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That's totally unworkable. Almost everything in society would completely stop functioning

I feel like this is the first technology news in a looooonnng time that's actually cool instead of horrible

I looked it up and you're 100% right. Incendiary weapons are allowed as long as it doesn't hit civilians or start a forest fire

https://www.weaponslaw.org/weapons/incendiary-weapons

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_on_Incendiary_Weapons

I'm pinning my hopes on crude oil prices being much lower after the 10-20 years it would take to sort out the territorial disputes and complete construction of rigs that could pump oil in large volume. Oil will still be very valuable in 10-20 years, but i would guess it'll be much less valuable then, and hopefully the price will be low enough to make it not worth the massive outlay cost

Exactly, the nutrition label isn't a list of all substances found by chemical analysis, it's literally just the most important "nutrition" information

Ear plugs - not just noise cancelling headphones. It's much easier to sleep with ear plugs than with headphones. And headphones can get uncomfortable after many hours. And if you want extra quietness you can use both the earplugs and headphones at the same time

Absolutely, it's not even remotely a question - the ants would win. Totally and completely.

Mastodon isn't a straight replacement for twitter, bluesky is.

I mean, if there's still gonna be command line commands for all the features then there's no reason why a 3rd party couldn't make a gui app for them and recreate the control panels app

While that may be true, I think it's a very safe guess that a significant majority of english speakers have never heard of it

That title is cringe