Tonnes of CO2e, averages:

 1.60 a roundtrip transatlantic flight
 2.40 one year car use
58.60 one year for every child you have

Chart, Wynes et al. 2017

Chart, Wynes et al. 2017

The 2 trillion figure is the minimum: it could be more than 6 trillion every year, and the elephant in the room is that more than half of those are factory farmed - which means humans are responsible for torturing them their entire lives.

“for the animals, it is an eternal Treblinka” - Isaac Bashevis Singer

Aren’t the A and Q keys also at terrible positions?

Seems like they’re banned in several countries and by several providers: https://web.archive.org/web/20250531154905/https://catbox.moe/faq.php

My apologies to Catbox, I thought they were requiring cookies or cross-site-scripting

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Scientists didn’t become pickier - they just later found that Pluto was in a belt of thousands of massive object (called the Kuiper belt), like the asteroid belt but much bigger.

When Ceres was discovered in 1801, it was thought to be a comet, later a planet, but after discovering it was one of many asteroids in the asteroid belt (which it wasn’t big enough to clear), they realized it wasn’t a planet.

When Pluto was first discovered in 1930, it was in a similar situation as Ceres and thought of as a planet, but when other Kuiper belt objects started to be discovered by 1992, they realized Pluto also wasn’t a planet.

If I remember correctly I had the same start: tested Knoppix, tried Mandrake for a short time, then Ubuntu which I used for several years until Gnome 3 when I switched to Xubuntu for several years, but when snap happened I tried Debian, then Mint for a while, but I’m now trying MX.

In South Africa, the law determines that if something’s labeled “Product of South Africa” it can’t have any imported ingredients (tho the packaging can be imported).

“Produced in South Africa” can have imported ingredients - and I’ve been boycotting almost all of that because of the omnicidal carbon footprint of importing things. It’s easier in this country to live ethically tho because we can grow almost everything we need: from food to textiles; tho our energy production is some of the most unethical in the world.

“All it takes for evil to succeed, is good people to say, “it’s just business.”” - Janet Leahy, Michael Reisz

It’ll be interesting to see a character following the teachings of Jesus Christ, like

• Luke 16:13 “You cannot serve both God and money.”
• Mark 10:21 “Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor”
• Matthew 5:39 “If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also.”
• Matthew 5:44 “love your enemies”

So there’s no chance the character will be a capitalist, troop-supporting, neo-Nazi. Right?

Try “to function as a society” when the biosphere becomes unlivable. The biggest and root cause of catastrophic anthropogenic climate change is human overpopulation:

• https://phys.org/news/2023-04-population-growth-main-driver-carbon.html
• https://interactive.guim.co.uk/uploader/embed/2017/07/co2_saved/giv-3902H9Q7lx2HE5M7/

The fact that the biggest and root cause of a mass extinction event is being reduced, is a good thing.

Because they blocked you? Maybe they don’t want to see posts from people who don’t summarize the articles in the subject/title?

(The current subject is from the source, “Microsoft Follows Google on a Controversial Decision - gHacks Tech News”.)

I haven’t seen any reliable sources say this yet.

An article from February 3 https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/minerals/?hilite=minerals by the country’s public broadcaster, quotes the Minister of Minerals and Petroleum Resources, Gwede Mantashe, saying South Africa’s minerals should be withheld from US, but I’ve seen no reports that it actually will be.

I also couldn’t find anything at the government’s website https://www.gov.za/, nor via DDG at Reuters or AP.

When I did a search for “what happens after death” with double quotes at google.com and at google.co.in, the 1st 2 sentences at the top of the page was a quote from an article at Psychology Today mentioning the superstitious idea of heaven:

“Key points. A common view is that after death, the soul ascends to heaven.”

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22% inflation vs 700% increase for the CEO between 2016 and 2022?

If you think your grandparents would prefer the Windows 8 or macOS type UI, then GNOME is the way.

I think Xfce or MATE is vastly better tho.

It may mean the user doesn’t think their use is similar enough to the people who make the distro/DE, or trust the distro makers’ decision making ability.

If a distros’ makers think snaps are a good idea, or that the distro shouldn’t by default show available security updates, or have a UI that hides how many open instances there are of a program unless you hover over an icon, or hides the titles of those open programs, or hides panels; then the way I use a PC is too different from the way they do - and there are likely more things in the background that we disagree with which can’t as easily be changed like UI settings.

a full and clear separation from any potential conflict of interest (while noble) is how projects die.

There are worse things than death, like being successful by screwing people over and/or making the biosphere unlivable.