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by crispinb 7y ago
If you can't come up with anything, it's possible you're just beyond repair and too snarky to think reasonably Or perhaps that we've mostly worked in crap dev jobs/companies? There are easily enough of them around
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It's pretty shocking that we are where we are in 2020. That year sounds like the future to me, but in computer interface terms it's definitely dystopia. The market failure to cap all market failures!
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Sure - as it happens my nation (Australia) has far fewer of the kind of entanglements that prompt this particular activity, compared to Israel. But you can entirely sure that if we did, we'd allow tech spying lobbyists to write the nec
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reduction of energy demand Personally I'd go further and say there's no substantial mitigation of climate change without degrowth amongst wealthy nations. Not popular around here of course, being against the religious beliefs p
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Every time one of the many irritations I have with Linux makes me consider reinstalling Windows to give it another try, this kind of thing is just what comes to mind and stops me.
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Whether that's relevant depends on the source of the doubt, and the relative payoffs. The primary source of doubt in this case (ie. something with no numbers attached being thought of as 'scary') is ignorance. If that doubt r
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It's a witch!
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Well it's scary in the abstract. Which is why to make a rational assessment you need details (of relevant half-life, volumes, ocean dispersal directions & rates, etc). Hard for us laypersons to assess, so it's easier to be sca
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by crispinb 7y ago
Perhaps. But there have been repeated exposes of the UK's torture exports, with less public reaction than you'd get for a bad football ref decision.
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Leg irons & electrocution gear were the two items I specifically remember.
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Nonsense. "Environmentalists" (a crude & politically inactive umbrella term) can't even get nations to do the minimum necessary for long-term survival (stop catastrophic rates of wetland & forest destruction even in w
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by crispinb 7y ago
Er just about every nation, ever? As nations develop legal & regulatory systems, the means of corruption changes, but the corruption stays. In India companies directly pay politicians to skirt regulations. Here in Australia that's
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Yes, though perhaps 'shady population' is more like it. When I lived in Coventry many years ago, several of my neighbours worked for a local firm on manufacturing lines churning out torture equipment. It was no great secret, and
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I hear you. Coming from one of the rogue nationx when it comes to climate change, I have my moments too. Still, on reflection, I'm pretty sure our current trajectory was inevitable the moment humans developed agriculture. We're th
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Odds are against it in the short term, I'd agree. But cultures do change, albeit reluctantly. There are Chinese animal rights movements. And there's a huge growth in tertiary science education, which 'traditional Chinese medi
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A potential silver lining then.
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Facts can be used as weapons, sometimes for racist purposes. That's certainly happening here in Australia in relation to this.
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Then (forgive me if I'm mistaken here) it seems like you are probably clinging to the Enlightenment myths of human supremacy and inevitable 'progress'. To be angry that humans aren't transcending physical and ecological
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by crispinb 7y ago
You sound angry. I'd suggest defanging that by considering eventual collapse as always having been our civilisation's trajectory. Any creature that manages to escape, for a period, limits on its reproduction is going to overrun it
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> if the world needs an urgent intervention TESLA will benefit from the effort That's a triumph of hope over experience if ever I heard one. We need an urgent intervention right now. The chances of it happening? Pretty damn close to
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by crispinb 7y ago
Agree the EU is in better shape than much of the world. There's a lot of technical arguments about how well it's doing in practise. But even the fact that it's at issue shows that at least it has some chance of meeting its 40
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by crispinb 7y ago
Quite. It's really very boring to hear people endlessly whinging about politicians, then refusing to vote for those offering anything different from BAU. There are no perfect democracies, but citizens surely must accept some responsibi
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by crispinb 7y ago
It's worse than that. There is very determined political will, across much of the globe, to stoke global heating further for short-term benefit. In my country (Australia) we had a federal election last year. The climate issues were ver
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by crispinb 7y ago
It's not just the US. Where I live (Northern Rivers, Australia), large numbers of people in the hippy areas would situate themselves politically as ultra-left and/or deep green. So highly anti-capitalist, anti-racist etc. They&#x2
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by crispinb 7y ago
Does the research cited distinguish between hardwired vs culturally (or developmentally) entrenched behaviour? I haven't followed all the links so I'm asking, not answering, but if the research doesn't make that distinction,
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by crispinb 7y ago
I use it a fair bit for a variety of purposes. Without Sci-Hub, given the astonishingly high pricing usually involved I certainly wouldn't be paying for the articles. I'd be managing without as best I can. Sci-Hub doesn't giv
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by crispinb 7y ago
What a pitiful congeries of overweening, delusional, self-important absurdities. I often wonder if I can come to loathe the tech sector any more than I do, and it consistently meets my challenge. A desire to acquire shitloads of overconsump
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by crispinb 7y ago
For sure - Australian politics at all levels has long been deeply corrupted by the mining & real estate industries. In that respect we're probably not very different from many other semi-democracies. Though the Australian voting po
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> Hopefully the Australian government wakes up to the climate crisis It's very hard to imagine, given the current crew. They're pretty hard core on the motivated reasoning front. And they've moved from outright denial to a
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Ignition sources are pretty much a constant so don't remotely explain a truly dramatic rise in the extent and ferocity of forest fires. Eucalyptus has been flammable for millennia. Tasmania and Queensland have seen fires in forests and

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