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  1. Walter Ostanek
    Fucking lol, and there I was thinking that they did it because it was highly profitable!
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    lol
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    did we ever find out what SIGN was an anagram of? can't be bothered to read all 168 pages lol
  4. Walter Ostanek
    ...capitalist countries, of which they are one? And forced precisely how? Everything they need for an effective energy transition can be found within their own borders What matters is that CO2 emissions decrease. It doesn't matter to the atmosphere if the energy thereby generated goes towards manufacturing stuff to be exported or not - though it does wipe the greenwash right off of Europe's green credentials! It doesn't matter how many wind turbines a country builds if their CO2 emissions are still increasing. I'm not out to demonise China (inb4 sarcastic quotemine of that one sentence), just point out that there is no basis to put them on a pedestal - and if anything, on account of their theoretically more favourable economic setup and their exceptional endowment of the metals required for low-carbon tech, I see their behaviour thus far as a tragic missed opportunity
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    No more or less weird than the late 80s Jarre and early 90s FSOL that Dan plunders for his ideas
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    I mean, I agree that capitalism is almost designed to fail miserably at solving problems like this, or any other where there's little prospect of the solutions being near-term profitable. Theoretically a Chinese type system should be able to weather the storm (lol?) far better given that they have the ability to steer their economy. Though judging them by their own actions they're not really bothering - their oft-touted, supposedly miraculous rollout of renewables is dwarfed into meaninglessness by their continued expansion of coal As for the above fine fella, it's classic campism, claiming to be socialist while copypasting vapid propaganda from overtly fascist regimes, just check out anything he's ever said about Ukraine
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    Good luck to all the Florida Men and women. I worry this could be a rerun of Katrina, who better than de Santis to turn this into an opportunity for disaster capitalism?
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    Oneohtrix Point - Never Again
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    So I live about an hour from the border so should I be arming myself to the teeth (legally, with PAL in hand ofc) in preparation for spillover from the coming civil war next door?
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    Will they put out a press release if I send them a unique disc of my shit?
  13. Walter Ostanek
    Been on a Le Carre roll the last few months, started with the Smiley classics and branching out most recently to the Night Manager. One of those authors who I really wish I'd paid more attention to while they were still alive edit: The ending to Our Kind of Traitor is very apt this week
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    is he still hiding from the taxman?
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    Individualising the issue is a way of attacking activism but is also the source of the profits in the first place especially re transport. This is also why the focus on the industry side (if they're not outright funding climate denial) is to push for electric cars over electrified public transport, WFH for those who can, etc - it solves the fossil fuel problem but keeps the rest of the paradigm intact - the O&G guys lose out but the car lobby, the construction industries allied to car-centric infrastructure, the downstream raw material providers - they all still win
  17. Walter Ostanek
    Obviously we misuse it and overuse it in myriad ways but plastic, as a material, is an absolute blessing. The real outrage is thinking that we pump this amazingly useful building material out of the ground only to burn most of it, and waste half of the rest.
  18. Walter Ostanek
    I read Stevenson's Termination Shock recently. Decent stuff, though he doesn't seem to know how to tie it up at the end, as often seems to happen with him. Nor did it really delve into the problem that gave the book it's name. I assume it's just a matter of time before some Muskian ubermensch decides to crack on with some maverick geoengineering scheme. That might bring improvements but then lock us into a deadly dependence on said techno-fix, whereby a dearth of funds, sabotage or a logistical cock-up could spell death for millions and possibly the condemnation of vast areas to permanent uninhabitability. Is anyone putting serious thought into those kind of situations?
  19. Walter Ostanek
    Turn: Washington's Spies Half-watched a few eps years ago but putting the effort in now. My partner's a history buff and has Loyalist ancestry so it's right up her alley, especially the scenes with Simcoe who also happens to be one of the most underappreciated tv villains
  20. Walter Ostanek
    There's an interesting phenomenon called the "Wagner Gap" where, if you trawl through the multitude of reddit moron accounts, you'll find that lots of them went dark for a couple of days during the Wagner coup attempt. Their paymasters weren't sure who to back, so they weren't being given any orders about what to post, so they just stopped. Good evidence that they were troll farm accounts
  21. Walter Ostanek
    RIP Voyager 2
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    what a thread also
  24. Walter Ostanek
    something about that guy's muffin top just makes this clip ?
  25. Walter Ostanek
    Yeah, those Ukes should just accept a brutal murderous occupation, a total lack of basic civil rights, and gangster justice meted out in basements. So that we can minimize deaths amirite?
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