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silence7 OP ,

Per the article, they started to change policy a bit after some of the groups they were sponsoring started attacking the monarchy:

Astonishingly, the attacks of 9/11 had little effect on the Saudi approach to religious extremism, as diplomats and intelligence officials have attested. What finally changed royal minds was the experience of suffering an attack on Saudi soil. In May 2003, gunmen and suicide bombers struck three residential compounds in Riyadh, killing 39 people. The authorities attributed the attacks to al-Qaeda, and cooperation with the U.S. improved quickly and dramatically.

silence7 OP ,

The article is about a small number of congressmembers with speech and hearing disabilities.

silence7 OP ,

Three, on different servers — one for climate, one for a general news reach, and one which is just New York Times gift articles

silence7 OP ,

They’re ditching inland areas too, for different climate-related reasons.

silence7 OP ,

This implies an end to mortgages (or sharply higher interest rates) and a huge drop in real estate prices.

silence7 OP ,

That’s the big environmental issue with Bitcoin — other major cryptocurrencies have moved to proof-of-stake instead of proof-of-work, so they don’t need vast quantities of energy, and when you stop using all that energy, the generators with the highest marginal cost shut down, which generally means coal or gas.

silence7 OP ,

Bitcoin essentially has the same thing though — it’s just that the “staked class” is those who have built power-devouring ASIC facilities to compute lots of hashes. Get enough of them together, and you can roll back transactions via a Sybil attack, just as you can with organized action by stakeholders in a proof-of-stake cryptocurrency.

silence7 OP ,

It’s a gift link, so you shouldn’t hit the paywall unless you’ve disabled javascript or are using a browser extension which strips off URL parameters

First Patient Begins Newly Approved Sickle Cell Gene Therapy (www.nytimes.com)

For a lucky few, like Kendric, the treatment could make possible lives they have longed for. A solemn and shy adolescent, he had learned that ordinary activities — riding a bike, going outside on a cold day, playing soccer — could bring on episodes of searing pain....

silence7 OP ,

They cut the size, but not the price. Then they increase the price six months later.

silence7 OP ,

The article says nothing about AI; just that EV charger location and availability is a feature being added to Google Maps.

silence7 OP ,

The ML tool is a summary of the directions. That’s a plausible use of ML

silence7 OP ,

The value is that it shows people who aren’t using EVs yet what’s available

Heavy Rain and Floods Kill 19 in Oman and Disrupt Dubai Airport | A year’s worth of rain fell in one day in some areas across Oman and the United Arab Emirates, bringing cities to a standstill. (www.nytimes.com)

The extreme weather appeared to be the result of a relatively normal weather system bringing rain that had been turbocharged by ocean and atmospheric warming, said Janette Lindesay, a climate scientist at the Australian National University. “It’s highly likely that global heating has played a role in the intensity of the...

silence7 OP ,

It’s not impossible; it just requires building a whole lot of expensive infrastructure which is used very infrequently. People usually don’t choose to do that.

silence7 OP ,

The NYT is also very clear that it’s not cloud seeding:

Although some have speculated that recent cloud seeding efforts by the U.A.E. — using chemicals to increase the chances of clouds producing rain — could have contributed to the extreme weather, scientists said this was very unlikely.

“Rainfall enhancement could not cause that kind of increase in rainfall,” said Steven Siems, an expert in cloud seeding at Monash University in Australia, adding that any effects from cloud seeding would have been “marginal” at most.

silence7 OP ,

Bloomberg (the news outlet) has a bunch of rather competent reporters who regularly cover climate, and Michael Bloomberg (who owns a controlling interest in it) was one of the major funders of the Sierra Club’s campaign to phase out coal use in the US.

silence7 ,

I believe the primary market for these devices is small-scale production of moonshine.

silence7 OP ,

It doesn’t have to be. That’s entirely a human decision.

silence7 OP ,

That’s up to us. Get involved. Join an activist group, or a political campaign. Change policy. Show your neighbors how it’s possible to cut fossil fuels out of your life.

silence7 OP ,

Kinda sorta; they’re responsible for more than 80% of scope 3 emissions, which counts what happens when fossil fuels they extract and sell are subsequently burned. Individually, what you do is tiny, but as you show people around you that it’s possible to live without fossil fuels, it changes behavior in the aggregate.

silence7 OP ,

Sorry, but you’ll need to bring evidence for that kind of statement

silence7 OP ,

In short, you’re sealioning.

silence7 OP ,

So you have no evidence for your position.

silence7 OP ,

https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995

silence7 OP ,

So let’s summarize:

  • You make a dubious claim
  • I ask for evidence
  • You claim that I’m the one responsible for evidence
  • I point out how you’re trolling
  • You say again that I’m the one who is supposed to give evidence
  • I point out that this makes it clear you have none
  • You tell me that I’m a troll

If you had evidence, you’d have shown it by now. But you don’t.

silence7 OP ,

And now you pretend to have had evidence. You didn’t

silence7 OP ,

Indeed you are.

silence7 OP ,

It’s a little more complicated than that — El Niño, plus climate change, plus a cut in the amount of sulfur in the fuel burned by ships, plus something that’s not fully understood.

silence7 OP ,

None of that is a greenhouse gas.

silence7 OP ,

There was an international treaty to cut the amount of sulfur in the bunker oil that the big ships burn. This is because the particulates it produces when burned kill people. They also reflected a bunch of sunlight, preventing it from warming the water.

silence7 OP ,

The messaging needs to come from somebody they trust.

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