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What choice is there for consumers but to demand oil? If cities create suburban sprawl and inadequate public transportation, it's the consumer's fault for using a car? If every industry whose products I require to participate in society uses oil, how can I choose otherwise?

I really don't understand your point and your smug judgements on consumers. Do you consume no oil products? Or are you just saying that you knew all along oil is bad so you're better than the 'naive masses'?

I'm not shocked that oil companies provide oil, I'm shocked that many people don't want to take any action even when it comes out that the oil companies baldly lied about their role in climate change.

I'm also baffled that some people want to shift the blame away from the oil companies.

> Why would you ask fossil fuel companies about the cost/benefit to begin with?

Indeed, tell that to the politicians who made their energy policy decisions based on conversations with oil lobbies.

I feel no catharsis from commenting, and I don't pretend that bad press is 'justice'. Justice would be prison time for the people in charge that suppressed this information. I have no way of working toward this vision of society other than bitching to politicians and peers about every individual company's moral fuck ups.

What actual results are you working towards? What is your version of justice in this case?

I agree, but plenty of people seem to think this excuses immoral behavior by corporations. You can even see a couple in this thread. We can't really get effective legislation passed until we can agree that it is indeed bad for a corporation to lie, cause harm, etc, and that misbehaving corporations (and more importantly, the people who lead them) should be punished.

I don't know what argument you are trying to respond to. I'm saying it is an evil act to supply a product while withholding the knowledge that it will cause massive long-term harm to the entire world.

How are consumers complicit? By wanting nice things?

I'm not vilifying fossil fuels. I'm vilifying fossil fuel companies.

> recognize their benefits and costs and decide collectively via policy what tradeoffs we’re willing to make

How can we do that when fossil fuel companies lie about the benefits and costs? How can we do that when they bribe politicians for favorable legislation? You are the naive one, and not particularly well-informed given you did not even read the article.

Are you saying Exxon is justified because people get to use oil?

It's not about burning fossil fuels, it's about misinforming the public about the long-term dangers of your product. If I sell you a delicious candy while secretly knowing it will give you cancer in 10 years, I don't get to say "well you enjoyed the candy didn't you?" once I'm caught out.

Just because it's in your best interest to fuck over the world doesn't mean it's morally justifiable. The fact is that the people profiting from Big Oil would have still been plenty rich enough if they did campaign against their own product, so their choice to withhold this information can only be attributed to plain greed.

We don't expect murderers to turn themselves in, we pay police forces to find them. But it's not hypocritical to call murderers evil, and it's not unreasonable to expect that people should not murder.

I think of the transition from capitalism to socialism as similar to the transition from feudalism to capitalism. If you offered someone with a basic education and a decent job the opportunity to take a land tenancy as a serf under you, they would refuse.

Ownership of private property extends to a larger and larger population with each upheaval of the world's economic systems. The end result is socialism, where private property is owned by everyone, and is thus public. Why would I give you private ownership of what is, under socialism, partly my land?

I think the more credible critique of anarchy is that it is too hopelessly idealistic to occur any time soon.

I think you're misunderstanding what anarchy is supposed to look like.

How does one capitalize in an anarchist society divorced from capitalism? As in, what does capital mean? What does it mean to profit?

How can one "outcompete" a "socialist firm"? When there is no money or private property, every firm belongs to everyone who wants it.

Why is a state necessary to punish hierarchies? Presumably in an anarchist world, people have learned to distrust and dislike hierarchies on principle, refuse to partake in it and join together to punish those who do.

This is an argument against democracy itself. If you don't think democracy would work for you, then I can't convince you a union would either.

> There may be consequences to quitting, perhaps disproportionately felt between you and the company

This is why unions are so important, even in a field like software engineering. If you quit on your own, the company may not care. But using the threat of strikes, workers can demand better conditions for themselves and more ethical directions for their company.

Presumably if there's a problem within the US, Starlink would be compromised.

I took this as a cue and searched some loaded terms.

"vaccines" and "covid 19" had decent results, mostly people's blogs and some sites trying to prevent misinformation.

"abortions" mostly gave statistics, a blog by a 14-year old student in China, and an extensive collection of writings in support of Ayn Rand and against Noam Chomsky.

"trump" gives the most perplexing results, which I don't really know how to describe. Interestingly, the Rand/Chomsky page shows up here too.

I suppose it depends on your definition of suckless, but all the sites that were returned were lightweight, and content-first. As for the content... interesting might be the word I'd use. And it definitely doesn't show up in mainstream engines.

I think OP is saying the people who can write compilers or tensor algebra frameworks and gradient based optimizers get snapped up by big companies, not that every one who works in big companies is so capable.

It's because American media exports are mostly produced by a small group of people in California, one of the more socially progressive parts of the country.

A significant portion of the country's 330 million people are indeed prudes.

With no prior knowledge of these aliens, neither. Why is 0 more special than 1 in your head?

It is well documented since before the smartphone age that adolescence comes with changes to circadian rhythm (e.g., [0]) which makes teens want to stay up late at night.

It is certainly stronger evidence than personal anecdotes about "teens are always on their phones".

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19546564/

The one I bought doesn't seem to be available any more (and the reviews are gone... strange). But I saw several other ones at similar pricepoints and with similar reviews.

To be frank though, I do not expect this battery to last 10 years. I'll be happy if it maintains its 4-hour charge over the next couple years. If you're operating on that kind of timeline you might be out of luck.

Awesome! My main laptop is still a 2011 Thinkpad X201. It's a beast, been all over the world and dropped countless times but it still works perfectly fine.

It's missing a couple function keys (which I never use) and I finally replaced its battery this year after growing annoyed of having only 30 minutes to an hour of battery life.

I love my little Thinkpad. Keeping up with shiny tech can be fun, but there's also pleasure in using and maintaining your timeworn tools.

I took a wood shop class in high school and did not learn any of those things, I learned how to make spoons, boxes, and cabinets.

Exactly! I figure you can't actually fail in making a terrarium. You're just growing mold instead of whatever you originally intended :)

In fact, capitalism is the cause of that culture. People (men and women) bemoan being "unproductive", dread it, and apologize for it, because modern society bombards you with conflations of productivity and self-worth. This thinking is clearly wrong. We all have inherent value.

Thankfully that has begun to change. If you believe women do not feel that way, perhaps it is because of feminism's roots in socialism. Certainly feminism does not say much about the value of unproductive men.

Professors depend on grant money and they need to push out papers to be competitive in grant applications. The vast, vast majority of work in research is done by grad students. Without students, professors would have to do everything themselves or compete with industry for talent they can't afford.

Students by contrast need professors for training and advice. Whether they receive these from their advisor depends on the lab. In bigger labs junior students learn more from senior students and post-docs than professors.

All of the social links they have are dead. Their twitter account doesn't exist. There are no other pages on the site.

Not a promising start to the proceedings.

Like you mention, I invent names, though not quite arbitrarily. '⊙' looks like an 'oh-dot' to me, and '⊗' is just 'cross'.

Algebra classes are full of such operators, and usually my instructors were kind enough to give them names during lectures.

I find it interesting that the photos of the men often showed them enjoying themselves while the photos of the women often showed them working, and there were no photos with the roles reversed.

I hope that isn't reflective of how their lives were.

What poeron is getting at is there can be two meanings of "X for Y". While "X for kids" doesn't imply adults can't watch, "X for adults" implies kids can't watch.

Even if powered by green energy, AC increases overall temperatures in a city (the heat has to go somewhere). Not global warming, but definitely makes it more miserable.

The phrase "global warming" doesn't appear anywhere in this article. You're moving the goalposts. Both unusually cold winters and hot summers can be attributed to climate change. Things aren't so simple as "the world is supposedly warming so it should always be warm!"

The fact is that throughout the world there has been an increase in unprecedented weather patterns. Right now in Argentina they're having record snowfalls, and that is just as concerning as the unheard-of 43C weather today in British Columbia.

You're burying your head in the sand.

Just want to point out, since I'm assuming you aren't a native English speaker, it should technically be "these kinds of people".

"these kind of people" is ungrammatical ("kind" is singular, "these" and "people" are plural).

Maybe in this case English isn't as hard as you thought. :)