in some range of temperatures you can find the necessary humidity, temperature, an soil moisture to grow a crop. If we keep moving where that is, then we're constantly searching for new farm land because our old farm land is no longer suitable.

Corn grows on the equator. It's something we'll be growing a great deal of when we face higher global temperatures. But corn fields might have to move to a higher elevation to grow it with some milder temperatures and better rainfall. So you lose a lot of farmland in the plains or North America, especially if desertification were to start occurring.

Everything both of us have gone over sounds terribly expensive. We should probably not do the global warming thing if we can avoid it.

Crazy would be a scenario that leads to hyperinflation. We'd need a few (or several) orders of magnitude for that to happen. And that's only theoretical because no country has ever been in a similar situation. For a vast majority of parameters, what you say is exactly right.

I'm fine with my democratic capitalist system being a little inefficient if it is equitable and fair. I think anarcho-capitalists are obsessed with efficiency in markets and government that they're happy to discard a system that is evenly spread. The problem with going for maximum business freedom, unregulated capitalism, and zero overhead for your government is it falls apart and you end up with something that is neither fair nor a free market.

If a government is working correctly, it is elected by the people and represents the people's shared interests. Having regulators working for me and my neighbors seems better than having an oligarchy that works only for who has the biggest bank account. But what do I know, I voted for the other gal.

National debt, at long as it isn't too crazy, is fine. The ability to create that debt offers some useful flexibility for a national economy. If you keep your debt well below your GDP, it's just spare change lost in your couch.

Of course, any monetary or fiscal tool can be mishandled by leaving idiots in charge to ruin your economy. What most people don't get is we could ruin the economy by paying off our debt too quickly as easily as we could by having too much debt.

They're always getting high on their own supply. It makes the grift all that much funnier to me.

We could do it like Escape from L.A.
Just fence off a city and put all the criminals inside.

You can keep X applications alive when the link goes down, although, obviously you can't see what they are doing. I think that the tradeoff is better than losing access to all of your desktop when the network goes down. I tend to move my state local, meaning that I have what I need locally if something goes awry. I can usually get meaningful stuff done without any network access at all. However, if what you want is to have an always ready desktop that you can connect to from anywhere then RDP is the solution. I have to use Windows every once in a while, and everything about using it is uncomfortable to me, but RDP is very nice. I actually get why you might set up your work flow in that manner.

RDP is actually a reaction to VNC, and it fixes many of VNC's problems. For emergency graphical remote control of a computer VNC is adequate, but it is definitely not a replacement for RDP.

According to a new study, we're boned!

Q.E.D

It's a rate of change problem. Changing the average annual temperature quickly is difficult for our economy to adapt to. Mostly our agriculture economy.

So we'll have iguanas in Michigan? GREAT!
Maybe grow mangoes in Georgia.
And in Florida we can make harnesses for the mosquitoes to till the rice paddy. giddyup little buggy!

Your wife/girlfriend won't like a 4C change on the thermostat, in either direction.

The methodology, as far as I can infer from the article, is they took GDP of various nations. Worked out how much it temperature change would affect it. Then made the leap that on average (rather than the "average person") there would be an economic loss of 40%.

I think if you look at the median individual, rather than average. You'll find the top 50% of people not taking such a big loss. And the bottom 50% taking a much larger loss. With a significant number of individuals losing everything and being destitute (which is already the case for some people in the poorest parts of the world)

P.S. "Third World" is a Cold War term that means countries that didn't pick a side. Often because they were not economically or strategically significant. But it's not strictly poor countries that are in the so-called third world. So it's a bit of a misleading term, but I think I can safely assume what you meant by it.

Only 16 million users to go.

Wow, it's wild that they still have so many users. It's a company that was so widely covered by YouTubers that I had half a dozen anti-Honey video in my feed when it broke. I'm guessing that 3/4 of the users were referred by their YT watching children and don't watch much YT content themselves.

He likes to tell us how he was an engineer, but a real one, not a software engineer. Then would try to understand our code base by asking us about it and telling us what we should have done differently. He never logged into the source control and as far as I can tell never went into a text editor.

For this to work we have to rewrite Linux in COBOL, so that DOGE can rewrite in months for us. Hopefully as a Python service wrapped in a container or Kubernetes pod, and fully RESTful with a Semantic versioning API.

Fully-electric vehicles (BEVs) were 8.1% of all U.S. light vehicle sales in 2024.