No more math!

The video on seattletimes is the same video from the dailyuw site, and it’s still available as far as I can tell.

Produced and consumed in Morocco, replaces another energy reclamation method, no mention of quickly approaching peak phosphorus.

Correction – SLRPNK.net’s admins are all anarchists, but the server is not ‘for’ anarchists. Limiting our membership to anarchists for one means we would have to precisely define what an anarchist is, and then enforce that definition on our membership. In spaces where someone can be ejected for not being anarchist, this leads to attempts by people to censor others by trying to narrow the definition so the people they argue with fall on the wrong side of the line.

We’re looking for people who believe in the value of scientific consensus. We’re building a community that wants society to change to better meet the challenges of resource scarcity, ecological collapse, and increasing authoritarian influence in politics. We celebrate good faith discussion, and discourage trolling and bad rhetoric. We don’t tolerate hate speech and spamming. We believe a diverse set of ideas and approaches are more likely to solve complex problems than adhering to a strict party line. As anarchists and adminstrators, we approach revolution through prefiguration, believe that means and ends are inseparable, and want our server to reflect the society of the future we’d like to live in – one where diversity of thought is foundational in finding creative answers, and people with varying goals and ideals are able to work together to solve shared problems.

They lived their life relaxing in a hot-tub. Now that their greed has made it a boiling pot, they’re tossing their children in to burn and gaslighting them that they have a legacy.

There’s a lot of good reasons to be exasperated, and you have a limited pool of emotional energy.

I have an account on a Solarpunk server. Most images are found on servers that don’t support off-site linking, or aren’t under the control of trusted people in the Fediverse. If I upload an image to post on any community, that post is native to my server because that’s where my account is. So although the post is shared with all the servers that federate with the LM community, the image is hosted on my server. This is the way the Fediverse normally works. I’ve never before seen people become exasperated about federated accounts posting to a federated community on federated social media.

It is confusing to me why so many people are angry about a ‘missing article’ when it isn’t much work to search for an article to discuss and post it in the comments. Several people have posted article links as comments, which have so far resulted in zero article discussion. I think whatever people are angry or exasperated about, it doesn’t have anything to do with me; I’m just a convenient target: I shared a picture, and the picture title sounded like it belonged to an article.

I post a lot of articles, pictures, and memes, and I do it because if I don’t, they don’t get posted. Despite doing this without getting paid, I occasionally get feedback that assumes a much higher standard of professionalism than ‘free.’ When you attack people for participating in ways that don’t meet your unrealistic standards, you not only make the people you attack lives less pleasant, but you also discourage other people from participating. In a participatory platform, your behavior is a form of cancer.

Just because I post articles doesn’t make me different from you - we are both creator-consumers here. I would like very much to have a more diverse group of people sharing stories, memes, and pictures. I notice you’ve been here a year, and haven’t made any posts yet. Consider giving it a try. You do open yourself up to more negative feedback, but you’ll understand better what realistic expectations for people who post here actually look like. It will be easier for you to understand the motivations and actions of others here.

Thank you.

I appreciate you calling it like you see it here. It is just one news story.

Still, how we treat each other here is an important part what makes a social media platform a healthy place to spend our time.

I’m guessing molten and Five are the same person with a few supporting accounts.

@molten@lemmy.world LOL This is what I deal with on the regular. A raging conspiracy-obsessed hive mind with its critical thinking lobe lobotomized.

Find a better server, Lemmy.world has a lowest-common-denominator culture.

You are bringing content right now. And your content is hostile, off-topic, and terrible.

And sometimes people want to derail any relevant conversation to complain about nothing. Post the article if you’re so upset about it.

Why not link to the article instead of raging in the comments about it? Sometimes people want to talk about articles, sometimes they want to talk about pictures. Sometimes people want to derail any relevant conversation to complain about nothing – but I hope this is not one of those threads.

There is no megathread for this event, comments about the judge’s dismissal are being made here, meanwhile comments on his appearance are here

You could feed your whole family with that much soup!

Don’t downplay it – it’s a whole $4! That’s a bowl of soup for all of your privacy. Until they appeal it, that is.

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The speed of technological progress tends toward an exponential curve, and Frank Herbert understood and knew this, but wanted to write a serious medieval saga set in the distant future. The Butlerian Jihad was always a plot contrivance to explain why in the thousands of years of intergalactic civilization, human life is still recognizable to us, and still recognizable from their in-story ancestors.

But just because AI was treated as an enemy by fictional fascists, doesn’t mean it was good. Fascists are enemies to other fascists. It’s an ideology that is always seeking enemies, and will either invade outwards or purge inwards - but their enemies don’t need to be ‘good’ or ‘bad,’ they only need to be ‘other.’

It can both be true that a technocratic class using thinking machines would have dominated the human race, and the force that prevented their rule is a theofascist eugenic autocracy. The theme Herbert I think would have appreciated his readers noticing is that there is no real difference between a crushing totalitarian dictatorship under an inhuman technocratic class, and a crushing totalitarian dictatorship under a charismatic leader and a religious cult.

What ghouls

Behind those numbers is a rapidly changing energy landscape that could lead to a much less carbon-intensive future.

The word could is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. On paper, China has already built enough PV to power half the country, but uses less than half of their built power. China is building new coal plants, which should be widely reported, but that’s half the story. The other half is acres and acres of dark PV.

Always look at these propagandistic graphs and check if they’re a report of energy used or things like ‘installed’ and ‘capacity’ – because they’re certainly not using it. China chooses to continue to fuel its industrialization with coal.

The coal for ‘local control’ angle sounds new and curious. What does it say about their TWs of potential ‘solar capacity’ when they still have blackouts when local private coal plant operators skimp on their coal deliveries? Are they building solar projects in regions where it isn’t needed and leaving regions where it is needed under-supplied due to government incompetence? Are they installing potemkin solar farms that are built with panels that didn’t meet standards for export and will never be reliable? Are they trying to get as much coal out of the ground as they can before other countries force them to stop? I’d be impressed if a journalist could find the answer to these questions.

Electric vehicle and train increases would be much more inspiring if the former wasn’t the case. It’s much better for the respiratory health of people in city centers, but for the purposes of carbonization, they’re effectively machines that run on coal.

Why organize a labor union to keep the tyrants from paying you poverty wages when you could just submit the name of the tyrant to the assassination market and let somebody take care of it?

The more unpopular you are as a human being, the shorter your expected lifespan, because the reward for you not existing would increase proportionally to how much of an asshole you were.

What are some ways that you can think of where a scheme like this could have undesirable results?