justaaron

I've posted exactly one post in the past months, this one.

Perhaps you are referring to my comments on other posts?

Criminalizing basic humane behaviors (such as saving drowning people, or giving water to a dehydrated person at risk of death) is making things worse and strips us of our very humanity. We wring our hands and move on, preferring to not know about it, instead.

Play around. Make things. Try things. Sit down with a rough plan and a few hours and see what ends up slowing you down, then surpass it.

be prepared for rich nations/people to aid poor ones.

there can be no winners in such a disaster, let's stop jostling for position.

(We, the USA, are literally the only unilateralist nation with regards to this issue. We are an outlier, some would say a criminally negligent outlier. Time to make up for past misdeeds!)

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Indeed. There are still plenty of people spreading doubt and nonsense about the climate emergency not being real or not being caused by our industrial-scale burning of stuff for "energy".

We unequivocally NEED to stand behind a singular message:

1) it IS our activities causing it

2) we can and should curtail these activities IMMEDIATELY

3) while we can't avoid the effects "in the pipleline", we can prevent further effects from piling up.

4) number 3 is our duty to the children and their children, it's our legacy.

Why anyone uses this glorified "hello world" app, let alone bases anything serious on it, is beyond me.

Being aggressive and hateful to the entire world at once will tend to requires substantial bodyguard resources, and will eventually fail.

Peace based upon respect and respect for hard-won rules and structures is the right road.

Switzerland learned this lesson through bloodshed, after a disastrous campaign in which nationals supporting the Duke of Milan got caught in reprisals from his foes, thus beginning the great Swiss tradition of neutrality in foreign conflict.

While I won't argue about the relative morality involved in World War 2, I will argue that all ensuing wars the USA has been involved in have ultimately undermined it's prospects for future peace.

It seems like many of my fellow Americans need a history lesson vis-a-vis Iran.

The USA and UK conspired to overthrow the democratically elected Iranian prime minister Mossadegh, as he threatened to nationalize (their own) oil, which Standard Oil, among others, didn't like very much (Shades of United Fruit and Guatemala anywone?)

We then attempted to install the Shah (we knocked down their democracy because it was too lefty, then we put a king back on the throne.)

The 1979 revolution was a direct reaction to this, and could have been seen coming from a decade before.

This was initially a real revolution, but of course, they purged the lefties and students out and installed a right wing religious government, rather like many Republicans want for America.

And we have the nerve to hammer on them for desiring self-actualization... incredible.

Hypocrisy is not even the beginning of it...

not to mention that we openly support regimes that will cut their own peoples legs and pollute their own lands for our business.

making our stuff, and disposing of our waste.