 full years of my labor.

A single-family house is simply not worth 15+ years of my life, and I'm actively looking into cheaper options.

I saw it originally watching Simon Clark. Reviewing, it looks like the chart shown is actually a great example of a terrible graph; it uses 5 year periods then switches to 1 year periods without clear indication, making it look flatter than it would otherwise. If I adjust for this in a photo editor, emissions have barely slowed. I was misled, sorry for passing that on and thanks for questioning it.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-emissions-per-country?time=2000..latest&country=%7EOWID_WRL

Nazi salutes. He did it twice.

Some good news:

• ~~emission rates have plateaued; we are still destroying the planet, but no longer accelerating the rate at which we do it~~
• Solar panels (unsubsidized) are the cheapest method of electricity generation as of 2022
• there is a fundamentally limited amount of fossil fuels, so as long as we don’t turn to Venus 2.0 by 2100 we will deplete most coal and oil and it will be possible for our ancestors to repair the planet over the following centuries.

Yeah I know even this “good news” is bleak, but it’s worth celebrating. There is some hope.