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Oh they can lose alright. Just watch...

Alright, there does exist technical and economic solution, such as degrowth, or renewables, or nuclear power, or taxing fossil fuels prohibitively. No...

Ah yes, sorry. What I had in mind was a policy-driven reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the US. The kind of things Obama tried to do and Trump ...

Define 'reasonable'.

Historically speaking, the US has been and remains the main stumbling block to any reasonable solution. That's a fact. It's not about technology as mu...

Why would you say it's irrelevant, then? The US has been and remain the stumbling block to serious emission reductions. That's relevant. Your polity i...

The AI would still be human-made to emulate a human scientist. It wouldn't be in effect very different from a human scientist. It would be able to fai...

I think it is the reason we are in this mess. You mind giving us a few examples?

They have and continue to defend coal.

Yes, there needs to be someone reading the data, and interpreting the data. Machines don't do science. They do not bypass human perception either, the...

https://twitter.com/leonidvolkov/status/1548697349676998656

The concerns of miners, as described in the article you posted, and the reasons why they support the BBB bill have nothing to see with climate change:...

And what I was talking about was that the US does not actually want to decarbonize, or they would have started doing so a long time ago not to emperil...

What part did you fail to understand?

Logic is a very human concept. Maybe you mean to say that logic is not limited to humans, which I would agree with. I think you would agree that a gro...

You got that word right.

Excellent piece.

This proposal is not balanced, it is way too favorable for Russia, who in any case does not seek peace. I see zero chance for it.

Just saying it as I see it... Many Americans are only discovering the problem now, and they are unaware of the fact that the US has had an oversized c...

Thanks, also to @"L'éléphant". I stand corrected.

What is true in the US is not necessarily true elsewhere. The climate Armageddon was literally made in the USA. It is because of the constant oppositi...

By all mean do something. I am doing something too. As for things turning around quickly... I'll believe it when I see it. Why don't you get a go at i...

I guess this is important. The fascination of doubt, the sinking feeling one gets when contemplating one's cosmic ignorance. Socrates realized soon en...

Something like this? https://museumofpsychology.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/man-cutting-the-branch-sitting-on-illustration-by-frits-ahlefeldt1500-squa...

I'm not trying to "justify doing nothing". I'm just realizing that there is a fairly high chance our civilization will fall, whatever we do at this st...

A fairly obvious point when you think of it, but then few people do think of it.

Once the number of Homo sapiens on the planet is severely reduced due to the consequences of climate change -- as is bound to happen in the coming dec...

Indeed, science is based on human perception, logic and imagination. So if human perception, logic and imagination are deemed problematic, then so sho...

These are just empty speculations. I'm not interested in your FSB-sponsored confusion, nor in your wet dreams of nuclear holocaust.

Everybody knows that our cities were built to be destroyed You get annoyed, you buy a flat, you hide behind the mat But I know she was born to do ever...

Quoi? De notre amour fou ne resterait que des cendres? Moi, J'aimerais que la terre s'arrête pour descendre Toi, Tu me dis que tu n'vaux pas la corde ...

You're bat shit crazy.

For a good review on the HIMARS: (put on the automatic translation) https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2022/07/19/en-ukraine-la-logistique-m...

WWII is Putin's favorite analogy. He sees Nazis everywhere. But this has nothing to do with the use of nuclear weapons against Ukraine. The reason Bid...

Indeed, I don't think you can cure, say, siphilis with just a positive attitude to life. But i believe that our immune system can be physically affect...

1. Any oncologist will tell you that the patients that beat cancer are the fighters, those who want to live, while some other patients seem to give up...

... which has nothing to do with the use of nukes against Ukraine. Thank you for your constant obfuscation.

I'm not interested in speculating about what I see as a totally unrealistic assumption.

No, it was not realistic, not in the way you fantacized about, i.e. as a way to break Ukrainian resistance. Nothing to see with your argument back the...

That was in response to you equally unrealistic musing about Russian use of nukes against Ukraine.

Well then, I'm a realist alright. That's exactly what I try to do.

As a realist, you ought to have nothing to worry about, no values to defend, nothing you really care for is at stake here. Reality will continue to un...

And as a realist, you think that policy is wise, correct?

From your link: So as a realist, are you saying that US presidents should keep on making profitable deals with dictatorships, human rights be damned? ...

Why did W do it in Iraq? Hubris.

I'd love to see you try, because the way I see it, it's your idea of what is realistic vs. the rest of the world's. A facile example: it is IMO ridicu...

We all discuss from our POV, you included. This is unavoidable. You too have beliefs and ideas. If you don't, I'm sorry for you.

Contrary to popular belief, posters here don't get to take decisions about how long the war will go on. It is absurd to try and make it personal.

Talk about wishful thinking...

Unfortunately, and as Putin himself remarked recently, "It is impossible, as they say, to pass off wishful thinking". Cuts both ways though, ie Putin ...