Depending on the context, this may or may not be a false dichotomy.

If considering the act of voting in an election in a country with a two party system, each with a different shade of neoliberalism, then there are two choices realistically, and picking the lesser evil is a decent moral choice.

If considering other countries or primaries where there are more than two options polling above 2%, then it’d be a false dichotomy.

Fossil fuel are getting progressively harder to produce, since easily accessible oil and gas fields were the first to be exploited, and are (soon to be) depleted, leaving hard to reach ones. So they’re getting more expensive even without taxing them.

Renewable sources are getting progressively cheaper.

The EU is planning to enforce CBAM soon, and other may follow and tax import from country that have 0 carbon tax.

So even if they’re not motivated for dumb political reasons, they’re going to feel more and more financial pressure.

The years is 2025, and the USA is betting on early 20th century energy sources.

Guess what happens next.

RAOP stands for Remote Audio Output Protocol and is the key to enabling Airplay on Linux

https://medium.com/@ed.sav/enabling-airplay-from-linux-1f6358c9ca1c

Ecosystem collapse

A non-zero number of employees scripted random daily prompts to maintain LLM usage stars.

Lab grown meat may increase emissions:

Lab-Grown Meat’s Carbon Footprint Potentially Worse Than Retail Beef

It shouldn’t be produced on mass scale unless we’re confident it would decrease emissions.

Meanwhile it’s better to promote vegarian or flexitarian diets as less carbon-intensive and more ethical options.

Good question.

The paper’s PDF give clearer, less click-baity information on efficiency:

The applied bias photon-to-current efficiency (ABPE) of the Ni(OH)2/Co3O4/3C-SiC photoanode reached 0.47% at 0.65V vs RHE, which is 15.6 and 1.8 times higher than that of the 3C-SiC and Co3O4/3C-SiC photoanodes, respectively (Figure 4b).

A 8x increase is good progress for that specific technique, but 0.47% is very low efficiency. There’s still ways to go.

Murder mittens

Referencing this parody as if it’s a serious study should be ground the rejection or retraction.

I wonder if journals and reviewers have tools to help detect fake and/or retracted study in references. Some already screen for the phrase “vegetative electron microscopy”.

Could it be another microwave hoven?

Doomscrolling can decrease the motivation to act, contribute to anxiety and analysis paralysis.

Banning communities can be helpful to avoid those that fuel doomscrolling rather than action.

Robert F. Kennedy, long time vaccine scaremongerer, was appointed to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

He’s already done various bad things, he’s likely to do more bad and stupid things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3j9muCo4o0

Walmart did not respond to reporters’ requests to explain the exit.

More reporters and customers should ask until they give a satisfactory answer.

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FIFA appears to be doing dynamic pricing, which imply cashing in on high stake matches, and making much less money on other matches.

If they’re not comfortable with this, they could stop dynamic pricing.

Interesting question. Altough trying this with HIV first is a good first choice in term of priority.

They’re not assholes. If this is the work of the federal gouvernment then they’re just following the law.

A work of the United States government is defined by the United States copyright law, as “a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person’s official duties”.[1] Under section 105 of the Copyright Act of 1976,[2] such works are not entitled to domestic copyright protection under U.S. law and are therefore in the public domain.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_works_by_the_federal_government_of_the_United_States

That’s promising but the cure is years aways, if possible at all.

Until then, keep using condoms and/or PreP.

Further research will be needed to determine whether revealing the virus is enough to allow the body’s immune system to deal with it, or whether the technology will need to be combined with other therapies to eliminate HIV from the body.

The study is laboratory based and was carried out in cells donated by HIV patients. The path to using the technology as part of a cure for patients is long, and would require successful tests in animals followed by safety trials in humans, likely to take years, before efficacy trials could even begin.

I guess the amount of enthalpy or energy required to summon a rabbit