This would place the cost of sequestration at… $100 tonne

I did some quick back-of-the-envelope math, and unless I’m mistaken that’s equivalent to about $1 per gallon of gasoline… which is a lot lower than I had expected, honestly.

If that’s all it costs, we should be sinking billions in public funds into this, especially if there’s an R&D component that’s seeking to drive down costs/increase efficiency.

Nobody is seriously looking for ‘habitable’ planets because they expect humanity will someday inhabit them — this is all about the hunt for other life out there in the universe.

To astronomers, “habitable” just means that the planet gets to correct amount of energy from its star that liquid water could potentially exist on its surface. Liquid water may not actually be a requirement for life, but since we only have a single data point to work from, it makes sense to look for the preconditions of the kind of life we’re familiar with on earth, of which liquid water is a big one. (Another is carbon chemistry, so finding lots of atmospheric carbon isn’t necessarily a bad thing when searching for other life out there.)

It has to compete with: Climate change

That’s the fun part, it doesn’t! The data centers that make modern “AI” possible are so energy-hungry that we have to dump megatons of carbon into the atmosphere just to power them!

AI can destroy civilization and cook the planet simultaneously.

Synergy, baby!

Which is too say, how we didn’t choose…

It’s super legal, but it’s not always super cool:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till#Trial

He’ll care when he becomes the target of political retribution. Trump’s already made it abundantly clear that’s he’s going to wield the DOJ as a tool of revenge.

In before Trump pulls a Mao Zedong and declares war on birds.

Oh good… just in time for Trump to take over and declare war on birds.

I suspect Merrick Garland is about to find out just how political the DOJ can be…

Bad news? It’s only bad news if he gives as shit, and clearly he does not.

Really? Dude seems like a pro to me.

He has 30+ years of criminal defense experience, and clearly has some media training (which let’s face it, that’s going to be critical in this case in particular).

The guy has even successfully appealed the PA supreme court. What more are you looking for in a defense lawyer, exactly?

Who exactly do you think voted for Trump? lmao

The thing is, most people aren’t celebrating this as “murder”, they’re celebrating it as self-defense.

Imagine someone walks into your home and starts waving a gun around, threatening to kill your kids. It’s completely uncontroversial that in that situation, you have a right (perhaps even an obligation) to defend yourself and anyone else in immediate danger.

Now imagine instead you’re in a hospital room, and your kid has an autoimmune disease that’s shredded their lungs. A ventilator is the only thing keeping them alive while they wait for a lung transplant. The same guy comes in, but instead of waving a gun around he says he’s going to unhook the ventilator. Why is this different? Why do you have a right to defense in one situation and not the other? Sure, CEOs aren’t literally walking into hospital rooms and pulling plugs, but Charles Manson didn’t walk into homes killing people and we all agree he deserved to be convicted of murder. They’re directing subordinates and directing systems to kill people, on purpose.

The working class is under siege by people who are willing to sacrifice our lives in the interest of corporate profits. We have a right to defend ourselves.

In all fairness, those pictures are what, eight days old at this point? I’m willing to bet Luigi hasn’t had a whole lot of opportunity to pluck his brows since then.

I wouldn’t take a “not guilty” plea as evidence of much.

Pleading “not guilty” is the only way to get in front of a jury, which is probably the best chance he has at this point — both in terms of staying out of jail and in terms of boosting his message.

A trial will inevitably become a media circus, and a media circus is great if your goal is bringing attention to your particular ideology.

The terrible genius of capitalism is that it can commodify anything, including criticism of capitalism itself.

Maybe he had additional targets he planned to pursue?

Can anyone give even a bad reason for a reward this high that doesn’t involve the wealth of the target?

The case is now extremely high-profile, so the longer it goes unsolved the more embarrassing it is for the agencies investigating. (Good.)

because IT sector wouldn’t have all it’s eggs in one basket that might break if one guy leaves or dies.

Whooooooooboy, that has not been my experience in tech!

Pizza parties for everyone!