Anyone who says 'externalities' belongs in prison
this post was submitted on 02 Nov 2024
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I just think it's better to be sure
Using the term “second order” here is cringe.
It makes sense when you’re talking about quantifiable, rigorously defined second order effects
It doesn’t just mean subjectively unimportant or lower priority.
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Treating the symptoms while ignoring what caused them to begin with
I'm sure endless, systemically driven greed won't cause any other issues, no sir. And that's presupposing his theory would work to begin with
Treat hogs want infinite treats and would only mitigate the damage in ways that don't reduce the treat flow. If the mitigation could also be a treat, they'd do that, and they do, like buying ZYBERTRUKKKs (that still indirectly pollute and expel carbon like a Ford F-150).
Entire chatgtp data centers dedicated to clapping like seals and propping up techbros egos.
The CEO of Google says he's intending to drastically expand the number of data centers under pretenses of finding a magic tech solution to the problems made worse by expanding the number of data centers.
The clowns ruling over us all are burning down the circus tent with us inside of it. 
because the flames from the burning tent will illuminate the recipe for the perfect flame removedant!! idk how anyone could have a problem with that
edit: hilarious with the filter plus that last sentence – how could anyone have a problem with slur-adjacent-word ?! 🤦😂
I meant the things that won't catch fire
I've seen the aerosol hes talking about that is a very temporary solution and pointless for longterm if you don't cut emissions.
Smarts don’t make you an expert on climate dynamics, and I don’t trust some guy on Twitter to be a good judge of “smart”. The phrasing is pretty telling though “smart people I know”, vs “people smarter than me” means he’s including himself among the “smart people” pushing for this.
Tech people are the worst at believing their specialized knowledge of one tech field makes them experts in all fields, including history, economics, and branches of science mostly unrelated to their own.
Ehehehe stupid commie you had a spelling mistake in the title, your argument is forfeit, now come burn the planet with me 
These guys read a Neal Stephenson book and make it their whole personality.
once I found out Stephenson had become "friends" with Jeff Bezos, what happened to him suddenly made sense
He became a Torment Nexus enjoyer, that's for sure, if he wasn't one all along.
Am I wrong or is aerosolized sulfates just their choice because of emissions restrictions whining and all it does is seed clouds?
If cloud seeding wasn't controversial already we could seed clouds without that shit
does the us actually have the means to do it tho
should "persevere" be "perceive" in the title?
Imagine if we created a better world instead of actively worsening the already shitty state of it. That would be horrible (I assume - it's the only thing that would explain how we behave ... thats it we are just evil assholes).
Broad-brushing everyone because of the whims of the ruling class and their loyal lackeys isn't cool.
We don't have to be this way and it's tiresome fatalism to believe otherwise.