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Comment Re: Single egg-basket strategy isn't good (Score 1, Offtopic) 373

Isn't being alive more important than short term cheaper fossil-fuel cost?

To prevent a 2C average increase and catastrophic tipping-point anthropogenic climate change, we need to emit less than 2.1 tonnes of CO2e per person per year in total in the short term, and 0 tonnes by the medium term.

Average car use is 2.4 tonnes of CO2e per driver per year, just from the car.

2.4+everything else > 2.1.

Electric cars average 1.15 tonnes of CO2e per driver per year, just from the car.

The options are clear: reverse climate change and stop the Anthropocene extinction event; or continue to have too many kids, use cars, fly, use fossil-fuel electricity, eat meat, and by doing so make the biosphere "unlivable" for us and most complex life.

Comment Still using an old BlackBerry for the buttons. (Score 1) 180

I have an Android work phone, but I still use my ancient BlackBerry (no SIM card, so no internet) with physical keyboard buttons for my alarms, calendar, to-do, notes, passwords, and music.

I've used touch screens for years on Android, but I'm still nowhere near as fast on it as I am on my ancient BlackBerry. I still make mistakes when typing on touch screens, and struggle to move the cursor to where I want it.

Comment Re:Wonder about their results (Score 1) 71

"at least 46% [of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch] was comprised of fishing nets" 2018-03-22 Evidence that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is rapidly accumulating plastic

Unsustainable human overpopulation results in the fishing industry torturing to death about 2 trillion fish every year.

Comment Order of magnitude too many people. (Score 1) 248

To prevent a 2C average increase and catastrophic tipping-point anthropogenic climate change, we need to emit less than 2.1 tonnes of CO2e per person per year in the short term, and 0 tonnes by the medium term.

Having 1 child averages 58.6 tonnes of CO2e per parent per year, 23.7 in poor countries, and 117.7 in rich countries like the USA (2050 vs life expectancy).

58.6 > 2.1.

We need to have a fertility rate of about 0.01 per person for several decades, or we'll turn the Anthropocene extinction into a mass extinction and make the world "unlivable".

Comment Can't see info on Lenovo's page. (Score 1) 20

The Lenovo page only shows the header and footer, so I allowed lenovo.com to run scripts - eventho that shouldn't be necessary to view an information page on a patch for their security flaw.

Still blank.

So I allowed cross-site scripting from adobedtm.com. Still blank.

So I allowed cross-site scripting from go-mpulse.net. Still blank. The fuck?

So I allowed cross-site scripting from confirmit.net. CAPCHA just to view a page info on their security bug? Still blank.

There's 1 more cross-site script, a metric page. Okay, quantummetric.com allowed. Still blank.

New cross-site script from maps.googleapis.com. Allowed. Still blank.

Do I need to whitelist the site for cookies or disable uBlock Origin, in order to see their page about their patch for their security flaw? What. The. Fuck?

Comment Re:The reason they did it was they had no choice (Score 2) 241

An unlivable biosphere will definitely cause society to collapse, whereas a sustainable way of living have in the past and can definitely in the future lead to having a continuing society. We could choose to replace our omnicidal ponzi-scheme economy with a sustainable system - just like we got rid of economies based on human slavery.

I agree tho that most voters are incapable of thinking long term and/or are sociopaths incapable of empathy.

Comment Re:The reason they did it was they had no choice (Score 1) 241

So we can make the biosphere unlivable by continuing to use fossil fuels, turning the Anthropocene extinction into a mass extinction event and choosing to kill billions of people and most genera, or

to vote to tackle by far the biggest and root cause by reducing our unsustainable fertility down to 0.01 per person for several decades.

I'm guessing the vast majority of people will keep voting to make the biosphere uninhabitable.

Comment "In advertising or marketing? Kill yourself." (Score 5, Insightful) 126

Bill Hicks: https://youtu.be/tHEOGrkhDp0

If anyone here is in advertising or marketing... kill yourself. [...] there's no rationalization for what you do, and you are Satan's little helpers, okay. Kill yourself - seriously. You are the ruiner of all things good, seriously.

No this is not a joke, you're going, "there's going to be a joke coming". There's no fucking joke coming. You are Satan's spawn filling the world with bile and garbage. You are fucked and you are fucking us. Kill yourself. [...]

I know all the marketing people are going, "He's doing a joke." - there's no joke here whatsoever. Suck a tail-pipe, fucking hang yourself, borrow a gun from a Yank friend - I don't care how you do it. Rid the world of your evil fucking machinations.

I know what all the marketing people are thinking right now too, "Oh, you know what Bill's doing, he's going for that anti-marketing dollar. That's a good market, he's very smart." Oh man, I am not doing that, you fucking evil scumbags! "Ooh, you know what Bill's doing now, he's going for that righteous indignation dollar. That's a big dollar. A lot of people are feeling that indignation. We've done research - huge market. He's doing a good thing." Goddammit, I'm not doing that, you scum-bags. Quit putting a goddamn dollar sign on every fucking thing on this planet!

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