ditch_baby

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   by ditch_baby 3y ago

   Longer seasons will be good for a few years, until summer gets so hot that people start dying. Oh wait, they are dying, in the order of hundreds of thousands of climate deaths each year. But that’s okay, because we have hearty, heat resista
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   by ditch_baby 3y ago

   You’re not wrong on a micro scale, but this is global average temperature. There is significantly more energy trapped on the surface of the Earth, and it doesn’t have anywhere else to go. There are many many factors contributing to the reas
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   by ditch_baby 3y ago

   This is the logical endgame for the search engine form factor. Remember watching mom ask google questions using complete sentences and punctuation with a “please and thank you”? The appeal of a conversational response was too great to wait
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   by ditch_baby 3y ago

   I think the sense of martyrdom comes from the fact that these changes directly affect how millions of users spend large chunks of their day, which is itself the location where these discussions are happening. Stack that with the very visibl