these are estimations from 2021 that predict as far as 2022, and on top of that CO2 is notably absent from the charts

from a subsequent data release by the same source used in the article, in 2024:

NH3, CH4, N2O, and CO2 emissions are increasing, although CO2 emissions in 2022 were nearly the same as in 2021.

yep, you got me

I'm the villainous woke hippie Lib Dem communist dreaming of a world habitable for people, and I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for you meddling ten-thousand-crore dollar industries

At an average global temperature increase of eleven degrees centigrade, climate models show that cloud formation stops. This, in turn, decreases the albedo of the planet, leading to even more warming.

the people who cause problems in retail environments are not the people who would think to mask the intentions their body language communicate

that being said, people will still surprise you and it's usually right when you stop expecting them to have any capacity to surprise you

...the coca plant could already do that...?

We already know the NSA is keeping tabs on everyone

I like to think by the time Kirk gets the enterprise, all those spacious crew quarters we see in Strange New Worlds have been eaten up by retrofits and upgrades.

The trouble with phrases like 'neural structures' and 'language parsing' is that these descriptions still play into the "AI" narrative that's been used to oversell large language models.

Fundamentally, these are statistical weights randomly wired up to other statistical weights, tested and pruned against a huge database. That isn't language parsing, it's still just brute-force calculation. The understanding comes from us, from people assigning linguistic meaning to patterns in binary.

It's stripping out the copper wiring for cash. Buy a game studio, fire all the employees. Now their paychecks can be served up as profit to shareholders. Move all the files to your servers, it's your "Intellectual Property". Sell off the computers and the desks and anything else not nailed down. Do they own the building? Great, sell that too! Or, better yet, rent it out!

now now, let's be fair

it's also so that evangelicals can ban recreational sex

Squidward is churlish and often over-reacts when his personal time is intruded upon. Maybe his neighbors don't recognize when they're being intrusive, but they do value Squidward's company. It took drastic conditions for him to realize he values their company as well.

Micky Mouse entering public domain is historical benchmark. Cool, but also... that mouse is hollow. Good for a cheap horror game or thumbing your nose at the big theater conglomerate, but otherwise meh

Donald Duck going public domain will be a real treat