Palo Alto Networks opted not to tie China to a global cyberespionage campaign the firm exposed last week over concerns that the cybersecurity company or its clients could face retaliation from Beijing, according to two people familiar with the matter. The sources said that Palo Alto’s findings that China was tied to the sprawling hacking spree were dialed back following last month’s news, first reported by Reuters, that Palo Alto was one of about 15 U.S. and Israeli cybersecurity companies whose software had been banned by Chinese authorities on national security grounds.
A draft version of the report by Palo Alto’s Unit 42, the company’s threat intelligence arm, said that the prolific hackers — dubbed “TGR-STA-1030” in a report published on Thursday of last week — were connected to Beijing, the two people said. The finished report instead described the hacking group more vaguely as a “state-aligned group that operates out of Asia.” Attributing sophisticated hacks is notoriously difficult and debates over how best to assign blame for digital intrusions are common among cybersecurity researchers.
Nope, I would rather have an OS for a PC, not a smart phone. You’ve lost your way Microslop.
Like all the other things Microsoft recently tried to implement; it’ll be implemented badly and will eventually be rolled back because it’s broken state.
Abort, Retry, Fail?_
Bring it back Microsoft, that was super intuitive. Since this is the AI era, have Bob and Clippy ask it.
The abrupt closure of El Paso’s airspace late Tuesday was precipitated when Customs and Border Protection officials deployed an anti-drone laser on loan from the Department of Defense without giving aviation officials enough time to assess the risks to commercial aircraft, according to multiple people briefed on the situation.
The episode led the Federal Aviation Administration to abruptly declare that the nearby airspace would be shut down for 10 days, an extraordinary pause that was quickly lifted Wednesday morning at the direction of the White House. Top administration officials quickly claimed that the closure was in response to a sudden incursion of drones from Mexican drug cartels that required a military response, with Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy declaring in a social media post that “the threat has been neutralized.”
But that assertion was undercut by multiple people familiar with the situation, who said that the F.A.A.‘s extreme move came after immigration officials earlier this week used an anti-drone laser shared by the Pentagon without coordination with the F.A.A. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. C.B.P. officials thought they were firing on a cartel drone, the people said, but it turned out to be a party balloon. Defense Department officials were present during the incident, one person said.
This outrageous level of paranoia over “alleged” drone sightings will cost human lives soon.
Here we have the US military mis-identifying a party balloon as a drone and firing a powerful laser at it — while members of the public get prosecuted every year for flicking their laser-pointers at helicopters and airliners.
In Germany, police will be allowed to shoot at “alleged” drones even though it has been clearly proven that most (if not all) of the recent drone sightings were simply mis-identified aircraft lights.
Can anyone see the potential for disaster here?
The mis-identification of aircraft flying at night as “drones” has become rife, dating back beyond the NY/NJ “drone” incidents that caused such concern in the USA a year or two ago. Almost without exception, these “drones” are real aircraft (often passenger flights) carrying people through the skies. How long before one of them is shot down by paranoid trigger-happy idiots?
Paranoia is a mental health issue and it’s infecting governments and authorities around the world.
Before someone says “but… Ukraine…” I ask you: how many people have died as the result of actions by bad actors using drones in the USA or outside the war zones in Europe?
That’s a big fat ZERO!
Yes, it “could” happen but right now it’s far more likely that innocent people will die from friendly fire produced by paranoid idiots on the ground with guns and lasers.
If the border patrol can’t tell the difference between a drone and a balloon then it’s probably a wise move to make sure there are no planes around where they’re playing with their pew pew lasers.
Lasers are famous for doing things you don’t expect. Reflecting off a shiny mylar balloon and blinding pilots for example.
The good news is, because of this it’ll probably go very badly for Trump at the midterms.
He’s already laying the groundwork to invalidate or take over control of the midterms to ensure that your vote only counts if it’s for his toadies.
I’m a hardware guy with limited programming experience. I can read and understand C for the most part but when it comes to coding, I am not a neckbeard. Claude Code has enabled me to finish a veritable shit-ton of projects that I have designed and built hardware for but been unable to get the firmware/software side working. And, that’s just at home.
At work, I’m an engineering manager and I’ve been able streamline our design and coding processes immensely by training my engineers on using Claude code to do some heavy lifting for them. The result is that my green engineers fresh out of school are productive much faster, and more importantly, I can reduce org costs by having a lower headcount. By the end of this year I expect I’ll be able to reduce headcount by 25% in the engineering department, mostly in the senior staff as they are a) resistant to adoption of AI and b) expensive as hell for people who don’t want to grow in their roles and use new tools.
AI is the way of the future, whether we like it or not. The best course is to adopt it and let it make you better at your job, as it has for me. Those who refuse are going to whine and bitch and moan themselves into irrelevance by the end of this year.
“Kiro runs on Anthropic’s Claude models but uses Amazon’s own tooling”
The models require a front end that feeds them user queries, gives r/w access to local files, etc. and most people will want it to work from within the IDE they normally use. For millions of developers that IDE is Visual Studio Code. There are several companies out there that have forked VS Code to make a custom version that integrates with multiple LLM models. Amazon Kiro is one of them, so for many people this will integrate right in with their work flow; https://kiro.dev/
You can choose from multiple Anthropic models with Kiro but not other brands such as Gemini, GPT, which means less flexibility for the developer. I will say that in my opinion the Claude models are the top performers.
https://kiro.dev/docs/cli/chat…
Here is someone’s comparison of Claude Code and Windsurf; https://aiforcode.io/tools/cla…
So I’m not sure what the big fuss is about. Claude Code is “Terminal-native CLI via npm. Native VS Code and JetBrains IDE extensions.” Possibly it gives you a larger context window than some other options? Other than that it appears to be much the same.
Why does it prefer agreeable text to facts?
BECAUSE LLMS DON’T KNOW FACTS, you fucking twit.
LLM has learned its math and knows that changing the answer will yield a better proability.
Now go try to persuade the show host that your wife knows better.
Try asking it something you know the answer to, on some rare topic.
For instance, I recently tuned my 189 string harpsichord - a painful process. For fun, I asked several AIs for a list of the most sifficult instruments to tune. It didn’t even make the list, even after this famous prompt. It took a while for it to finally appear in its responses. This is likely because a very small number of people play the harpsichord nowadays.
Similarly, I tied to vibe code some security code using NSS in Python. This was with Code rhapsodyx using Claude underneath. It kept switching to OpenSSL and rewriting the code countless times after running into a snag with the code it generated. Probably did so at least 50 times. This is because the vast majority of the code it was trained on uses OpenSSL. I had to fight its training. It was extremely painful. The problem it ran into was trivial - failing to call an initialization function. But it kept repeating its mistake, over and over. I eventually got what I want out of it. I could not have written the project without the AI, as I was dealing with a programing language i can only read, but not write.
Anthropic said it would work with utility companies to “estimate and cover” consumer electricity price increases in places where it is not able to sufficiently generate new power and pay for 100% of the infrastructure upgrades required to connect its data centers to the electrical grid.
In a statement to NBC News, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said: “building AI responsibly can’t stop at the technology — it has to extend to the infrastructure behind it. We’ve been clear that the U.S. needs to build AI infrastructure at scale to stay competitive, but the costs of powering our models should fall on Anthropic, not everyday Americans. We look forward to working with communities, local governments, and the Administration to get this right.”
This shouldn’t be a marketing move this should be the default!
Uh, the marketing move is to make you believe this is true.
The default is to make you pay for it anyway. Because they can.
The standard, should be to prove AI is worth the effort. Against the very entity it’s destroying. So far, the answer is a resounding NO.
The tech giant’s auditor, Ernst & Young, raised a red flag over the financial engineering Meta used to keep a $27 billion data-center project off its balance sheet. While EY ultimately blessed Meta’s accounting treatment, the firm flagged it as a “critical audit matter.” This means it was one of the hardest, riskiest judgments the auditor had to make.
Such a warning label is rare for a specific, high-profile transaction at a major audit client. Meta moved the data-center project, called Hyperion, off its books in October into a new joint venture with Blue Owl Capital. Meta owns 20% of the venture; funds managed by Blue Owl own the other 80%. A holding company called Beignet Investor, which owns the Blue Owl portion, sold a then-record $27.3 billion of bonds to investors. The joint venture is known in accounting parlance as a variable interest entity, or VIE. Meta said it isn’t the “primary beneficiary” of this entity and so didn’t have to put the venture’s assets and liabilities on its own balance sheet.
Meta’s assertion that it lacks power over the venture is debatable and has drawn scrutiny from investors and lawmakers. Meta is a hyperscaler and knows how to run data centers for artificial intelligence, while Blue Owl is a financier. Whether the venture succeeds economically will come down to Meta’s decisions and know-how. In its report, EY said auditing Meta’s decision “was especially challenging due to the significant judgment required in determining the activities that most significantly affect the VIE’s economic performance.”
… off its books …
Our client is acting like a criminal but if we say that, we lose a customer. Worse, they bribe politicians to legitimize their dishonesty: Dammed if we do, Dammed if we don’t.
From the eye-in-the-sky view of this, it looks like Meta knows there’s a pretty big risk of either low or no return on investment with this new datacenter. They want it built, but they don’t know that the whole purpose for it won’t blow-up or disappear in the time it takes to be built. Therefore, they want a holding company to own the majority share of the datacenter, so if it ends up being a financial blunder, they only take 20% of the blame, rather than 100%. It looks from here like a typical corporate structure shell game: hiding assets within “other companies” that are actually outright controlled by the parent, but on paper look like separate entities is a game as old as the concept of corporations itself. Sucks that even an auditor is too scared of the financial giant to say outright that it’s bullshit both legally and ethically.
which is probably reasonable for a hyper-scaler deployment a company like Meta would consider. Most of the hardware is pretty reliable. Everything running on it will be highly fault tolerant. If anything goes wrong nobody local does any actual fix, they pull replacement unit out of stock, swap it, and it boots from SAN and rejoins the hive..
The failed unit is either shipped to some central recovery facility or maybe directly the recycler.
This is what state and local pols NEED to understand about these data center projects, once the construction phase is over they don’t mean that many jobs even in the context of a rural county. So they need to be really really careful about any tax abatement schemes etc. You are not going to see a bunch of new housing demand, new economic activity, payroll taxes etc. Just existing residents angry about noise, and their wells drying up.
COLLECT THE PROPERTY TAXES or deny the permits.
Dude seems like a real shitbag.
(US Hacking Tool [company]) Boss (Stole and Sold) Exploits To (Russian Broker) That Could Target Millions of Devices. [According to DOJ]
He won’t get a Trump pardon that cheap unless he was a pedo
…the next time any Government spokesperson tells us that back-doors to cryptography are perfectly safe as only law-enforcement will have them?
one cannot expect our incompetent upper class overlords to produce anything but even more overpriced and unimaginative technology, let’s not forget the goal is not to produce good tech but to extract the most revenue in order to increase shareholder value
our devices and our services are designed to exploit us, manipulate us and surveil us, welcome to our classist corporatocracy
… just focus on fixing the issues like bugs. Way too many problems. V26 is awful. Also, please stop doing new major versions every year. Why not slow down and take the time?
If phone interfaces (And windows 11) were designed by professional interface designers instead of as an afterthought by programmers then we wouldn’t have to search to find functionality, it would be obvious where it is.
Apple’s mistake was building *privacy* into their AI model. Nobody else did that, and it crippled Apple’s solution. Apple pushed 5GB of AI model data to everyone’s phone, and everyone complained about the space usage. Next up their AI is slow because it is using resources on the phone instead of big data centers. Apple did what everyone asked for, but users were ultimately unwilling to accept the compromise.
Personally, I liked the Apple solution better. On Android, if I lose internet for 2 seconds, and say to my phone “Call Bob Smith” it sits there for several minutes then times out with “try again later”. BUT IT GETS WORSE: The local hardware transcribed the text perfectly. So there was no need for a server to be involved at all!
Apple’s old approach was the right one, so it is really sad that they botched it.
An Anthropic safety researcher quit, saying the “world is in peril” in part over AI advances. Mrinank Sharma said the safety team “constantly [faces] pressures to set aside what matters most,” citing concerns about bioterrorism and other risks.
Anthropic was founded with the explicit goal of creating safe AI; its CEO Dario Amodei said at Davos that AI progress is going too fast and called for regulation to force industry leaders to slow down. Other AI safety researchers have left leading firms, citing concerns about catastrophic risks.
I don’t have a good idea as to what has caused it, but look at any TV debate up to sometime around the 1980s and you are likely to find a logical discussion, with little tolerance for lies, exaggeration, or logical error. That seems to have gone now.
Scientists might show that we are in trouble, and the result is that the most powerful deride the scientists, and most voters are incapable of the thought required to arrive at an informed opinion.
Politics and social debate need to fundamentally change.
It’s pretty much a trope that coffee has been bad for us one week and then good for us again the next week, ad infinitum.
Scientists are not the ones telling you this. The people telling you this are the same ones that inject themselves into every conversation and try to convince you to buy things you don’t need.
It’s pretty much a trope that coffee has been bad for us one week and then good for us again the next week, ad infinitum.
It would be very amusing to see the world through your eyes.
How exactly do you think science works? Do you think that someone asks a question, and then scientists all get together in a single meeting to answer that question, and then they post the answer and claim it is the full and unquestionable truth?
No, that would be ridiculous. Instead, science is performed by millions of individual scientists, who each seek to understand some particular aspect of reality just a little bit better. They perform discovery, form a hypothesis, test the hypothesis, and then publish their results for the world to review.
There is no illuminati-style organization that coordinates all of the scientists, and their findings, together. Thus, one thousand different studies about various effects of coffee upon human health might be performed, and they might all study slightly different aspects of the topic, or test things in different ways. This in no way implies that the scientific method is flawed, or that “scientists” are just a bunch of goofy mind-changers who can never quite figure out which way is up when it comes to figuring out what science actually means.
This is to be expected for something as complex as science, unless you have an extraordinarily simple mind.
The predictions of science led to every single thing about whatever device you’re typing this drivel on. They led to the microwave you nuked your dinner in and likely to most of the food you put in there. They also led to whatever lifesaving treatments have kept you from dying from any of the numerous ailments that left most families with at least one dead child until very recently. They’re why you don’t have smallpox and never will.
Absent the predictions of science, you live in a hut farming the same land your great grandfather did for the same wealthy landowner. Just exactly how did the predictions of science “not live up to the hype”?
I have a ring doorbell and cameras and they’re game changers. IDK why you wouldn’t want the police to have access. Are you going to self-investigate crimes?
…our concern is not when it’s used correctly, but when it’s misused....just like guns, drugs, motor-vehicles....when used responsibly?…fine…when a repeat offender drunk driver crashes in your car, a huge issue. Like guns and vehicles we need regulations.
Perhaps make it a crime to show footage from another person’s property unless there is a warrant or reasonable suspicion of a crime committed?. So yeah, you catch someone stealing your neighbor’s packages (I live in the city, so our front doors are less than 50 feet apart), you’re a hero. You use it to show your neighbor her husband had a visitor when she’s not in town?…you’re human trash and should be charged with a misdemeanor and banned from using surveillance cameras in public for a year.
Back in the real world, cops have been asking for privately owned surveillance recordings to help with investigations since video recording became a thing. And the very reason people (usually businesses) have set up video surveillance was to deter crime and help track down crooks who were insufficiently deterred.
And they are welcome to continue to ask (I’ve actually given them video a couple of times), or they could even get a warrant, all without me becoming an involuntary instrument of questionable state surveillance. It actually works pretty well as it is IMO.
I don’t give a shit about the cops knowing things about me. I don’t commit crimes.
This is literally the kind of thinking that got us here, to the point of surveilance capitalism. Because credulous people like you thing that wanting privacy means someone is doing something nefarious. How’s that worked out?
I’m sure that somewhere buried in the terms and conditions is a statement that allows Amazon AI to analyze your video footage for products that they can monetize.
That way, the next time you log into amazon.com, they can recommend winter floor mats for the 2018 Toyota RAV-4 they see in your driveway and flea and tick medication for the golden retriever that you take for walks every afternoon.
Oh, and if those flowers are looking a bit wilted come spring, maybe they should recommend some fertilizer as well.
Dude, the discussion is about a commodity product millions of people are buying and using that requires next to zero technical aptitude.
There’s always a few adorable lunkheads who chime on these discussions about how responsible and well reasoned their decisions are, but for whatever reason they’re unable to spot why that is fully orthogonal to the expressed concern. Unless you actually believe there is some reality in which the solution to the expressed concern is simply that if you just chime in enough, everyone is gunna just switch over to what they’re doing?
Like in this case the problem of 10 million Ring Doorbell owners is that 10 million Ring Doorbell owners are just find out about UniFi, buy a NAS, and replace their doorbells with Ubiquiti doorbells or cameras? (At like, generously speaking, 10 times the cost. Have fun running that PoE, grandma!)
Honestly, I’m curious why you think your UniFi/NAS setup is germane to this discussion.
The Linux Mint developers say they are considering adopting a longer development cycle, arguing that the project’s current six month cadence plus LMDE releases leaves too little room for deeper work. In a recent update, the team reflected on its incremental philosophy, independence from upstream decisions like Snap, and heavy investment in Cinnamon and XApp. While the release process “works very well” and delivers steady improvements, they admit it consumes significant time in testing, fixing, and shipping, potentially capping ambition.
Mint’s next release will be based on a new Ubuntu LTS, and the team says it is seriously interested in stretching the development window. The stated goal is to free up resources for more substantial development rather than constant release management. Whether this signals bigger technical changes or simply acknowledges bandwidth limits for a small team remains unclear, but it marks a notable rethink of one of desktop Linux’s most consistent release rhythms.
The community over at Linux Mint is showing the pressure. Under the gun, and unable to process even basic issues, they turn on users and blame them for problems and bugs they experience, telling them their use case is flawed when the reality is they just don’t have the resources to deal with the issue. Now, not having the resources is one thing, and a fair response. But turning it back on the user and telling them their use case is flawed when they experience is the tail wagging the dog.
Another community I saw this in for a long time, and I really thought the project would implode, was the Palemoon browser. They got behind when webcomponents became a thing and they could keep up with changes. They too would blame the user when yet another web site that didn’t work on the browser was encountered, telling them they should be using the site, should complain about the site, and why would they need a site like that anyway??
Palemoon dragged themselves out of it. They buckled down, and it’s almost back to being a useful browser again. But the community at Mint concerns me. They are on the down swing. User blaming and load shedding are just symptoms of a larger issue. Too much work for too few volunteers. They also don’t have a good end-to-end workflow strategy. By that I mean in many cases they don’t seem to treat the OS as a coherent whole that is used for actual workflows from beginning to end. Pieces that have no replacement are deprecated while resources are spent on pieces that have many duplicates.
I’m concerned.
As someone who always waits for the “xx.3” versions (and often skips the even ones), I do too.
I’ve been using Linux since the 90s and when I was younger, I loved tweaking and getting the newest stuff. But these days I want it to “just work”(tm) and not have the UI and features not change a lot.
Yes. OS providers like Microsoft have forgotten the purpose of an operating system, They believe that the purpose of computing is the operating system, when in fact, it is supposed to allow us to run the programs we work with, then get the hell out of the way.
Maybe yearly feature releases for Mint.
Mint is the best out of the box experience for me, and just a hassle-free daily driver. The community is so nice, friendly, and helpful, it is the opposite of the stereotype of just answering “RTFM” and whatever criticisms people had about forums in the 90s. I hope it stays strong, I donate every time I do a new install or upgrade to a new version. In case it does languish, is there anything anyone would recommend that ticks all the same boxes for being a friendly end user desktop experience with a classic Windows 2000-like desktop that has support/compatibility with such a wide and fairly current and stable variety of packages (debian)?
I’m going to be teaching a class in Linux operations, and that RTFM issue morphed into a noob asking a question, then an experienced user answering “Oh, that’s easy!” then launching into a solution that leaves the noob more confused than before. Funny thing is, while canvassing for students, I got a lot of more experienced people who offer to teach.
And here’s where it gets odd. I have picked a person to assist with teaching. A woman who pretty much lives in Terminal. I do both GUI and terminal, and plan on learning from her as well. And part of the reason why I chose her is that she isn’t doing the typical guy thing. She’s an apt teacher. Most guys I know want to impress others with how much they know, more than teach others.
Yes. OS providers like Microsoft have forgotten the purpose of an operating system, They believe that the purpose of computing is the operating system,
Not really, Microsoft believes the purpose of an operating system is to a) generate income for Microsoft, and b) generate tons of personal data they can sell to advertisers and AI con artists.
OS providers like Microsoft have forgotten the purpose of an operating system, They believe that the purpose of computing is the operating system, when in fact, it is supposed to allow us to run the programs we work with, then get the hell out of the way.
Indeed. The purpose of an OS is to make things possible and to bother you are little as possible. Same, incidentally, for Office programs. MS seems to instead optimize “engagement” with their OS and Office programs, i.e. they waste as much of your time as possible with far too deep menu structures, changing things around, minimal customization for users, low/no customization persistence, and other crap that makes their stuff a permanent load on your attention capacity.
Essentially, they are doing “attention economy” instead of “professional tool economy” and it is a massive problem now. The second indicator is that reliability and security are slowly getting worse and worse. They probably cannot fix that anymore and hence need to be replaced. In Europe, that process has started.
Continued global heating could trigger climate tipping points, leading to a cascade of further tipping points and feedback loops, they said. This would lock the world into a new and hellish “hothouse Earth” climate far worse than the 2-3C temperature rise the world is on track to reach.
The climate would also be very different to the benign conditions of the past 11,000 years, during which the whole of human civilisation developed. At just 1.3C of global heating in recent years, extreme weather is already taking lives and destroying livelihoods across the globe. At 3-4C, “the economy and society will cease to function as we know it,” scientists said last week, but a hothouse Earth would be even more fiery. The public and politicians were largely unaware of the risk of passing the point of no return, the researchers said.
The group said they were issuing their warning because while rapid and immediate cuts to fossil fuel burning were challenging, reversing course was likely to be impossible once on the path to a hothouse Earth, even if emissions were eventually slashed. It was difficult to predict when climate tipping points would be triggered, making precaution vital, said Dr Christopher Wolf, a scientist at Terrestrial Ecosystems Research Associates in the US. Wolf is a member of a study team that includes Prof Johan Rockstrom at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany and Prof Hans Joachim Schellnhuber at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria.
Name one climate prediction over the last 40 years that came close to truth.
Here’s an analysis of how the major models have preformed, with respect to global mean surface temperature predictions.
The one from the early 80s was a bit conservative, but they’ve all been pretty close since then.
Perhaps you can link to a few of these papers you think got it wrong?
In 2006, former vice-president Al Gore projected that unless drastic measures were implemented, the planet would hit an irreversible “point of no return” by 2016. Game over.
We’ve past 350 ppm of CO2, which is the level that will come with the high-cost high casualty impacts of greater than 1.5C of warming. Currently we’re at 427 ppm.
So Gore hasn’t been shown to be wrong. Perhaps the problems is that you don’t understand that it takes decades for half the warming from an increase in CO2 to have occurred. Ice-albedo feedback in particular takes centuries.
Nor Pachuri.
James Hansen, drew a line in the sand testifying before Congress in June 2008, on the dangers of greenhouse gases: “We’re toast if we don’t get on a very different path. This is the last chance.”
Do you have any evidence that he was wrong? Or are you hoping, without basing that hope on any facts that you can point to?
You do realize they’ll never “eat” those costs, right? They’ll pass them on to you the consumer and maintain their profits and bonuses. I dislike being that cynical, but the tariffs have shown us extra costs are passed on.
You are indeed being overly cynical. You’re right that they don’t want to eat those costs, but you’re missing that they also don’t want to lose market share (and therefore sales) to a competitor who is able to charge less because the competitor doesn’t incur those costs.
Which is to say, if there is an alternative way to provide the same (or similar) product cheaper by reducing/avoiding expensive CO2 emissions, they’ll switch to that, as a way to remain competitive. Which is the desired outcome.
Based on my own older family members who voted for Trump, I don’t believe they did so because they didn’t care, but because they were deceived.
The thing is, they wanted to be deceived — that gave them an out. Now they can go to their graves with a clear conscience, because they “know” global warming is a myth and therefore they didn’t really doom their grandchildren. That’s all they wanted, is some comforting lies that would give them permission to not worry about it.
Will it be this utter hell some are predicting? Probably not. But it will be toasty. An odd thing is some places will get colder.
If you consider only the climate itself, then it probably won’t be utter hell — large portions of the Earth will still be perfectly livable.
But at the same time — large, currently highly populated portions of the Earth will no longer be livable, and all of those dispossessed people are going to have to go somewhere else, and compete for the remaining resources of the places that remain livable… which means refugee flows, and famine, and xenophobia, and violence, and war. That’s where the utter hell is going to come from. Too many mouths chasing not enough grain.
We are 10 years past Al Gores, “Point of no return”. So, are you saying that you think that there is no longer any action we can take that would avoid a complete disaster?
Every kilogram of CO2 makes it worse. But the opportunity to keep the earth below 1.5 degrees of warming, passed about the time Gore was speaking of. 8 degrees of warming is worse than 7.5 degrees of warming.
Ice sheets are growing.
It blows me away that you can post in a thread with multiple links to how much the ice sheets are shedding mass, and claim that the Ice sheets are growing.
[B]etween 2002 and 2025, Antarctica shed approximately 135 gigatons of ice per year.
[B]etween 2002 and 2025, Greenland shed approximately 264 gigatons of ice per year.
As for Nor, you named him but typed nothing.
Nor Pachuri, as in neither Pachuri. As in “you haven’t provided evidence that he was wrong either”.
Because probably he was the head of the UN climate panel, supposedly an EXPERT, and he stated that the point of no return was 4 years earlier than Gore.
That’s not from his work. His background is engineering and economics. The IPCC is half a dozen people. The EXPERTS are the thousands of scientists who volunteer their time to the working groups.
But he’s wasn’t wrong either.
X year passes, same statements made, only change is now it is Y year!
Can you please link me to a couple or few instances of where the same statements have been published by a scientific body, but the year backdated?
Because a lot of the other stuff you’ve said here has been opposite to the facts, so I worry that you’re mistaken about this too.
Look at what they implement if you want to know why they yell. Massive, dirty lithium mines, and other heavy metal mining operations stripping the earth for electric car batteries.
Oh, good to see you’re concerned about the environment. Is it only the impact of lithium mines that concerns you, and those heavy metals that are used for batteries? Because Humanity uses many resources for many things.
A single 3 Megawatt (MW) wind turbine requires 335 tons of steel, 4.7 tons of copper, 3 tons of aluminum, 2 tons of rare earths and 1,200 tons of concrete.
Infrastructure takes resources. Roads. Coal Plants. Bridges. Wind Turbines. Wind turbines produce the cheapest electricity there is with no fuel costs, no fuel logistics, and without greenhouse emissions during operation. You’re welcome to be a luddite, but if you’re concerned about concrete, shouldn’t you start complaining about roads?
They cost more in energy, created mostly by fossil fuels to create than they will ever offset.
Those massive composite blades last 20 -25 years and to this date they have no idea how to recycle any of the blade.
Carbon fibre and fibreglass aren’t easy to recycle, but:
1) Not impossible: Carbon Rivers Makes Wind Turbine Blade Recycling and Upcycling a Reality With Support From DOE
2) Represent nearly no part of the mass of the turbine 90% or so of which can be recycled
We are regulating heavily, subsidizing and diverting energy to, “Green Technologies” that kill the environment.
No mate. That’s fossil fuels
The U.S. economy experienced almost zero job growth in 2025, according to revised federal data. On a more encouraging note: hiring has picked up in 2026. Preliminary data had indicated that the U.S. economy added 584,000 jobs last year. But the Bureau of Labor Statistics revised that number after it received additional state data, and found that the labor market had added 181,000 jobs in all of 2025. This is far fewer than the 1.46 million jobs that were added in 2024.
One bright spot was last month, when hiring increased by 130,000 roles. This was significantly more than the 55,000 additions that had been expected by economists. “Job gains occurred in health care, social assistance, and construction, while federal government and financial activities lost jobs,” BLS said in a statement.
Zero job growth is good for the economy
If the Democrats get a large enough wave, ie. they get 60 senate seats and the house, do you think they will remove Trump and Vance from office, thus elevating the Speaker (who will be a Democrat, whoever that may be)?
I mean, I can’t see why they shouldn’t do that, but do you think they will?
…are far more fun than ones who eat right, exercise, contribute to their 401k, avoid credit card debt and balance their checkbook. The Democrats are the responsible college girls with their natural tits and hair color. The Republican party has degraded into the equivalent of 19yo party girls with too many tattoos at Daytona Spring Break, who will be dancing the pole once they hit 21. Adulting sucks. Promising tax breaks you can’t afford? That’s a party! Rounding up the “illegals” with paramilitary force to round up some underpaid grocery baggers? That’s fucking fun if you’re inclined to such things. Some fucking braindead roid-abusing 72 yo anti-vax macho natural living fitness freak telling you to try all the supplements advertised on Joe Rogan’s Podcast is far more fun than an actual physician telling you to take positive steps towards your health in conjunction with medical science.
The Democrats are cursed with being a responsible adult party. They attempt to balance budgets and pass policy and make the world a better place. Some think they’re too liberal (they’re honestly VERY centrist if you listen to actual elected DNC politicians instead of twitter stereotypes provided by Fox News). They know that if they’re elected, the adults that voted for them will hold them accountable. Republicans? The adults left that party LONG ago. Now they can promise whatever they want and do whatever they want and it will barely matter.
Your tariff policy is a failure?…no problem.
The economy is in a recession?…no problem.
ICE raids are pointless, ineffective theater and insanely expensive?…no problem.
Cowering to Russia, our long time foe, over and over?…no problem.
The Democrats lose votes when they fail. Rational voters vote Democrat and don’t when the Democrats don’t deliver. Republicans appeal to emotion only, fail every time they’re in office and basically never lose their voters…when they fail, it’s because they fail so spectacularly and leave the economy in such shambles that the rational adults that are displeased with the Democrats get off their ass and vote. Their voters will NEVER abandon the party, no matter how badly they fail or deviate from the stated ideals of the voter. It’s depressing, but it’s life. There’s no liberal or conservative anymore. Fox news destroyed 10-15 years ago. Now we have a party of grifters and loons and a party for everyone else. No one rationally benefits from Republican administrations beyond the top 1% of earners. Billionaires soak up all those tax breaks…everyone else watches their quality of live and income go down…institutions fail, etc. Nothing about today’s Republican Party is actually conservative, certainly not fiscally.
Pot, Meet Kettle
Excuese me, but aren’t these behaviors already baked right into Windows 11?