Don’t forget all the extreme weather eroding away the peninsula. I’m less worried about sea level rise over the next 50 years than I am of a 20’ storm surge happening over the course of a few hours.

Thinking we’ll still have electricity for computers in 2034, and it won’t all be diverted to the AGI Factory at the center of town that handles all the meme generation/posting/aggregating is kinda optimistic.

most of America

One American in five.

I wish more MCU Democrats and Punisher Skull Republicans would read this.

Oh yeah, we’re absolutely getting a fucking measles epidemic before the end of his term.

At some point he needs to be able to physically enact proposals. Like, it’s one thing to say “Build a wall” and it’s another to get the land rights, hire the contractors, do the work, maintain it on competition, etc, etc.

You can go down to the border now and you’ll find this rink a dink bullshit that’s falling over in a light breeze. Then you’ve got spools full of razor wire tossed into the steadily shallower Rip Grande. People got paid tens of millions to put that garbage in the ground. And that was under an ostensibly competent administration.

I agree we’re going to get a ton of shit policy. Police violence under Trump is going to skyrocket. Vigilantee violence is going to jump. Border guard violence is going through the roof. But, like, is he going to build anything that can last? Or is he going to get the Americanized version of Neom? A bunch of scammers delivering invisible clothes to prance around in.

I guess we’ll find out.

Between 2017 and 2021, things got pretty bad. Riots, wars, a plague, economic crash, and it ended with a mob breaking into the nation’s capital and trashing the place.

Can’t imagine a repeat will be better.

A few folks I know switched

All of that is just cope, though. Speed running denialism to acceptance. The bottom line is that - individually - there’s nothing any one of us is going to do to stop Indonesia from building a new coal plant or end fracking in West Texas or stop whatever the fuck this is…

These are large scale socio-economic problems stemming from an industrial system that does not need to account for its waste byproducts. “Well, you should just believe that climate change is real but also believe its fixable” is the correct sentiment. But simple sentiment has no impact on policy.

I think that’s the defeatism they’re talking about here

I have spent my entire life hearing people in positions of authority talk about climate change and watching the institutions they lead ignore the impacts whenever a change in policy might detrimentally affect domestic economic growth rates.

That’s why my heart is filled with doomerism. Even when we know, and even when we (superficially) acknowledge we can change the policy, the folks at the controls… don’t do it.

If the sum total of “Say no to climate defeatism” is “Don’t feel bad during the latest in a series of historic heat waves”, then you’re not arguing against defeatism. You’re arguing for denialism.

You forgot the first bit

Warning, it’s not “good news”. I think we fucked up so badly that quiet literally a “Dark Age” is coming. This is a rough “first pass” of how some new papers are coming together for me.

Followed by

Short Takes: The evidence accumulates that the “Climate Sensitivity” estimate in our models is BADLY off.

One of the things that stuck in my head was the finding that there was an apparent pattern of +8°C temperature increase for each doubling of atmospheric CO2 (2XCO2).

Very alarming if accurate.

https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-per-capita/

The Eastern Block states simply aren’t to blame here. They have low per capita emissions and large populations.

China, in particular, is right on target thanks to its all-options energy growth strategy.

China is one of the world’s largest producers of nuclear power. The country ranks third in the world both in total nuclear power capacity installed and electricity generated, accounting for around one tenth of global nuclear power generated.

Per capita energy use in China is under the threshold for sustainable usage, and they’re hitting their climate goals a decade early.

Meanwhile, Europe remains a dumpster fire of emissions, while heavily consuming from China’s surplus manufacturing.

Pointing to the other side of the ocean and saying “You guys need to fix it” has been an American remedy for too long. Now we’re eating hurricane after hurricane as recompense.

climate defeatism has become a religion

Going outside to 90⁰ weather in October is a religion?

Finding the right Discord can be hard. But when you’re in a community where people are pinning things to channels and wiki-ing / linking them out, its a fantastic source for info.

They’re an idea that big forums are actually awful and you’re better off in smaller communities.

Mostly, it’s a pain because it can be hard to find some escoteric bit of knowledge or expertise when you don’t have a Reddit sized forum to troll through.

But that’s where spaces like Discord excel. Nice, tight communities of hobbyists and specialists who are routinely online and regularly churning out useful content.

The bloody managers are the biggest problem. Most don’t understand code much less the process of making a software product.

So, I’ve had my eye on management and started doing some management training. The job of management really isn’t to do the work itself (or even to understand the work). That’s the job of specialists and technical leads. The job of management is to oversee the workforce (hiring, organizing teams, dictating process, allocating project time, planning mid and long term department goals, etc) not to actually get your hands into the work itself.

It’s certainly helpful to understand coding broadly speaking. But I’m in an office where we’re supporting dozens of apps written and interfaced with at least as many languages. Nevermind all the schemas within those languages. There’s no way a manager could actually do my job without months (if not years) of experience in the project itself.

At the same time, the managers should understand the process of coding, particularly if they’re at the lower tier and overseeing an actual release cycle. What causes me to pull my hair out is managers who think hand-deploying .dlls and fixing user errors with SQL scripts is normal developer behavior and not desperate shit you do when your normal workflows have failed.

Being in a perpetual state of damage control and thinking that this is normal because you inherited from the last manager is the nightmare.

But at least the bozos at the top get to make the decisions and the cheddar for being ignorant and not listening.

Identifying and integrating new technologies is normal and good managerial behavior.

Getting fleeced by another round of over-hyped fly-by-night con artists time after time after time is not as much.

But AI seems to thread the needle. Its sophisticated and helpful enough to seem useful on superficial analysis. You only really start realizing you’ve been hoodwinked after you try and integrate it.

Setting aside the absurd executive level pay (every fucking corporate enterprise is just an MLM that’s managed to stay cash positive) it does feel like the problem with AI is that each business is forced to learn the lesson the hard way because no business journal or news channel wants to admit that its all shit.

As a tool for forming communities, Lemmy’s mechanics work just fine.

But the process of federation - combined with the prickly nature of certain administrators - means you can have a lively and robust community in (hypothetically) the far-left transgender tankie community that pioneered the application. But then that gets abruptly cut off and squelched in a more popular forum by some late adopters who hate their politics more than they enjoy their technical savvy.

Lemmy.world has a bunch of memes and political screeching because that’s the kind of user its admins choose to encourage. Other communities have more practical interests. But they don’t draw the same kind of crowd, so you won’t see them on the front page of this site, particularly if you only browse Local.

It’s literally a quote from Joseph Stalin.

Green energy has very short supply lines when compared to fossil fuels. Great if you live somewhere remote or prone to sudden economic distributions.