TipsyMcGee

It’s the Streisand effect, when an ineffectual government actually does something it becomes a reminder of its failures

Still a bit confusing to me. In my jurisdiction, child pornography is the legal term, which really applies independently of whether anyone is abused or have had their sexual integrity violated (e.g a 17 year old, above the age of consent, voluntarily is depicted in a sexual context and voluntarily shares the content with peers, e.g. depicts a child that doesn’t exist)

I don’t quite get it, is it a wider term than child pornography or more narrow (e.g. excludes some types of materials that could be considered porn but strictly speaking doesn’t depict abuse)? The abbreviation sounds like some kind of exotic Surface to Air Missile lol

I have an M1 Macbook Air with 8 gb of ram, it performs great for everything I want to do with it – except for the fact that a ”few” active browser tabs are enough to bring the memory pressure to the pain point. Editing HD video? Reasonably snappy for an old, base spec laptop. Browsing a news site? Potato.

While it may make Nato less credible in terms of military assets and industrial capacity if the US were out, it would make Nato more defensible in moral terms if the whims of Donald Trump weren’t a cornerstone of the Alliance

Eliminate, as in make liminal. He’s gonna make the poors mad liminal, brah , and he’s got the shrooms to prove it

That’s already killing people, he’s looking to the future with his robot army

Is that an actual thing? Nvm not gonna Google. I WANT TO BELIEVE!

Well neither is "free" energy, but as opposed to solar and existing technologies, cold fusion is claimed to offer energy so abundant that it's basically free. Solar don't work on the scale required to solve the problems that climate change bring (carbon capture, water desalination, replacing every critical earth system we're breaking) AND maintaining the rising power requirements of modernity.

Solar and wind technologies would have been an excellent basis for building a different type of society, where we also vastly reduce our energy consumtion and rethink modern economy. That would be nice, but those discussions are simply off the table at the moment. People want cheeseburgers, Amazon Prime and pickup trucks. No such things in Solar Punk Utopia.

Yes, but let's not forget that 1,5 degrees C was considered really bad to begin with.

The target of staying under 1,5 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial average temperature within the century was set less than 10 years ago. It was considered ambitious but possible back then, and so many world leaders and governments agreeing to it in the Paris climate accord of 2015, was considered a major political achievement.

However, there have been uncountable political setbacks since. Aside from Donald Trump's two election wins and subsequent horror shows, we've gone through a pandemic that brought insane financial, monetary politics and crushing inflation, the Ukraine war and the advent of power hungry AI (that totally will be good for something and ain't no god dammed bubble, seriously stop calling it a bubble, bro, it's the future). All of which has reduced climate change to a niche topic that don't hold any sway over political elections in the rich countries responsible for the brunt of greenhouse gas emissions (directly or indirectly).

Less than 10 years ago we thought it would be possible to stay below that target over the coming 85 years. Less than 10 years later that target is declared dead by the secretary general of the UN.. Was it realistic then? Well, a lot of planning and climate policy has involved exceeding 1,5 degrees and then using massive deployments of imaginary future technologies to bring the climate back. Not exactly prudent reasoning.

Some countries are still sticking to their plans, kinda. Norway are making headways installing carbon capture technology on their off-shore oil rigs (!!!) so that they can keep drilling for fossil fuels with a smaller impact on their own reported national emissions.

I agree, inefficient magic use in the scientific community is to blame for this predicament.