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We shouldn’t have embraced the Haber & Bosch ammonia creation process for crop fertilisation just like that, without any baby boom control, so as to prevent an implosion like the one we’re about to live

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guano_Islands_Act

> The Guano Islands Act (11 Stat. 119, enacted August 18, 1856, codified at 48 U.S.C. ch. 8 §§ 1411-1419) is a United States federal law passed by the Congress that enables citizens of the United States to take possession of unclaimed islands containing guano deposits in the name of the United States. The islands can be located anywhere, so long as they are not occupied by citizens of another country and not within the jurisdiction of another government. It also empowers the president to use the military to protect such interests and establishes the criminal jurisdiction of the United States in these territories.

The alternative would have been the b̶a̶t̶ bird shit wars.


The gems are always in the comments. Great find! Would make a great comedy, like Tropic Thunder. "Guano Freedom?"


This must be sarcasm?


In year 2000, we were around 24 years younger and the web was still an undeveloped plot of land for kids to play.

Now, it’s mostly a corporate canvas for economic transactions, like the rest of the human experience in the west


The dot-com bubble would like to have a word with you.


An Alfred workflow


Indeed that would work but it is definitely more difficult to set up and maintain. New workflow (enter data), new action (enter files). And so on. But I do love Alfred!


Why would the US leave Europe alone after acquiring and destroying Europe's mobile phone manufacturing business?


For starters, the US' own government has also launched an anticompetitive inquiry into Apple's behavior. It's ongoing as we speak, and by the looks of it Apple isn't behaving like a company with nothing to hide.



Original source keeps this up to date and provides interactive versions:

https://www.nrel.gov/pv/interactive-cell-efficiency.html


> Nor do they want a 3rd party browser phoning home with user data.

Then why aren’t chrome, Tik-tok, etc. banned?


I contracted sat TV for a while. I had to pay extra for movies but news channels were free. It was like someone was paying for me to watch that movie


Goggle still has special privileges to your computer through Ungoogled chromium.

I’ve uninstalled them and will only use them on a VM


Oh no. Just block every connection through uBlock Origin so you get a mostly JavaScript-less website.

There are so many benefits to browsing without JS


There's 3 extensions which I consider must-haves:

- Noscript Security Suite which has made it very obvious how absolutely fucked today's web is (there's sites which can't display static text without js, as though HTML and CSS are insufficient to display styled text with some markup).

- uBlock Origin because obviously.

- Multi-account Containers, which aren't quite as good as profiles, but get like 70% of the way there.


> there's sites which can't display static text without js

as developers, we understand how stupid that is and the utter insanity of javascriptium that got us there, but how is that a selling point? If I install that extension, I get a degraded experience and I get to be judgey because the framework the developer(s) they hired used some bit javascriptium that doesn't degrade nicely. am I supposed to feel smug that I've figured that out? why would I want to make things worse for myself? just for some small sense of feeling better than other people?


JavaScript makes the surf experience a PITA with constant pop ups with consent, subscription. “Cookies or coins”, etc.


Aren’t no script and uBlock Origin redundant?


I don't think so? I admittedly haven't played around much with uBlock's js blocking, but I thought it was a binary on/off rather than the more granular control NSS offers.


I’m looking forward for Ladybird browser to be released to the General Public. On the meantime, I’m using LibreWolf instead. I’ve uninstalled Firefox after noticing the surreptitious advertising check


Here's what I have found regarding this:

"Thanks F3nd0! There are currently no plans to switch to a less permissive license.

And we're perfectly happy using proprietary services like GitHub and Discord as long as they make our work easier and more enjoyable. We recently evaluated a number of alternatives, and found that they all introduced more friction than we were comfortable with.

Although the task of building a browser is itself challenging, we're a pragmatic project :)"


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