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by revscat 5y ago
To destroy Facebook.
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by revscat 5y ago
Because a significant portion of Facebook’s value comes from the people who use and post to it. If that can be disrupted in even a small way, then the whole thing comes crashing down.
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by revscat 5y ago
Hypothesis: If 0.1% of Facebook users were to publish their password to Twitter, Reddit, etc., the resultant damage done to the social network (in the literal sense) would cause Facebook to collapse. This is something I have considered doin
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by revscat 5y ago
This is my belief as well, although slightly different in how I phrase it: humans are incapable of seeing much beyond their own selfish desires, and as a result will wind up causing their own extermination. The denial of death is widespread
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by revscat 5y ago
Because the “practical” timeline was one started 30 years ago. But proposals were met then with the exact same “now let’s not be hasty” counterarguments. The more time that elapses, the more drastic actions are required, no matter how pai
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by revscat 5y ago
To annoy pg?
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by revscat 5y ago
"It's not what you're saying, it's how you're saying it that I have a problem with." This doesn't change the underlying reality, and I have a strong suspicion there is no means of discussing this issue tha
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by revscat 5y ago
Which is irrelevant. Increasing crop failures will mean that even if you migrate to somewhere that is currently cool, there won't be enough food to feed everyone.
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by revscat 5y ago
Can you explain what family organizer-based recovery means? It sounds like dad or mom could recover a kids password?
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by revscat 5y ago
The burden of proof is upon you, the person made the original claim. As you are unwilling or unable to provide such then the only reasonable conclusion to make is that your claim is false.
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by revscat 5y ago
None of that is proof.
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by revscat 5y ago
An example wasn’t provided. A claim was made. That is not proof. I’m talking about a blog post, a Twitter thread, or something other than mere “trust me they exist” levels of proof.
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by revscat 5y ago
Do you have an example of someone who holds that belief? That feels like one of those stereotypes that people are sure exists but actually doesn’t.
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by revscat 5y ago
Hm. My immediate counter to your point was “that is because YouTube doesn’t allow anyone to use their api,” but now that I think about it I’m not so sure. Is it Apple keeping non-Google-produced YouTube clients off the App Store, or is it A
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by revscat 5y ago
None. I believe the answer to the Fermi Paradox, at least for humanity, is “capitalism.” There are no governments or international institutions which are capable of responding to climate change. Every organization with political clout is ba
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by revscat 5y ago
Nothing has happened in my lifetime that has made my life better compared to my parents. The ACA mandated I buy private insurance, and that hasn’t really helped me at all. I still got charged almost $1000 for an ambulance ride last year, on
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by revscat 5y ago
This is America. Nothing good ever happens legislatively, only things that benefit large capitalist institutions.
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by revscat 5y ago
Did not know. Thanks.
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by revscat 5y ago
What good is owning land if there is no more rainfall? Or if your beach-front is now submerged?
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by revscat 5y ago
There are limits. If rainfall stops no amount of engineering will make the rivers flow or crops grow. If the ocean acidifies and fish stocks plummet, there is no engineering solution for that. This faith people have in engineering just bogg
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by revscat 5y ago
Your positivism is anachronistic. Humanity is incapable of putting ego aside for long-term survival. Look at the COVID epidemic, and how vast swaths of humanity has responded to it: denial, offense, pride in ignoring vaccines. Stupidity and
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by revscat 5y ago
The system needed to support their narcissism — refineries, drilling operations, finance, war, and the emissions caused by them all — are the more significant problem.
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by revscat 5y ago
Malthus’ predictions were proven incorrect. The predictions of climate models — less rainfall, increased temperatures, less arable land — have proven correct. Not to mention that observable behavior matches those same models. If anything,
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by revscat 5y ago
The dead sibling to this comment is correct. I suspect, though, that it was flagged not because of its inaccuracy, but simply because it goes against the feel-good positive capitalism that is so pervasive throughout western society.
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by revscat 5y ago
Why? Some romantic attachment viz Red Barchetta? The ICE has literally been the engine of humanity’s doom.
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by revscat 5y ago
When she fails — and she will — ask yourself why she failed. The answer will be couched in legal tenets, but the underlying fact remains that the intent of the law is to protect existing capital, at all costs. This is true from Washington t
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by revscat 5y ago
It is important up understand that the laws are such that “justice” is equated with “maximizing capital”, as cynical as it is to say, and as such any financial support given to those who fight such a system will inevitably prove to be gestu
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by revscat 5y ago
That was my impression. I’ve been doing this for years with Ruby, tmux, and some custom zsh widgets. https://github.com/jchilders/dotfiles
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by revscat 5y ago
Unfortunately it will change nothing, at least nothing significant enough to prevent destruction. Those who profit monetarily or politically from global warming will continue to ignore it, or ridicule those who do not.
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by revscat 5y ago
I used to think I would die of old age before the worst of climate change hit, leaving it to my children to deal with. I’m not so sure any longer. Regardless, I have little faith that a species which values money and reproduction so highly

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