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@thismightbeauser But, the Carnegie and Rockefeller and all those families, they used to do public works and stuff. They may have been hoarding the wealth, but not damn *all* of it. Their flash contest was at least servicing the greater good as a side effect of the ostentation. This new crop seems more about raw, bigly yuge numbers, and hoarding, like a dragon (or a priapism). But, again, this is all coming around to perception. . . .
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@thismightbeauser I often wonder that, myself, to be honest. Inconclusively.
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@thismightbeauser I would have renewed it myself, but all the controls are locked, even though it's still under their ownership and still resolving. http://rainbowdash.net/url/875464
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@thismightbeauser A buddy may have already directed me to the solution; I've just been too enraged to enact it.
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@thismightbeauser Serious answer: I follow, to a T, the official "install Pleroma" scripts. Then, all I get is a goddamned "Welcome to the world's dumbest web server!" splash screen. Nobody has an answer posted for getting past this idiocy. The internet is useless thanks to google and SEO now meaning that, instead of an answer to my question, I get ads and spammers.
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@thismightbeauser Only morons seem to have written any documentation for it
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@thismightbeauser There is literally zero compelling reason to NOT use an ad blocker, site design these days is garbage, laden with so many ads the site itself no longer functions. Not to mention trackers. I refuse to feel ashamed of it. Mother'effers drove me to it.
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@thismightbeauser Sure we can! We just need to be ready to deal with about a century of lifestyle backslide.
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@thismightbeauser So you not only need to completely reshape the economy of most countries but also need to regulate the population of each to levels their own land can sustain (without further destroying the environment to grow more crops)
Some countries have a food surplus of 10 times their internal consumption, so they can keep their current populations without issue. But what happens with a country that has a food deficit of say, 50% of consumption? the population has to be cut in half or starve. Either way, you have a disaster in your hands with no clean way to solve it. You can pick between genocide, mass starvation or civil war, neither acceptable by any humanitarian standard. And you can be sure it'll spill to neighbouring regions.
In short, environmental damage is such a big issue because there's no clean way of solving it, nations and fortunes depend on the wheel spinning, and genociding the world to a sustainable population numbers is off the table. -
@thismightbeauser An actual solution to the issue is deglobalization of economies and achieving food and industry autonomy in every relevant country, but good luck cutting the flow of shekel just like that. There is a reason any sort of nationalism is treated as evil incarnate by mainstream political parties and economic groups, a global market that depends on countries not being self-sufficient is extremely profitable, no one can stop buying or selling or their internal situation crumbles within months.
A secondary effect of this, while a positive from an environmental point of view, is that a lot of countries simply don't have the capacity to achieve food autonomy due to having bigger populations than their fertile land can sustain. Take Nigeria for example, <1 million km2 of surface with a rapidly growing population at 190 million right now. Without world trade the country would starve, and lead to open war in the region. -
@thismightbeauser At the scale that'd be required? yes. Chernobyl was just radiation leakage followed by human abandonment of the region. Blasting India and China with enough firepower to cease human activity would also glass every living creature, animal or vegetal, within the region and destroy the soil. Most of the upper soil layer is organic matter and full of bacteria, superheating it would make it barren. Maybe in a few thousand years new ecosystems would form, but for the first few decades it'd be an ashen desert. Also there'd be worldwide impact from the dust and debris causing a nuclear winter.
You could aim exclusively for the urban and industrial centers to only eliminate polluting hotspots, but that'd mean retaliation, and climate damage is a much better option than a nuclear hot war. -
@thismightbeauser Consider: china has a debt leash in nearly all major economies, and any attempt at imposing environmental restrictions could be easily countered by them with a threat of crashing the challenging country's economy within a day.
The countries that would actually listen to environmental concerns, which are mostly western nations, are already on a steady yearly drop of pollution and carbon emissions.
There's no actual solution to the issue past unleashing nuclear fire on half of Asia, which would be an environmental disaster on itself. -
@thismightbeauser I was never big on Buttigieg. Guy felt so disingenuous to me. Still, I am disheartened that the youngest man in the field now is 77 years old.
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@thismightbeauser That's SoCal for you.
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@thismightbeauser Haha wow I would expect that close to the beach to be at least $75 more
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@thismightbeauser lol Yeah, convenient too!
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@thismightbeauser This Savant? https://www.youtube.com/user/winterbatcave (OK that url might get filtered so https://tinyurl.com/l9g4r8l ) Not involved; it was a musical guest on "Sage and Savant." So, all safe on that vector! :)
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@thismightbeauser Actually I double checked and I guess it's fine since the writer just uses offsets. The reader was coded for the C64 so it doesn't matter if it's portable.
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@thismightbeauser My apologies, the reaction comes from my own intolerance of closed-mindedness. To sum it up it's like when Luanne said "I hate hate" in King of the Hill
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@thismightbeauser “grow a thicker skin lol” Would be a great retort to that. Furthermore hate begets depression so well, too bad for them.
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@thismightbeauser Well that is just horrible. But that seems to me just like 'your depressed transphobic relative' is going to need some help. After all if being in the presence of something someone hates is enough to send that person over the edge and take their own life then, whow boy.
The rest of this family is probably just trying to protect the last nuggets of sanity that this transphobe has left. -
@thismightbeauser I’m really just referring to one moron in particular
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This day in the multiverse: Over ten thousand people died to prove a silly point.
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@thismightbeauser Last night’s recall wound up being a false alarm, we got the go-ahead today to put all of our romaine lettuce back up. Still taking a dump in some Californian’s salad, though.
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@thismightbeauser I did not even get it. I mean, if Sex A plus Sex B makes either Sex A or Sex B, then where did Sex C ever some from.
But if I add some Titania McGarth magic it is suddenly funny.
Poe's law is a apple. -
@thismightbeauser The previous message was sarcasm. Hopefully that was obvious.
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@thismightbeauser I am NOT tracing sprites, I am "taking" "inspiration!" lol (Actually got a lot from Sweet Home for the Famicom)
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@thismightbeauser Yeah, I've been living pretty much in a condition of rage overflow for a while, now. It's so much of such a large problem, and while I know *I* can't fix it, I also know that if we all ignore it, it'll never get better.
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@thismightbeauser Dude I saw a guide on using an RPi with a 3G hat to make a pirate radio station and I'm just all <3
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@thismightbeauser Hmm, no, I think that I would dissapoint the spirit of all my ancestors if I put training wheels on it.
But after getting most of my body blue and purple and somehow exploding a tree, I felt secure enough to ride it around town running errands.
