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Comment · 4 years ago
At the time, all of what we think of as the sea between Borneo, Sumatra, and Java, and on up to Thailand and Taiwan, and the whole South China and Yellow Seas up to Korea was all dry land, like a million square miles of it.

Borneo was high ground. Most of what was going on with humanity at the time, according to cave painting evidence, was there and is now almost all under water.

There is a hill on Java built over 20,000 years ago. Excavation was halted, by the Indonesian government, for reasons not expressed.

Comment · 4 years ago
I see you and raise you one Flynn.
Comment · 4 years ago
Sorry, how does ripgrep save you tens of hours? I get that it is faster than regular grep, but that doesn't really answer the question; I don't find myself stalled waiting for grep. The only reasonable explanation would be something ripgrep does that grep actually doesn't. I could try to guess, but have no confidence I would guess right.
Comment · 4 years ago
Right: the fossil fuel lobby has discovered that nuke-mongering is in their interest. The nukes don't need to ever be completed, but as long as they haven't been, their market is secure.

They know the writing is on the wall, but profits can be good right up to the end.

Comment · 4 years ago
If global civilization collapses, the majority will starve. Some won't.
Comment · 4 years ago
The argument against nukes is that they are super-expensive compared to modern alternatives. The politicians who make nukes even more expensive are smart enough to get rich doing it.

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