

Can’t let all those billion-dollar doomsday bunkers go to waste.
Can’t let all those billion-dollar doomsday bunkers go to waste.
“We thought it was cool until someone we don’t like for unrelated reasons started doing it.”
Zelensky is probably most worried about what happens to Zelensky if the Russians win right now. I doubt patriotism or love for his fellow Ukrainians is super high on his list of motivations.
Should’ve empowered us to do nothing with a majority, now we’re stuck doing nothing with a minority.
So that means the civil service is free to ignore the order, right?
Because the ball game is an explicitly fascist ritual designed to encourage social bonding around bloodsport
Shouting “yeehaw” but it comes out like the sound of a car going over a rumble strip.
Go fascist ourobouros go!
They could be among us even now!
I’m still wondering about how a show about the cultishness of office jobs got made by a company famous for its cultish work environment.
Swasticar
(I didn’t come up with this but I wish I did)
The therapod clade will rise again
I like this line of thinking, but I’m having a hard time using it to understand the phenomenon of crop circles.
Explanation 1: it was a previously unknown spacefaring species that uses giant circles to communicate.
Explanation 2: it was a couple middle aged Brits with some boards
Does Occam’s Razor say that it was a couple of aliens with some boards, or it was a previously unknown advanced civilization of middle-aged British men?
But how do you ignore being told countless times, ‘Here is a direct quote of Trump saying he wants Gaza leveled’?”
They didn’t ignore you, you ignored them pointing out that you were at that very moment doing the leveling.
They’ll never learn, they’ll never change because they never actually cared.
I know it’s weird of me to be anti-doomer about this stuff, but this is dumb. It’s not like Earth system models don’t account for non-CO2 GHGs and albedo; if they were looking solely at CO2-related radiative forcing, they’d be even more off base. In the past when CO2 levels were higher, methane was also higher and albedo was probably lower, so saying that we’re actually looking at a situation analogous to a world where CO2 is at 624 ppm is double-dipping. Extrapolating from a single year of difference, even if it was one where the models substantially underestimated the degree of warming is also a little premature. It’s a sign that the models need to be revised, but assuming we’re just going to keep going at this rate is probably not a good idea.
That said, at this point I think we’re just debating over which generation is going to end up holding the hot potato, not whether there will be someone to pull it out of the oven. This article was written almost three years ago and goes into a lot of the same scenarios. We’ve got several Damoclean swords hanging over us, including the AMOC and the stratospheric cloud deck and the seabed methane clathrates and so on. Even if the rate of warming returns to its pre-2020’s levels, it’s still faster than any time since the Siberian traps and that was not an awesome time for complex life.