Muehe

As some people do not seem to understand sarcasm at all: they mean the opposite of what is stated.

Username checks out. /s

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ZL;NG: Webp hat gerade einen 0-Tag-Käfer am Hals, aktualisieren Sie einmal alle Ihre Weichware.
(Nein wirklich, das geht einmal quer durch den Softwarestack, Browser, Dateivorschaubilder im OS, ImageMagick, etc. pp.)

Well here is where my PhD in tracking stuff on paper, which gets handed out in triplicate to every German child at birth, comes in handy. The signature line customarily includes the date again because printing date and signing date (and thus validity) might differ. And yes, I know this is not applicable in a restaurant (hopefully), but that's generally the reason when it occurs.

When ridiculing the dystopian mess that is the "social credit score" system in China it is good to always remember that it is called like that because it was based of the "credit score" system used in many libertarian countries, where it is regularly used to deny access to essentials of societal life, like housing, energy, and communication.

Good pirates firewall their loot anyway.

As a lowly kbin peasant this mis-feature hasn't reached me yet. No implicit argument to authority over here.

Interesting, not sure where to see that though. I checked the modlog, this person was not banned (from here).

Apparently OP banned me for saying their meme doesn’t make sense…

I don't think OP can ban you, just block you. And considering in this comment you implied they are stupid, while in your other comment you implied they are straight up lying, it wouldn't surprise me.

Yeah it helps the Ukrainians, but that’s the only valid use, and 4000+ satellites for basically only war seems like a bad idea. Cell phone 5G service will be cheaper in peacetime, and wartime has other communication platforms.

Uhh sorry but this line of thought seems pretty incoherent. Its use case clearly goes beyond just war (e.g. coverage of rural and wild areas where a land line or 5G will not be economical), since StarLink has gone online pretty much every global super power has started or announced building their own constellations, and during wartime you want to have as much redundancy in your systems as you can get, especially so in your lines of communication. And Ukraine is using it right now, during wartime. I can't follow this logic at all.

I meant scientists did too. They thought it would take way longer to turn bad than it actually did, at least most of them thought so. Would probably be interesting to do a meta-study on how much the corridor of estimates narrowed or widened in the IPCC reports over the years, and in which general direction they trended.

To my knowledge yes, "we" did. Actual measurements have turned out to be on the pessimistic end of the spectrum of predictions or beyond consistently. The first IPCC report that got really into doomerism was the one from 2021, that was supposedly leaked for fear of political censorship:

IPCC steps up warning on climate tipping points in leaked draft report

Scientist for the first twenty years of my life:

We are destroying the only ecosystem supporting human life, it's going to start being really bad in a hundred years.

Scientists for the last ten years of my life:

Haha, we might have been a bit optimistic on that estimate, this new data looks really bad. Oops.

Anti-doomers the whole time:

Hey don't be alarmist, you will just make the public apathetic and nothing will get done.

The public:

The fuck are these fucking idiots sitting in the god-damn road for? I gotta get to work, move it!

Politicians:

*doing nothing*