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by pmiller2 6y ago
No. The one thing we want to avoid is making the Earth into an unlivable hellscape for those who remain alive.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
We already have enough wealth in the world to share. There's no need to continue oppressing the global south in order to fuel growth that's going to kill us. I may have agreed with you before capitalism pissed away our future. B
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by pmiller2 6y ago
No, I mean growth in consumption. People borrowed from the future by consuming too much. It was, and is unsustainable. Reduction in population is the way to achieve reduction in consumption. Show me you're willing to be convinced, a
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Le sigh. Just because infections are increasing does not mean masks don't work. Tell me, what would the numbers be without masks?
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by pmiller2 6y ago
You can get more than 8 without going to external enclosures. I have a tower case with 15 drive bays in it.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Well, yes, that's what the word "about" means.... I'm not sure what you're getting at?
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by pmiller2 6y ago
What are you talking about? Unless they just recently changed it, they allow uploads for me, and I have uBlock origin plus Ghostery running.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Very easily. Share the wealth now, and population growth will slow. When there are fewer humans on the planet, standards of living will rise. If humanity can't accept the temporary reduction of some people's standard of living t
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by pmiller2 6y ago
What unintended consequences could possibly be worse than the intended consequences of having a system that depends on exponential growth?
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by pmiller2 6y ago
The solution is ecosocialism.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Doesn't mean we still don't need to reduce numbers for long term sustainability.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Here you go: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02801-8 Read that, chase down all the study links therein, and come back a week after you've found out you're wrong.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
You believe self reported data? Self reported data is among the least reliable forms of evidence there is.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
There's a difference between "mask mandates aren't making a difference" and " masks aren't effective." Take a look at Japan, where the government has done fuck all to deal with the virus, but people wea
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Reducing the numbers of those pesky humans would help.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Well, you know what? Plants reproduce, too. And, BTW, trees don't stop growing. They keep adding mass in their trunks. Literally the first google hit for "do trees stop growing": https://earthsky.org/earth&
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by pmiller2 6y ago
No, that is wrong. Plants emit O2, and consume CO2. This is called respiration.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
No, capitalism is the problem. You can't fix capitalism with more capitalism. Growth at all costs is what is killing us. Populations don't stabilize due to growth. They stabilize when the standard of living reaches a point wher
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Again, that is not true. Trees need CO2 for respiration. Basic biology, folks.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
You're part of the problem.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Isn't it obvious when the surge would happen? Cases spike about 10 days after the precipitating events. Deaths spike about 3 weeks after the event, so, we'll be seeing a huge increase in deaths in about 2 weeks.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
I don't understand.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
That's not true. Trees metabolize year round, and they literally breathe CO2.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Hah, fair enough. I suppose I should have said "designed to be removable." :)
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by pmiller2 6y ago
I suspect you're going to get downvoted to hell, but you're right. And, the fact is, neither of these points are compatible with capitalism. There's also a point 6, which is reduce and then stabilize the global population at
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by pmiller2 6y ago
You are aware that "temporarily" in this context is the lifespan of a tree, right? Trees live anywhere from several decades to 20+ centuries, and their remains, once broken down, provide nutrients to the soil so more trees can gr
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Except they don't give varying results. 10/14 models with published surface temperature predictions since the 1970s were statistically indistinguishable from reality: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/
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by pmiller2 6y ago
This is mostly it. The floating head, plus the much smaller head size is what allows a more dense packing of tracks per inch on the disk. It's almost like having a mini HD where the platter is removable.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Is there no backup on-call person, or any kind of escalation path for pages?
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Back when Snowden initially did what he did, I had a conversation with some coworkers about whether he was a hero or a traitor for releasing that information. I, personally, concluded that he was a bit of both, but, on balance, I considere

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