Blueberrydreamer @ Blueberrydreamer @lemmynsfw.com

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Just a heads up, catbox.moe is starting to get blocked by some major ISPs. Verizon is one I've run into, catbox links won't load if I'm using the mobile network.

Thanks for clarifying, now please refer to the poster's original statement:

AI doesn't grok anything. It doesn't have any capability of understanding at all. It's a Markov chain on steroids.

Allowing anyone to just sell whatever chemical they come up with without first showing that it's safe would be insanely irresponsible.

Temperature is not the problem. No climate scientist has ever worried that plants won't produce well in higher temperatures. Acting like they're 'exploring the consequences of climate change' is a smokescreen, it's a way of making it seem like the fears are overblown. They're testing a hypothesis with an obvious conclusion that's somewhat related to global warming, while conveniently ignoring the things real scientists are actually worried about.

The fears come from the other effects of rising temperature and greenhouse gasses. Most of the real scary stuff is happening in the oceans. Things like the potential for massive amounts of algal death and the loss of potentially 60% of the oxygen creating organisms on earth. Plants are gonna grow great when oxygen levels drop to 15% and people have to wear breathing masks anytime they venture to the surface.

We are absolutely not a hardy or fast growing species. It takes years, for our children to be remotely self sufficient, and over a decade to reach sexual maturity. We have a similar growth pattern to elephants, outside of whales, we're some of the slowest growing animals alive. We can't survive extreme temperature swings, radiation, loss of oxygen. We've created things to overcome our physical mediocrity, but those things can very quickly disappear for most of the population when the infrastructure supporting global shipping and manufacturing collapses. The fact that we make up such a huge portion of mammal biomass mostly just means we'll be a great food source for whatever bugs evolve to eat us. Keep in mind that we may be about 30% of mammal biomass, but livestock make up more than 60%. That's not because they're small and adaptable, it's because they're food.

This is a 'transition period' on a geologic scale. We're talking about the next 50,000 years at best, it's not something we're just to ride out and things go back to normal.

Because higher temperatures aren't the problem, the rate of change is. I assume the worst because we've seen it before in the fossil record. The best comparison is the Triassic-Permian extinction. Rapid change in temperatures led to global ecological collapse and the death of 85% of all life on earth. Now, during the Triassic-Permian extinction CO2 levels rose from 400 ppm to ~2500 ppm over the course of ~50,000 years, with an estimated rate of change of around .05 ppm per year. We're starting out lower at 280 ppm before the industrial revolution, but we've already hit 420, and we're now adding about 2.5 ppm every year, with that number increasing every year. So we're currently experiencing warming that's 50 times faster than the most devastating extinction event in Earth's history.

The fact that our entire food industry is based around genetically engineered monocultures is just another point of failure. It's a constant game of cat and mouse to continually keep each generation of plants protected against changing diseases and pests, and because the vast majority of the seed is coming from one company, if something does adapt to overcome the engineered defenses, it's devastating to the entire global population of that crop.

Look at who funded that study, and the actual contents.

According to this study - funded by the Chinese government, the single largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions on earth - we'll see increased plant growth in the short term under controlled warming. Even ignoring the incredible conflict of interest, the fundamental assumption of the study is that we'll be able to get warming under control and stick to the goals of the Paris agreement, maintaining only 2 degrees of warming by 2070. That's absolutely absurd. We'll be incredibly lucky to not hit 2 degrees of warming by 2040 at this rate. Besides that, they are essentially just looking at how plant growth responds to changes in temp and CO2. Of course plant productivity increases with higher temps and more available CO2, that's not where the problems come in.

The problems occur when those hardy, fast growing species start really exploding. Cyanobacterial blooms that deoxygenate massive swaths of the ocean, killing millions of fish at a time. Population explosions of pests, contaminating food supplies and starting future pandemics. The ecosystem is complex and interconnected, things will adapt eventually, but the transition period will be catastrophic.

We are not a hardy, fast growing species. I have no doubt that people will survive, but it's going to effect everyone, and a lot sooner than you think.

Where do these "mass death everywhere" ideas come from?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_event

The problem isn't that it's going to be warmer. The problem is that it's getting warmer so quickly that populations won't be able to adapt. Ecological collapse is absolutely on the table here. There is no real debate in the scientific community about this, just deceptive propaganda that's disguised as 'conflicting science' but is simply a smoke screen to keep people ignoring the problem.

Why would you need a male/female USB?

This device is basically just a really short charging/data cable. I don't understand what's so confusing about it. It's functionally identical to using the standard charging cable, just with the devices closer together.

The Lego company, since around 1980. It's been the official name since their creation.

There's nothing to remember here, the dude just didn't know what they were called as a kid. They've been minifigs since their creation in the late 70s.

Yeah, this one definitely deserves to be unpopular. They've always been minifigs, they'll always be minifigs, you don't mess with perfection.

She's doing exactly the same thing the dude you just accused of oppression is doing.

The main difference is that she has billions of dollars to promote her perspective, and millions of followers that listen to what she has to say. The dude "oppressing" her in this situation is just some random nobody on a site that might as well not even exist for all the cultural power it wields.

You had a pretty reasonable argument on the first post, but this took a hard turn into bullshit real quick.

The majority of the current 'democrat' party in the US are Neoliberals. Yeah it's a right wing ideology, that's the whole point of recognizing that even the 'left wing' here are still primarily conservatives.

If there's a decent dribble there I'll grab a paper towel or napkin and clean it off first, but I usually don't worry about it. Wiping it off with a finger is disgusting though IMO. Her finger has about a thousand times more nasty stuff than anything in the sauce bottle, that's a great way to contaminate an entire container.

Are you seriously complaining about requiring a signature? Why should weed paraphernalia be treated any differently to tobacco?

I think if someone looks good in photos but not on video, they probably just have a skilled photographer.

Well, I respect the consistency. I'm just glad they reeled it back after the shit with MH World. Having the character edit only available via outside purchase was fucked up, I was livid about that. It's just hard for me to get worked up about this in comparison.

You're a consumer in a capitalist society, you should absolutely have you guard up every single time you pull out your wallet. Why is this specific game any different?

The difficulty of getting ferrystones is by design, no different than the previous game. If you fast travel everywhere you're missing out on a lot of the events in the world. They're handy to use in certain situations, but there are other options to get around.