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Only 5 of whom had no long-term damage.

cocks shotgun not if I can help it

Adding some more thoughts to this, it really does upset me when these discussions are reduced to which faction needs to make a personal consumption sacrifice in order to save us from climate change hellfire, because it individualizes what is ultimately a collective problem with a collective infrastructure.

It's like the contrived "just ride your bike" vs. "no the rich should sell their supercars" discussion - yes, of course "just ride your bike" is insufficient because America refuses to invest in the infrastructure needed to prioritize safe alternatives to private cars.

The entire interstate highway system in the US is publicly funded, largely from income tax. The meat industry is subsidized to the tune of $38B a year, and that's just in explicit subsidies. What makes this empty is not that Bill Gates isn't giving up his private jet, but that he's not arguing that we should cut the meat industry off the dole and let a big mac cost $15 and see how people feel about beyond meat then.

Billionaire consumption irrespective of how outsized, isn't significant in the context of our entire societal consumption. Every private plane flight in a year emits 5MtCO₂, while all flights emit 800MtCO₂. Even Roman Abramovich's ridiculously wasteful superyacht is about 20ktCO₂/yr. All private cars contribute 3BtCO₂/yr. Billionaire consumption is a drop in the bucket, which is why any article blaming billionaires to try to convince you this isn't a kitchen table issue and infrastructure issue for the rest of us has to qualify with investments, since the average billionaire basically owns fossil fuel companies.

That's useful information to be sure, because it does emphasize that billionaires profit from emissions, but the end consumers of the vast majority of those emissions, the reasons why those fossil fuels were burned in the first place, are the rest of us, day by day, partially by choice but mostly by consequence of building our basic infrastructure to rely on fossil fuels and refusing to make the investment to decarbonize it.

I had to read that headline way too many times to figure out what it meant

What's wild about "two-spirit" is that it's not a really definite concept (that is, it is a neologism from 1990 that does not have a universal understanding among tribal traditions) but what it does accomplish is replacing the perjorative European anthropological term ::: spoiler slur berdache, from Arabic burdaj "slave" meaning basically a young male submissive gay partner :::

Inaccuracy, it's child support and taxes

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/green-party-candidate-cornel-west-owes-half-million/story?id=102293692

Replace a site with CSAM and you’ll find it’s not a site you’ll want to go to in the first place.

Are you being intentionally dense or do you not understand that it's my point? If someone can flood lemmy with CSAM so easily that the only way to stop it is a site shutdown, then there are not sufficient mitigation measures in place.

I think commenters are getting a little uppity

What praytell the fuck do you mean by this term specifically

I have a recurring donation to the instance, but that's aside the point.

The developers who build lemmy aren’t able to put in CSAM blocking code. That’s not how this works.

They absolutely can, and every forum under the sun has tools and extensions to help with this. Fucking 4chan has code specifically dedicated to deal with CSAM. You have no clue what you're talking about.

Oh no! Users can’t read lemmyshitpost and now the world is ending.

Replace this with !technology@lemmy.world, or !selfhosted@lemmy.world, or !announcements@lemmy.world. "Oh no, users can't read the entire site" yes that is the definition of the end of the site.

You're not seeing that this isn't a lemmyshitpost issue, it's an "any popular community on lemmy" issue. Snarkily taking potshots at lemmyshitpost as a community doesn't change it.

Turning off the community is a viable option

It's not "not an option", it's the last resort. It's like saying that your only option to seeing a roach in your apartment is to burn the whole building down. Because doing it means you don't have a community anymore, and without communities the site has no purpose.

Are you seriously conflating my position with arguing that CSAM should be allowed?

It's a hard problem but it absolutely is an existential risk. Spam is an existential risk. A platform that collapses under spam will either remain too small to be irrelevant or collapse from unusability. I'm sorry but I don't think your response completely grasps the number of forums, social media sites, wikis, etc. that have been completely crushed by spam.

I hope the devs take this seriously as an existential threat to the fediverse. Lemmyshitpost was one of the largest communities on the network both in AUPH and subscribers. If taking the community down is the only option here, that's extremely insufficient and bodes death for the platform at the hands of uncontrolled spam.

I'm not strawmanning Cornel, he has nearly half a million dollars in unpaid child support. Also plenty of other folks are taking on that aspect of his candidacy, pretending he's not deeply in debt is not taking his candidacy seriously and I don't think anyone who simply ignores the financial trouble he's in should be regarded as serious.

Where's your criticism of Cornel and his unpaid taxes and child support?

Children are human beings and human beings aren't property and you don't get the right to control their entire lives because you pay for their basic needs.

No, schools work for the children, not the parents.

Imagine it was generated by ChatGPT- imagine the implications of this kind of information warfare.

Making a good pecorino/parmesan emulsion is more difficult than you'd think. Cacio e Pepe is literally just pasta, pecorino, and cracked pepper but it's extremely difficult to keep it from ending up a goopy mess, short of silking it with cornstarch.