artifex

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[–] artifex@lemmy.zip 30 points 16 hours ago

As stupid as this sounds I think we (and really the media, but we know which side they’re on) should be doing this in F for US audiences. Saying “hey, it’s now 5°F hotter than it was in the 1970s” is more immediately meaningful — and the bigger number looks scarier too.

[–] artifex@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 days ago

In the US this would probably turn into a point of pride pretty quickly.

[–] artifex@lemmy.zip 23 points 3 days ago

How well-developed is this telekinetic power? Could I, for example:

  • Continuously turn the air 10M around them into a horrific miasma of farts by doing organic chemistry with nearby carbon and sulfur sources?
  • Always make it much too uncomfortably warm near them by raising the local temperature?
  • Condense the moisture out of it so that the politicians are always dripping wet?

I think in absence of doing real harm to them the best bet is to make them and everyone within 10M of them as extremely uncomfortable as possible.