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FUCK OFF YOU IDIOT and shame on you. My close relative is not only lactose intolerant, but they have an ACTUAL CASEIN (A MILK PROTEIN) ALLERGY. A VERY SERIOUS ONE. Plus a very serious GLUTEN allergy to boot, where any trace amount of wheat protein makes them SERIOUSLY SICK. Oh, and an...

Agree. It still doesn't make me any less angry, though. And don't take me wrong, I am not really singling out Randall or anybody else there. I admire their work, but I am still angry. Not at them. More like at the idiotic writer of this timeline, I guess...

Any fleet in any pre‑modern society is a logistical miracle. One can supply around 10-20x or so of food via a maritime fleet compared to what any army can take with them with beasts of burden overland, even with total foraging. A maritime supply fleet would basically be the F‑22 or nuclear...

It's the indirect CO2 costs, though! Plus we can introduce new units... Eat one Bezos half‑pounrder, that's xxx,xxx,xxx kg of CO2 saved. Eat a Musk half‑pounder, that's xx,xxx,xxx,xxx CO2 emissions saved! /s As for sustainable husbandry, they never cared about that, did they?

While I can understand that, I'd have simply liked a more hard take about it on his side. Like by outright saying any such extradition is outright illegal. Under the UN laws, I believe. The "????" just doesn't do that for me, sorry.

Perhaps Ars could do a proper sustainability and CO2 report on eating the ultra‑rich? Could be a really interesting scientific exercise! ;-) Their meat tends to be healthy, lean and lacking in harmful substances like cocaine (apart from Musk), as their lifestyle affords them lots of exercise...

"XKCD goes hard"? Really?!? Randall's pretty soft‑sounding "????" is actually an extrajudicial deportation and illegal imprisonment of foreign or even US nationals in a foreign dictatorship which loves to torture and disappear people, with no law in it at all. Totally illegal under every part...

Thankfully, the ultra‑rich responsible for this mess will surely find a solution to save all of us, right? Right Oh, apart from them bunkering up in New Zealand, that is... Let's not forget that. Just Eat The Rich. It's the only truly sustainable meat, actually. Every bite helps the planet! /s

You are totally forgetting pre‑Columbian Americas. The Inca Empire fielded enormous armies thanks to its sophisticated logistical network of roads, regular food storage depots and levies. An army 100-200,000 strong in an even smaller agrarian society like theirs? In a society with much smaller...

Won't actually help him either. but whatever – after all, black markers are cheaper...

One thing I have zero idea about: While REE are not actually that "rare" and digging up a mine isn't that hard (even if they actually are, at least to extract them economically), how hard is it also to bring back the whole process of smelting the ore (often quite specialised rotary furnaces...

I once read a great interview with ASML's CEO (ASML being the world's sole EUV lithography machine architects for making the latest CPU masks), and it was quite enlightening in how utterly insane the supply chains for some of the modern cutting‑edge technologies are. Not available in English, so...

Praziquantel is used in veterinary medicine against this very tapeworm (and others) in dogs, cats and foxes, so potentially yes. Usually it's combined with an anthelminthic for a broader anti‑parasitic action. 5 mg of praziquantel per 1 kg of live weight (for adult canids), few times a year...

Your absolute chance to hit anything will still increase, if it was exactly zero due to the interceptors. And if you don't really care if the thing you hit is a valid military target or a kindergarten...

And here I was hoping that Modern Humankind show will get renewed for season 2026. Oh well, time to catch up on Tardigrades and Deinococci season 4x109, I guess 🤷‍♀️

Strangely, the pretty sombre US DoD's 2025 Critical Strategic Materials Report (and probably all the prior ones too, haven't checked) has now gone missing from its former link on whitehouse.gov… 🤷‍♀️

What a load of bollocks again. Yeah, pretty sure the US defence industry will just switch over to hand‑cranked thermal optics and potato‑armour M1 Abrams then... Without the seven RE (samarium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, lutetium, scandium, and yttrium) and antimony also under export...

"Sadly for China, rare Earth elements aren’t actually all that rare" X "China processes pretty much 100 percent of the world’s heavy rare earths, which means that they don’t just have a comparative advantage, they have an absolute advantage" Huh? ETA: removed the jab at Wired, as TFA does...

Fifty years from now on Ars Technica, a Dr. Mole article: "RAM worm in cybernetic sheep hydraulic fluid waste that will slowly eat your e-liver on the rise again"

Sounds like a dream date scenario to me, just imagine all the weird tidbits of biology information you could exchange over dinner! Seriously, parasitologists make really great guests at dinner parties. They can keep you literally enthralled with all their mind‑control parasites stories... ;-)