In case you're curious, the one in the picture I posted is in the art nouveau style but the one in the comic looks more like arts-and-crafts.

Note the floral decorations versus the simple geometric shapes.

That's probably a beautiful slag-glass lampshade she just smashed.

Slag glass is thick. I guess Mr. True's skull is thicker.

It adds insult to injury, since it shows that they expect that some people will want to apply those filters, but then they don't care enough to make the filters work. They just waste even more of my time by creating the false impression that they have made a tool that does what I want.

I agree that the offsets have exactly the problem that you point out. I think the value (moral value, not financial value) that this company has is that it is setting a precedent for the deliberate release of SO2 as a form of climate engineering. Going from "responsible experts oppose using SO2 but weirdos are talking about it" to "responsible experts oppose using SO2 but weirdos are doing it" takes us one step closer to "responsible experts are seriously working towards using SO2 (or finding that it really is counterproductive as opposed to simply saying that there isn't enough evidence)".

This couple of guys with their balloons got a critical article in the NYT about using SO2, but it's still an article in the NYT about using SO2.

Once when my sister and I were teenagers, she was hogging the computer and so I just picked up the chair with her in it to move her out of my way. As I walked past, her friend (whom I hadn't touched) used her bite to make an attack of opportunity against me. It wasn't gentle - there was no blood but there were tooth-marks.

I had mixed feelings afterwards. On the one hand, it hurt. On the other hand, a girl touched me. With her mouth. I had never been kissed at that point but being bitten was close...

(I didn't end up marrying her.)

Also a d6 bite is nonsense. The average commoner has 4 hp and 10 strength, so one commoner would be able to kill another commoner with a single bite 50% of the time. I'm not saying a human bite can't be lethal, but it's not "stabbed with a shortsword" lethal. Meanwhile, even a d4 bite from a level 1, 16-str barbarian is already invariably lethal to a commoner.

(Yeah, I know, HP isn't supposed to be realistic, etc. I just hate fun.)

Sulfur dioxide added to the atmosphere through human action does contribute to reducing global temperatures. There's a Nature article about it. From their abstract:

In 2020, fuel regulations abruptly reduced the emission of sulfur dioxide from international shipping by about 80% and created an inadvertent geoengineering termination shock with global impact.

Ships had been emitting a lot of SO2 and the effect of abruptly stopping that is apparently quite large:

a doubling (or more) of the warming rate in the 2020 s compared with the rate since 1980

In other words, the laws against SO2 emission by ships are making global warming twice as bad. It's ironic that environmentalists are contributing as much to global warming as everyone else put together.

The guys running this company sound like loose cannons, but it may take a loose cannon to overcome the bias that institutions have towards doing nothing rather than taking an action that involves risks. It's true that adding SO2 to the atmosphere may have serious unintended consequences, although the huge amount that ships had been adding until recently wasn't catastrophic. However, doing nothing as the planet keeps warming will definitely have serious unintended consequences! It's the trolley problem: these guys are pulling the lever and their critics are saying "They're going to kill one person!" but if the critics had their way, five people would die.

Steve Neavling is the author of the original article in the Detroit Metro Times which included Tlaib's quote. He wrote

“We’ve had the right to dissent, the right to protest,” Tlaib says. “We’ve done it for climate, the immigrant rights movement, for Black lives, and even around issues of injustice among water shutoffs. But it seems that the attorney general decided if the issue was Palestine, she was going to treat it differently, and that alone speaks volumes about possible biases within the agency she runs.”

Nessel is the first Jewish person to be elected Attorney General of Michigan.

There's a clear implication (by Neavling) that Tlaib's statement about bias refers to Nessel's Jewish identity. Ten days later, Neavling wrote a follow-up article titled "Fact-check: Tlaib did not say Nessel charged pro-Palestinian protesters because she’s Jewish" which says

Tlaib never once mentioned Nessel’s religion or Judaism. But Metro Times pointed out in the story that Nessel is Jewish, and that appears to be the spark that led to the false claims.

The funny thing is that there's no mention in the follow-up article that he's the same guy who wrote the original article. Neavling doesn't come out of this looking like a good journalist.

Edit: Here's what Tapper actually said. I'm transcribing the video available here.

First he correctly quotes Tlaib's accusation of bias. The he correctly quotes Nessel's claim that what Taib said is antisemitic. Then he asks the governor

Do you think Tlaib's suggestion that Nessel's office is biased was anti-semetic?

This is a valid question to ask the governor, but after she refuses to answer it Tapper says

Do you think attorney general Nessel is not doing her job because congresswoman Tlaib is suggesting that she shouldn't be prosecuting these individuals that Nessel says broke the law and that she's only doing it because she's Jewish and protesters are not. That's quite- quite an accusation. Do you think it's true?

Note that he said "Tlaib is suggesting..." He didn't say that Tlaib explicitly said this (and he presented the correct quote from Tlaib seconds earlier) so he didn't technically lie but he should have known better than to mix together facts and his own (or Nessel's) subjective interpretation of those facts. What he ended up saying is quite misleading.

The governor's response was

Like I said, Jake, I'm not going to get in the middle of- of this argument that they're having.

Then she changed the topic. I get why she didn't want to get involved but I'm still not very impressed by her (lack of) leadership.

In the original Fallout you could defeat the final boss just by talking to him, but in addition to the speech skill you actually had to find and bring the evidence that his plan was doomed to failure. The issue wasn't a matter of opinion - you needed scientific proof.

You could also choose to let him convince you that he was right, which was one of the ways to get the bad ending.

I used to live somewhere with a lot of snow and someone did this with a jacket and a glove. I can confirm that I quietly freaked out when I saw an arm poking out of a big heap of snow.

It wasn't very funny at the time.

Less documentation means more job security.

Think of it as assertiveness training.

I think the saying about fish not being aware of water is nonsense. People are aware that there's air around them, without having to know any science. They can feel the wind, their own breath, etc. Fish have that plus they need to push against water in order to move. A fish that didn't know what water was would be like a land animal that didn't know what the ground was.