MS NOW = formerly MSNBC. I thought this was one of those new sketchy news sites at first.

Yeah, they kept the "MS" when they lost any connection with Microsoft, but they lost the "NBC" when they severed their connection from NBCUniversal.

Missing laptop versions of all these chips.

The goal is to keep the oil in the ground, to not be burned or to be made into plastics.

It's not just plastics. Practically every substance we use and rely on to maintain civilisation as we know it has a petrochemical or fossil fuel base.

I understand the not burning fossil fuel thing, but why can't it be seen like another mineral resource?

Because that's still geological carbon entering the overall cycle on the surface. The air and ocean are giant buffers of it. When it's needed it needs to be pulled from there somehow (such as by felling trees or directly extracting CO2). Unfortunately that's not economical when it's legal to tap the giant lakes of it sitting underground.

Many of the other things (plastics esp) are byproducts after refining for fuel. If the fuel isn't consumed, the byproducts would become cost ineffective.

Don't "worry" though. Oil consumption is going up not down.

Just don't have kids.

If the cure is as bad as the disease, then why intervene?

Isn't the main source of helium from oil production? It's not like we have fusion reactors turning H into He.

The main source of helium is natural gas production, not oil

Okay, but while technically correct, it does nothing to change the situation. They are punching holes in the ground to extract the sweet sweet nectar. They have to store what has been extracted. When that storage is full, what does one do? Stop the input into the storage.

The amount of activity required for helium is insubstantial compared to the amount of natural gas being extracted globally. And the amount of natural gas extracted pales in comparison to total combined gas, oil, and coal.

Helium extraction doesn't pose a notable environmental issue on its own.

Which is strange, because it is widely known a large amount of their advertising revenue comes from fake accounts.

This doesn’t make sense, how do these fake accounts bring revenue ? I thought the end goal is to improve conversion rate by removing the “bots” and this would therefore lead to higher ad spend and more money to Facebook direct

I work in marketing and not nearly as much effort as you think goes into removing bots. They go after the lowest hanging fruit, the most obvious bots like scrapers and crawlers but most bots impersonating real people easily make it through. Traffic is traffic.

The advertisers still pay, they just don't get conversions.

This is a phishing scam to drain your hardware wallet. I've noticed a lot of ~10 year old accounts that look like they've been taken over by bad actors on /new.

Real Food, Truth Social.

"...the [Iranian] Navy is sunk literally and figuratively"

Words have no meaning.

I found it very difficult to find ANY information on google about US plug-in solar a few months ago.

Is this patched by openWRT?

But metal shavings add so much flavour to my meals! It really makes eating an exciting adventure.