I’ve said it before but environmentalism is going to kill far more people than greenhouse gases.
When you shut down effective farming to decrease emissions, or force power to be “green”, you condemn people to starve and freeze to death.
— Misha Gurevich, Amateur Futurist (@drethelin) July 23, 2022
Agreed. Degrowther nonsense could kill billions.
The first ten on today’s playlist:
A while ago a friend of mine on here DM’d me that the problem with America is “not just underinvestment in public infrastructure/services but in large part that we are an antisocial bunch of violent fuckers.”
I’ve been thinking about that a lot.
— Nils Gilman (@nils_gilman) July 23, 2022
I think that is substantially true. Hell, it’s true of me. And true of a lot of my fellow Americans. The difference is I do successfully restrain my worst tendencies and try to be a decent human. Most Americans don’t even make the least attempt at that.
The liberals/left really fucked up by arguing the past 15-20 years that sex and talk about sex is inherently damaging to women. That was such a huge self-own. What a buncha losers.
New: Days after the overturn of Roe v Wade, Amazon prohibited abortion-related advertising on its platform.
Amazon also instructs its advertising content moderators to block sellers of Plan B from running ads.https://t.co/I0m9a07RSW
— Katherine Long (@_katya_long) July 20, 2022
Won’t be long before Plan B will not be available in most of the country — including on Amazon — and then contraception gets banned altogether.
I’m a Virologist, and I’m Setting the Record Straight on Variants and Reinfections.
Are we seeing the emergence of entirely new coronavirus variants that are impervious to immunity from vaccines and previous infections? If we keep getting reinfected, is it inevitable that most of us will end up developing long Covid?
In short, the answer is no.
Good pushback by someone who actually knows what they are talking about against the whole lib, “Everyone will get Covid 900 times and 2,900% of the population will get Long Covid, it’s inevitable” jackassery.
MYTH: We don't have a solution to nuclear's "waste problem"
REALITY: Nuclear waste isn't a problem. In fact, it’s the best solution we have to meeting our energy needs while protecting the natural environment!
Here's what you need to know:
— Madi Hilly (@MadiHilly) July 21, 2022
She’s right; nuclear waste isn’t a big issue, really, and fairly easy to deal with compared to other forms of energy pollution we create. Extracting uranium is a different story, but nuclear fuel waste is not a problem.
People who swear up and down that the GOP would never ban contraception are on the same level as those dogs who run for it when they see you pretend to throw a ball
— Faine Greenwood (@faineg) July 21, 2022
One of the main goals all along has been to ban contraception. That’s been completely obvious since at least 25 years ago. Anyone who doesn’t understand this is as dumb as a box of Republican senators.
This week, I was asked to explain to a judge & some lawyers how it's possible for the law & morality to come apart. Last week, I read half-baked thoughts about AI "sentience" from Google's finest.
I'm reminded regularly that vastly more philosophers are needed outside academia.
— N. G. Laskowski (@n_g_laskowski) June 15, 2022
I frequently amuse myself by going on Hacker News to watch those mooks talk about how philosophy is worthless and useless, and observing how they then spend whole 500+ comment threads retreading poorly very old philosophical ideas without understanding them at all or having any clue what they are talking about.
It’s good for some laughs, at least.
Being able to break down a large project into tasks and those tasks into check lists is a super power.
— Dare Obasanjo (@Carnage4Life) July 21, 2022
Agreed. I didn’t think much of project managers until I met and worked with the best project manager in the universe. If I ever start a company, I am going to track her down and hire her. She was amazing. She turned a large project that 100% would’ve failed without her into something I enjoyed working on and that got completed on time and under budget.
I can do a lot of things, but I could never do what she did. She was the most organized person I’ve ever met.
The people who called Ukraine's defenders "warmongers" are among the sickest, most contemptible fucks in our public discourse. https://t.co/zF1kGWeDxN
— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) July 22, 2022
I had to stop reading a lot of people because of that. They are beneath contempt.
Obviously Al Franken was innocent and his only error was resigning. At the time a few of us were privately begging him not to resign. But even publicly suggesting he was innocent meant your career would be destroyed. https://t.co/KsGM4kO74j
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) July 21, 2022
Yep. Al Franken was railroaded out of Congress because he was too progressive. That’s it, that’s all.
Why I prefer eating grasshoppers to beef.
This propaganda is becoming pervasive now, but it by no means has plateaued. Expect a whole lot more of this.
You just know our empire was doomed when we decided it wasn’t worth the trouble to go to space, that weighing 400 pounds was healthy, and that women and biology aren’t real.
Yep, status == fucked.
Our HP printer hasn’t been working for a month and every manner of troubleshooting, resets, changing ink cartridges, didn’t seem to work. After calling HP, they said the debit card on file had expired so they manually disabled our printer.
In unrelated news, I’m now radicalized
— Wendigoon (@Wendigoon8) July 20, 2022
This is how people become terrorists.