Jack

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[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

Brother, can you spare an "n"? And capitals and punctuation marks?

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think non-abandoned factory farms are sad. If there was a hell, I'd hope factory farmers burn in it.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago

So long, and thanks for all the [death rattle]

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 45 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Wouldn't an honest title state that a certain flu variant now seems extinct? Why spread a title that makes it seem like the vaccines are unsafe?

Please downvote distortions like this.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

I highly recommend watching Larry Lessig's "Our democracy no longer represents the people. Here's how we fix it" speech from 2015.

He compares democracy in Hong Kong and the USA by looking at who nominates who eventually rules.

The people in China are terrible, and the people in USA are terrible. The vast majority of them are greedy, omnicidal, mass-extinction causing monsters. One is worse than the other, but both are so amazingly terrible that we should be boycotting both, and all the other dictatorships and oligarchies.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is this not the only tipping point that can actually reduce energy held by the biosphere due to increased ice in the northern hemisphere, and therefor increasing Earth's albedo?

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

In the microwave, I always use the lid of a bigger glass bowl on top of my large, wide, glass, measuring-pitcher. It doesn't fit perfectly, but I turn the lid upside down so it doesn't slide when I carry it.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca -3 points 2 years ago

Wait, so the people who are willing to consume a product which is almost entirely imported from far away, and is therefor culpable in making the world unlivable because of green house gas emissions; are going to start boycotting it to help a few workers? Because causing a mass extinction is okay, but union-busting is not?

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Are the voters not the root cause?

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 years ago (5 children)

"On oil and gas companies who have spent decades burning fossil fuels - ramping up the world’s carbon emissions - Mehta said the law couldn’t go back in time and punish past activities."

Since we gave people the death penalty at the Nuremberg trials ex post facto, we can do the same with anthropogenic climate change. I would support such death penalties now already, tho I suspect more than a hundred million people would have to die directly from unambiguous climate change events within a short period like a week, before more people would agree. The problem is that the climate-change tipping-points will cascade, which means that the 1st one may cause other tipping points to be triggered, at which point billions of people will die unnecessarily in a Mad Max world.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This whataboutism may not be saying that what the Saudis are doing is excusable, but instead pointing out the hypocrisy and saying that if you're going to complain about the psychotic Saudi regime, you have to admit that the voters who elected Bush and then re-elected him after his invasion of Iraq, are vastly worse than the Saudis. It's important to know if we are the baddies, especially if we are vastly worse and propping up the Saudis.

I think it's important to criticize and boycott the psychotic Saudi regime, but also to keep in perspective that there are worse people out there: people who are orders-of-magnitude worse.

Iraqi deaths in the Iraq war in the 8 years from 2003 to 2011 = approximately 461 000 (PLOS Medicine 2013) to 655 000 (Lancet 2006 (PDF)).

That's currently even worse than the psychotic Russian invasion of Ukraine:

I'm not sure about the Saudi/Kuwait/UAE/Egypt/Morocco/Jordan/Sudan/Senegal/Bahrain/Blackwater (supported by US/UK/France) coalition's actions in the war in Yemen since 2015.

Edit: I'm also not sure how many the Saudis have killed in the Iran-Saudi proxy wars, so maybe the Saudis do actually have more direct blood on their hands than the western powers in the last 50 years or so.

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