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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Intelligence is knowing tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I can't seem to find any information on it, but how hard would if be to host your own Bridgy Fed? I feel a tool like this would ideally be decentralized.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This has happened so many times it must be on purpose. Something like those who come back are likely to be more desperate than those who decide to leave and therefore less likely to get in their way.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)
flex-wrap: brain-wrap;
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Are you feeling it now Mr Krabs?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Some examples in the book include the Wendat people and Teotihuacan. You can also check out the book's wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dawn_of_Everything.

One of the core conclusions of the book that you may find interesting (quote from the wiki):

Based on their accumulated discussions, the authors conclude by proposing a reframing of the central questions of human history. Instead of the origins of inequality, they suggest that our central dilemma is the question of how modern societies have lost the qualities of flexibility and political creativity that were once more common.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I recommend reading The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber for more details on societal structures of the past

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

and if you account for taxation it'll be even less

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I think some of the confusion here might be that this comic is specifically referencing booting out bigots and their apologists.

if someone is willing to argue in bad faith (in this case, specifically bigots), there is no reason to listen to that or anything else they have to say since they've shown they are willing to argue in bad faith at all. I also think anyone who is an apologist of them is also not worth listening to because they are in bad faith by proxy.

that being said, it's perfectly okay to have people arguing in good faith while coming to different conclusions. there can be disagreement and that is healthy as you've said.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago

don't worry, there's a lot of men that get fucked too

 

TL;DR

using/generating energy always emits heat as waste and there is an upper limit of efficiency that we are not that far from. if that energy was generated via something that is not a natural heat gradient for the earth's surface there is a net increase of heat in the earth system simply by generating and using energy.

a lot of energy sources fall into this: fossil fuel, nuclear, geothermal, etc. two that don't are (certain types of) solar and wind, since their energy would eventually be dissipated onto earth's surface whether we intercept or not.

that waste heat is currently estimated to be ~2% of the heating power caused by global warming, so already significant. we essentially have an upper limit on sustainable energy usage on earth (and therefore an avg per person usage) or we will have Global Warming 2: Waste Heat Boogaloo.

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