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Comment Re:Environmentalists demand we only subsistence fa (Score 1) 70

Oh, so you do believe the problems they are describing are real and don't actually have an issue with their prescriptions, just in their presentation?

So the cattle and steel industries do have deleterious environmental effects. Car culture does have harmful effects on the environment and society. Anthropomorphic climate change is a real phenomenon.

If your argument is "we need environmental groups to have better marketing" then sure, I can agree with that.

Comment Re:Environmentalists demand we only subsistence fa (Score 1) 70

The presentation of being opposed to the prescriptions of all these environmental groups, you make a bunch of claims about their positions but it's performative because you don't believe the problems they are trying to solve for even exist in the first place.

It's pointless for anyone to defend or argue about those positions because you can just turn around and go "oh you think the industry can be reformed to be less environmentally taxing? Well I don't even believe climate change is a real thing". Just lead with that next time.

Comment Re:Was it a Russian drone? (Score 1) 140

Yeah well it's a bit strange to me to have folks bending over backwards for Russia just to turn around and say "Well sure they're evil here" and yes, this equivocation of both nations positions is how I would view that.

Also this black and white claim is as much a presuppositional projection as what I did yet. Nothing about my position says that, in fact I can make a purely selfish defense of the same positions. That assisting Ukraine is purely in the geopolitical interests of America, that America has a long history of picking sides in conflicts, that Ukraine can be the moral actor here and still do immoral actions.

Comment Re:Wrong sovereignty (Score 1) 70

I live in a part of the country with quite a lot of datacenters. The organization I work for owns 3 of them.
Our cost of electricity is pretty damn reasonable. Cheaper than Texas and most of the midwest. Not the cheapest in the country- but well below average.
Price only increases when demand outpaces supply.

I think you'll see datacenter zoning referendums- but mostly from NIMBY fuckwits trying to nuke their own economy.
I think those referendums will mostly fail.

Comment Re:Environmentalists demand we only subsistence fa (Score 1) 70

I do not, because most of such claims presuppose that the environment is static and pristine.

You were doing good, here. There is no such thing as a pristine environment.

The reality is that there is a great deal of change without any human involvement and often times what humans do is insignificant.

You flew off the track, here.
Human involvement is fucking huge in this stage of our development.
We upset the carbon cycle by 60-100 times that of all of the volcanoes on Earth, combined. We are quite literally the largest force of nature on this planet outside of the sun.

While I agree with the goal of protecting humanity's habitat, it ought to be viewed as such - our habitat that should be utilized for humanity's needs.

I'm not sure you really do agree with that, though.
If you did, I don't think you'd be belittling our impact.

Comment Re:Wayland? Who cares. (Score 1) 33

Mouse input in Wayland is handled by libinput.
That includes scaling and sensitivity.

Nobody is forced to implement their own compositor. There is a reference implementation (wlroots)
The model pairs the compositor with the display server, because it makes more sense.

99.9/100 Wayland beefs are based on ignorance and regurgitation of others' ignorance.

btw- how is HDR support coming on your X11 display?

Comment Re:Wayland? Who cares. (Score 1) 33

X11 has a global DPI.

You say it works just fine, but how it actually works is like shit.
You've got the DPI set to something reasonable for your small screen, and you need a microscope to read it on your 4K screen.
And that's ok- people have a right to like the pile of shit they're daily driving.

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