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Heh “need to done violence”

But we’re not.

I think it’s a good idea, but I’ve never seen someone run the numbers.

I’ve seen estimates that it’s frequently cheaper to demolish the building and build a new one.

It’s the plumbing, mainly. Not designed to carry that much throughput.

OHAIMARS

Apathetic voters are too stupid to have developed an understanding of object permanence yet.

It’s like a self-fulfilling prophecy at that point. Like Netflix with new shows.

Netflix: here’s this new show

People: yeah you guys always cancel stuff after the first season or two, I’m not gonna get invested in something that will just get canceled

Netflix: man, these viewership numbers are low. CANCELED!

I mean if you’re determined to be depressed in the face of all evidence, I can’t stop you.

the amount of carbon we’ve currently released is enough to destroy all human life

That’s not even close to true.

The US just passed a law automatically signing people up for the draft.

Every male is legally required to sign up for the draft at 18, it just hasn’t ever really been enforced. This is a nothing.

Trump is a viable candidate.

This is actually a big fucking deal and the most important thing any of us can do for the climate is to prevent Trump from winning.

Partially because our government isn’t taking serious action to do so. Partially because every environmental scientist, environmental engineer, biologist, ecologist, I know is extremely depressed or suicidal.

Look, this is lemmy. Everyone and their fucking dog is suicidal here. It’s damn near a death cult.

it’s doable. Why? Because it’s been done before

That’s not an issue. We have the science. Sure, there are efficiency gains from improved science, but it’s not like we’re fumbling in the dark here. We know exactly what we need to do and how to do it. And it’s not a braindead simplistic soundbyte like “just do a revolution” or “everyone bike everywhere”. It’s complex, it’s complicated, but it is known. Stop using fossil fuels. Start using renewables. Capture the carbon that has already been released. It’s a super simple equation. It’s like dieting, you can have all the fancy diets in the world but the absolute core of it is that you need to take in less calories than you burn in order to lose weight.

or we all literally die.

That’s not true and I can tell you’re smart enough to know it, so I won’t dwell on it. But it dovetails into the next point

We also don’t have the time (like we are out of time)

It’s not a binary. We have passed the threshold where we can prevent negative effects. In that sense, we are out of time, yes. Species have gone extinct and we can’t get them back. Not like, “very soon this will happen”, but like “this has already happened”. It will keep getting worse. That’s how you have to think of it. Not like a video game. Not like “fix the problem in x years or else we all immediately die, game over!” It’s “the longer it takes to fix, the worse the world gets in the mean time.”

I believe, as long as the US doesn’t fall into a regressive fascist science-denying hellhole (which is a whole nother thing but bears mentioning), we will fix it. Possibly in my life time, or at least be on a trajectory to complete recovery (minus extinct species) within my lifetime. A lot of people are putting a lot of money and time and effort into it.

If you ever read Socrates, most of his questions are just giving you the answer and then saying “doesn’t that make sense?”

Ok this is fucking hilarious

That’s terrifying

Do you have money or time to put towards it?

English your second language? Phrases that seem common to natives may seem off to those who learned English later in life. 'Tis a silly language.

Fuck you for wasting my time with bullshit job descriptions then

If a used car salesman said, “just get this baby a new engine, new transmission, new brakes, tires, and new radiator and she’ll be perfect!” Would you buy the car or trust that’s everything wrong with it? Or would you assume it’s “as is” or worse?

I kinda did that. Not with a car, but a house. Bought my mom a cheap shitty house because she’s poor as shit and I’m trying to get her to be able to retire with some dignity.

But it’s a start. We have the house. We just redid the plumbing. Next the foundation. Next the electrical, then the hvac. Improving over time as we have the money and the capacity. Eventually, it will be a perfectly fine, liveable house.

It’s a LOT of work. And ridiculously expensive. But it’s DOABLE, and buying a “normal” house is NOT doable because they’re crazy expensive nowadays. We improve as we can, and over time things get better as long as we keep moving forward.

That’s what I think the best case scenario is for the planet. Renewables. Electric vehicles. Public transit. Carbon capture. Reforestation. Zero waste. I have a vision of a planet Earth in 500 years that is not an apocalyptic hellhole, but a green, vibrant, forward looking one, mildly embarrassed about how their ancestors let things get so bad before fixing it.

We can do that. A lot of us are working towards it.

There’s a lot of shady shit going on in Oakland that is always brushed over. I don’t know what it is exactly but every now and then you see glimpses of it.

The Oakland PD was on probation for about 20 years (yes, literally) due to corruption in the force. The recent police chief spoke out about corruption among the feds overseeing the PD. The chief was fired shortly after by the new mayor on some trumped up charges. Now there’s a highly suspicious campaign to recall the mayor, funded by dark money.

Not to mention no one ever talks about the massive racial tensions between Black and Chinese in the city.

Literally not my words, dumbass