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Cake day: December 23rd, 2023

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  • I’m not personally in the business of killing people, but situations and circumstances cause people to change what they believe is right and wrong. I do believe that sometimes killing people is a valid route to meaningful change. I don’t think this is what happened here, I think some kid got a good shot in and is going to have to deal with the consequences of what his family and country did to him for a while.

    Regardless of all of that, I can’t help but see this event in context of America. Like you have a bunch of people getting fed crazy shit 24/7, in a society that is so deeply entrenched in gun culture that you physically cannot de-escalate, these things will happen. The fact it happened to a dude that was very publically advocating for people to have rights to firearms, it feels about the same as a person purposely stepping on a rake. Dude kind of did this to himself somewhat.



  • I’m going off the top of my head here:

    Okay so you know the concept of evaporative cooling for the new AI data centres? It’s hugely wasteful, and definitely not the only way to accomplish the goal, but it’s cheaper. I feel like if we actually figured out all the bullshit of that calibre and just outlawed it, we’d make a significant start towards improvement and only marginally impact the bank statements of a few ultra rich billionaires.

    Stop allowing people to dump exhaust and waste untreated into the air and otherwise in the environment, full stop. Full illegal, if you violate it the entire company is dissolved. That’ll suck for shipping, manufacturing, fuck it. We need to actually stop this to achieve some kind of meaningful change. Go back to sails and windmills if we need to, we achieved global industry and shipping before the internal combustion engine existed, we can do it again.

    Phase out fossil fuels. It’ll suck a bit, fuck it. Increase reliance on public transport and population density. Make it so you don’t need individual transport to accomplish basic necessities for the vast majority of people.

    Ramp up public collaborative research into batteries, power storage, carbon capture, climate science. At this point we’re playing catch up, we need everything we can to try to rectify this shit storm like yesterday.





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    2 months ago

    Sort of. I understand not wanting to deal with the difficulties of attempting ethical consumption, but you’re so much closer to being one of those people working in a sweatshop than you are being financially stable. It feels like you’re actively shooting yourself in the foot honestly.