Huh?

That may well be the case, but it’s always a mistake to assume we know everything. That’s how we got into this mess in the first place. It wasn’t long ago that we didn’t know what germs were, didn’t have electricity, didn’t understand things like relativity or quantum mechanics. We don’t know what we’re going to learn tomorrow, or next year, or 50 years from now.

If there’s an option A in which we both fail to do anything to reduce carbon in the atmosphere and also fail to do anything to cool down the planet and an option B where we for now fail to do anything to reduce the carbon in the atmosphere but manage to cool it down enough to provide a stop gap, option B might get us to a point where we can actually do something. At the very least it could give us a little more time before we fully run out of options for survival. Option A doesn’t give us that breathing room and doesn’t make things better in the mean time.

Saying that neither option can fully solve our problem doesn’t mean it’s not worth doing the thing that makes the immediate issue less severe. It’s a bandaid, to be sure, but sometimes a bandaid is what you need to slow down an infection until you can get somewhere where you can actually heal.

I don’t know the long term answer. I don’t think anybody does. But I also don’t think we can say with honesty, given the history of human knowledge and technology, that we actually know whether or not an answer will exist in the future. In the mean time, we should probably be acting to create the possibility that we can make use of an answer if we find one.

Well, it has to be repeated indefinitely until we actually manage to find a way to reduce the amount of carbon in the atmosphere significantly. Which, yeah, that might be forever, but it could also be somewhere around the corner. Personally, given the trajectory we’re on it seems like a reasonable stop gap that might actually help cool the planet somewhat, but it’s not up to me.

From what you’re quoting for prices, it’s wildly different in the US. I suppose that would make sense, considering how invested we are in factory farming. Vegan and vegetarian alternatives for the same products are pretty much always more expensive here, unless it’s an identical product that just has the meat left out.

The closest thing I’ve heard of is sulfur dioxide injection, which could apparently reduce greenhouse effects. However, if we implemented this and ever stopped doing it before decreasing the current levels of carbon, it could result in more rapid heating, which would be more damaging to wildlife due to the greater speed with which survivors would have to migrate.

Those are all ways to reduce the flow of new carbon emissions, but they don’t address the issue if the carbon that’s already in the atmosphere, which is what they’re talking about.

This would be things like more effective carbon capture technologies or sulfur dioxide injection. The point they’re making is that just slowing down the rate that new carbon is added or even stopping new carbon from being added at all isn’t sufficient to stop the runaway effects.

Never mind that the current regime in the US is on track to actually increase carbon emissions.

Here we find another reason why people find major dietary changes like this unrelatable. We have a headline that says people wrongly think that plant based diets are more expensive, and a comment section largely consisting of comments indicating that we should in fact assume a complete change of cooking habits is something we don’t need to factor in while making this statement. It’s a massive oversimplification.

Many of the cheapest and most filling foods available at any given grocery store or especially at any given convenience store or restaurant contain some sort of animal product, whether that be meat, dairy, or egg. Yes, if you have access and the inclination you can get a lot of ingredients pretty cheaply, and yes raw ingredients tend to follow the pattern of plant based ingredients often being cheaper. But to say that a plant based diet is less expensive is as devoid of nuance as saying it’s more expensive.

If you’re eating a plant based diet exclusively, you certainly do lose access to a wide range of cheap and easily prepared foods. The cheap version of a plant based diet requires either a fair bit of preparation or eating a lot of rice and beans. The version that likely most closely mimics the previous diet of people who aren’t doing a ton of cooking is likely to be more expensive.

This also assumes access to fresh produce and both the facilities and the energy and ability to cook on a regular basis. The cost difference for someone who can’t or simply doesn’t cook every day to have a plant based diet with substantial variety is in fact significantly more expensive.

All that said, it is much more attainable to shift to a diet that leans more heavily on plants while spending about the same amount and not denying oneself access to cheaper foods that might be available or quite as drastically changing one’s habits.

Nope. These people need to feel just as stupid as Trump voters in 2016 who subsequently voted for Biden after seeing the result. Given how many are still defensively showing up to post walls of text every time this is brought up, there’s a lot of work to be done to overcome the counter-messaging.

We should absolutely do what we can to primary feckless centrist Democrats, and to push the party to the left, but that’s not mutually exclusive with getting people to show up and not make the same stupid decision twice. We aren’t going to completely fix our democracy in 2 years to the point that these idiots will be satisfied. We can make headway on making things better, but people need to vote for that to happen.

So to be absolutely clear: if you did not vote, this is what you voted for. That should be upsetting, you should feel bad, and you should make damn sure that you don’t make the same mistake in 2026, 2028, or any other election as long as you live.

I have silicone trays and I love them. I haven’t had them super long (about a year), but I use them every day and they show no sign of wear. It doesn’t get brittle with time like some plastic, so I don’t see them wearing down any time soon.

If you need to be able to stack them, it might be worth looking into some kind of small rack?

The Washington Post had their chance to give a shit about this and they decided not to. Too late for panic from that particular rag.

We absolutely are heating up the planet. Look at the curve on that graph and look at the time scales. That exact graph demonstrates that this is completely unprecedented.

Your own link shows a change in pattern from ups and downs from year to year with larger patterns of rising and falling to an extremely recent upward trend in which every year is hotter than the last. We’re looking at a level of heating on the scale of decades to centuries that would normally be seen over millions of years. And humans didn’t show up during those hot periods, we showed up during the cooler period. Sure, there may very well still be life on the planet after we’re done, assuming we don’t acidify the oceans and we figure out how to dial down the rampant pollution after pushing ourselves into a kind of climate not seen for 35 million years, but will humans be able to live in that environment? Quite possibly not.

Looking at the wider picture doesn’t show that there’s no issue, it shows that there’s a critical issue and we’re screwing with extremely long-term trends that constitute the conditions we evolved under.

I think part of this insecurity is rooted in the idea that it has to be all or nothing. People feel like either they can acknowledge that animal products are the product of immense suffering and give them up completely, or they have to harden themselves against the idea and resort to emotionally defensive responses like mockery and anger.

The reality though is that you can acknowledge that there’s something wrong with the way we treat other animals, make some changes that you’re comfortable with, and still be doing a better job at reducing your complicity in suffering than if you did nothing at all.

I do think that there needs to be room for that approach, and I think there largely is, but I feel like for some people the defensiveness is so overwhelming that they themselves can’t occupy that space and have to reject the information entirely and mock anyone who doesn’t follow suit.

Do you actually think that it’s more important to fuss about using the temperature scale that you prefer and only that scale in all science communication than to actually reach a wider population with your message and reduce the rate of climate change? How does this differ from some Americans complaining about multi-lingual instructions because “speak American”?

There is a fundamental difference between neurodivergence and narcissism. The solution is not to point the finger at neurodivergent people for the sake of some false both sides narrative.

I’ll always remember that time when Obama was up on stage taking questions from the Internet after having literally run on change as a campaign slogan and when someone asked about legalizing marijuana he literally laughed as if that would be absurd. And this is someone who did change quite a lot. The Democratic party’s mainstream has been afraid of radical change for a long time, even though it’s been demonstrated over and over again that it’s what brings energy to the party and gives them the ability to move the ball.

I really hope this past election makes them a little less cautious and a little less centrist. We really can’t have our representatives just sitting on their hands waiting for the tide to wash away any and all progress. We have to keep pushing forward so when we do take a step back we don’t lose everything all at once.

This seems pretty constructive to me. I know there are people who will say that confronting narcissism as narcissism isn’t helpful, but I feel like that couldn’t be further from the truth. As someone who’s been affected by these patterns of behavior for decades, it’s the realization of how the pattern works that’s given me a way to defend against it. Narcissists tend to want to atomize their behavior in other people’s eyes so that the patterns won’t be seen. It’s easier for them to deflect from a single incident if that’s the only thing that’s allowed to be on the table, but it’s never about a single incident, it’s about the pattern.

Deception and minimization are much simpler goals in a world where their victims aren’t supposed to look at the past, or aren’t supposed to draw conclusions from patterns of behavior. But when you do pay attention to the past and you do look for patterns and cycles, that’s when you can see what’s going on and defend yourself. That doesn’t just apply to individual relationships, it applies to our societies. The entire capitalistic model is one of atomizing wrongdoing and denying responsibility in the face of capital.

I definitely think this could be a positive thing, and I don’t think that’s outweighed by the people who exhibit these patterns having the need to shut down conversation about them. If people come in to derail things or demonize people who are trying to figure out how to get out from under the very real harms caused by narcissistic abuse, that’s what banning is for.

A huge amount of childhood trauma and abuse is enabled by people shying away from recognizing and calling out narcissistic patterns of behavior. If some of the people perpetrating the next iteration of that cycle have also suffered from abuse, that’s not really an argument for letting the cycle continue.

Because there are conservatives on Lemmy.

The system itself is done but the setting-specific stuff is still in the works. It’s designed to be modular, so there are different systems for different settings. The sort of cyberpunky shadowrunny system is close to ready to release a doc aside from like needing more feat-like upgrades and equipment lists. There’s also a kind of Eldritch apocalyptic setting that overlaps with most of the same modules and is nearly ready.

I’ve been putting it on hold lately and focusing on a game I’m making in Godot because I sort of ran out of steam for playtesting it. It is a huge pain in the ass to be both designing a system and planning a weekly campaign to test the system with at the same time.

I’ll probably swap back to working on it for a while once the game is done, because I plan on using the system in my next game.

Two of these stats are in my TTRPG (gumption and moxie).

It also features things like pep, knacks, savvy, and nerve.