Good point, I like the way you’re thinking

That looks like a target rich environment…

NOT the person you’re replying to.

You, rightly imnsho, got a snarky response because you weren’t just asking a question.

This (below) is fine

What exactly is the risk to the ecosystem?

This (below) earned you the snark.

Since you’re okay with it, you should know what it is, right?

That reads very clearly as “I don’t think you know shit, prove it, and unless you do, you don’t have a right to an opinion”

You didn’t know whether OP did or did not have a handle on the ecological impact. Either stop at the first bit, or word the second less aggressively.

Feedback is being provided here because you are taking an overt “I was just asking a question why are you snarking stance”. If that’s fake then I’ll just block and move on.

I’ll look forward to hearing that the program has been cancelled for no apparent reason in a couple of years after successfully delivering all of its objectives

california doesnt seem to have an endemic mosquito borne disease problem, florida does though.

I’m not American so excuse my ignorance, but I was under the impression that Florida was full of swamps and low lying (fresh-ish) water whereas California was significantly drier, with most water in rivers.

The former is an ideal breeding ground for mosquitos (still or stagnant fresh or brackish water), whereas running water and oceans are extremely poor for mosquito breeding.

Seems pretty clear why Florida (and Mississipi etc) have a bigger mosquito problem to me - what am I missing ?

Cynicism about anything evil corp does is well founded, but this has actually has a solid basis.

I assume they do it for reputation-washing -> look at this one good thing we do and ignore all the other evil stuff

The ecosystem risk is that a reduction in A. Aegpyti population causes a collapse of the insectivores that depend on consuming it and thus starve, with a knock on effect up the food chain.

While this may happen, a) predation is not currently any real constraint on the population, and b) other insects have been shown to be able to take up part of the niche and c) this already an ecosystem which been rebalanced - they are not naturally occurring in the US they have travelled over with humans

Google is thoroughly evil, and I upvoted the cynical parent comment, but on this one subject they are on the right side of the ledger.

Other non disease carrying mosquitos can take over the ecological niche for a net benefit to humanity.

<sigh> I’m unsurprised to hear that the tech bros are screwing something else up.

Officially, basically taxes are a neccessary evil that should be minimised as much as possible while maintaining enough income to provide necessary infrastructure. Unofficially they seem to favour the rich over the general masses (it’s one if the big complaints about Macron - “President for the rich”)

Are you American perhaps ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_(French_political_party)

" Renaissance (RE) is a political party in France that is typically described as liberal and centrist] or centre-right."

If you’re American you’re probably under the misapprehension that “liberal” means “left wing”, it doesn’t.

If you click on the word liberal in the wiki page it will take you to an explanation of it.

Tl;dr substitute “libertarian” for liberal to get a rough approximation in american of what that sentence means.

They’re centre right economically with a positive view towards personal freedoms. Not full Ayn Rand nutbag libertarians. Closer to the sane GOP you don’t have any more left of.

True. But the app makes it easier for noobs to configure. Anyone with basic CLI skills wouldnt be trying to infer Mullvad doesnt work on Mint anyway.

To use mullvad on mint, download the .deb file. Double click on it. Click ok to installing it.

Done.

Edit (Download it off mullvad website if not clear)

https://cleantechnica.com/2022/09/13/ethanol-burns-clean-but-creates-more-emissions-than-gasoline/

“When used as a motor fuel, ethanol burns cleaner than gasoline. There is no dispute about that. But there is a dispute about the carbon emissions created in the manufacturing process that makes ethanol from corn. According to recent research by Reuters, ethanol plants in the US produce more than double the harmful emissions, per gallon of fuel production capacity, than the nation’s oil refineries.”

It’s the amount of CO2 going into the atmosphere that counts, not whether it was converted from sun last week or 400MYA

Burning fuel bad.

American flag shagging is considered beyond funny and well into boorish here. So yeah it may be tame by yank standards, but sticking Union flags (or St George flags) on stuff is considered a bit crass.

Didn’t used to be, became considered tasteless due to the oiks that keep doing it.

Hear hear. My position precisely

Yeah that sounds like a wine industry problem not a govt. problem to me.

I grew up on a cattle station then moved to wheat country as a teenager, I know exactly how entitled they are. The only reason I’d support this is if it was carefully engineered to ensure the multi-national agribusinesses don’t get a red cent.

For all that I can’t stand Starmer, there has to be more to this. UK France & Germany all said no ? There had to be a catch.

Speculation: given the timing coincidence (story released just as Rubio arrives to berate the rest of NATO) I’ll bet dollars to donuts the amount pledged HAD to be spent on US arms

Edit

UK France Spain Italy and Canada, not including Germany

That is exactly what the comic says but its not true, fossil records for ferns go back to the devonian several 100 million years before the Cretaceous

https://www.ontariobeneathourfeet.com/dinosaur-salad-ancient-extant-ferns

https://www.amerfernsoc.org/about-ferns

Fair point but it is still a cost benefit equation. The govt spends $X hundred million on subsidising farmers vs other things they could have spent it on.

Personally I’d prefer the however many millions be spent where it reduces our carbon footprint - solar, wind, batteries.

Burning ethanol has the same carbon cost as burning petroleum, probably better to assist low income earners into EVs for that carbon cost than burning it in ICE

encourages Commander Spock and Lieutenant Moreau (Asia DeMarcos) to sow descent dissent among the crew,

Dissent https://www.wordnik.com/words/dissent

intransitive verb To have or express an opinion different from a prevailing or official position; disagree. noun Difference of opinion or feeling; disagreement. noun The refusal to conform to the authority or doctrine of an established church; nonconformity.

Descent https://www.wordnik.com/words/descent

noun The act or an instance of descending. noun A way down. noun A downward incline or passage; a slope.