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beaubbe , 10 months ago to technology in The US just invested more than $1 billion into carbon removal / The move represents a big step in the effort to suck CO2 out of the atmosphere—and slow down climate change.

How would a company make money by dumping trees in holes?

It should be a government effort to do something like this. At least planting trees, no need to cut them for decades anyway. We would need an insane amount of tress for that to work too, basically as many as we burned as oil since the industrial era…

beaubbe , 11 months ago to videos in Climate activists spray paint over Walmart heiress's super yacht [1:02]

It’s about the message. There are only so many peaceful ways to protest and this is not the worse one for sure.

beaubbe , 11 months ago to mildlyinfuriating in I just spend the last 30 minutes trying to remove a hair splinter... Ahhhh!

It happens all the time after I trim my beard. I end up just scraping the skin with a sewing needle dipped in alcohol and it takes 2 seconds to do. Tweezers dont work usually because the skin probably started growing back over it.

beaubbe , 11 months ago to fediverse in Various challenges that Meta/Threads may face, according to Facebook's ex-Chief Security Officer

It’s open source so the base code of it is already there and it lets them attract users by already having content available. They probably saw an opportunity with Twitter going to shit, and had to push a viable product as fast as possible.

The solution to these challenges will probably be to de-federate from everything once they have successfully challenged twitter.

beaubbe , 11 months ago to fediverse in Questions on the openness of Meta’s Threads

It just tells me to install the app even with no adblocker.

beaubbe , 1 year ago to programmerhumor in Working at PornHub

Interestingly enough, they actually use the name MindGeek on pay slips and stuff for this reason.