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Comment Re: solid state (Score 1) 165

But that doesn't prevent me from operating within my own set of principles rather than in a sort of "you first" manner, which strikes me as quite child-like.

Your logic is childish if you're not demanding the wealthy make the changes first, because everything we can do is 1) trivial by comparison since businesses make most emissions and we don't own or control those and 2) dependent on their decisions, for the exact same reason. What we can reasonably change without making ourselves destitute is almost nothing in the grand scheme. They can make huge changes while still remaining wealthier than the rest of us. Childish is accepting their demand that YOU make changes when it's THEIR decisions destroying us all. Childish is not holding the actual offenders accountable. Childish is abdicating your thought process to the status quo.

Comment Re: solid state (Score 1, Interesting) 165

If every wealthy person on earth did the right thing, our environment would still be fucked, because they're vastly outnumbered by non-wealthy people.

If every wealthy person on earth did the right thing, then our available actions would be more environmentally inoffensive, because the decisions of the wealthy control all of our lives.

I think it'd be far more intellectually honest to admit you just don't care.

It'd be far more intellectually honest to admit you're simping for billionaires because you admire them than to blame The People for living in the world those fucks have bought.

Comment Re:If Russia can, they would... (Score 1) 100

they are literally running out of conscripts

They're running out of prisoner conscripts, yes. They have not really tapped their main population. That's why there is still a reasonably high level of support for his war, although it surely must be waning with the recent successful attacks by Ukraine on infrastructure which must be affecting consumer prices by now. Otherwise I think your comment is accurate, but this does mean that they could throw more people at the conflict if they wanted to.

Comment Re:Your first indication (Score 1) 100

The question is: will it remain in its current state of cold war, with conflicts erupting here and there, or will it eventually escalate into a wider, full-fledged conflict?

That you're asking that question is how we know WWIII hasn't started. If it had, it would already be a wider, full-fledged conflict.

That's not to say that it won't, but that this isn't a world war yet.

Comment Re:Here we go again ... (Score 1) 62

Perhaps it's the fact that there has been no significant change in sea level over the last 8000 years. Even comparing the last two decades. 2010 saw a 3.3 mm rise, while 2020 saw 3.6 mm. Not a significant increase.

How many cubic meters of water does that 3.3-3.6mm represent? How much additional heat energy was stored in the ocean? Explain on what basis you imagine it's not significant.

Comment Re:GPS Interference (Score 0) 100

First, GPS signals are relatively weak. Second, they come from 'up' - if you really want to avoid terrestrial jamming, then a bit of shielding that only exposes your receiver to the sky will help a lot.

This is a story about satellite-based jamming. It would help if you would try reading at least the summary.

Comment Re: Destroy Them (Score 1) 62

With motor vehicles, most people are getting the ability to easily cause damage far exceeding their ability to pay. I think it's reasonable you should be required to prove you can pay for the damage you're able to cause.

I just woke up to this? Nobody said people shouldn't have to have insurance, bro. The statement was that nobody should be writing profit for private corporations into the law.

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