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Comment Re:The quiet part slipped out (Score 1) 51

Wow, some had been off? Ok, nice to see an acknowledgement of that.

Let me guess, you saw the word "model" and got triggered into thinking they were talking about scientists modelling climate change, despite those models having being insanely accurate on a global scale, instead of the localised weather models actually being discussed and which are wildly more complex and have improved continuously over the past 5 decades?

Do we need to explain to you that local weather != climate like a 5 yearold, AGAIN? Pay attention in school kid.

Comment Re:Good (Score 1) 22

Actually in some cases, bad, animals exist because of our worst efforts. This is one of those cases where climate change causing severe weather has once against changed animal behaviour in this case to an extent where a jellyfish bloom has occurred.

We don't celebrate all existences of plants and animals. Extensive fertiliser run-off into oceans from our farming causing blue-green algae blooms are not a good thing (they are though very much animals, bacteria specifically).
The wide spread of lionfish in the Caribbean caused by human carelessness is not a good thing, despite being very much animals (and pretty ones at that, but insanely destructive).

Jellyfish swarms have happened all over the place and have often been directly linked to climate change, overfishing, ocean eutrophication (that is farming run-off reducing dissolved oxygen in the ocean causing animals to die and jellyfish to thrive), and even our construction (jellyfish grow and thrive around flat cement constructions).

None of this is "good".

Comment Re: Big Picture Costs. (Score 1) 59

You aren't wrong. I can't wait for the AI bubble to pop.

At this point I wouldn’t be shocked to find the MAFIAA funding an AI bailout fit for a Influencer Beast-King.

Because ja need to see dem catz playin da classicat reggae mon..dey’re #1 in the charts according to Rolling Stone, a highly respected source known for its BOGO-combo humor/All-Time Bestest Guitar God GOAT lists that include Milli Vanilli..

Comment Re:More important is what it does. (Score 1) 36

Cambridge research confirms rude, disrespectful, and false content sees greater amplification.

Give the people what they want. And people want rage bait. This isn't a twitter problem by the way, not only do all platforms amplify rage bait, so does the media, with entire publications predicated on the principle of enraging the readership to drive engagement.

People seem to crave being angry.

Comment Re:Yeah, pretty much this. (Score 1) 129

Both factually incorrect and irrelevant at the same time. My statement was about water levels not economic issues.

My statement was about water levels as well. At no point in 2018 was shipping completely stopped. Showing a measurement at a point along a 1230km just emphasises how stupid you are.

The current prime minister of Hungary disagrees with you.

The person who opposed Orban blames things on Orban? No shit sherlock. That doesn't mean that it's Orbans fault that a power plant that was desgned when Lazar was in power couldn't handle a water level outside of its design considerations back 30 years before Orban became prime minister. Are you really that stupid that you don't understand that ${current_admin} always blames ${former_admin} regardless even when the crisis of the day a literally unprecedented case (and before you spitle shout something about 2018, the water level wasn't low enough that any nukes were shut down back then and it didn't cause an energy crisis, so I hope your own points emphasise how dumb your arguments are).

Orban was an abject piece of shit and the worst thing to happen to Hungary across a generation, but this is not on him. Get your news from somewhere other than TikTok before it rots your brain even further than it already has.

Comment Re:Air Conditioners save lives (Score 1) 129

We are very much talking about a few weeks, which is why its trivial to cope with without AC. Your old vulnerable grandpa (the people who are actually dying) is not going to get off his mobility to modify his window for a week to install a portable AC, not without a lot of help from others, and those with help are largely not the vulnerable ones. This is a non-starter.

I listed this out in another post, much of Europe has a social and an education problem. At no point were people taught the importance of drinking or seeking shade. People here see a 35deg day as an excuse to roast themselves rather than protect themselves. Ask a random Australian what the signs of heat stress are and they'll probably rattle it off to you in detail. Ask a random European and they'll stare at you blankly.

It was 36C outside 2 days ago. It was 36C in my neighbours house 2 days ago. It was under 30C in my house. They opened all their windows during the hottest part of the day instead of relying on insulation to do its thing. People here are taught, open windows when it's warm, close them when it's cold. No one mentions to close them again when it's hot.

Comment Re:Judge as software designer (Score 1) 37

If I can one-click to print a document why should there be a confirmation dialog when I click the button to reformat my hard drive?

An app store has more permissions and a greater ability to do severe damage to your phone than a checkers game.

If I could make a logical comparison between the installation of two pieces of software why should you not make a stupid reductio ad absurdum argument?

An app store has more permissions

It does not. None what so ever. Permissions are not managed through installation processes anywhere on Android, and a single permission "install from 3rd party sources" popup is the only Android level permission that is required for app stores, and this will only happen on first download and is not actually the process which anyone here is talking about. That permission is also levied and required for the use of software that Google currently does not apply additional hoops to. So even if you are right (which you're not), the fact of the matter is that app stores are being treated inconsistently.

Comment Re:Air Conditioners save lives (Score 1) 129

If you can deliver the power. I'm on the west coast of Canada, somewhere that previously never needed air conditioning but does now. Many an apartment buildings wiring can't handle AC. These are 30+ year old buildings with really crappy air flow too. Europe has much older buildings. We're also dependent on hydro for power, which is working like crap with the droughts, Europe has nuclear that also works like crap due to drought though at least they have solar.

Comment Re:Which one is the real crisis? (Score 1) 129

Why the fuck are you counting things like flu deaths as deaths from the cold. Compare those who freeze to death with those who die of heat stroke and similar. Way more people die directly from heat then die directly from cold.
Fucking statistics, you can twist anything around to what you want but it's still BS.

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