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I found out on one bank site that if you filled up all the phone number slots with bogus phone numbers, Zelle couldn't be activated. Basically try to logjam your bank so Zelle can't be enabled, so that way it's more difficult for haxx0rs to do it.

Stupid. Wish it could be 100% blocked on bank accounts if you don't want to use it as it is a huge security hole.

Stockholm decommissioned its last coal-fired plant in 2020, and its giant heat pumps are a major supplier of heat to the city, along with power plants that burn waste and scrap wood from Sweden’s forestry industry that would otherwise be left to rot. Levihn contends that generating heat and electricity from incinerated waste is more efficient than dumping it in a landfill, although these plants still emit carbon dioxide. Stockholm Exergi is working to install carbon-capture technology in the plants in hopes of making the system net carbon negative, he told me.

"We don't use coal, we just burn waste rather than turning the wood scrap into something useful." Greenwashing at its finest. I suppose the angle is it's "almost" recycling carbon rather than releasing old buried carbon into the atmosphere?

What an odd guilt-laden non-article. It's non-trivial to install underground piping systems in neighborhoods, they then also need a source/sink of heat to power the mechanism, not every neighborhood would have that, not all topographies would support that. Cities already have centralized heating systems that have been around for decades in some building groupings.

Seems it'd make more sense to just install a house-grade heat pump on each home the next time the AC needs to be replaced and some grid-scale solar and/or wind and/or hydro and Bob's your uncle. Toss in some base-load nuclear for good measure. Build out the energy infra enough that resistance or baseboard resistance electric heat can be used for when it's too cold to use a heat pump in the meantime, and then sunset gas furnaces the next time those need to be replaced.

This avoids polluting with big diggers tearing up streets, moving dirt around, possibly destroying gas (causing methane leaks), water, power, Internet infra, and laying new asphalt. No carbon creation by building the piping systems/energy plant and avoids trucking those parts around.

Nah, more of a challenge. California normally leads the way with things that are good. Competition towards good things is good.

The S22 US version used snapdragon 8 gen 1 (in the US) and the chip was prone to performance issues. It worked, but it was rough, ran hot, and ate power for lunch. I'm not sure if that was a year that the international variants had an Exynos, but their performance is generally worse.

So seeing a simpler phone with basic android seem to do fine versus a flagship with super bloated Android on a first gen apps processor makes a lot of sense, really.

Up to $210 if uninsured.

Nice to see California catching up to Colorado.

I'm not pro-China, but will probably sound that way here. We are all nation-states composed of arbitrary rules. We all think we are the best. We all think the others are less. We all do shitty things to our people. We also need each other to survive. It's a clusterfuck that needs a fix. Xenophobia is never the answer.

One cannot really use a universal fact shared between the two nations as a plot point.

Oh, yeah, the US Federal Government would neeevvverrr put backdoors into things. Not ever. Not BlackBerry, or iPhone, or messaging apps, or anything...

...oh, wait.

Duh, it's so simple. The lab released infected animals to the wet market. All bases covered.

I'll take my research grant now.

(This is all said non-serious to be clear.)

Is that the latest bear name Russia is using? They're not very clever in their naming of their shit orgs and furry obsessed with bears.

I asked ChatGPT if it knew of that, and even with it's heavy microsoft influence it was confused.