We might very well be in the end times and maybe AI will wipe us from the planet to prevent earth from becoming Venus.

So bezos and his guests flying dozens of individual private jets to Venice are the “younger generations”? It doesn’t have a lot to do with age but seems to correlate with wealth. The wealthier you are (as a nation and an individual) the more you typically (on average) contribute to climate change.

Or some funny kid swapped the signs?

Herzlichen Glückwunsch zu deinem Benutzernamen übrigens 🤣

Probably a scripted route.

I think you underestimate how stupid he is.

Aerosols aren’t gases in the classial sense and reflect sunlight. This works especially well high up in the atmosphere.

https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/earth-science/climate-science/aerosols-small-particles-with-big-climate-effects/

There are studies that collect data around volcano eruptions and coal power plants getting online and offline. Long story short: Climate is complicated; I’m not a climate scientist and not to be trusted; it would work great at cooling the planet; we definitely shouldn’t do it (yet?) because it masks the temperature problem and could lead to us not reducing CO2 because we “wouldn’t have to”, but it could be a tool if we might be on the edge of a catastrophic runaway effect that causes too much water to evaporate into the atmosphere.

Update: Btw, you are right about dark particles low in the atmosphere, those typically warm the planet. It’s mainly sulfur dioxide aerosols byproduct that cool the planet (also mentioned in the NASA article)

It’s not really hard to implement at all but would just trade pest for cholera. We could just burn a lot of coal again, the dustier and dirtier the better. But that’s pretty bad for air quality but it would seriously cool the planet.

If they’re at MY door, what else can be done but defend my life with my life?

That’s what I meant with you wouldn’t do anything. First you’d still have other options and if ICE is at your door and you start shooting at them it will probably kill you faster.

You sound pretty flippant with people’s lives

That was not my intention. It totally get why nobody is doing anything, especially with guns, because of the consequences. I just pointed out that so many people in favor of armed civilians bring completely flawed arguments and now we actually see in action how useless a “regulated militia” is.

why don’t you go grab a gun and suicide into an armed force for great justice?

Why would I? I don’t have a gun and never argued in favor of armed civilians, because it’s completely useless (and research shows that it only increases the chances of domestic violence and suicide). Maybe it wasn’t useless at the time the constitution was written but the current situation shows that it is now. Besides that I live in Vienna.

Things don’t scale linearly like that. Many things are proportional to either the surface (so x²) or volume (x³) or complex combinations of those.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_guns_per_capita_by_country

America is top of the list yet nothing happens. Seems like those “to defend against rogue government” arguments are just talk anyway and the entire world told you that for years.

Looks like Americans are all talk and just keep the guns around just for a higher suicide rate and school shootings.

Yet nothing in the news, because Americans are all talk.

Chances are you wouldn’t do anything, like all the other people seeing kidnappers with masks and doing nothing. Looks like the rest of the world was right when they told Americans that their arguments for keeping guns to prevent the government from going rogue was all talk.

Why are the first two ifs in infix notation and the third isn’t?

Interesting that Americans always argue that they need their guns in case the government goes rouge. So many comments say that they will get shot, because they absolutely look like kidnappers, yet nothing happens. Looks like you keep those guns around just for a higher suicide rate and school shootings.

3? Are you nuts? I have two and see them maybe twice a year in person. Most friends require way too much time and I’m glad my friends are low maintenance and don’t get annoyed when I ghost them for weeks.

I’m pretty sure she couldn’t. She would wonder why she couldn’t contact anyone from her contact list. Sending individual links to probably hundreds of people without knowing if they use Simplex is completely unfeasible. Signal and WhatsApp you just open the app, immediately see who else uses it and can start texting. No multiple profiles, no meeting to scan QR codes or sending links, which is especially ironic because she would probably send that via Signal or WhatsApp 🤣

But to be fair Mail is pretty centralized too nowadays for most people @gmail and @outlook. Of course there are others but my point is that there a a hand full of providers up to a point that it’s almost unfeasible to maintain and run you own mailserver because there is a high chance that those large providers will flag your mail as spam because it’s rare to see a “wild” mailserver.

I did the same what @warm said and I don’t even have WhatsApp. If someone needs something from me they have to write on Signal (or SMS 🤣).

I see what you mean but that’s not what I thought China did. I thought they just declared every prisoner automatically an organ donor which would totally be fine IMHO.

I live in Europe (Austria) and the solitary-based health care system is amazing. Automatically declaring everybody a donor is the best thing you can do (in in that case there wouldn’t even be a difference if you are a prisoner or not).

If you ask me we should even get rid of the option to opt out unless in well founded court approved exceptions. Opting out of being an organ donor is probably the most egocentric, selfish thing one could do. You are dead and you still want to deny helping others at literally no additional cost for you.

It also has practically the opposite effect of what you mentioned. If you only have a few organ donors and one is in a bad condition in a hospital there a probably a few people that hope they don’t make it to get the organs. But if everybody is an organ donor the situation gets much simpler because there isn’t this artificial scarcity.

Long story short, I haven’t heard a single good argument for not being an organ donor except that people could care less about the paper work to opt-in. That’s why the European opt-out system is way better, but many US citizens probably would call that communism :-)