hanrahan

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[–] hanrahan 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Actually, the US has cut emissions already.

Only via dodgy accounting, Defence arent counted, international flights, international shipping etc aren't counted at all. Then there is the entire issue that outsourced emsision are ignored, they will go up again if onshoring occurs. Outsourced emissons are worse becase of shipping which isn't counted at all.

The dodgy accounting is deliberate as Deiter Helm explains.

https://e360.yale.edu/features/forget_kyoto_putting_a_tax_on_carbon_consumption

We're doing noting to reduce emissions except LARPing. This isnt a tech problem, it's a behavioural one. Closing aiports, banning private cars, banning cruise ships, cutting the military in 1/2 are solutions ebwryhibg eise is just posturing.

Bit I've had this debate with you a decade ago on Reddit and since then the Keeling curve keeps rising an rising.

[–] hanrahan 2 points 1 day ago

We're not idiots.

Hnmm, I'd argue we are.

[–] hanrahan 2 points 1 day ago

No, we let then in, they've already won, they even have war bases here that Australian federal politcans are not allowed to visit.

Personally I'd rather China took over, at least we'd get decent railways.

[–] hanrahan 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Have you seen the Governembt NZ elected and what they're doing to the Treaty ?

While as an Aussie who mostly agrees Australia is a conservative ass backwards shit hole, it would appear NZ is now aspirationaly Australia.

[–] hanrahan 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Heliboard,, sourced from F Droid with the clipboard enabled.

I used to use Openbaord fom F Droid

[–] hanrahan 1 points 1 day ago

If a bank has $100, they can write a loan for $1,000; effectively putting $900 more into circulation. When that is spent, it gets deposited into a bank, which can then loan it out amplified again.

Since there is not infinite money, there must be a gap in my understanding somewhere.

While this is true, the only "new money" created in that loan is the interest becase the capital is paid back , albeit over decades.

 

This melting will lead to a rise in sea levels of up to one metre, threatening millions of people in coastal areas.

That's just from Greenlands ice sheets (by 2100)

This is on point as well

https://tamino.wordpress.com/2024/11/29/an-eighth-of-an-inch-in-how-long/

 

Article is mostly how to profit of human stupidity but I thought this quote was salient and on topic. Not new for people who have paid attention though but a reminder.

"[The world] will have to produce approximately a billion tonnes of copper metal in the next 25 years to meet net zero targets," he said.

That is more copper than has ever been produced.


Clean energy might help deal with emissions, but it does nothing to reverse deforestation, overfishing, soil depletion and mass extinction. A growth-obsessed economy powered by clean energy will still tip us into ecological disaster.” - Jason Hickel

[–] hanrahan 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Absolutely, as a Linux uswr if only 18 months it was a complete balls up me trying to install Signal from tje shitty instructions. Their website, a seasoned Linux user in the forum said how he could see how I was confused becase the command lines on the Singnal website to do the install all ran together, since then it's been fine but just Flatpak FFS.

[–] hanrahan 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah but in my LMDE, Flameshot wont save files and is buggy as shit. It has an option to selext what App to open the screen shot in and that does't work, share with another app and that doesn't work, save the file and the files not there. Now, highly possible it works for others and just not for me

Hell, my Logitech kb can't even use the screenshot button to take a screenshot.

I just use work arounds but still annoying.

[–] hanrahan 24 points 2 days ago (3 children)

As an Australian social media isn't the problem, like the internet isnt the problem, its commersialisation thats the problem. The need to grow the custoner base sees outrageous behaviours from corporations like Meta, Google, Apple etal but that's what they're incentivised to do, so that's what happens.

This legilisation won't solve shit. The government and the polotical class forcing citizens to use Facebook or Twitter to get information, they could start there.

[–] hanrahan 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

One if a purely intellectual practice, the other is connected to our souls and will damage us inside.

True enough, selling your soul to Google to pay the bills might make.you reasses your life and becone a sex worker.

My snark aside, your assertion is the most ridlcious ludicrous thing I've read this year and theres not much left to the year. Its that weird perspective that makes it different to what ? fisting a cow as a vetenerian or jacking off a horse to collect it's semen ?

 

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/15730879

Land degradation is expanding worldwide at the rate of 1m sq km every year, undermining efforts to stabilise the climate, protect nature and ensure sustainable food supplies, a study has highlighted.

The degraded area is already 15m sq km, an area greater than Antarctica, the scientific report says, and it calls for an urgent course correction to avoid land abuse “irretrievably compromising Earth’s capacity to support human and environmental wellbeing”.

Seems unlikely that anything will be done then as we stroll purposefully and knowingly off the Seneca Cliff of civilisations collpase.

[–] hanrahan 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

A contra view that I think is a more sensible and sane look at this is ... no, nothing can, see here

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2024/07/metastatic-modernity-launch/

 

Land degradation is expanding worldwide at the rate of 1m sq km every year, undermining efforts to stabilise the climate, protect nature and ensure sustainable food supplies, a study has highlighted.

The degraded area is already 15m sq km, an area greater than Antarctica, the scientific report says, and it calls for an urgent course correction to avoid land abuse “irretrievably compromising Earth’s capacity to support human and environmental wellbeing”.

Seems unlikely that anything will be done then as we stroll purposefully and knowingly off the Seneca Cliff of civilisations collpase.

[–] hanrahan 4 points 3 days ago

You think non-tech people are gonna understand that?

Yes becase they're not looking to understand the protocol behind federarion anymore then you dowbt understand the protocol behind email, so they will grok better then you how it works bybusibg the email allegory, sending from gmail to outlook works for them.

I also use the phone network as another allegory if their eyes do glaze over, i can be with one phone company and phone somone on another companies plan. They have little idead of the prorogation of radiowaves etc that makes that all work.

 

I had this argumwnt with a few people.. :(

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submitted 4 days ago by hanrahan to c/climate
 

Donald Trump has said many times in the last few months that because of global warming, sea level will rise an eighth of an inch in several hundred years...

He usually follows by adding that “we’ll have more beachfront property.”

It is just about the stupidest thing one could possibly say about sea level rise.

 

Contrary to Newscorp and Barnaby's bullshit rhetoric

 

A recent interview with on of the few Adults in the "Climate Debate", Professor Kevin Anderson.

 

New research shows that climate models underestimate regional heating by large margins

 

Sigh :(

 

Why doesn't Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather own a home yet?He responds that he has a small, single-income family and gives up about $50,000 from his annual salary to fund a free meal program in his Brisbane electorate. 'Because of that, giving up that money, and being on a single income and in an inner city electorate with a very, very high median house price, it is actually sort of difficult at the moment to buy a house there,' the Greens housing and homelessness spokesperson says.

Well, thank you Max.

 

Queensland Health communicable diseases branch executive director Heidi Carroll said the disease could be life threatening in babies.

"They cough so much that they can't catch their breath. They then can't get enough oxygen into their systems," Dr Carroll said.

Well, that sucks :(

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