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by realreality 2y ago
> Almost always people use that word to imply something clandestine, misleading, or both. No, propaganda is often quite blatant. Look at the posters from both of the World Wars, depicting US enemies as vicious, inhuman monsters. Even the
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by realreality 2y ago
Regarding 2022: > The presented data, especially for 2022, are thus preliminary and subject to backward revisions. The more recent data are usually more incomplete and therefore can undergo upward revisions over time. This implies that s
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by realreality 2y ago
> As long as that much new firm renewables capacity comes online in the next 20 years close enough to get power to the facility with transmission, this is not a terrible problem to solve. Nuclear and renewables are not 1:1 interchangeabl
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by realreality 2y ago
> During the public meeting, residents questioned what will happen to the data centers when the nuclear power plant is eventually decommissioned. One reactor is set to be decommissioned in 2042, while the other is slated to be shut down
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by realreality 2y ago
That’s always been an issue. Years ago, researchers demonstrated in an experiment that they could swing public opinion about electoral candidates by manipulating search results. Who knows if Google took that experiment and ran with it?
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by realreality 2y ago
> Electric stoves, ovens, and other simple electric heaters. Not really. The current would be too high on low voltage DC. And high voltage DC is dangerous.
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by realreality 2y ago
The ~420ppm statistic is considered a global average. The concentration is already quite a bit higher in cities. Poke around here [1] for yourself. In indoor urban spaces, concentrations are probably already typically 800ppm. It might expla
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by realreality 3y ago
Atmospheric methane oxidizes into CO2 and water vapor. Then the CO2 hangs around for much longer... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_methane#Natural_si...
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by realreality 3y ago
Industrial civilization is a lifestyle that can never be sustainable. I'm not "parroting Big Oil propaganda". They're one of the worst culprits, who managed to addict us to cheap energy. Now everybody expects access to c
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by realreality 3y ago
If that's the case, EVs aren't the answer, either. Industrial civilization must stop. full stop.
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by realreality 3y ago
Regardless of the source of illness, the pandemic response was another iteration of economic “shock therapy”, ushering us one step closer to a world of technofeudalism, which our leaders openly endorse. https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by realreality 3y ago
Sorry, I meant any new regulations or oversight.
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by realreality 3y ago
> So you are saying, take no steps would logically reduce the chances of the next pandemic. The fact that none of the (seemingly non-controversial) action items are being addressed should tell you something about how our leaders think. I
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by realreality 3y ago
> Not so, because the first two will reduce the rate at which new pandemics emerge I agree that those items are worth doing for other reasons. But I also question whether pandemics even operate in the way that we've been conditioned
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by realreality 3y ago
> There's some irony to posting this on a website... I try to use this medium to share a perspective that addicts wouldn't ordinarily encounter. It's probably not very effective, since the addiction runs so deep.
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by realreality 3y ago
> No matter the cause of COVID If the cause of COVID had nothing to do with infectious disease labs, food standards, or air filtration, then those three action items would be irrelevant. If the cause of COVID was acute poisoning combined
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by realreality 3y ago
I know. Addicts don’t like to hear about how destructive their addictions are. Our society is addicted to energy.
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by realreality 3y ago
Yes, crypto miners should be among the first servers to switch off.
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by realreality 3y ago
> Ok, Bitcoin bad. What about video games? Netflix? Porn? Yes, they're all bad. Markets are no substitute for morality. And if the market properly accounted for environmental damage, all of those uses of energy would be priced out o
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by realreality 3y ago
> Like, no one thinks data centers for AWS are bad. In a world of dwindling EROI and exponential carbon emissions, all data centers are bad. If we cared about the future at all, we'd be switching them off and triaging our energy u
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by realreality 3y ago
Nobody has mentioned that these projects have another intention/effect: they make poor people more dependent on global supply chains and the monetary system. Instead of using cheap/free, local, sustainably grown wood, or cow dung,
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by realreality 3y ago
The world’s top 1% of emitters produce over 1000 times more CO2 than the bottom 1%: https://www.iea.org/commentaries/the-world-s-top-1-of-emitte... There’s certainly low-hanging fruit. If the top 10% of emitters reduce
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by realreality 3y ago
“The market” shouldn’t even exist.
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by realreality 3y ago
It’s all dubious.
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by realreality 3y ago
You’re not counting the embodied emissions of all the hardware inside the data centers. And consider the low lifespan of IT equipment.
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by realreality 3y ago
There are going to be a lot of "stranded assets" on a dead planet.
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by realreality 3y ago
They don’t have to take orders. They know implicitly what the State wants. If they didn’t, they wouldn’t have their jobs. This has been explained repeatedly since “Manufacturing Consent”.
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by realreality 4y ago
Species are going extinct every day. Already there’s been a 75% decline in insects, over the past 30 years. When all the pollinators die out, how much longer will humans survive?
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by realreality 4y ago
RCP 8.5 was never realistic, because there’s a point when accumulated disasters will limit industrial output (and therefore emissions), due to resource wars, famine, and instability. The problem is that the IPCC doesn’t factor in climatic t
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by realreality 4y ago
Climate change is just one aspect of the problem of ecological overshoot. The biodiversity crisis is a bigger deal, but it receives very little attention. Global industrial civilization is driving the sixth mass extinction on earth. Every s

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