I’m not catholic, but I do like the fact that artillery has its own patron saint.

Carbon capture is needed in the long term, so it’s good that technologies for it are already being developed. Ending emissions isn’t enough, we need to also remove the GHG’s that are already up in the air. But that comes later. The most pressing thing currently is to remove emissions, or to stop shitting on the floor, as Adam put it.

Even then, I am sceptical about the scalability of DAC solutions. Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal (mCDR) seems more scalable, like building huge platforms for seaweeds to grow on, and then sinking them and their stored carbon into the depths of the ocean.

Obligatory Adam Something video on these things.

It would be more effective to just move location agnostic, power consuming stuff like data centres to Iceland to run on the green energy instead of sucking up power from grids with fossil fuels in them.

A good video by Adam Something on the subject.

Snufkin is a wanderer who cannot be contained.

Maybe in some places, but in most of Europe at least, speaking two languages is considered the norm if not the bare minimum.

A bit late, but having now just watched the movie, I can say that it’s probably the best movie I’ve seen about absurdism. Loved it.

Half-Earth perhaps, but I didn’t see much actual solarpunk. The only society we see seems to prefer automated and sterile mass agriculture as well as consumer capitalism (the protagonist is a product). I suppose the attempt to rebel against this given purpose could count as punk, but is it solarpunk? The story has very little to say about society.

Visually it was beautiful, but the pacing felt a bit too fast for my adult brain.

Yes, ahead of what was practically feasible.

Ai generated imagery.

(The lines on the road all conveniently end when they are behind someone)

A paragraph from the article that I considered particularly relevant:

"The biggest difficulty is evidentiary, explains Gas. Using evidence to link a specific crime to a specific defendant when dealing with dozens of crime scenes, where hundreds of suspects were caught and thousands of offenses were committed, is almost impossible. “The usual laws of evidence are not suitable for this event. There are no organized chains of evidence, there is no one who filmed the videos you want to present in court.”

It’s not only about what happened, but also about exactly who committed what crime. But yes, the paragraphs posted here are quite damning.

No. An object within the event horizon is still reflecting light just as it was before falling in. The only difference is in relation to where that reflected light can or cannot go from there.

That is what I said, yes.

The point being that the event horizon deals with the structure of spacetime, while reflectivity is a material property. An object doesn’t get painted with vantablack when it passes the event horizon.

The event horizon only obscures objects that are inside it, it has nothing to do with reflectivity of the object itself.

An observer situated between the singularity and an object within the event horizon could still intercept the light reflected from said object.

No event horizon is made up of matter. Do you mean the matter around and behind the black hole, by which the location and size of the black hole can be inferred?

Ahchchcually USA has by far the most metal bands, but yeah Finland leads the per capita list by far.

The event horizon isn’t a physical object. Does a singularity reflect light? (I’m guessing it’s still a no)

Most philosophers (all who were/are not nihilists) would disagree with you here. You can’t say that “they just didn’t think hard enough about it”, just because they arrived at different conclusions.

That’s one of the neat things about philosophy: There is no absolutely true framework or theory. It’s all just different ways of looking at things.

I may be out of the loop:

What’s up with .ml?

Yeah they’re public info, ironically exactly to prevent “accidents” like this.