even though there is no hope, we have a moral obligation to try

I absolutely agree with this. Hope isn’t necessary, but I think it can keep you going. My general approach for the last 2 decades has been a kind of cynical optimism - hope for the best, expect the worst.

Also, there is so much we don’t know about how humans can operate on the planet, it seems arrogant to assume you know what the exact outcome will be.

That’s a bummer dude. Not all of us are in that space.

(I’m also not gonna profess any certainty of avoiding +4°C, but I still see a possibility, because I hang around a lot of people working on making it happen, in many diverse ways).

If you can’t be part of the solution, be part of the problem, I guess?

https://lemmy.world/post/33573626/18479159

Did you even read my comment before responding aggressively? Do you see how there can be a difference between +2°C and +4°C?

My dude, I have a PhD in climate science. And I have been involved in climate activism since 2005.

Nothing I said contradicted anything in your post, that I can see. And my outlook isn’t very optimistic (but it’s also not completely pessimistic).

I don’t really see how Suzuki’s giving up approach helps either.

We definitely don’t have options that let us stay under 1.5 degrees. We might still be able to stay under 2 degrees. We have a good chance of staying under 3 degrees, if we choose to act. Every part of a degree matters. Any reduction in greenhouse gasses means less climate impacts in the long run.

What can be done is mostly reducing our fossil fuel extraction. How to do that… I have opinions, but I’m no sage. The world is complex, and has momentum, but it can change - it’s been doing it constantly for ever, but doing it particularly fast in the last decades. Renewables are already massively outpacing what anyone was predicting 15 years ago. Social revolution is probably in order at some point (or will happen as part of the collapse of capitalism as the insurance industry collapses and takes the financial system down with it). There are lots of choices that can be made that affect how fast and hard that change happens, and how much pain it brings with it…

Also it doesn’t mean we should give up, just that we can’t have a perfect solution anymore (maybe we never could…)

Also reads petty similar to the sign over the front door of Auschwitz

That problem seems tiny relative to the convenience that symlinks offer…

Explain like I’m a newbie?

I think most people probably aren’t looking at the community name. Confused me too.

Sorry, I didn’t follow any of that… What is the plan 9 solution? I searched, but didn’t see anything obvious

What would have been a better solution?

Zotero is great. I use it for academic stuff, handles had many hundreds of PDFs super easy, and metadata management is excellent, as are the annotation features. Scaling should be fine, since the PDFs are only accessed when you open them, doesn’t really affect performance unless you have many open at once (I regularly have 50+ open at once on a recent macbook with no issues, but it does slow down quicker on my old Linux laptop).

Yeah, not sure about the automatic parent item creation… I guess someone could write a translator for rpggeek, then you could automatically create items from there and drag the associated PDFs in to them. Still a bit of work though.

It’s literally called Glitch - the 1.3 windows version is available free: https://illformed.org/

Maybe we should not listen to those people

Does anyone else think that browsers implementing every single feature of an operating system is a dumb idea?

Presumably it is not very agile though, so you could just climb over it?

Have you read UNSONG? I’d guess so, with that name, but if not, you should. I think you’d like it.