WoodScientist
@WoodScientist@lemmy.world
- Comment on Charging to tour rental properties... 4 days ago:
In some cases, arson is morally perfectly justifiable.
- Comment on Enlightenment 4 days ago:
Oma Desala approves.
- Comment on Anon learns a new spell 6 days ago:
Classic copypasta.
- Comment on Anon learns a new spell 6 days ago:
Probably a good thing JKR didn’t include any Latin American wizards in the series. They probably would have ended up practicing a form of magic that was basically just Aztec blood sacrifice. No way it wouldn’t be racist as fuck.
- Comment on In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen 6 days ago:
- Comment on It would get old fast 1 week ago:
That really would be the bomb!
- Comment on Did you ever use your Toe to turn one of these on or off? 1 week ago:
What makes you think I don’t do that on my current computer?
- Comment on Solar is now 41% cheaper than fossil fuels, UN report shows 1 week ago:
Unfortunately this isn’t saving us from climate-induced civilizational suicide. We are not capable of saving ourselves. Conservative governments are science-denying fascists, and liberal governments can’t see any solution that doesn’t involve the free market. They’re both slaves to capitalism, and capitalism is destroying our world. Every societal collapse is driven primarily by a delusional elite powered by high levels of wealth inequality, and our story will be no different than countless societies that have collapsed before us, crushed under the weight of their own dysfunctional political systems.
Renewables are not replacing fossil fuels. Fossil fuel use hasn’t declined at all. Emissions have never been higher. Rather, what should have been obvious is happening. Capitalism is very good at exploiting any available and useful resource, and there is no more useful resource than energy. The market is more than happy to gobble up the output of any number of solar panels, wind turbines, and batteries. A use for all that energy can be found. No matter how many solar panels we produce, their output is used to increase the total amount of energy consumed, rather than using them to replace fossil fuels. Meanwhile, fossil fuels are still very useful energy, and the market continues to find a use for them as well. To a capitalist system, the answer to the question “how much energy should we produce?” Is always “yes.”
Solving this problem will require actions that no liberal government is capable of. If you worship the free market as a religion, then you won’t be capable of making the changes that are needed to save our species from extinction. Conservatives know only delusions, and liberals know only subsidies. Both are equally useless at solving the problems we face.
What do we need to do? We need to be using non-market solutions. We need to be phasing out fossil fuels entirely. We need to be limiting the total amount extracted, and we need to lower that cap rapidly over time. Then we need to make it illegal to extract fossil fuels. We need to make it a capital offense to dig an oil well. Anyone caught drilling a well should be buried alive inside that well. Then we need to go to war against any nation that refuses to do the same. Eventually we need to waging outright military campaigns against fossil fuel infrastructure, regardless of what country the infrastructure belongs to. We need to be willing to risk nuclear war, as that is the level of crisis we are facing.
Note, your skin probably crawled when you read those last few sentences. If it did, you’re likely not psychologically capable of truly addressing the crisis we find ourselves in. You’re so conditioned to capitalist realism that those actions seem violent and absurd, rather than acts of rational self-defense of a species against its own annihilation.
- Comment on It would get old fast 1 week ago:
Your home can look like this. No HOA needed!
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 5 months ago:
My preferred mode of play is what I call “Iron Kerbal.” Career mode. No reloads. No respawning. No reverting flights. I can manage everything except an Eve landing and return without reloads. Or, late game, I can manage an Eve landing and recovery if I have enough resources to just keep throwing crews at the planet.
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 5 months ago:
My top two are Kerbal Space Program, at 2007 hours, and Satisfactory at 1,787 hours. And yeah, Satisfactory has its time exaggerated, as often you just got to let the factory run.
My play time on Kerbal Space Program 2? 17 minutes.
- Comment on DOGE's next target revealed after $59 million spent to put illegal migrants in luxury hotels 5 months ago:
I find your lack of critical thinking disturbing.
- Comment on Why is deportation done instead of imprisonment or making people become documented? In other words, why does deportation exist? 6 months ago:
The outcome of a system is its purpose.
The goal is to create a slave class. We never got over our societal addiction to slavery. Slavery in the US never ended, both de facto slavery and legal slavery.
The goal of our immigration system is to create millions of workers who will accept low pay, long hours, and poor conditions with little options or recourse.
- Comment on How did a simple phone call become so problematic? 6 months ago:
I mean, there could be a worse answer.
You know what, this would be easier if done in person. I have your address as ____. I’ll be by in ten minutes.
- Comment on How did a simple phone call become so problematic? 6 months ago:
Granted, you have to tell/text me to find a time that works for both.
My nightmare: when I ask someone what times they are good for, and they give one specific time on one specific day.
- Comment on How did a simple phone call become so problematic? 6 months ago:
How to really be Satan: send an important video note. Make it recorded outside with a lot of wind and background noise. Then, just to be fun, slow the video down to 80% playback speed, reencode it, and send that!
- Comment on How did a simple phone call become so problematic? 6 months ago:
What if I send you a link to a video message I recorded and posted on YouTube? Also it has ads on it.
- Comment on How did a simple phone call become so problematic? 6 months ago:
BUT, it is also pretty clear that direct speech is the most efficient way of communication when you don’t need a written record
That is simply not true. I’ve had many phones calls that would be far more efficiently done with a text.
- Comment on Select a tip 6 months ago:
And they’re perfect for this kind of thing! What better way to punish rude tip demands? Despite how rude it is, you don’t want to throw someone in jail over this. A fine? You risk the fine being so low it’s just a cost of business or so high you just ruined some service worker’s life. This is exactly where the pillory shines!
Demand a tip like this? To the stockades with you! Spend an afternoon chained up by the sidewalk, while people throw tomatoes at you. No real harm done. Just public embarrassment.
- Comment on Select a tip 6 months ago:
We need to bring back the public stockades.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Screw it! We need to go younger. That’s right, it’s Logan’s Run time! Everyone over 30 gets euthanized. And I say this as someone over 30 myself.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Screw it. Take away the right to vote from both men and women. Only those born intersex will have the franchise!
Now there is an interesting thought experiment. What would that kind of government look like?
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Not OP, but here’s my radical right wing belief.
I say we deport the immigrants. ALL the immigrants. I mean anyone in the US that is an immigrant, or descended from an immigrant. Time to kick them all out! Anyone who isn’t descended from the native population, back on the boat. And damn it, this includes myself!
- Comment on What realistically would happen if someone came back to life from the dead ? 6 months ago:
Death is rather difficult to define precisely. If you define it as “the cessation of consciousness,” then you die every night. Every sleep cycle has some portions of minimal brain activity. There’s nobody home for these periods.
- Comment on Anon makes a troubling connection 6 months ago:
Sure it would be difficult. It wouldn’t be easy. Like anything, you don’t just start with humans. You start with mice and work your way up from there. But you’re right, it would I suppose not be a near term thing. But still, for people like Musk, who always insist how they are so concerned with the future ‘survival of humanity?’ If you’re that worried about underpopulation, to the point you’re willingly throwing away civil rights, wouldn’t such a thing be worth funding, even if it takes a century to figure it out?
- Comment on Mandela Effect 6 months ago:
Someone probably just got confused by the Ohio Hitlers.
- Comment on Mandela Effect 6 months ago:
Yes, named for the infamous Dr. Mengele, the German doctor who performed abominable experiments on prisoners during the Franco-Prussian War.
- Comment on Mandela Effect 6 months ago:
I think you mean the Mandala Effect.
- Comment on Good morning I choose not violent just hungry. 6 months ago:
You know what. Fuck it. Let’s make the world more interesting. Let’s legalize consensual cannibalism! We’ll regulate it like assisted suicide, so there are safeguards in place to prevent exploitation and such. And you won’t be able to pay someone (or their loved ones) in order to let you cannibalize them. But if everyone involved is of sound mind, if there’s plenty of time to change your mind, and no one is getting paid or coerced? Have at it! I believe in freedom so much, that if you want to willingly let a cannibal kill and eat you, by God, that should be your right! Let us legalize consensual cannibalism!
- Comment on Anon makes a troubling connection 6 months ago:
IDK. Looking at that wikipedia article, the progress looks pretty good.
Also, just on a conceptual level, growing a whole embryo may be a lot easier than growing a single organ. Organs really aren’t designed to grow by themselves. A fetus is designed to grow and develop. It needs a nutrient supply.
But I think of it as the difference between trying to figure out how to grow plants in aquaponics vs trying to somehow coax plant cells to grow a flower without the rest of the flower plant present.
