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by salt-thrower 4y ago
This reads like you only read the first half-sentence of that comment and stopped there. Your reductive reasoning is palpable. People will move to Texas in the near term for the promise of low COL, but I wonder how many massive power grid f
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
Fossil fuels are failing our very immediate need to stabilize climate change and survive for the next century. So yes, we should be considering other options, even if they’re not perfect.
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
I actually agree. I’ve tried to like Stumptown so many times, but the flavor is too sour for me. Sisters Coffee Company is my favorite Oregon brand so far.
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
Check out the track “Coffee In Portland” by John Craigie on your music app of choice. It’s a great folksy bit about attempting to order coffee at a trendy coffee shop. Hilarious. (I say this as a Portland resident myself).
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
Even if that’s true (debatable), it’s important to not use it as ammo to slam renewables as a whole - which republicans are keen to do. We need to wean off of fossil fuels asap, and this sentiment is easily manipulated to hurt that cause.
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
> They have some immense challenges in DHS Racist abuse of migrant kids and breaking the bones of unarmed protesters really eats at the soul over time, I'd imagine. Those poor DHS agents - won't someone think of their stress le
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
> What happened to correct that culture? You probably already know the answer to this and are asking it to spur discussion, but of course the answer is: absolutely nothing.
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
Sadly I think you’re right, assuming business as usual continues until it can’t. But a potential foil to that timeline would be technological civilization grinding to a halt, such that we couldn’t deploy geoengineering even if we wanted to.
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
> How many people have been killed in US wars Easily in the millions. And that’s innocent civilians, not combatants. Not to diminish the suffering that happened there under Mao - but the lives ruined by US wars continue to add up. People
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
I have the same take as you, and reading all these comments makes me feel like I’m on crazy pills. Google and Meta apparently get a pass because they’re “American companies.” Even though we know that they collect personal data and manipulat
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
Google is on nobody’s “side” but their own. They’re an amoral bureaucracy trying to make money. Nothing more or less.
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
I can’t find a single reputable scientific organization that argues in favor of ambitious climate engineering. The Union of Concerned Scientists, for example, is wholly against it. I recommend reading their explainer on it. “A lot of people
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
You’re not wrong, but also: the electorate’s opinions are shaped by the media they consume. And media is easily bought by disinformation campaigns from oil companies to muddy the waters and convince voters that climate change isn’t a big de
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
That’s because they outsourced all their dirty manufacturing to China, which has since picked up the pace of emissions. No country exists in a vacuum - the global economy we all participate in is financing the climate crisis.
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
“… according to convicted fraudster Martin Shkreli.”
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
This is the classic trope that psychology studies in general don’t reveal truths about humanity, they reveal truths about (mostly white) American college students.
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
Thank you for this. I feel the same way. I hate the performative theater of office life. Pretending to care, pretending that our work matters at all. But the pay is great, and I can’t afford to live without it, so… that’s how it goes.
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
The worst case scenario is still a mass extinction event unlike anything witnessed by the human species, plus global food and water shortages, and certain areas of the world becoming unsuitable for human life during the hot months. That mea
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
Paywall; unable to comment on that article. I don’t think humanity will literally go extinct in 100 years. But no action is being made against climate change. None. The conferences and non-binding pledges made so far are political theater,
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
This type of thing used to scare me a lot more. But after the events of the last few years, the latest IPCC climate report, and the fact that AI has fallen on its face repeatedly despite expectations, I'm more convinced that we'll
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
I think the argument is that it's already out there. Companies, with no directive to even pretend to serve the public interest, already have all that data. The government does too, because security agencies mandate that they get backdo
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
Same here. I have felt completely left behind and burnt out by the WFH shift. I simply don’t care enough to hustle and grind from home to achieve career advancement. Networking has to happen naturally in-person for me; everything on Zoom fe
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
Very true. The headline is misleading though. The actual article is framed as the inverse: "does spending more on cancer care give the US better outcomes?" and the answer is no. We're on par with other wealthy countries that
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
Cynicism is warranted for the reason that the other commenter pointed out: the fossil fuel industry (and by extension, any Big Industry) will use moonshot ideas like this as ammo for their PR machine. "Don't worry about our lobbyi
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
Agreed. I generally assume that any headline with the structure "X new thing could solve Y," where Y is a massive problem that everyone wants a silver bullet for, is clickbait. I've seen too many of them at this point. Everyo
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
Am I the only engineer who does miss a hybrid office schedule? My productivity has cratered over the pandemic with WFH becoming constant. My motivation is nonexistent. In the past, having one or two WFH days per week allowed me to get solid
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
> How doctors of all professions lost their professional agency to do-nothing administrators within a generation is quite puzzling The profit model of the U.S. healthcare industry might have something to do with it. The fact that hospita
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by salt-thrower 5y ago
The amount that was stolen in that case is worth billions now, but at the time of the theft it was only a couple million. It has since increased in value which led to the “billions” headlines.
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by salt-thrower 5y ago
> Moreover, it’s easy to criticize Cold War eta interventions when the stakes were very high Were they, though? Which nation was primarily responsible for escalation of tensions during that time? And for whom were the stakes high enough
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by salt-thrower 5y ago
Correction: the history of the global south has long been, and will continue to be, instability and exploitation at the hands of the global north. Colonialism never ended.

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