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andymouse

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  • Scientists give harsh grades to Trump administration work aimed at undoing a key climate finding

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  • Sue?? You think the courts will rule in your favour? After the shit they've done already??

    No my friend, the only solution is Luigi. May his example shine bright across the world, ushering us all into our new dawn.

  • Kids born today are going to grow up in a hellscape, grim climate study finds

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  • I suppose our second worst problem will be ourselves, reacting in our various ways to that worst problem.

  • After a Study Found Lead in Tampons, Environmentalists Wonder if Global Metal Pollution Is Worse Than They Previously Thought

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  • Thank you. Wow. I was basing that on something I saw or thought I saw in Cosmos (the 1980s version with Carl Sagan). Perhaps I was stoned when watching it. There is little better than to watch one of the Cosmos series while stoned - or the autotuned versions by Melodysheep (on YouTube).

    For anyone who wants a quicker read on the above: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaway_greenhouse_effect

    I shall have to revise my world view now. 🤯🤯🤯 Wow. I feel optimistic.

    Tardigrades - they will likely survive then. And cockroaches, and other life. So even if we all + most animals die out, we will be like the dinosaurs, and life may indeed bounce back.

    I mean... A shadow has been lifted from my soul.

    Goddamn. I know it seems like I am joking but I am not.

    Good news.

  • reminder

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  • Yes... and what good it did everyone to reduce the distance of objects... Sometimes distance is good. Gives me time to think about why I'm really going there in the first place.

  • The World’s Largest Wetland Is Burning, and Rare Animals Are Dying

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  • Yay humans.

  • After a Study Found Lead in Tampons, Environmentalists Wonder if Global Metal Pollution Is Worse Than They Previously Thought

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  • Actually there is a serious risk that Earth turns into Venus. Perpetually self-reinforcing green house effect. All life on Earth, fried, for all eternity.

    Edit: Well, until the sun blows.

  • Without irony, cops just nicked four Just Stop Oil supporters in the middle of ACTUAL race riots

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  • FTP?

  • MEGATHREAD 2023 - Lemmy Edition

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  • I go with Njalla for torrents until I hear anything weird about them

  • MEGATHREAD 2023 - Lemmy Edition

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  • No, Njalla at njal.la offers port forwarding

  • unironically. yes. demand your government work for you.

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  • Doesn't seem like you read any of it, and it doesn't seem like you are open to new ideas. So... In the status quo you remain then. Good luck!

  • unironically. yes. demand your government work for you.

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  • This is a bit of an old reply, but I thought I'd post something I stumbled upon here as it's a response to your fear of warlords: https://kolektiva.social/@HeavenlyPossum/111290743792188200

    From the post (it's quite extensive with plenty of references):

    “Once people are free of state violence and hierarchy, how can they just stop some bad actor from taking over?”

    The assumption is that people who are free from coercive hierarchies are powerless to act in their own self defense, alone or in cooperation with each other.

    (The question is usually accompanied by some invocation of the dreaded “war lord” whom the questioner assumes will inevitably overrun a nonstate or non-hierarchical community.)

    So, I thought I would take a crack at answering this as comprehensively as I can!>>

  • Third of UK teenagers believe climate change exaggerated, report shows

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  • Also, the bell curve does not have a single bottom.

  • Third of UK teenagers believe climate change exaggerated, report shows

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  • A bell curve counts the frequencies of a single parameter. A person, such as a teenager, does not fit on it.

  • unironically. yes. demand your government work for you.

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  • Human organisation and leadership may be an inherent part of us. That is not government...

    I find it funny the way people just accept that they are sheep and need someone to protect them from the big bad wolf. And, of course, enlist the big bad wolf to protect them.

  • "Nobody and nowhere will be safe": Experts say we can't hide from climate change

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  • Not at all

  • "Nobody and nowhere will be safe": Experts say we can't hide from climate change

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  • I think you underestimate the impact of technological progress.

    Back in the day, you needed an army who could betray you. Tomorrow, you can deploy a fleet of self-governing robots to kill thousands. Of course, only accessible to the rich.

    For ordinary folk, the future is looking grim indeed.

  • unironically. yes. demand your government work for you.

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  • Actually, citizens pay taxes to avoid going to jail or, in the olden days (perhaps soon to be reintroduced), to avoid being killed on the spot.

    They vote because when you are locked in a room with no way out, you'll push one of the buttons in front of you frantically - trying to figure out if, perhaps, they are pushed just like this, you'll get out.

    When you're not paying taxes or voting, someone richer than Smaug from the Hobbit is cashing in on the rest of your life.

    To call this a system that serves its citizens seems... I'm not sure what to call it. Naïve? Misguided? Uninformed?

  • unironically. yes. demand your government work for you.

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  • Eh, we DIDN'T invent government. Government invented itself to control and exploit us. They do so to the degree of our tolerance levels and the level to which we are manipulated.

  • we have lost so much knowledge over the (checks notes) last fifty years

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  • The solution to all/most of these points is open source software & hardware.