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I think the Republicans really like having the Democrats as their opposition party. Or at least they would if they put even the slightest thought into it, which most of them probably don't.

Even the higher orbits aren't as big a problem as might be assumed. There are still mechanisms other than aerodynamic drag that clear debris from those orbits, they're just slower. And the combination of fewer high-altitude satellites and much bigger orbital volume make it harder to get a dangerous density of debris going in the first place.

Why would one assume that every civilization is going to have access to fossil fuels in the first place? Earth has coal and oil because of a specific sequence of events that don't necessarily follow.

Also, the severity of climate change that we're facing is in no plausible way "end of the line" for humans. It could be disruptive to our current civilization but it's not going to end us. One could even easily hypothesize alien planets where induced global warming would be an enormous benefit to a civilization living on it. Just a few tens of thousands of years ago major regions of Earth were covered with ice caps, if our civilization had arisen back then a case could be made that accelerating their melting would be beneficial in the long run.

This isn't really Great Filter material.

It actually is that simple, though. The amount of time that a launcher spends in one of those Kessler Syndrome zones while it passes through to a higher orbit would be measured in minutes. You can likely just ignore it and write off the one-in-a-million times your launcher hits something as just the cost of doing business.

Kessler Syndrome is a problem for satellites that want to orbit within those zones long term, as in spending years in there.

Right, that's exactly what I said.

A "Great Filter" is something that stops every civilization from ever expanding off its home world. Kessler Syndrome does not in any way fit this. It's a temporary inconvenience that isn't even guaranteed to happen.

It's pronounced "Aberbaijan." ICE has been dispatched to your location.

Jumping from Kessler syndrome to Great Filter is a drastic and unwarranted step. Kessler syndrome is temporary, the debris is in a low orbit where atmospheric drag gives it a lifespan of years to decades. And even if it wasn't, it only makes orbits within those debris belts dangerous, it doesn't prevent you from launching through them.

The leopards in America happen to be feeding very well in the past year, so naturally there's a lot of posts from there.

Be the change you want to see. Find some non-American examples to post.

To be fair, spite is kind of the point of this community.

You can't do anything else anyway.

Yes, this is my fundamental point. The Fediverse doesn't have tools for Fediverse-wide censorship, nor should it.

That stops bots for a particular instance, assuming they guessed right about which accounts were bots. It doesn't stop bots on the Fediverse.

This is just regular moderation, though. This is how the Fediverse already works. And it doesn't resolve the question I raised about what happens when two instances disagree about whether an account is a bot.