We can only pray and hope that one of these goobers doesn't make it back. Not that they won't just be replaced by another one, but it might nip their personality cults in the bud a little.
It's ars technica, pretty much everything they write has this creepy techno-hopium spin on it, to cater to the worshippers of technology and its ability to eventually, magically fix any problem.
The problem is agrarian society itself. It is by definition, a sort of cancer that converts the environment into a food surplus, leading to an increase in population, leading to more food being produced, to more population, to... I think you see the point.
No other species on our planet does this, because the food chain system has constraints to prevent feedback loops- it's why apex predators are very low in population. We're a unique type of predator because while, we are not immune to death from any number of sources, our sheer ability to increase our population thanks to exploiting the environment outweighs any defenses the global ecosystem has been able to muster so far. Nonetheless, things seem to be heading in the direction of (population) collapse, but to what extent and how soon, it is hard to tell.
Imagine being so fragile as to believe that anyone who agrees with the objective truth that Trump and his ilk are proto-fash trash must be a radical leftist and your sworn enemy.
Get your head out of the propaganda machine's bunghole.
Absolutely riveting and insightful article, this one.
Who'da thought it that to get stuff done quickly but correctly, ya gotta move fast, actually do things, but also think about what you're doing. Mind = b l o w n!
Capitalist scumbag leverages capital to create a useful service that some people find useful. Wow!
By that metric, <Walmart ; McDonalds ; Nestle ; Activision ; Eli Lilly ; choose your favorite corporation> are a great boon to humanity and we would be so lost without them!
You have to be willfully ignorant and a bootlicker to have a positive opinion of Musk or any of his ventures (and analogously, of Trump). Amusingly enough, it's two relatively different groups of people who worship the two guys.
Anyway, I'll let you get on with your circlejerk. I'm not going to sit here and compile a list of sources detailing all of the ways that Musk is garbage, those are easily available via searching for anyone actually still unaware and curious.
In my defense, dismissing him as a charlatan and not engaging with his latest news is the most effective way to combat Musk-ism. People have taken him seriously long enough and in enough numbers to give him some air of legitimacy when none is deserved.
It's the same strategy with internet trolls; you either ignore them completely, or call them out on trolling and engage no further. Musk is, in some sense, the internet's largest troll. And droves of people have taken the bait.
Carbon capture technologies tend to cost more carbon to operate than they are able to actually sequester. Currently very much a pipe dream, especially considering that on a worldwide scale, the carbon equation is still overwhelmingly pushing in the worse direction (more carbon being burned, more forests being removed).
Ahahah, similar situation here. I thought maybe our IT department had noticed my activity here and decided to throttle my connection (which would still be an odd solution instead of just outright blocking it), but still it took me a few minutes to suspect that maybe the problem was with HN itself.