waaait what on earth did I miss

yes, and I pointed out why it doesn’t work already

it’s a joke about reddit’s tendency towards racism and other bigotry, not the literal stormfront website.

ok, this has gone over my head. can you explain what she meant? her “joke” reads like a retreading of stale memes from /r/politics.

I made a comment saying people are presenting these solutions as if they’ll solve climate change and you made an analogy about drug use?

it’s got some weird bugs but I generally haven’t noticed audio issues. casting doesn’t work perfectly, though.

who the fuck pays to watch ads. what a ludicrous proposition. that’s the part that makes no sense to me.

you either agree with me as I’m 100% correct or you’re wrong/totally misinformed and obviously think all solutions require more capitalism

where in my reply did you get this from?

But does that mean stopping drugs is the only thing that can help them live a long healthy life (which is the reason for quitting right?)?

it’s got more in common with “you will die in a year if you don’t immediately stop the drug use”. eating healthier won’t stop your imminent death. we’re talking about an extinction level event for most of the biosphere on a timescale of mere decades and the damage will be incredibly hard to undo because of positive feedback loops that will outpace our own emissions in a few short years. life will continue but it will look substantially different. our present society is doomed if we don’t stop emitting CO2 - there’s no long healthy life until we get to net-zero emissions.

as to radiant sky cooling, how much of the earth’s surface would we need to cover in order to lower the Earth’s temperature by, let’s say 1 degree? I think the piece that’s missing here is the runaway greenhouse effect from methane/other greenhouse gasses getting released out of the permafrost - we’re potentially staring down 6+ degrees of warming once we get up over 2 degrees. and we’re likely to be at 1.5 before 2032. generating electricity this way is very cool and it will help but I’m worried about the scale of the problem.

to be clear, I’m not saying we shouldn’t work on technologies that might mitigate some of the damage. I’m saying presenting these as a solution to climate change oversells their actual capabilities and the scale at which we can feasibly implement them. all it would take to switch to solar today is sufficient money. but that’s a project that would require most of the large economies on the planet to change their productive capacity over to solar panels, batteries, transmission lines, etc., but that’s exactly what’s not happening because of powerful lobbying interests and a belief that the private sector must fix the problem. I’d bucket radiant sky cooling in the same category - very cool if it works and the governments of the world fund massive development projects, but unlikely to actually be implemented.

there’s a kind of soft climate denialism where people admit human-caused climate change is happening but act like bandaids will solve the issue, failing to grapple with the scope of the problem and the need for immediate, decisive action.

as for capitalism, I think one way or another, climate change spells the end for capitalism. the only question is how many of us die with it.

it frequently misfires when I don’t want it to and fails to fire when I do. I used it for a couple of months and then went back to buttons after getting frustrated.

I think it’s a joke - it’s an absurd comparison so I don’t think it’s meant to be taken seriously

who pays the journalists? who sets editorial policy? who prevents the journalists from unionizing?

it’s more his support for the rest of US foreign policy. his views on Palestine are fine.

clicking on a post at the top of All/Active is brigading. words definitely mean things.

will the debate pervertry never cease

when he bailed out the banks but left largely minority homeowners saddled with NINJA loans, he subjected them to foreclosures which will prevent a whole generation of Black people from ever owning homes again.

contra’s godawful takes on NB people / gender in general + her tendency to triple down when criticized really soured me on her content. it took all the fun out of the theater for me.

I think it’s a matter of social conditioning, though, not an intrinsic part of most of the people who behave this way (though this antisocial behavior leaves a lot of room for psychopaths to operate). “one must pay their debts” is ingrained in us as a truism from birth. I suspect many have never even considered the possibility that loaning money itself was considered a despicable act in many societies, or that it’s possible to relate to other human beings in a way that’s not transactional. this fact gives me hope that we can recondition most of these people - we must at least separate them from society and try. if they’re truly irredeemable, throw them in the volcano. but we must hold out hope for the possibility of human growth and change.

you forgot child labor. same people are bringing that one back as well.

we’ve been on lemmy for 3 years. when did you join again?