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What do you think I was referring to there?

All true

No, it's stuff like bigger droughts and destructive storms. And remember we talked about the potential shutdown of the AMOC. That would essentially de...

I think the main threat to global stability will be climate volatility. A few punches in the face we can handle. But if they just keep coming we'll ev...

:nerd: Russia and Greenland will open up as well. North Dakota will be nice.

Anyone who benefits better have a nuclear arsenal ready to defend themselves from invasion. :grin:

I don't think anyone is expecting more plusses than minuses.

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I think it means the costs of climate change shouldn't be shuffled off onto the poor.

:grin: They all go to a gift shop down the road.

Sort of. I'm making a series of puppets that have human bodies and animal heads.

Uh huh.

I don't think the point of critical race theory is that the entire universe is racist. It's just that our society didn't pop out of an egg yesterday. ...

Are they?

Ain't that the truth?

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Or it's Marxist. Depends on which direction the polar vortex is blowing.

Well said, thanks. Meaning normativity opens up into ideas about rationality. If we reject meaning normativity theses, do we end up also rejecting our...

I think it's kind of sexist to refer to purple backed ewes as "whores."

Climate is a word that plays a part in language games, but it would be a mistake to think it has a foundation beyond that. That's just rank foundation...

There's a scene in the movie 200 that comes to mind with regard to climate change narratives. It's about Xerxes, who is about 20 feet tall for some re...

The birds died out when Yellowstone blew up. The insects keep bird fossils in their museums.

the what?

Insect supercolonies don't have this problem. It's why they end up taking over the world.

The human race could split it two. One branch lives underground and stays technologically and intellectually sophisticated. The other branch lives on ...

Exactly. Imagine that we manage to end fossil fuel use. In a thousand years humans have forgotten that we did that and they go back to using coal and ...

The problem generalizes so it encompasses all language use. One imagines that you create meaningful speech by following certain rules. The Private Lan...

I wouldn't be able to. Someone else brought up objections as if the question is about what one can prove with regard to rule following. It's not about...

Was his mom a crack ho?

I've long believed fission and fusion will be a significant part of addressing climate change. The challenge today is that coal is cheapest way to bee...

Actually, I brought up fusion, a global government, a new global religion, and other ideas. What did you contribute other than being a gnat in my face...

The end-of-the-world narrative is an Indo-European motif. The climate crisis is Armageddon. Capitalism is the Antichrist. I'm talking about the emotio...

In the US, it's George Vanderbilt. He started the world's first forestry school intended to teach loggers how to harvest wood sustainably. But he brou...

I know one guy. When Mikie has completed his answer.

Who is it?

Yay!

We know that water makes fins. Could there be environments that make DNA?

I see what you're saying. But could DNA be like the fins at a lower level? In other words, certain environments give rise to DNA?

I think hypericin might be right. The more you look the outcomes of convergent evolution, the more it seems likely that an alien might actually be som...

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Well I'm single handedly changing the climate so it's similar to what they have on Venus, so taking a little flak is the least I can do.

I think it would be huge philosophically. This same exoplanet has methane and CO2, so it might have an ocean. Wow!!

Bronze age economies were kind of like communism. But yes, it's a world where nothing ever changes. There is no innovation.

Thanks for the feedback. :up:

I wouldn't see it unless it's in the NYT or something. But did you see this? The JW telescope may have detected a molecule on an exoplanet that is onl...

What do you mean? Capitalism can't help but be unsustainable?

I'm sorry you feel that way, but I'm not surprised that you do. It's like you hate my guts or something.

There's another option, though. If by "we" you mean the human race, it's most likely going to be fine. Climate volatility may take out the present wor...

It would surprise me if you're right, but then I'm a little out of touch.

Would poor voter turn out help Trump or Biden?