2000UltraDeluxe

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Comment · 17 hours ago
In some local contexts, sure. Overall? No.

Stronger extremes will hurt crops too.

Comment · 18 hours ago
Non-technical people often have no clue that there are options
Comment · 1 day ago
It would take people listening to professionals and getting rid of several decades worth of bad habits amongst users. Same as most other places really.
Comment · 2 days ago
It does, but modern heat pumps are so efficient compared to an oil-based system from the 1900's it'll save more energy than new insulation.

Had the house been uninsulated it'd be another story, but such houses are very rare in the Nordics.

Comment · 27 days ago
The Space Merchants is definitely worth a read.
Comment · 1 month ago
DMARC is for authenticating the sender, not filtering spam.

Spammers are quite proficient at using authentication, whereas legitimate users are stuck in the 2000s wondering why their forwards don't work anymore.

Comment · 1 month ago
> But I believe you can relax, because this is all nonsense.

We're at the point where the two countries, with most wars between them in history, stood side by side, ready to defend Greenland against a U.S. invasion.

The monkey has a hand grenade. You lot gave it to him. Twice. You might find that it's a bit late for "relax, he's only kidding".

Comment · 1 month ago
I suspect the people of Greenland won't ever trust Americans again.

This isn't just going to go away. You can't just undo what Orange Mussolini is doing, and it'll take far longer than a decade before anything like a trusting relationship can be reestablished.

Comment · 2 months ago
Correlation != causation
Comment · 2 months ago
Don't point it out, please. I, for one, look forward to accessing content without all the bloat.
Comment · 2 months ago
The Xbox remake from 2004 plays well on current-gen Xboxes.
Comment · 3 months ago
That, and the endless stream of automated requests from various crawlers identifying themselves as browsers.
Comment · 3 months ago
From the article:

> even sales in the tens of thousands might not recover the development and tooling costs

If you're looking for an argument against capitalism, this wasn't it.

Comment · 3 months ago
"The expensive ones"
Comment · 3 months ago
May I ask how you came to that conclusion?

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