You could also get out of the wagon and help pull, maybe unload the wagon too

Uh oh I think you’ve gone and added a new dystopia that we’ll need to incorporate:( I’d read it though, solid premise

Okay but hear me out, how would we craft a world that combined all of the dystopias science fiction warned us against if we left out mass surveillance?

reduced user reports of scams

Probably by hiding the reporting function or something

It’s not up to you to assess whether your job is useful enough to the company for them to pay you! They wanted someone to do a thing, you agreed to do the thing for a certain wage, you do the thing, all good. If you can still do your job with some naps because you’ve rigged an alarm or something more power to you. Reminds me of people who automate their own jobs.

Feeling like you’re living a double life though doesn’t sound super healthy. Personally I wouldn’t enjoy feeling that way especially with my partner. Why not just say you feel super lucky to have such an easy gig and that’s why you pitch in more at home? I can kind of understand the impulse to hide it if your partner’s job is really long and difficult or something but 4 years is a long time to live feeling like you’re a secret con man imo :)

Free market is for chumps. Companies love to buy their suppliers and distributors and transportation hubs so they don’t have to deal with the market.

Very cool! I know someone who had an awful time getting this diagnosed.

The geological epoch question gets a bit weird in this context because the current one is defined largely by the scale of human impact so it seems like the next one would include a shift away from that in which case there might not be enough of an academic apparatus to name the next one depending on how things shake out.

When I say human extinction via climate is distant I mean that the point where the climate cannot support/sustain any humans at all is probably at least a billion years out.

Obviously there is a lot of wiggle room there for life to look drastically different than it does now. Already species are going extinct at rates the earth has never seen before, people are being displaced by weather events causing immigration tensions and increasing xenophobia, plant and animal habitable zones are migrating with no place for the plants and animals to migrate to due to the scarcity of wild reserves and lack of connection between them to enable movement. Each of these have downstream effects that we don’t fully understand but could reasonably leave existence looking pretty grim for those who adapt and survive over the next several generations.

Obviously this is assuming we don’t deploy nuclear weapons on a mass scale or something which would create a whole different kind of climate crisis

I think most people who care about climate change already understand that human extinction is distant. Gates doesn’t mention national borders but creating immigration corridors between nations so people can migrate and creating wild passages so animals can migrate are a key part of any dignified treatment of the problem.

I think most people are aware that humans could collectively mitigate the impact and severity of the effects of climate change on humans, plants, and animals if enough people worked together to plan and execute contingencies. It’s the political problem that feels the most intractable. If we can’t reorient our governance towards organizing or ruling in ways that that value life and dignity over profit, displaced populations will lead to continuous war and fuel increased xenophobia just like climate migrations have many times in history. It’s not human extinction on the horizon but it is not human flourishing.

You’re not really bisexual unless you have sex with every woman and every man

They already noped off of dry land as soon as the monkeys showed up

In 2020 Freakonomics did a dive into the effectiveness of adverts. Link below (transcripts too). There are sources listed and such. My tl;dr based on memory is that ads in general are not very cost effective for most companies. Ads are very cost effective for companies that sell ads though.

• TV
• Digital

That’s my understanding too. The carbon sink bit has to do with burying the plant matter before all of its carbon has had a chance to react with oxygen

They should always do 3 mini burgers instead of a big one

Damn a 100 cd changer then, mad respect

You idiots don’t have a 6 cd changer in your car? Pathetic!

A lot of people love their lawn toys (and hate municipal workers and well draining streets I guess).

I lived in Massachusetts for a while and the city I lived in directed people to blow/rake their leaves into the road so a giant vacuum truck could collect them.

I don’t really understand what you’re saying or which bit you’re responding to, both of what?

This isn’t at all to say her original stance was misguided. It is to say that she recognises genocide and ecocide come from the same root. Systems of power that destroy ecosystems also destroy people, also destroy planets, also destroy worlds. She is in many ways simply displaying a logical consistency, as much as a moral one, about the interconnected nature of the evils that plague our civilisation. And this is where she broke with a liberal class who see evils selectively and in terms framed and dictated by empire.

hear hear! Too many people who love the “first they came for” poem who still think Palestine is a pesky wedge issue being used against their boys in blue.

It does look like they publish a sketchy amount.