So it’s a condensed version of Atlas Shrugged, maybe with a sprinkle of The Fountainhead?

I sure hope somebody got fired for this blunder!

Makes me think of Anathem

Since there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism, the most ethical thing you can do is consume as little as possible. At least that’s what I try to do.

But stagnating wages combined inflation make that a necessity for many instead of a choice, I guess.

This is just a recycled George Carlin bit.

Revachol vibes

You got to offset your offsets, man! 7:00, 7:06, 7:12, 7:18, 7:24.

Solution: Rocket propelled guillotines

I thought she had her own command now?

I’m on my second battery, this has been my main personal computer (gaming aside) for over ten years. Maybe it deserves one more extension on life… I’ll think about it!

Oh yeah, mine lasts 30 minutes max, but for a home laptop that’s fine.

Eh, mine runs fine. Only thing that bothers me is the crap display.

Still using a t420 daily (not for heavy with though), and it’s fine. If you don’t have an SSD yet, that’s the first thing I’d change.

Montreal has excellent areas! Miss that city a lot.

Been using Ubuntu for gaming for 99% of the time for half a year now. Basically no issues, most of my steam library works out of the box with proton. It’s very doable now, no need to wait.

I’ve run across the term biochar a few times recently, but didn’t think anything of it. Thanks for prompting me to look into it seriously!

Had a similar thought. Not necessarily bamboo, but whatever plant offers the best time to carbon captured ratio. Then stash it in old mines (salt mines ideally), and flood the mines for additional assurance that decomposition won’t happen. It doesn’t scale well, I think, because you’re dependent on the right conditions for storage, and creating storage places artificially doesn’t sound like it would be very effective.

T420 here too! Added an SSD and threw on Ubuntu, gonna keep using it until it breaks. Which seems to be not anytime soon…

Loved Revelation Space! Also check out Blindsight by Peter Watts, it’s similarly weird and imaginative (and I think you can find it for free on rifters.com, the authors Web site).

I mean, that’s pretty scientific training right there