Looking at your examples, and I have to object at putting scratch in there.

My kids use it in clubs, and it’s great for getting algorithmic basics down before the keyboard proficiency is there for real coding.

More like those in Runaway

Why the down vote? Average age in gaza is 19 (yes mean is not median but still). This means that you have a good chance that a large proportion of those killed were kids (and almost all weren’t of voting age last time gaza had an election).

It takes less fuel to eject him out of the solar system. No need to be wasteful.

No, that last one’s zoophiliac, but probably works too.

Buy them a ticket to Russia, but make sure it’s on one of those Aeroflot jets that don’t have brakes any more…

This reminds me of am episode of Love Death and Robots

Yes and no.

The simple fact that you’re not using IE6 on MSN with Bing search to access a Windows server is more or less proof that the constraints placed on Microsoft at that time did actually have an impact (even if I felt robbed that the company wasn’t split up at the time).

Today the one thing Microsoft is still dominante in is Office software (and even then Google docs is snapping at their heals).

OS? Android is more popular than windows Server OS? Linux rules the roost Browser? Chrome

The company that really needs scrutiny ATM is Google.

You got it wrong, it’s:

That didn't happen.
And if it did, it wasn't that bad.
And if it was, that's not a big deal.
And if it is, that's not my fault.
And if it was, I didn't mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it.

(no not all conservatives/climate change deniers are narcissists but the overlap is interesting)

I’d totally be down for that kind of community.

DM me if you set it up too.

The point is that they’ve established a relationship between o16 levels and temperature, so if you’ve got twice the o16 then say it was 25% warmer (made up ratio, I haven’t read the study).

This doesn’t tell us what the air temperature was, but it does tell us what it wasn’t (IE upper and lower bounds).

When you have several of these proxies it helps narrow down the temperature range (think how your god works better when you have more satellites).

Now if you know that the last seven days are the hottest on record and you know from your proxies that you are outside of temperatures of the past 100k years then it’s a pretty safe bet to state that we’re at the hottest time in the past 100k years.

There is no melodrama or lying in this fact, unfortunately.

Personally, I’ve just switched to using https://www.understandingwar.org/ for my daily update and https://warontherocks.com/ for the deep dives.

The amount of useful information is similar, and the signal to noise ratio is far better.