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Would you make the same comment if somebody else was eating a human child? If not, why?

"Just leave people alone to do their thing." "Let's care less about what others eat."

Do you see how this very same logic could be used to excuse pretty much any diet or action?

Also the environmental impacts. I don't own a huge polluting coal powerplant that is actively contributing to fucking up the planet that I live on, and I'm still allowed to criticise them for it. Why should the meat industry be any different?

Might take a while for the mods to get mad. I don't see how anyone could get mad about such a cute and whimsical little goober.

Me but every time I think I see a nice cloud.

Meh I can understand uncaring, since that's just the lack of being caring. But yeah plenty of nihilists also slap on some attributes of active malice as well.

This. The meme is inaccurate in that the polar vortex is in fact currently unusually strong. It's just unusually shaped and oddly elongated. I hope the two following images show up correctly.

Strength of the polar vortex. Blue line is this winter:

source: http://weatheriscool.com/

Map showing the mean 500 hPa geopotential height and surface (2m) temperature anomalies for this week, as forecasted on Monday by ECMW:

source: https://charts.ecmwf.int/products/extended-anomaly-multi-param?base_time=202501200000&projection=opencharts_arctic&valid_time=202501270000

I'm not catholic, but I do like the fact that artillery has its own patron saint.

Carbon capture is needed in the long term, so it's good that technologies for it are already being developed. Ending emissions isn't enough, we need to also remove the GHG's that are already up in the air. But that comes later. The most pressing thing currently is to remove emissions, or to stop shitting on the floor, as Adam put it.

Even then, I am sceptical about the scalability of DAC solutions. Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal (mCDR) seems more scalable, like building huge platforms for seaweeds to grow on, and then sinking them and their stored carbon into the depths of the ocean.

Obligatory Adam Something video on these things.

It would be more effective to just move location agnostic, power consuming stuff like data centres to Iceland to run on the green energy instead of sucking up power from grids with fossil fuels in them.

A good video by Adam Something on the subject.

Snufkin is a wanderer who cannot be contained.

A bit late, but having now just watched the movie, I can say that it's probably the best movie I've seen about absurdism. Loved it.