We actually have the tech - you just need to manufacture a CO2 scrubbing material and pass lots and lots of air through it. The hard part is the energy - you shouldn’t be producing even more CO2 in the process. In other words, getting enough solar / nuclear power, and funding to actually build the thing.

A cheaper alternative would be to pump nitrate and phosphate into some remote ocean, so as to cause an algal bloom. When the algae die, they sink to the bottom of the ocean, and take the carbon with them. But the local ecosystem will be fucked up in all sorts of ways.

Unfortunately the CO2 already in the atmosphere will continue to warm the earth for several decades even if we stop all further emissions.

We’ll need to massively deploy technology that can suck CO2, trap it in something like silicate, and bury it deep underground.

Or shift to a diet with less meat so land can be restored (this will suck some CO2 into biomass and soil).

If someone is sick, and gets certified as such by a licenced medical doctor, they get leave. Why is this so complicated?

Has the Waters above the firmament ocean a surface? And whats above that surface?

‘How about we explore the area above that surface later?’

Not sure, I never used it. I’m guessing either VPN, one of the apk download sites, or a TikTok mirror running on browser.

Yang Wen-li my beloved.

Still putting the US on the same level as Russia in terms of human rights violations is absurd.

Agreed. Russia hasn’t been couping a random country and slaughtering its people for the last fifty years. Neither is it aiding and abetting a genocide.

The opposition leader showed examples of duplicate votes, as well as obviously fake votes (one had parent’s name as ‘asdfg’ or something like that). The question is how common these are, and whether they are being used to swing elections a certain way.

Honestly, if the Election Commission had been more transparent and admitted the mistake instead of trying to hide the rolls, this might have been a non-event.

TikTok is officially banned in India. (People still use it, but you can’t download it from Play Store.)

So is Telegram, and it’s actually better for a lot of things, but it is stereotyped as being meant for movie sharing.

Got banned due to worsening India-China relations.

China is betting big on it because it’s cheap.

It’s not about the money. The patents for amd64 and arm are with US / UK based companies. RISC-V is open-source, so China cannot be legally stopped from using it. Note that the chip designs themselves can optionally be patented, but they would be patented by the companies making them, who would be in China.

Maybe there’s some truth behind the ‘world elite cabal’ conspiracy theory. The worst people on earth are all friends.

Our major exports to the US are electrical equipment, precious stones / metals, medicines, machinery, mineral oils, and iron & steel. So these sanctions will mostly hit factories. If you’re an average consumer and don’t work in manufacturing, you’ll probably be fine. (You might want to stock up on any generic medicines, though. They have very thin profit margins, so companies here might simply stop exporting to the US if they get spooked.)

interceptible 9 times out of 10

Good news! Only one city got nuked!

This doesn’t really make sense. Why would your computer give the GPU / NPU access to GPS location? Unless Nvidia is somehow embedding GPS sensors in their chips - which would be obvious to Chinese cybersecurity - this should be a simple software fix. Intel Management Engine is a genuine risk, but I think China has banned / restricted Intel CPUs already.

DeBoers

You discuss the CPC while playing video games? Weird flex, but okay.

An overground facility in south Russia whose location is televised to Ukraine? I smell bait.

‘President’ is mostly a ceremonial office, so they should be able to smile and wave, entertain any visiting dignitaries, and read out whatever speeches Parliament writes for them in a pleasant voice. A feel-good origin story would be a nice bonus.