Good reply

… that’s exactly what would happen, it would land on all the people who don’t believe in science.

If this happens frequently enough the Republican Party will just vanish.

Highly educational

Oh I didn’t get that “no” element. Clever.

Old jokes can be hard to follow. I was expecting more idiom.

Can someone explain the red hot stove joke? Is it just implying he would steal it if it wasn’t hot? Like being hot is the necessary requirement for him not stealing it?

lol that’s great. I had to write an auto clicker to do it.

My one other media type is “the cloud”.

I use hard drives, I can’t imagine trying to put something on a disk or something.

One thing I do recommend, I keep one unencrypted hard drive copy in the safest most hidden part of my house. This is in case encryption software disappears, or I just forget my encryption keys or something.

Other than that, one encrypted copy of files in a thumb drive in my wallet (selected files, not everything). One in my car. One in my firesafe. Then daily cloud backup.

I was under the impression that’s just because of the relative surface area of the ocean vs arable land

I think you have to cut them down and bury them (or at least don’t burn them) for the carbon to “go away”.

That’s how it got underground to begin with.

Still until we actually 100% switch everything we could power off solar and wind to solar and wind, active carbon capture doesn’t make sense, sense we could use that clean energy for direct purposes instead of cleanup. I’m not sure we will ever have “excess energy” like that, we will always rather use it for something other than cleaning up our mess, like AI.

I just literally can’t imagine a machine that is both cheaper and easier to deploy than the green goo we call life. Plant a tree. It’ll even spread itself. They look pretty.

Necessity can be disproven if there is any possible way to overcome legally. A single shitty shelter with minimal food and a huge set of behavior requirements is plenty to say “you could have gone to the shelter and survived”.

Good point.

This is NOT a condemnation of USAID, more of a contradiction: isn’t it crazy our government is giving free healthcare to foreign refugees in foreign countries and not its own citizens?

Ideally, we should do both.

I assume he’s asking “why can’t steam be considered a monopolistic platform”

Exactly.

Is it? Pretty much every philosopher thought so, even the federalists, which is why they made a republic. And it’s always been a bourgeois republic. Democracy pure is a bunch of idiots listening to social media influencers picking good talkers at the margin of 1% every 4 years. It’s always been theater. It’s manufactured consent.

I mean that’s your model. As far as it’s absolute, it’s wrong. There are good laws that don’t protect mere property: murder, rape, assault, etc. And we don’t want vigilante justice dealing with these things. Basically I can admit laws can be unjust, but you can’t admit laws can be just. In such a case, you need to meet your burden of proof.

lol what about all the lone actors who didn’t succeed. Worldwide. Don’t just cherry pick the losses. And those guys did not bioweapon the earth.

Sure laws can be bad /c/im14andthisisdeep. Now you do it! Can laws be good?

What you’re advocating for is not trying, because freedom is more important than practical safety.

Here’s your guide: hit your cellphone and laptop with a hammer until it’s a fine paste. Then dump it randomly into 3-4 different trashcans. Drive a beater.

They are already possible so we have massive networks of laws and security to try and detect and stop them. That security imposes its will by force onto the perpetuator. Thats not anarchism