pacifist
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I'm a pacifist.
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Comment · 9 months ago
Reminds me of the movie Office Space.
Comment · 1 year ago
"the China story will stagnate if a serious effort at helping the bottom half of Chinese does not develop"
So 800,000,000 people raised out of extreme poverty is a lie? Sounds like the bottom half is being well taken care of over there.
Comment · 3 years ago
My fathers's dear friend Stese was close with the old brewmaster at Anchor Steam. He was in his 90's at the time and one day he told Stese to start following him around the brewery and watch how he did things so he could take over for him when he was gone. Stese dutifully observed the brewmaster and took over his duties when he died. Soon there was a kid following him around taking notes on a clipboard. Fritz Maytag took over the operation, expanded it, bought a fleet of trucks and gave steam beer in SF a second life.
Comment · 3 years ago
Also Aaron Mate. He won an Izzy Award for debunking russiagate.
Comment · 3 years ago
Or Assange.
Comment · 4 years ago
I'm afraid that we're going the wrong direction on this. Purple Sea Urchin's(probably from ship ballast) are decimating the kelp forest on the west coast of US. Same with our terrestrial forests only we are the ones doing the damage there. Sorry to be a downer but I'm thinking we're screwed.
Comment · 4 years ago
Do you have any examples of a successful technological solution? We've never been here before so there are no examples in either category. It's clear that we need massive changes in behavior to stop dumping CO2 and other more potent greenhouse gases, such as methane, into the atmosphere(stop driving, don't fly, and, I'm sorry, no more babies). At 8 billion and counting, we've outstripped the planet's ability to sustain life(see Holocene Extinction Event[1][2]). It's possible we could augment these behavioral changes with sequestering efforts using technology that hasn't been invented or brought to scale yet. We'll see. I would also suggest that you pressure your political leaders but to date that approach seems to be fruitless. Politicians are all talk and no action, especially when it means pushing back against their petroleum industry donors. So we need to take things into our own hands. If we don't, and keep going down this road, we are headed straight for 4+ degrees of global warming and billions of people dead. As well as most other life on the planet.
[1] https://rebellion.global/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction
Comment · 5 years ago
The same people who benefit from this relationship need to pass the laws that kill the goose. Maybe you think there are enough honest politicians to pull it off. I've been been around long enough to have been disabused of that notion.
Comment · 5 years ago
The Matrix begs to differ(I saw it in a movie so it must be true).
Comment · 5 years ago
Don't be discouraged by posts in this thread. Yes, you can make a difference. I've been driving a biodiesel for 20+ years. I hardly drive these days anyway. As a dev you're in a good position to pull it off. Just stop driving(walking/cycling is good for you and good for the earth), don't fly, and no more babies. Do you really want to bring a child into what's coming down the pike?
I looked into the vegan vs locavore tussle and it seems to me they fought to a standstill. So I still eat meat(I'm low carb for health reasons). I buy from the farmers market and I'm lucky to have access to a local bison farm(carbon negative - look it up).
Comment · 5 years ago
Why would you want advertisers? Advertisers are part of the problem.
Comment · 5 years ago
My bad. Should have RTFA. We're talking about 3D here.
Comment · 5 years ago
A sphere in the mathematical sense is the 2D shell on the surface of the sphere you're thinking of. So, no height, no volume.
Comment · 5 years ago
> Noobs typically need protecting from themselves.
Whenever I hear this I start looking for my wallet.
Comment · 5 years ago
This needs to change.