I wonder how the results would be if they measure the average for the year instead of only the coldest months. I say that because I suppose that ice, just like snow doesn't exactly match with temperature.
You can click on individual years, but the decade average plots are the most revealing. You can see the average has dropped significantly each decade, and the drop is actually larger in the warmer months (~35%) than in the colder months (~10%) for the year range 1980 to 2020.
Just checked the link. While average is decreasing for the artic sea, average is slightly increasing in the Antarctic. Which makes me think, since most of the ice is on actual land and not on the ocean. Is there another tool that tracks ice on land?
I found one of the comments more interesting. It shows how people can be so terribly wrong in one case and correct in another.
>Text predict combined with data mining’…is all 99.9% of [what we have quaintly come to define as] human intelligence is, too.
>Learn a trade, Sam. Start a manufacturing company. Go and dig ditches. Perform brain surgery. Fly a chopper. Provide hands-on care for someone who is ill. Be a stay-at-home dad, even. AI can’t do anything,
This is the second reference to this site. I like the style and lack of propaganda pitch. I wish there were more writings like this. You know of any other apolitical or with more authentic writing style?
It's it's political by nature, and biased because it's written by humans, but I think the brevity of the format helps keep things to the point.
Really, you have to do the pre-social-media trick of comparing multiple sources, adjusting for known biases, and synthesising a world view.
I've always rated the Financial Times for world news. It has a high-capital bias of course, but because its goal is to help investors make investment decisions it is incentivised to report things accurately rather than spin.
Also old media international news reporting is usually leagues better than domestic reporting. The BBC's reporting of UK politics is pretty weak, but it's international reporting is very high-quality. I wouldn't trust Al Jazeera to report on things the Qatari royal family have a stake in, but their remit is (or was) to inform said royal family accurately about world affairs.
On that note, I've seen plenty of adverts for Ground News, which supposedly lets you compare the bias of various sources for the same story. I've not tried it.
It is hard to be apolitical, but most news are constantly repeating propaganda. Financial journals are great informing people. Right now business insider has an article on Wallstreet embracing opensource. The problem is that their pitch is always: How can we squeeze more from the working class and into our pockets?
I am looking for more authentic/humane writing style. There is a lot of info to keep informed, so the way in which things are expressed is important to me. Even outside the news it's hard to find good writing.
I think sites like ground.news just make things worst. The issue is not if something is left or right. It should be whether it is correct and in which setting. They are exploiting peoples' biases to make money.
I agree, but I don’t know of anything better. And with regards to Ground News specifically, it reinforces the fallacy that “the truth is somewhere in the middle,” while the position of the “middle” is being manipulated by bad actors at the extremes.
Mint is great, served me well for many years. Never had an issue. With Debian I would mess things up if I messed with something I should not be touching. There are faster options but it requires more maintenance. Mint gets out of your way and just works.
That's the thing about mint. You don't have to mess with it because it works. Updating, installing, deleting, changing settings, no problems. That's is my experience with mint. Cannot say the same about any other distro.
I did if I wanted to fix issues with WiFi, audio, installations, etc. That never happened to me when using mint.
Another example: I shouldn't be messing with fixing packages after an arch update, but I sometimes have too. It has always been something simple, even less issues than debian, plus other advantages.
Again, that is my experience.
> I did if I wanted to fix issues with WiFi, audio, installations, etc. That never happened to me when using mint.
That might have been due to a bug in some issue that you would have to fix under Mint as well.
> It has always been something simple, even less issues than debian, plus other advantages. Again, that is my experience.
Sure, that's fine, I still don't think it makes sense to put down a distro because you were messing with things you shouldn't have been. If you said you had to, then that's different from messing with something you shouldn't have been, since you should have been to fix it.
It seems the real issue was not that you were messing with something you shouldn't have been, bur rather stuff was not working for you as well out of the box.
I use f-droid and the aurora store. The play store was disabled the day I got the phone. There has been a few issues but I stuck with f-droid for many years. Good for them.
Al least they are admitting foreign aids is about having US advantage over others, and not helping others with "security". I think Trump could not tell the difference. There must be other plans in the making to replace "foreign aids”.
I remember in 2013 when I first heard about it and didn't do anything. The question is: Will your friends know when to quit?
There are many bitcoin evangelists who think it will lead to freedom. The truth is that it will most likely lead to cbdc, that is why all banks, government and financial institutions are building blockchain technologies.
For those who bought early it is certainly the case. Those late to the game will have the rug pulled just like a memecoin. There are many people who really believe it will go to $1M and they will use it freely ( their ideal of sound money). What is really valuable is the blockchain tech, the coin is speculation. That is because governments and banks will have more control over the coin on top of the base layer.
I don't think either are actually valuable, I don't see any application of blockchain anywhere that's better than traditional computing. Bitcoin itself seems to be the only good application so far.
