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lloppalon Climate change: Six tipping points ‘likely’ to be crossed

The drive is fueled by more than a century of hard science. Imagine being convinced by countless, well proven and reproducible facts, that e. g. our CO2 emissions create a greenhouse effect but seeing little effort to mitigate that. Of course the voices get more loud and panicked. Especially when you see clear patterns of drastic, fatal and irreversible changes like permafrost melting or species after species vanishing.

I don't understand how people can put up blinders and pretend there is no actual and horrific danger.

lloppalon Climate change: Six tipping points ‘likely’ to be crossed

Different people can come to different conclusions. And maybe, in 50 years, we will know that the tipping point was well before 2008 even.

The earth is a complex system and surely you don't want to deny the massive changes that human activities do to its ecosystems. It's better to be careful than continuing the careless exploitation.

lloppalon Climate change: Six tipping points ‘likely’ to be crossed

You could have debunked that thought with one simple search like https://www.google.com/search?q=volcanic+eruption+co2

lloppalon Let’s make WordPress officially support SQLite

Awesome! I hope Mediawiki will follow suit!

lloppalon Why did Uber send REAL GOONS after this man?

  > Truffle Security  
  > 746 subscribers  
  > 344 Views  
  > 16.08.2021  
  > This video chronicles the story of several security incidents that happened to Uber between 2014 and 2020

OP, could you add some context as to why you think this is relevant?

lloppalon IMDB deleted all negative user reviews for The Rings of Power

https://web.archive.org/web/20220903103220/https://www.imdb....

https://web.archive.org/web/20220903104125/https://www.imdb....

https://web.archive.org/web/20220903104126/https://www.imdb....

https://web.archive.org/web/20220903104131/https://www.imdb....

https://web.archive.org/web/20220903104824/https://www.imdb....

indeed all show zero results.

Anything higher than a 5, does show results:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220903104206/https://www.imdb....

https://web.archive.org/web/20220903104208/https://www.imdb....

https://web.archive.org/web/20220903104210/https://www.imdb....

https://web.archive.org/web/20220903104822/https://www.imdb....

https://web.archive.org/web/20220903104818/https://www.imdb....

Now, one can have lots of opinions about 0/10 reviews, but they surely have just the same right to exist as similarly extreme 10/10 reviews.