“But when you reach that level,” nominee of one of the two major parties, “you have to be the face of capitalism, militarism, and neo-colonialism.” Harris, Davis warned, “has told us she will be that face, that she will build the most lethal military apparatus ever.”
And then next time we have to 
for the next face of capitalism, militarism, and neo-colonialism so that the most lethal military apparatus ever doesn’t get placed in the hands of the next fascist!
When do you suppose was the last time Musk read a poem (that was not generated by an LLM)?
It’s an app like Grindr but also for straight people
Predicting right now that the proportion of users that are men will be the same for both apps
Suppressing the urge to strip naked and run through the halls shouting “Everything we do is fake!” is getting harder with every passing day and it’s mainly the fault of this web site.
Assuming this isn’t just evidence that the methodology sucks or the sample is crap because they picked a single right-wing crank site to serve as the functional outgroup, it seems to be pointing to a distinct lack of liveliness. The debates are all over lurid speculation about the diets and religious practices of immigrant communities.
Blows my mind that there are people who’d rather have billions of dollars and live in a bunker for the rest of their lives than have a comparatively modest existence in a flourishing environment with fresh air and sunshine, and that those people are being trusted to make decisions for the rest of us, but here we are.
Oh, okay, I wasn’t following the fact that the bomb threats were also coming from his camp.
Sounds like the breakfast of champions to me.
In the discourse, a heckler’s veto is a situation in which a party who disagrees with a speaker’s message is able to unilaterally trigger events that result in the speaker being silenced. For example, a heckler can disrupt a speech to the point that the speech is canceled.
How is Vance - despite his being a well educated idiot - not describing a heckler’s veto?
In the 13th century, breakfast when eaten sometimes consisted of a piece of rye bread and a bit of cheese. Morning meals would not include any meat, and would likely include 0.4 imperial gallons (1.8 L) of low alcohol-content beers. Uncertain quantities of bread and ale could have been consumed in between meals.
Reject modernity, return to tradition
Caption: “Oh my goodness! A book that proves me right! Let me put my flag down so I can read it!”
Now we know why Kamala spent so much time at the debate talking about natural gas.
Silicon Valley is currently stuffed to the gills with people trying to escape their own products. Turns out knowing all the tricks to get people plugged in to your product does not make you immune to them.
I’m sure it’s only a matter of time until checks notes political dynasty scion Gavin Newsom presses the communism button in California
Do they think they just sorta dig wells in random spots and never think about the science of it?
I mean yeah, kinda. The Three Cups of Tea guy built a bunch of schools that are being used for storage sheds because he didn’t have any idea of what it would take to run a school in Afghanistan. Peace Corps is basically make-work projects for idealistic college grads with no real world experience. The Gates Foundation built high tech toilets for rural areas that were stripped for metals pretty much immediately. Tons of nonprofit money is wasted because anyone can raise money thinking the solutions are simple and then discover that the reality is a lot more difficult.
Effective Altruism had the kernel of a good idea in that it initially proposed that interventions be evidence-based and actually help the most people. But then they got bit by a radioactive Utilitarian or got lots of money from someone who knew that the real purpose of philanthropy is reputation laundering and suddenly it was all about kajillion simulated space consciousnesses and flimsy justifications for protecting the incomes of software engineers at Facebook.
Well yeah, degrowth is a precondition to any of the mitigation technologies on that list. The water’s coming in into the boat way faster than we can bail, so the priority should be to plug the leaks.
The chart reflects the fact that CCS is an immature technology that will be a nice to have if we can drop the energy requirements and store carbon in a form that’s stable at normal room temperatures and pressures. There’s some bench-scale experiments that have had promising results to that effect, so I don’t see any reason not to fund that research. We spend more money on worse stuff by a country mile.
Plus, all the other bars on that chart have their issues. The mineral requirement to build transmission and storage infrastructure for wind and solar at current rates of energy demand growth will require massive increases in mining for copper and lithium. Agricultural carbon storage has error bars you could drive a truck through because no one can measure it. Attempts to pay farmers for soil carbon sequestration have been a mess and we’re not sure about what the turnover rates for soil carbon pools might be under a warmer and wetter climate. Forest preservation just avoids future emissions and many forests are switching from carbon sinks to sources as they catch fire.
Fuel switching to natural gas: A recent study suggests NG is probably worse than coal. Plus quantification of leakage is notoriously messy.
We’re kinda boned and CCS only really makes sense under FALGSC conditions, but it could help if we manage to pull out of our capitalist nosedive.
While I get the skepticism about CCS because capitalists are idiots, I don’t know about “can’t work”
CCS is great if:
The elephant in the room here is time, because you can’t just hoover up gigatons of carbon overnight. So long as it doesn’t take resources away from more immediate forms of mitigation and adaptation, I think it’s research worth pursuing. But the IRA’s drafters didn’t get that memo.
If anything, letting Democrats win the next few major elections could spell doom for the Republican party as a whole, and give us a chance to introduce some actual competition to the Democratic party.
Why is there a time traveler from the year 2000 posting on lemmy.world?
“We lost? It’s because we didn’t do enough to appeal to conservative voters!”
“We won? In the spirit of unity, it’s time to work across the aisle with our Republican colleagues.”
Why does no one realize Dylan Thomas wrote more than one poem