heat wave

The “wave” term is going to become useless when it becomes normal.

I’m going to call them “AI zombies”.

There’s more that makes this weird. We also know some things about how pre-civlized societies handled narcissism. Surprisingly often, these societies actually had a dedicated word for these people. The exact translation and connotation of the word varied from one population to the next, but the stories that they told were basically the same. (For reference, we learned this by interviewing members of indigenous societies that had not yet been heavily influenced by civilization. Some of these societies still existed as recently as a century ago - now there are almost none left.) These were the people who were ‘unteachable’, ‘lazy’, ‘troublemakers’ - they caused drama while contributing next to nothing. When these people didn’t improve their behavior (or they did something heinous like commit murder or rape), they were exiled or killed. (Check out literature on ‘rape-free’ societies if you want to read more about this.) These individuals were pretty rare - around 1% of the population - so what little violence was necessary to keep the peace would not account for the evidence that we see from post-agricultural societies. We’ve no reason to believe that these pre-civilized societies suddenly stopped policing themselves when they were pushed into agriculture by the drought (and there’s even some evidence that they did not - again, see “Civilized to Death”), yet the vast majority of us now live in a society where such a penalty for mere narcissism would be unthinkable.

I recently learned that zombification (check the transcript) using drugs, as a form of slavery, was used by some indigenous people as a punishment of such assholes instead of execution or exile.

Tankies are conservatives acting on a social level instead of an economic level (from what you describe). This makes more sense if you think of military hierarchies and advancement in them.

One of the reasons I avoid the “Solarpunk” types is because they still don’t want to renounce “Shit-and-gore-punk”. Raising and killing animals is not punk. I’m not into Shitpunk. If your village smells like shit, something is going wrong.

Excellent model and it would be even neater with some animation to show the feedback loops.

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jobs tho

The <1.5℃ goal exists/existed due to these small island nations calling for it because going above it means collapse for them. They’re done for. Now the question is who will take them in and if they can recreate their nation-states elsewhere or if they’re absorbed by some other nation-state (or if they’re left to die on rafts).

Reading only headlines is an act of laziness while expecting seriousness, it’s a practice of bad faith. Yes, before you ask, I know WHY people do that.

If you can’t stop yourself from engaging in bad faith, consider not commenting, not voting; just walk on by and check back later, maybe.

The vagueness is the point. Vague laws transfer the power to those who enforce it (ACAB) who get to decide if that law applies in that case.

It’s the same strategy used by the Spanish inquisition. Who’s a witch? Keep it vague, and that answer becomes fully arbitrary and dependent on different social factors (such as people trying eliminate others and take their land by using such accusations). It also encourages everyone else to “signal” that they’re not whatever the bad label is… as a precaution. Preemptive antiantifa. This is basic conservative society shit.

We saw the same thing since 2020 with the right-wing turning mask wearing into a signal for “weakness & femininity” and “leftism”, and large numbers of conservatives decided that it was better to get COVID-19 and long COVID. Note that this wasn’t STATE controlled, but it wasn’t organic either, it was more of a private astroturfing phenomenon.

I’m not sure what the solution is, and I doubt that it’s just one single thing, but I’d love to see some ideas.

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2044:_Sandboxing_Cycle

(Arrival, 2016)

“Did you just hit my car?”

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“Do I look like fucking Ironman?”

Are the biohacker clowns around here too?

The compromise would be to create a signature biome and allow it to contaminate. And if they find some rock which doesn’t have that signature biome, then it’s probably extraterrestrial.

Railways:

Look at what they have to do to mimic a fraction of our power!

This is what you get when you let “business science” people publish.

Ubuntu Pro?

Sperm concussion?