Pedophiles ruin everything.

The patient’s skeleton was missing, and the doctor was never heard from again.

If there’s one great way to turn people either hard left or hard right, that would be it. Impoverish them. Take away from them what their own parents took for granted.

afraid the gays are going to out-breed you (not even kidding, they really “think” that)

Do, uh, do they understand how reproduction works, or…?

afraid what you want won’t be what everyone does, afraid other people are smarter or more capable

Well, yeah, that’s almost certainly true.

afraid that when you die you won’t get magicked somewhere to live forever.

Atheists would say that’s true too.

My head isn’t inside an fMRI machine, nor is my phone connected to one, so they still can’t read my mind with my phone.

Fear not though:

Jerry Tang, a doctoral student at the University of Texas at Austin and a co-author, said: “We take very seriously the concerns that it could be used for bad purposes and have worked to avoid that. We want to make sure people only use these types of technologies when they want to and that it helps them.”

they’re taking it seriously

Yeah, that’s not even remotely reassuring. The instant it becomes feasible to read minds on a large scale, it will be immediately put to use for government surveillance and commercial exploitation. No one will give a single [expletive] about the objections of some college students. My only hope is to be dead before then.

That doesn’t scare me, because I know full well that neuroscience is nowhere near advanced enough to read minds.

When that day comes, however…

I’m afraid you are severely mistaken. This is only the sixth mass extinction in Earth’s history, and the first one that was caused by a species that knew what it was doing. Even on the scale of billions of years, what’s going on right now is highly unusual.

Nor would any of the other mass-extinction events have been considered “life proceeds as normal”, if there were any humans around to witness them. Certainly a huge asteroid hitting the planet and shrouding it in dust for years would have turned some heads.

You want to take out that CO2, you need to spend the same amount of energy to take it back.

Non sequitur. Nobody said we had to turn atmospheric carbon back into the same fuel it originally came out of.

Electrical trucks are not worth it because of battery weight.

This is only an issue for long-haul trucks, so, obvious solution: electric trains. No battery required.

Also, battery fires are a BITCH and are almost impossible to put out. All it takes is one electrical fire from a car in a tunnel that will kill a few hundred people to make people reconsider battery cars. Now imagine trucks.

There are plenty of EVs on the road already. If that was as likely as you’re trying to make it sound, it would have happened many times already.

Yeah, lithium-ion batteries are volatile, but they aren’t that volatile. Solid-state batteries are even less so.

retards (yes, that is the acceptable word for people that have a good brain but refuse to use it)

I won’t comment on whether it’s acceptable, but it definitely isn’t correct. The R word refers to people whose brains are impaired, not merely underused.

Call me cynical all you like but I see a humanity ending problem in front of us and it can be solved but share holders and the rich must be kept happy before that!

That’s the real problem, not the technology. We can solve this problem. We don’t even have to sacrifice our modern civilization and creature comforts to do it. But we won’t, because some very lucrative businesses would become obsolete in the process, and their owners would sooner burn down the world and rule over the ashes than tolerate the loss of their wealth.

Most rich people don’t just stand around outside waiting to get shot. Especially not if they know someone is gunning for them. They may be morally bankrupt, but they’re not stupid.

Even if we stop pumping carbon in the air tomorrow it will still take centuries until the atmosphere is back to normal, barring any carbon capture.

That would, however, stop it from getting any worse, which is kind of a big deal because it’s getting worse at a frightening rate.

Making all out cars electrical is also cute. It’s a nice thought if it weren’t that all that electricity still mostly comes from CO2 emitting sources so including conversion losses electrical cars may actually send more CO2 in the atmosphere.

You severely overestimate the energy efficiency of gasoline engines. A big reason to get rid of them is not only the fuel they burn, but how much of it they waste.

We need nuclear power plants like there is no tomorrow in all countries, even the “bad” ones.

You severely underestimate the resources required to build those. It costs some $20 billion to build one nuclear power plant. There’s a reason everybody’s focusing on solar and wind.

Small modular reactors may be cheaper, but they also generate huge amounts of radioactive waste. Radioactive waste isn’t a serious problem now, but it will be if we start powering everything with SMRs.

Atom cracking will not save us. Not unless there’s some kind of breakthrough.

We will likely end up with some form of atmospheric engineering where we’re going to meas with the atmosphere, seeding clouds, or pumping other chemicals in there that negate the effects of CO2. I’m unsure what the results of that will be though

1. It works.
2. Big Oil chants “spray, baby, spray!”
3. It works too well. Global freeze occurs. Everybody dies. Game over.

Either way, you and I will NOT see the end of this, that is for our children’s children

Have you stepped outside at any point in the last several years? Global warming is no longer a looming future threat for someone else to deal with. It’s here and now.

Nothing changes and life proceeds as normal? Have you stepped outside in the last few years? Things are already changing.

Why do people like Docker so much, anyway? Seems to me like it’s just static linking with extra steps and extra problems.

It’s basically the new Electron, without most of the bloat of the old Electron. Pretty sweet deal for app developers who need to write an app for both desktops and phones.

If you have an Windows account you also can recover it from any desaster with one click, restoring the system.

Only if there’s enough of the operating system left to successfully boot and restore itself. If not, good luck.

I can resuscitate a broken Debian setup by booting a USB installer and reinstalling all of the packages on it, assuming the dpkg database /var/lib/dpkg/status is still intact. I can also back up the entire system, apps and all, and later restore everything; there are no hidden secret invisible file shenanigans like on Windows.

“Bad elf magic” isn’t a particularly helpful error message. (It means a shared library couldn’t be loaded because it’s corrupt, for a different kind of machine, built for a very different dynamic linker, or something along those lines.)

This is why I use Aptitude and review all proposed changes (other than straight package upgrades) before proceeding. Blindly running stuff like apt full-upgrade is crazy to me.

Ruin millions of lives, then misdirect the resulting outrage by telling everyone it’s the fault of immigrants/gays/trans/etc.

Never ceases to disappoint me how many people are fooled by that trick.

F

This comic was ahead of its time. Back when it was written, optical disc drives were still common, so an external drive would be E: or higher. Now, though, it’s actually realistic.

Touché. That was some weapons-grade bullshit right there.