headsupernova

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by headsupernova 4y ago
This bs is debunked in every crypto thread... We're facing climate collapse and need to immediately ramp down nonessential energy use. Crypto mining facilities simply do not make the cut. That said, the mainstream financial system requ
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by headsupernova 4y ago
Those things produce joy, dry clothes, and steel. Crypto produces... scams? We're facing climate collapse and need to choose what we burn electricity on very very wisely.
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by headsupernova 4y ago
Can you link to any example of that argument being used for reparations? Also generational wealth is like _the_ predictive factor in future economic outcomes. This is basic stuff.
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by headsupernova 5y ago
I think a more thorough societal discussion about what our goals are given tight carbon budgets is what they're getting at, not the individual decision of someone to mine it.
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by headsupernova 6y ago
Simple - don't light it on fire.
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by headsupernova 6y ago
Because IP and profits are somehow more important than life in this capitalist hellworld
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by headsupernova 6y ago
Exactly but with the benefit of using the Safari engine and some other bells and whistles
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by headsupernova 6y ago
We need this for the whole world if we want to stay within ecological limits and avert the worst horrors of climate change. GDP is bad news
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by headsupernova 6y ago
Why not?
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by headsupernova 6y ago
public utility time!
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by headsupernova 6y ago
Everyone is always choosing the best option available to them... The point is that there's no reason the world should be set up in such a way that it's their only or best option.
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by headsupernova 6y ago
> free markets > externalities are untaxed. ?? Free markets are utterly and demonstrably unable to solve climate change.
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by headsupernova 6y ago
Life on Mars will always suck hopelessly compared to life on Earth. It's a terrible cold desert where you can't breath.
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by headsupernova 6y ago
That argument would seem to apply to insects with eye markings as well, so can't be correct here.
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by headsupernova 6y ago
good. maybe we can get back to doing work that brings meaning to people's lives.
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by headsupernova 6y ago
fossil fuels!
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by headsupernova 6y ago
"get a job, landlord" or "apply for unemployment" but really there should be some minimum UBI so that nobody starves or lives on the streets.
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by headsupernova 6y ago
The issue is the privacy of the people they're interacting with.
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by headsupernova 6y ago
this is the important realization from this time. This whole thing is made up - we can organize society around a model that isn't based on forcing people to work a (many times useless) job in order to eat food and sleep somewhere.
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by headsupernova 6y ago
if only
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by headsupernova 6y ago
Great discussion of this topic on the media criticism podcast Citations Needed last week. "How 'Polarization' Discourse Flattens Power Dynamics and Says Nothing" https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded&#x2
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by headsupernova 6y ago
the cop's autopsy blamed underlying health conditions, unsurprisingly. They'll protect their own at all costs and lie to us in broad daylight. Abolish the police.
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by headsupernova 6y ago
paying for the councelling of the moderators.
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by headsupernova 6y ago
they did not imply top-down organization.
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Can the Internet Survive Climate Change?(newrepublic.com)
6 points by headsupernova 7y ago|0 comments
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by headsupernova 7y ago
exactly, that sounds rad. We don't have to do all of this busywork. Post scarcity is here.
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by headsupernova 7y ago
goggles
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by headsupernova 7y ago
It's because the brunt of the problem doesn't affect the people who have the choice to live wherever they want.
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Science Apps That Will Make You Smarter(popularmechanics.com)
1 points by headsupernova 7y ago|0 comments
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by headsupernova 7y ago
It's been several years since I've had access to a planetarium to test, but back around 2015 it had support for full-dome projection, though it wasn't bug-free. It may have improved, but planetariums have never made it very

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