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- Comment on Nabiha Syed will join the Mozilla Foundation as [their] next Executive Director 21 hours ago:
Mozilla is a nonprofit.
- Comment on Gaza war: Five Israeli soldiers killed 'by tank fire' in Jabalia 2 days ago:
with no communication for ground troops.
I mean, friendly fire due to miscommunication seems like a problem any army would have anticipated and planned for.
- Comment on Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs 6 days ago:
In my country, it was mostly large dams and hydroelectricity. But they have their own issues.
- Comment on we love those power laws 2 weeks ago:
While iron is more plentiful than tin, it is harder to purify than tin or copper. The ‘iron age’ refers to the time when humans started smelting iron, and making tools using various steels and other iron-based alloys. These are generally much stronger than bronze.
- Comment on please tell your husband hello 2 weeks ago:
Pharma companies pay decently well.
- Comment on The retro Nokia phone everyone owned 25 years ago will get a reboot soon – and yes, it has Snake 2 weeks ago:
I couldn’t find details on this particular model, but all Nokia dumbphones released so far have easily removeable batteries and can be used as a murder weapon in a pinch.
- Comment on please tell your husband hello 2 weeks ago:
That’s a sealion, not a seal.
- Comment on Imagine denying other living and breathing lifeforms agency to thrive amd change lol lol lol 2 weeks ago:
Obviously, it would vary from country to country. But some countries do give legal status either to nature as a whole, or to rivers, mountains, etc. In practice, this means that the state / a citizen can sue anyone who pollutes or otherwise harms the river / mountain / nature, without needing to prove that the pollution is bad for other people.
- Comment on Checks out to me. 2 weeks ago:
I’m guessing that’s a new guideline then. It wasn’t there when I joined. Also I might have been granted autopatrolled at some point, which might be why I get away with it.
- Comment on Checks out to me. 2 weeks ago:
I have never had to submit a new article for review. Are you writing articles on a topic that is controversial?
- Comment on Google layoffs: Sundar Pichai-led company fires entire Python team for ‘cheaper labour’ 2 weeks ago:
Pixels are a minuscule fraction of Android devices. Google would get more money by improving Android than by trying to increase their own marketshare.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Yes, and they’ve tried to fix some of the issues. But at this point there’s a huge ‘establishment’ within the community that is resistant to any change.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Systemic_bias
(This is for the English version. Other language Wikipedias will have their own issues.)
- Comment on Checks out to me. 2 weeks ago:
This is not standard practice. An article that is controversial or one that has been vandalised a lot may put in place such a policy. But the vast majority of articles on (English) Wikipedia can be freely edited.
- Comment on Antybooties 2 weeks ago:
Different species of ants have different methods.
- Comment on Checks out to me. 2 weeks ago:
I’ve never had to get a new article approved. I just write it. Is it about something very controversial?
- Comment on conservation 2 weeks ago:
They surely have sage advice.
- Comment on i have become the gis 2 weeks ago:
What advantages does it have over R’s mapping / GIS suite?
- Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 3 weeks ago:
Maybe they are willing to sell and are just saying this to drive up the price.
Or maybe they don’t want a competitor to have access to their secret algorithm, and threaten them globally. This way they lose only one market.
Another possibility is that they will teach users how to use a VPN, and are confident that enough of their users will do it.
Or maybe they think saying they’re willing to shut down will make some of their users lobby against this bill / organise protests / call their representatives. (This probably won’t work.)
Companies are ultimately motivated by money. They will do whatever underhanded trick they can think up to get it.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Would it? Tesla’s main strength was its first-mover advantage. Now that they’ve lost that, it’s hard to see them come back.
- Comment on teachings 4 weeks ago:
Division is repeated subtraction. How many times can you subtract 0 from 1?
- Comment on Whistleblower 'would not' put family on Boeing 787 jet 4 weeks ago:
Airbus will still be (mostly) safe. And I’m more concerned with the number of flights - particularly short flights that can be substituted by trains - than with flying per se. For long-distance travel, we don’t have a comparable alternative (yet).
- Comment on Whistleblower 'would not' put family on Boeing 787 jet 4 weeks ago:
Having the public lose trust in the safety of flying is something I absolutely want to happen. This will have devastating effects on carbon emissions, and push more people (and governments) towards trains.
- Comment on Tower of Babel 4 weeks ago:
Would be ironic if the cultures separated (and their languages diverged) over religious differences.
- Comment on ‘There wasn’t enough about the horror’: Hiroshima survivors react to Oppenheimer 1 month ago:
I don’t think the Soviets would have had a magical method to invade without similar casualties.
The USSR could invade Japan from the less populated and lightly defended north and northwest, while the US would have to invade from the heavily populated and well-defended south and east. This might have helped, but of course we can’t say anything for sure.
- Comment on K-pop: How jealous 'super fans' try to dictate their idols' private lives 1 month ago:
Not when the goods being sold are humans.
- Comment on The Apothecary Diaries Season 2 Announced for 2025 1 month ago:
Detective series set in medieval China. A lot of thought has gone into writing the characters, as well as the medical / botanical side and the society and culture of that time. (Not saying it is 100% historically realistic; it sacrifices some accuracy for plot reasons.) Also a lot of comedy, mostly revolving around the main character Mao Mao (her name sounds like ‘Cat Cat’), who is extremely intelligent but also uncontrollably curious about poisons.
- Comment on degree in bamf 1 month ago:
Multiple clones. Otherwise the paper would be McCarty & McCarty.
- Comment on black holes 1 month ago:
If I remember correctly supermassive black holes do consume space and can be quite large. They can also be much less dense than neutron stars, let alone stellar black holes.
- Comment on They lied to us 2 months ago:
Gobi manchurian was made by Cantonese merchants in Kolkata.