crispinb

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by crispinb 8y ago
Money quote for me was: Those faces contorted in weird mirth are the grotesque masks of a great and historic crime, deriding not just their political opponents but mocking the future with that pure contempt of power, daring us to remember
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by crispinb 8y ago
Anyone who has spent time here knows that the summer holiday has a very particular place in Australia's cultural heart. This is particularly true for people who grew up here - it's a vivid representation of joy & freedom. This
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Tasmania is burning(theguardian.com)
3 points by crispinb 8y ago|4 comments
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by crispinb 8y ago
"endangering 2 billion people", but unfortunately the wrong people (not white or wealthy enough), at least in the medium term. Climate collapse is almost perfectly calibrated to be ignored by decision makers until it's too la
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by crispinb 8y ago
Reaping what it has sown: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/30/australi...
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January was Australia's hottest month since records began(theguardian.com)
1 points by crispinb 8y ago|0 comments
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by crispinb 8y ago
I used to get this from my 2013 MBP when I used it without the extension cord (which at least in Australia is earthed). For some reason the extensionless plug didn't have a connection to the power supply's earth. It was a bit disc
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Australia is an environmental rogue state(theguardian.com)
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by crispinb 8y ago
> they will cheat if they think that won't be found out That seems to me just like a plain description of 'business'. Of course as rule of law becomes more effective, the chances of being found out increases, and cheating&
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by crispinb 8y ago
Exactly - this is why none of the most significant problems facing our world, all of which are fundamentally international in nature, can be solved. The sclerotic institution of the nation state renders solutions, even when entirely obvious
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by crispinb 8y ago
Hah I'm a pommie escapee to Aus. You're right, the UK is a schmozzle. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.
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by crispinb 8y ago
The Aus well of political disappointment does indeed seem near bottomless .. thanks for reminding me ;)
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by crispinb 8y ago
The current fed government is such a laughing stock at this point, it's all but inevitable that the next one will be at least some improvement.
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by crispinb 8y ago
the climate's always changing .. if not nice clean Aus coal exports then S.African brown .. sky is falling in lol .. it's snowing here what global warming lol .. what about Al Gore .. it hasn't warmed since 1996 .. what about
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by crispinb 8y ago
We (Northern Rivers) haven't had the extremes, but weeks of above-average temps on top of drought have made it dryer here than I've ever seen. The paddocks look more like Vic than the subtropics. My local creek has dried up for th
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by crispinb 8y ago
True, it's probably typical for a good proportion of S.Hem summer maxes to be in Australia. The actual values aren't typical though - many temperature records being broken, bushfires in places that haven't experienced them in
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by crispinb 8y ago
Actually none of the standard means (ie. not stealing/hacking logins , but using archives, caches & reading services) are illegal in my jurisdiction, so I am perfectly entitled to do just that. Your approach fits an old fashioned w
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by crispinb 8y ago
> primitive people The only indigenous population I know about in any detail is that of my nation (Australia). They were far from "primitive", rather constituted an unimaginably ancient continent-wide civilisation. > native
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by crispinb 8y ago
Practical for a few sites that one might choose as private portals. Not (except for the extremely wealthy) if you use the web via its natural affordances.
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by crispinb 8y ago
There's zero room for ads in my life, so I see almost none. Where some slip through, I consider them an imposition that I avert my gaze from, so I'm indifferent to their content.
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by crispinb 8y ago
An article by two economic academics proves something about "the Left", and it's wrong anyway because 'most rich people I know' something something something.
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by crispinb 8y ago
Perhaps more salient than '4th' is that it looks like we may be persistently at 1C above preindustrial global temps.
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2018 was the fourth warmest year on record(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by crispinb 8y ago|1 comments
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by crispinb 8y ago
Phlogiston, God, chakras, qi etc aren't metaphors - they're (quite literal) concepts from discarded prescientific ontologies. As far as we know (which isn't everything, but it's all we've got for now) they have no r
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by crispinb 8y ago
> This civilization has survived terrible wars in the past While that's true, I don't think any past war is remotely comparable to a 7-12 billion-strong human population fighting to maintain unrealistic material consumption lev
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by crispinb 8y ago
> No. But I'm not a nation state .. Fair enough. Though in context you do seem to be promoting it as an investment strategy, which still seems a tad sociopathic to me. > We'll adapt we always do. If by 'we' you mea
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by crispinb 8y ago
OK got it - misunderstood you. I'm not entirely sure I agree in the sense that if people really feel an imminent danger they can pull together and make sacrifices. But even when phrased as a 'tipping point', climate collapse
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by crispinb 8y ago
> If I was Russia I'd be doing everything I could to undermine climate change prevention Honestly? You would? You want to see vast amounts of suffering for your own gain? > They have a lot to gain. Well possibly if they want to
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by crispinb 8y ago
Totally. I know a couple of climate scientists here in Aus, and a number of ecosystem experts on three continents. They are personally far more alarmed than would be indicated by the mild statements the universities (and IPCC) lean on them
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by crispinb 8y ago
I'm not sure what your 'deadline' refers to, but in any case the relevant deadline would be 'critically urgent'. We've had this 'serious issue' to deal with for 40 years or more. It is still technical

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