Will climate change kill everyone — or just lots and lots of people?

Bad analysis and lack of systems thinking. Climate change alone has zero existential risk for humanity. However, episodes like climate change lead to wars. Arguably, some wars have already largely been driven by climate change. Wars between major power can lead to nuclear exchanges. Nuclear exchanges then lead to extinction.

Who knows how likely that is? I do not. But I do know the probability with climate change has increased and will increase even more in the future. It is truly an existential risk that this sort of facile, superficial analysis completely ignores.

Systems thinkers are rare. Vox certainly has none of them, mired as they are in centrist delusions of technocratic soteriology.

How to Forgive Someone Who Has Wronged You.

As you are standing over their grave, dirt and blood still drying on your hands, mutter, “I forgive you for making me dig this damn hole in the ground.”

Done.

Fascinating that the clear Twitter nutrition consensus is: meat good; sugar, flour and seed oils bad. Yet I’ve never seen a mainstream media article that says the same. The divide between passion-driven Twitter and corporate-driven media appears vast and unbridgeable.

— Brad Lemley (@BradCLemley) June 14, 2019

Where there is a lot of money involved, the media will be (mostly) against the science and best practices for as long as is tenable. Right now large food companies buy a whole lot of advertising. The media, especially in its attenuated state, is not able to resist this onslaught of cash.

For another obvious example of where obviously wrong information is peddled all the time due to monetary incentives is economics (Laffer curve, trickle-down economics, nearly all the rest incl. Kevin Drum’s BS), but that is not nearly the only one.

Money determines truth — or at least “truth.”

Joe Biden, Warmonger. The alleged moderate is nothing of the sort. Few candidates have been on the wrong side of history more often.

I hate to say this, but I’d rather Trump get re-elected than Biden. If Florida ever decides to register me (have tried twice now, both times nada) if it’s Biden vs. Trump, I will likely vote for Trump if he starts no new wars in the interim.

Biden is an evil bastard who has been consistently wrong about everything for his entire political career. There is no way I can vote in good conscience for someone so stunningly dreadful and loathsome, and consistently, provably so for many decades.