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How much warmer is it now? The IPCC appears to be strongly downplaying the amount of global warming that has already occurred
Another big Arctic warm-up drives cold air southward. The result is snow over the U.S. Northeast even as parts of the Arctic Ocean are experiencing an early thaw.
Ashes Ashes: Ep 17 - Guest host Moriah King helps explore everything from the power grid to pensions, state surveillance to sea level rise, and so much more.red_pepper wrote
Oh but surely the military will stop Trump if he goes to far!
-liberals
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This is actually more optimistic than the UN FAO calculation, where they found we have as little as 60 years of harvests left before all the top soil is depleted. Forget a mere 700 million migrating, that's a civilization destroying problem.
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Reply to comment by libre_dev in Medium Blocks Liberapay by ziq
... wow somehow I misread this as Mastodon blocking Liberapay. Oops!
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Reply to The problem isn’t just Cambridge Analytica or Facebook – it’s “surveillance capitalism” by An_Old_Big_Tree
Already the different arms of surveillance capitalism are joining forces to face the upcoming threat of public backlash. Facebook will soon be forced to join the cartel thanks to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and at that point Amazon and Apple will probably be dragged along just to compete. All of surveillance capitalism under one trust.
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Reply to comment by AngryData in Yes, Cops Are Now Opening iPhones With Dead People's Fingerprints by ziq
Especially since any amateur can lift prints directly from the surface of the phone itself and use that to get into the phone.
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Reminder that we have chat
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Reply to Antinatalism and Marginalized Groups by DaisyDisaster
One thing antinatalism misses is how our material conditions influence our decision to have children. As you said, the working class is pressured to not have children - but that's only in post-industrial nations. In industrializing nations which have yet to implement safety nets, children are people's only retirement plan. What is someone supposed to do if they get injured or sick or too old to work, and they don't have children to take care of them?
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Reply to What foods disgust you? by foggymorn
Mushrooms. It's irrational, but I subconsciously associate mushrooms with rot and mold and decay. I just can't bring myself to enjoy them without that little thought in the back of my head. I can still eat them if I don't think about it, and even enjoy the taste! But if I spend even a second thinking I'll lose my appetite.
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Reply to Landfills – a future source of raw materials by ziq
This is already reality for the rural underclass around the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_picker
Statement in Opposition to SB 827 - Luxury Development for the Rich, Displacement and Dispossession for the Poorred_pepper wrote
Reply to Medium Blocks Liberapay by ziq
Wait what? How does this happen on a decentralized platform?
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If collapse is a near certainty within decades, then I'm sorry, but we don't have a "a very long time to humanely reduce total population to a size that is sustainable.” That's why people say his book supports racist attitudes to population control. There's no way to "humanely" address population in a timespan that matters. It's not worth discussing unless you want to start killing people.
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Evidence suggests that these mass strandings are caused by LFA sonar. It has a verity of health effects from hemorrhaging by resonating in air spaces, decompression sickness from vibrations causing supersaturated gas to nucleate, and pain/disorientation leading them into shallow waters or to rise too quickly. Not much will likely be done about this either, because despite rulings saying that wildlife needs to be protected, in 2008 Supreme Court decided that that sonar was vital to national security and outweighed environmental concerns.
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One thing the feel-good neoliberal "everything is better than ever" statistics fail to take into account is that measuring suffering per capita is meaningless. Only aggregate suffering matters.
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Reply to Reddit admins threaten r/stopadvertising with action for... being against advertising by ziq
Yeah, this is a pretense. Better prepare for another wave of Reddit refugees.
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Reply to When we say, "noone will go without food, shelter, or clothing", exactly how generous are we being with that? by drh1138
If we put all the reactionaries in communal barracks and feed them nutrient paste, they're never going to integrate into post-revolutionary society. If that's our goal, then we might as well cut out the middle man and just send the to gulag. But, I don't think we want that. Our generosity should go as far as our material conditions can allow and should have the same basic guarantees for everyone.
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Haven't spoken to my mom for a decade. She spent most of my teenaged years neglecting me and then gaslighting me about it, and when her boyfriend tried to stab a fork through my hand and she made excuses for him I knew it was time to go.
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Reply to comment by nuvpr in Friday Free Talk by ThreadBot
Like what is heterosexism and cisgenderism exactly? Is being hetero/cis a crime now
They're forms of bias and discrimination, not just being hetero or cis. Things like misgendering people or not respecting their sexual orientation, that kind of thing.
And what kind of content "promotes the patriarchy"?
Harassing women for nudes, using sexist slurs, posting redpill/incel propaganda, ect.
And if white supremacy is banned then why isn't the supremacy of other races banned as well?
Because we live in a white supremacist society. We punch up, not down.
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Reply to Goodbye CL-CE by Zzzxxxyyy
Same law is possibly related to the big subreddit purge and Youtube banning gun vids.
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Reply to comment by nuvpr in Friday Free Talk by ThreadBot
R.I.P.
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Reply to What's your fave genre of music? by zod
Power metal mostly, although I also like punk, folk, hip hop, house, and prog.