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Not everything is worth trying. If we want to stop the melting of the Antarctic ice sheets, and someone says "Hey, perhaps the penguins are the problem. We sho
by crote 2mo ago
Not everything is worth trying.
If we want to stop the melting of the Antarctic ice sheets, and someone says "Hey, perhaps the penguins are the problem. We should murder all the penguins!", should we go all-in on that? If it inevitably doesn't end up working, should we just shrug and say "Well, at least we tried..."?
Personally I believe it is probably better to listen to the scientists who keep yelling that it isn't going to work and that we should focus on this "climate change" thing instead, but that's just me.
Doing something can be worse than doing nothing, and you don't get a participation trophy for a failed obviously-ludicrous moonshot - all you've done is leech money away from the people working on real solutions.
- arionhardison 2mo agoThis genuinely made me laugh. Fuck the penguin's LOL; but I actually do see your point here. There is a big diff in the online and offline world in terms of cost/resources spent and I did not consider that so I digress. Thankfully Elon/Trump shaved a cool 2 trillion off the budget so maybe we have some room to fudge a bit. #MoonShot Sometimes, I think my bias is more with the "who" gets a chance at a moonshot vs what it is and thats obviously problematic. I will do better.