Totalitarian control comes in all kinds of forms. Left totalitarianism killed 10 times more people than right wing totalitarianism in the 20th century (let's not bogged down in how right wing is the national socialist workers party ;)

When you have top Dem figures calling the First Amendment " an obstacle in the fight against misinformation". When you have lackey media who are worst than what we had under Communism (I too was born and raised in a Communist state), perpetuating hoaxes that take 15 seconds to disprove (e.g. " There are fine people on both sides"). When you have massive censorship, revolving doors between Government and the (absolute monopolist before Elon got Twitter) tech bros who controlled 100% of the information flow, defacing the First Amendment. When you have Dems who repeatedly circumvent the democratic process in their own party. When you have lifelong democrats who call the DNC "evil".

And so much more....everything that Trump is blamed for was done by the Democrats, including the weaponizing of the secret services (Russian puppet, H. Biden laptop) and DoJ. Apparently to save democracy! From the guy who was only the second president in 78 years not to start a war. Who destroyed ISIS, heeled Iran and convinced the Saudis to talk to Israel. He was the president. And both the US and the world were a much better place with him in charge.

Here, listen to this 20 minute talk "Are we the Soviets" :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

If your opinion about Trump is coming from any mainstream source, that is why you might be surprise. There has been zero truth in any reporting on him since summer of 2016. Zero. Nada. Zip.

Apparently, they got to read " Generation P" by Victor Pelevin (great book BTW)

From Wiki:

Pelevin presents rather far-fetched but not totally impossible vision of the world governed by virtual puppets created, upgraded and controlled by the media corporations. But "not totally impossible" should not be understood literally. Metaphorically media puppets shown in the novel may actually represent modern authorities whose success without exception depends on media, and how those media present them to people. The idea of this metaphor lies in the concept that when we see a politician or a public activist on the TV we see not a real person but rather an image created for the certain purpose whether to capture attention, rouse empathy or simply improve the rating of a political party or any other organization. Pelevin draws attention to the fact that the audience has no power to control media and the flow of information they deliver through press, television or the Internet.

Encyclopedia Galactica defines a robot as a "mechanical device designed to do the work of a man".

The marketing division of the Casio corporation defines a robot as"you furry pall who's fun to play with"

The Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy defines the Casio's marketing division as " a bunch of mindless jerks who will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes".

Curiously enough an edition of Encyclopedia Galactica that fell through a wormhole from 1000 years in the future defines Casio's marketing division as " a bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came"

Here comes the neo-colonialist brigade, pushing "solutions" that are unworkable and extremely expensive for the richest countries in the world to Kenya....

Did you look at the actual numbers? Their production is pitiful....what all these nations need is an abundant source of affordable electricity. Which means fossil fuels and/or nuclear. The rest are luxury fantasies by middle class clueless westerners...

You have been told, instructed, gaslighted and lied about Elon's politics of late. I am not sure all of these terms can or should be covered by "like" There is too much language confusion in the world, let's try not to add more...plus this is supposed to be "technical" site so let's be exact about things!

"Undue influence from corporations can be managed to a degree (even if we don't always do it), but that of individuals is becoming increasingly problematic."

Care to provide even examples? Corporations are people, sir, don't you know that? How can they have LESS "undue influence" provided they are people, enjoying all protections as a person, but with money that even the most richest person does not have? Are you sore over Musk restoring free speech on at least one place on the Internet? Seems so.....tell me how is that control over Black rock and such, who have so much money to make Elon look poor, going? How is the control over Big Pharma going? Big Oil? Or perhaps you like to show me the incredible success we have been having in controlling the Military Industrial Complex?

Which begs the question, how many AIs does it take to change a light bulb?

None. AI does not need light bulbs.

Check this out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

So, the Deccan traps emitted both CO2 and SO2 at levels thousands of times of ours for tens of thousands of years, actually hundreds of thousands....plus mercury and who knows what....then the asteroid hit and all of that killed only 75% of all life - the smallest global extinction event in history!

Few things to take from this:

- the greatest killer is beneath our feet. It seems now that all major extinction events are caused by release of all kind of crap from below. The amounts we are talking are staggering - nothing that we do even registers compared to these events.
- It was stated that likely the SO2 release created ice ages, so the poor brutes were backed and freezing in turn.
- The biosphere is staggeringly resilient. If all that killed only 75% of all life, the system is super resilient. So stop with that crap that we will extinguish life on Earth with our feeble efforts. We can extinguish human life and civilization though.

So, the answer to the sulfur proposal is a big NO. The "climate catastrophe" does not warrant at all experimenting with geoengineering that can bring an ice age around. Cold is way bigger killer than hot. Always was, always will. The only good news is that ice ages will eventually be a thing of the past, since solar luminosity is only increasing. It is 30 plus percent higher than when Earth was formed already. We all know how that ends in a few hundred million years. With us or without.

Oh, and by now if you are concerned about CO2 but against nuclear you are a dangerous and disingenuous fool.

Same here. No relevant ad served in a looong time.

However, they have picked up the ideological war. Since my history is off, I can only get a feed with the channels I subscribe to (Home page of You tube returns blank if history is OFF). So far so good.
Once I hit a video from my feed, however, then the videos suggested to play afterwards are not from my feed. This is where, supposedly, the algorithm will serve me something based on, supposedly, the only information they know about me (wink-wink), namely the channels I am subscribed to....So what do I get as suggestions every single time? John Stewart. John Oliver. That's it. Every. Single. Time. Needless to say nothing in my subscription list suggest even slightly that I would want to watch these two...

This is like Google search. Start typing "the" in the search bar and the first suggestion in the auto-complete is The Guardian. Every. Single.Time. Oh, and it is geographically managed too. During my vacations back home these shenanigans are of a different sort with different actors and agendas being pushed. But just as deliberate and politicized. As someone mentioned above these people are state propagandists now (but only for half the state, wink-wink).

We are going to "generate radioactivity"? Generate? Did you just type that for real? Humans are "generating" radioactivity as much as cows are "generating" methane.

Listen pal, the energy released by radioactive decay by all the radioactive elements in Earths crust is what keeps the core molten. Which means, among other things that geothermal is nuclear energy. And the molten spinning core creates the electromagnetic radiation SHIELDING without which life will be quite hard...

We are not generating anything, just using an infinitely small part of the natural nuclear reactor...

I know /. is home of mostly computer nerds which does not translate into basic understanding of physics, chemistry or biology but common!!!

"He's likely referring to the fact that heat output per human has been rising since the 1600s. At the current rate, that heat output increase at the rate since the 1600s would heat the planet enough to boil water on the surface within the next 500 years *independent* of CO2 caused global warming."

Ah, I see.... like the people that were extrapolating early 20 century birthrates and calculated that by year 3000 the mass of humans will be heavier than Earth....
So much insight, so much brains....I am amazed!

Forests are OK. The Earth is greening. Higher temperatures and more CO2 in the air. Basic biology.

The game you play is clear, pals. Moving goalposts....

Not possible that the audience here has so little brains.The poll asks "who is going to win" not "who do I want to win"; did you confuse the two?

So, are you lying, people, or the Chinese bots are in force today?

The water protection is already enough for many, many meters of sea level rise...

In fact, living in NL is one of the safest places in that respect. However, seeing that quality of all services is declining while costs are rising...maybe we won't be able to maintain the best water management system in the world. At which point we will blame it all on climate change (with a side dish of ant-capitalism and white guilt since that's the game being played by just about all major parties sans Wilders and the farmers).

What can we expect? The wold is coming off an Ice Age as stated in the article.

Every time I walk in Amstel park I visit the wooden poll that shows the water levels during the last 3 major floods in NL. The biggest one was 1953 of course.....

So, looking at this several meters tall wave, tell me would it have mattered if the base sea level was 10 cm higher back then? 20cm? 50cm? Because the actual sea level rise is measured in centimeters over long periods of time and has not changed with the arrival of industry despite what you have been told.

Still worried?