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I can only wonder how long she had to practice to say it so naturally!

I don’t know what’s your news are, but I didn’t have the same perception (France and Canada):

There was some anger when Trump floated the idea of “taking” Canada, but he wasn’t taken seriously.

There was definitely an outrage when Trump repeated he would have Greenland by force if needed, and he was taken seriously.

There are mild reactions now when he says he will take an island from Iran because he’s lost all credibility. Fact is I’m not sure he could get his ships close enough to the island before they’re sunk by Iran’s drones…

Oh no! They just happen to have a blindspot for children-rapist billionaires! They monitor everyone but them. Not extremist enough I guess…

Yeah, but then we also need to rally about C-30, that re-authorizes all kind of known dangerous chemicals for the environment but also for our health, and rally against new pipelines, privatization of ports and airports, etc.

Move fast and break (every)thing, so when people complain too loudly, it’s too late, there’s nothing left to salvage, and they’re already putting their hand on something else to divest attention from everything else they broke so far.

Look, I don’t know if you’re a troll or seriously delusional. But planting the solutions as “do nothing” or “give everything left to billionaires so that they follow a plan that addresses global warming but in a way that’s profitable for billionaires without putting any constrain on them” is not just a fallacy, it’s laughingly absurd.

Your plan does not exist, and will most likely never exist. And even if you could find some mad scientist proposing a plan (not backed by a scientific consensus), you have no way to convince billionaires to fund it. They don’t need you to get the 99% money funnelled in their pocket.

But I will store that idea somewhere close to the proposal to burn every fossil fuel left on Earth to supply AI so that AI finds a solution to global warming.

Geo-engineering is taboo. Climate experts are afraid that if we start talking about it seriously we will abandon other, less risky, sustainable solutions. Those solutions are gone now.

It’s really not. There were papers about particles in the sky, nuke near the Antarctic, giant mirrors in orbit, etc. Climate experts just won’t promote unproven solutions that may have even more disastrous unexpected consequences while we have proven solutions that we collectively just don’t want to adopt.

But in practical terms it is. While we were waiting for “radical measures” we blew past 0.5C goal, 1C goal and now we will blow past 2C goal. Turns out waiting for solutions simply does not lower CO2 emissions.

We didn’t “wait”. We collectively elected people who didn’t give a shit, over and over. We still do. So a proposal to “pay the oligarchs” with money we no longer have because they already hoarded most of it, so that they apply solutions scientists propose instead of keep hoarding more, while they’re obsessed with power and are allergic to constrain is ludicrous.

What I’m saying is that we have to come up with a plan they will get behind. They will only support a plan that’s profitable for them

No, they won’t. Because whatever plan you come up with will come with constrains for them. You should have realized that by now. EVs are profitable. Solar panels are profitable. Musk got in both. And he also decided to launch rockets and get in AI, not only nullifying the benefits of the 2 first, but managing a negative overall contribution, all while claiming we have ample time to fix the climate crisis and other stupid statements.

I’m not saying we should ask them to come up with the solution. Scientist will design the solution. It will be extremely expensive. The money will be extracted from lower classes. Private companies owned by the oligarchs will implement it and profit from it massively.

If such solution existed, they would have done it a long time ago. What you propose is what? Public money that we give to them in exchange of a promise they’ll do something useful? Ever heard of Hyperloop or hydrogen commercial planes?

The alternative is to continue demanding the ruling class sacrifice their wealth for the greater good while they ignore us and nothing gets done.

No, the alternative is to elect people who give a damn and know what they’re doing, go after the oligarchs, tax the hell out of them so that states actually have resources to get shit done. While you seem to believe “there is no way”, some countries around the world are doing their transition way faster than expected.

Bad news for you: we’ve been paying the oligarchs for decades. That’s why they’re so much richer now. They could already have done a lot to reduce global warming and they didn’t do shit.

It’s incredibly naive to think they’ll “fix it” by giving them even more money. First because they think they can escape the consequences, second because they have no idea how to fix it: they’ve made many claims over time that were pure stupidity on the topic, third because they would never ever ever do anything that don’t somewhat benefit themselves and their gigantic egos.

By the way: geo-engineering is not a “solution” backed by climate experts.

In theory it’s not too late to stay under +2"C, providing we take urgent and radical measures now. The best moment was decades ago, the next best moment is now, the third is tomorrow morning.

Oligarchs will get all of us killed, including themselves. Yes, they need to be reined in. The alternatives are just modulating how fast we die.

Welcome to China’s huge gap between cities and some rural areas. Where the parents (from where the dog was stolen) live, there may not have been a market for a pet.

But restaurants have needs all the time.

If you’re manly enough, spontaneous impregnation!! That will tell SO much about men who claim it can’t happen!

Let’s try “At last pregnancy for people strong enough to refuse abortions!”

Edit: typo

Yes but tHey wiLL tAx yOu!

That’s the beauty of KDE: you can make it pretty much anything you like and customize it: desktop icons or not, using the app menu or krunner, a mix of all, etc.

That’s (really) a political issue, not a company issue. Each company does exactly what it’s supposed to do: maximize profit for their shareholders. Even if they know it will end in a total disaster, they’ll keep doing that. That’s how the system works. Making sure the system works is the job of the policy makers.

Unfortunately, the policy maker is now in the companies payroll and so helps maximize the shareholders profit, there is no one left to look at the bigger picture and/or long term effects.

We’ve seen that trend for decades already. Neo-liberalism was all about trickling up wealth created by work.

But you see that in all advanced economies: commoners budget are tighter and tighter as cost of life increase faster than wages. That’s the expected outcome of neo-liberalism.

Now politicians pretend the housing crisis is an anomaly and car makers wonder why sales are slowing down. AI is bad, but it only accelerates and amplifies what was already happening.

“Of course it can’t happen to me! It only happens to my idiot users, and I am not an idiot!” [expense blows out of control] “We’re going to have to let go more people for budget reasons. You see people use tokens, and tokens are expensive! We’ll have less people who will use more AI to replace them, I was told the last version improves further productivity!”

In developed civilized countries, you pay according to your ability to pay, because it’s not a business: it’s a common service, we don’t want anyone to go without.

There’s something to say about how an idiot you must be to buy a Cybertruck to start with: it’s less capable than other electric (or not electric) pick-up, it’s unecessarily big, it’s fragile and expensive, and owning one doesn’t convey the image of their buyers they think it conveys.

And so not surprisingly, that pool of people counts amongst the biggest idiots who will do these kind of idiot tests.

I can’t but wonder how many CT buyers would be dead by now if Musk had claimed the CT can glide.

Just like the Epstein billionaires class saw 1984 and thought it was a model for governance, they saw Matrix and thought it was an awesome way to run people’s lives. Of course, they take the role of the central computer while chips in our brains make us happy to obediently serve them.

And don’t forget all the suppliers of the other parts that don’t have any business with datacenters: motherboards makers (not sure they got anything), case makers, power supply makers, peripherals makers, etc.

All of the ecosystem could go down if the bubble lasts long enough.

It’s not like we don’t know the playbook already.

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-recaptcha-play-services-requirement-3664806/

Now you know brain implants will be used as an authentication system, to protect the children, prevent spam, and maybe they’ll manage to add something about terrorism in the justification.