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Phoronix: Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia
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I agree to this. I was literally just in the shower thinking how Linux, the space station, and the Olympics are the only times we as humans come together to collaborate
Banning CFCs went pretty well too
@JWBananas @secret300 Yea you know the funny thing about that, CFC's are heavy and tend to sink to the ground if not propelled into the stratosphere by rockets, say like the old Space Shuttle with it's solid chlorine oxidizer boosters, or the various military missiles which mostly have been converted to liquid hydrogen and oxygen engines. But nah we got to spend $3k to replace our A/C because it contains CFC's that never would have made it up into the atmosphere anyway because of you know, physics, little things like gravity, so the military can avoid blame.
If that was how it worked then we would have all suffocated long ago under all the argon that sank to the bottom of the troposphere. The atmosphere is turbulent and extremely good at mixing gases of varying densities, and CFCs last decades before being decomposed or removed from the air.