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  • Rocket launches aren’t a significant part of humanity’s carbon footprint, and there’s not much risk of that changing even with a growing space industry.

    Electricity generation and transportation, including aviation and shipping, represents 50% of global human emissions. Spaceflight is less than 0.5%.

    Let’s pick our battles. We can build rockets and reduce our carbon footprint at the same time. More importantly, if we’re going to point fingers at carbon emitters, let’s actually focus on the industries actually doing significant harm.



  • You don’t have to know how to write your own software to install another App Store on Android.

    Amazon has their own competing app store, with boomer-friendly instructions for installing it:

    And Amazon’s phones and tablets use their own “FireOS” remix of Android without Google Play Store available.

    I prefer the OS being open to third-party installers over any legal mandate that app stores not being allowed to curate their own store’s offerings. Closing off Google’s app store to competing app stores only makes sense if other app stores have no reasonable access to customers, which is clearly not the case.

    Complete bullshit that they’re throwing this ruling at Android when iOS doesn’t even let you download and install a third-party app without either jailbreaking, or hooking up your iPhone in developer mode to a computer running xcode. Apple treats Cydia like it’s malware. Google perfectly tolerates Amazon and F-Droid running their own operations.