Based on my back of the envelope calculations a 5% drop is a drop in the bucket when humanity amounts to close to 50% of the carbon load. Sadly this information was presented to the public exceptionally poorly, as if somebody wanted us to disbelieve it. Presenting massaged data while apparently arranging that the original data was rendered inaccessible was a HUGE er YUGE mistake. It left room for too much skepticism. Then all pundits did was demand humans sacrifice their standard of living for publicly admitted tiny changes. NO serious preparations were made to keep Florida, the Netherlands, London, et. al. above water. That is a big clue that the pundits were not taking this seriously or at least our putative leaders were not. Europe, Canada, and the US are about the only places this was treated as real. China gave lip service and added MORE carbon to the air from power plants they built. (It appears they saved their uranium for bombs rather than power plants.)

Now it's probably too late even if we go back to 10th century life styles. Intelligence is where a species goes to die.

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What real expert has said we can stop the global warming cold (pun intended) with the puny changes we, in the West, have implemented while some nations have started wars (Putin's Russia), opened new coal fired power plants (China), and ideologically nixed suggestions such as nuclear power that might make a real difference.

The numbers I saw suggested a 1% change in humanity's emissions, half the CO2 budget for the world, would solve the problem. I went to college when the engineering education received was real. 1% is more than an order of magnitude smaller than what is needed.

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I have. You have not. About all humans can do without mass deaths is a small single digit percentage point. That is not really enough to end the global warming. All it can do is reduce the rate of change. You've been sold a bill of goods if you think humans can end this spiral without experience massive physical effects with which we must cope. Even if all humans vanished at this point the climate will continue to warm for quite some time. And I did not consider the carbon emissions from billions of rotting corpses.

Where the (censored++) are the efforts to cope with the coming problems. Until I see those efforts I am convinced our species is not taking this situation seriously. As far as the species is concerned the climate is not changing out of usual bounds. Otherwise we'd be protecting what will be destroyed, working seriously on our CO2 emissions (at which time "Hormuz" becomes little more than a strange name on an odd geographical feature), and "modifying the behavior" of nations that claim to be limiting their CO2 emissions but aren't. (Hello China - where they paint hillsides green to make them look nice on satellite imagery and plant rebar with tufts of cotton on them to show how they are planting to mitigate their CO2 emissions all while they are rapidly building chains of coal fired power plants - all while the world "hohums" this nonsense.)

Does ANYBODY sit back and iterates asking about their pet changes that must be made, "So, what happens next?" Really, guys, what happens next? As a species humanity is pretty damn stupid but somehow we manage. I just hope our successors, artificial stupids, manage to do better when we're gone. I started out cynical. 82 years of watching this BS repeat itself with slightly different clothes each time have left me even more cynical. "Intelligence is where a species goes to die."

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So all the climate change weenies have been predicting this was going to happen. They made our lives miserable with their harping and insane predictions that a small change in our behavior to satisfy their need to control would save us all. The totally predictable has happened. The measures taken did - nothing. Now we have the serious Global Warming, a least this year. And we have done absolutely nothing serious to cope with the problem, haven't we? Perhaps it is time to exercise our collective masses of grey matter (and our AIs) to figure out some feasible coping measures and implement them.

When that happens I'll believe Global Warming is something other than a Global Barming, dumbing down. I'm too old to do it myself.

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Might I suggest you have your head stuck in your pet echo chamber. I believe, based on decades of OBSERVATION, that as practiced for the last 60 years unions are not in the workers' best interest and in fact often act at cross purposes to the workers' best interests and wishes. Obviously our opinions differ. I wish I could be there when you visit reality.

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Life's a bitch and then you die. They lost their jobs instead of losing a portion of their pay. Their union "advisers" suggested their jobs were assured because the cost of transport was too high for non-union shops in other states. Generally speaking, SOME income is better than none. May be they saw it coming and figured lowered wages were not worth it? Well, they lost their jobs. And the wages they'd have had to accept were living wages, just not as high living as they were. The brothers that owned the shop took a bath, too. So nobody local "won". Real economics work like that.

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Perhaps labor has priced itself out of the market, this time, perhaps, permanently. Their replacement has a very low wage. That is how my former father-in-law's pattern making shop in Detroit died. The union was not willing to accept wage cuts that could have saved their jobs if they could undercut the jobs in West Virginia that replaced them. Now they have a nasty problem, "How do I support my family?" Perhaps they should assign some of the blame to the union organizers who sold them the idea they could raise their wages indefinitely without any danger.

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While it exists it is a powerful tool to expose the dirty cop minority. I figure that fact alone would put the dirties firmly against the cameras that have too little security applied to prevent a dirty from stalking somebody. (Trust me. That ain't fun based on personal experience.) You and I and, indeed, everybody else must answer for themselves whether solving a kidnap and murder even an inept cop could solve with cameras is more of a problem than our worries that some behavior we take part in is likely to put our situponparts in a sling. Life is a continuing tradeoff that has gone VASTLY awry of late with the release of violent murderers while folks like (presumably) you and I would be in durance vile indefinitely with little access to even lawyers. We're bassakwards in that regard in most large cities.

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And they probably respect privacy in more traditional ways. (And, yes, they probably still gossip about it in some circles. But that selected out the people you did not want to get close to.)

Back in the 50s I was a VERY free range child. Now that's a guaranteed call to the parent from the child protection pricks.

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In law, indeed the privacy was not there. In practice it is only relatively recent nearly everybody carries around cameras. The density of people was enough smaller that the illusion of more privacy than legally existed persisted. The practical privacy we had was significantly greater in most regards and, yes, less in others. Today one must actively assert privacy rights. Back then most people were not Nosy Nellies. Whether that was a good thing or not is still debatable. But, *I* liked it.
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Since the assertion is that crooked cops keep getting flushed out for using Flock camera footage for illegal and even evil purposes. Seems to me if that assertion holds we have here in our hands a really good if slightly dangerous tool to deploy for finding crooked cops. As for personal privacy, that ship has sailed, repeatedly. Privacy today is nothing like what I grew up with in the 1950s'.

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In the US only companies with government contracts are required to supply data to the US government beyond filing tax returns. Virtually any other data requires a court order. In China EVERY company must supply data of any kind that is requested to the government on request. I presume you can see the difference here.

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Minor change to the wording: How many American companies are required by US Government to routinely supply said Government with all the information it wants without even involving the courts? In China if the Chinese government asks for a company's or individual's private data the companies must immediately comply with courts being irrelevant.

At least in the US we have legitimate courts between corporations and the government.

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Almost all telephone spam comes from two sources, India and Real Estate "agents" who often have strong Hindu accents. How in (heavily censored profanity) does the FCC think IT'S rules about burner phones will affect this?

At the worst it will kill one of my most effective telephone spam filters by removing a key signature.

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Who is the family member installing a Linux distro containing systemd? Junior has admin rights, sets the age data, and Bob's his uncle. This is the basic problem with all possible systems that are not beyond belief privacy invasions.

As for me, I figure I can set two accounts, one that shows me as a late 18 year old, if I want to snoop on 'em, and the other that shows a random age between 21 and 121 when I want to make as close a run on honesty despite unconstitutional levels of privacy invasion.

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