That makes sense!

Well here is an example from the company First Street in the US. This report has a breakdown for each state.

https://firststreet.org/research-library/the-cost-of-climate

(just search for “the cost of climate first street” the pdf is freely available you don’t have to enter in nonsense name and email to get it from my link, I just don’t want to randomly link to a pdf directly it feels sketch lol so I linked to the report information on their website)

This is really the only place here that fossil fuel money can’t obliterate the truth since Insurance companies are also very rich and actually have a vested interest in having a clear vision of the future risk environment (and for their customers having a clear vision of the future), the academic world is fucked and you can’t really rely on them being able to tell you how it is actually going to be since they have no money and the institutions that should be defending science just rolled over to Trump soo…

Hopefully it is different elsewhere in the world :(

There are many regional studies, unfortunately where I am from (the US) it is only really insurance companies talking earnestly about how bad future climate change will be quantifiably in a given area, climate science is dead here otherwise by design. Where roughly do you live in the world?

This is mass murder done with intent.

It’s transness as desire rather than rejection.

I like this framing as it underscores naturally that much of the suffocating gender norms we live under are composed almost entirely of rejection and denial of desire (men don’t wear this, women don’t do that, men don’t walk like that, women don’t say things like that etc…) which is precisely what creates the violent force to conform.

I love this perspective because it underlines what makes transness so beautiful, it is a process of fierce desire among the deluge of rejection and denial we are all drowning in.

How? This article claims Meta has proved you can make your stock price go up by talking about AI and offering large salaries, that only indicates something to me I already know, the stock market is willingly delusional about AI to a horrifying degree. What does Meta actually do with their AI to make a profit?

gotta sustain that bubble!

There might be some truth to aspects being made here, but overall yes I completely agree I think this is leaning precisely into the kind of worship of the aesthetics of violence/guns that leads to things like the fatal shooting of Halyna Hutchins by Alec Baldwin on the film set for the movie “Rust”.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/11/23/alec-baldwin-threatened-to-assault-30-rock-director-was-challenging-on-show-new-book-says/amp/

If you want to learn how to safely handle a firearm or other weapon and integrate that knowledge into the games you make, cool… and I mean I guess this is news? but it turns out integrating genuine outside knowledge into video games can be interesting. However you could have chosen literally any other hobby or niche body of knowledge to obsess about and integrate into your video game development and gotten a similar if not larger return in your investment of effort spent not directly practicing getting better at making video games.

By the logic being argued here about weapons, would be game developers should prioritize becoming experts at fishing wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy before guns because fishing mechanics are in an absurd amount of video games and no matter what type of game you make you can probably integrate a fishing minigame into it. Further, it is very rare that game developers actually try to create realistic fishing games even though there is evidently a lot of interest in fishing in videogames.

Also… Euro Truck Simulator 2 has sold 13 million copies… do we need to consider the fact that game developers should maybe get a commercial truck drivers license before developing games because of the indication of how clearly players desire realistic truck driving games?

I agree with the majority of this, but the Ukraine war is not unwinnable, Ukraine is winning as we speak.

Pathetic, though it doesn’t surprise me at all Brown University folded, it is full of (mostly) smart wealthy people (or just very very smart people trying to get a prestigious career) who just want to do good in school and not rock any boats.

Cowards.

Brown President Christina H. Paxson said the deal preserves Brown’s academic independence. The terms include a clause saying the government cannot dictate curriculum or the content of academic speech at Brown.

Lol this announcement itself clearly marks the end of Brown’s academic independence and credibility.

Has a paywall

The tone of the article makes it seem like they were retired because they weren’t considered useful, if that was an intentional medium term procurement decision by the UK great that is genuinely awesome and very smart I just don’t understand why this information was presented with such a warped framework then by the article. From the perspective you are arguing for the UK is giving Ukraine some of their most powerful artillery with the intention of using the knowledge gained in the Ukraine war and elsewhere to build a next generation weapons system that builds on the success of systems like the AS90. Presumably Ukraine will be involved with that next generation self propelled howitzer development as well at least to some capacity.

The RCH 155 being an obvious touchstone here though I would reiterate that I think threats to artillery are so thorough and deadly on the modern battlefield that tracked and wheeled self propelled artillery are necessary to deploy in tandem to reduce predictability for enemy assets hunting friendly artillery.

I am not trying to nitpick, I appreciate your input I am just trying to explain how backwards the spin is on everything around this, it is disorienting. The article devolves into a fear of drone attacks, which is obviously very deadly, very real and very common but ultimately I think from an editorial perspective these narratives about artillery are strangely ignorant about how much force is exchanged with artillery fire on the frontlines and how the vigorousness with which drones are hunting the artillery are a reflection of how much the enemy desperately needs to destroy them.

This isn’t a kink for many reasons but at a basic level these people cannot seperate raw irrational desire/axiomatic beliefs from rational thought and ethics, thus these people cannot establish a bubble of consent to engage in kinks within.

No, these people are the farthest thing possible from someone with a kink who has a mature relationship around it (see as positive examples most bdsm communities and how sophisticated and nuanced their discussions are around agency and how to ensure it for others).

I know you probably agree with the spirit of this and I am not trying to nitpick you here, I just think it is important to reiterate what “kink” means, continously reclaim the word and not fall into patterns where we confuse two VERY different things.

These people are awful people, they do not deserve the title of “kink couple” lol.

The only reason these weapon systems weren’t thrown in the dumpster by the US during that era was the military-industrial complex/professional military apparatus of the US military understood that this was a distraction and that one could learn very much the wrong lessons from fighting a series of counter-insurgency wars and become utterly unprepared for a near-peer conflict.

Essentially during the entire Iraq and Afghanistan wars this justification was constantly used as a bludgeon to justify more and more military spending for extremely advanced weapon systems that had no actual use against guerrila fighters with ak47s, rpgs and IEDs which was infuriating watching happen as a leftist.

My point is the US was in a similar position and chose to retain the M109 paladin as an essential part of its landwar system (to be replaced by something similar eventually) and I think that was a wise choice, Britain made a mistake here and they will eventually backtrack shrugs but whatever there will be plenty of M109s in WW3 and WW4 probably…

I am not arguing for increased military spending, I am just talking about what you practically need to stop a landwar in a modern near-peer conflict.

No, this is still a MASSIVE movement of water for not being a tidal action.

Go up a couple of notches in power, which nature can do easily, and this will look a LOT gnarlier from a human perspective but make no mistake this is still a frightening display of kinetic power if you step back and think about the volume and flux involved.

I don’t understand how you can be in charge of one of the most powerful expeditionary militaries in the world and conclude you don’t need an armored, tracked self-propelled 155mm howitizer from what you see happening in Ukraine. They are either misguided or they are quietly figuring out how to procure more 155mm self propelled tracked howitzers medium term (either way I am happy for Ukraine). There is no third option of “they have correctly realized they don’t need them anymore” it makes no sense honestly. Wheeled artillery is superior in many cases but it is also predictable in ways tracked artillery isn’t (vice versa too).

Edit it looks like they are looking to procure more 155mm cannon self propelled artillery such as the Archer and RCH 155 so nvm, they still realize the value of them, at least wheeled cannon artillery but I think now more then ever you need tracked AND wheeled 155mm artillery working together to keep enemy counter artillery assets guessing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCH_155

A lot of use of tracked, armored cannon artillery like the M109 paladin in Ukraine is in entrenched firing positions, and in this role tracked armored artillery has vital advantages over wheeled artillery (tracks beat tires for mud) and towed artillery (a m109 is a towed howitizer surrounded with protective mobile armor from chemical weapons, shrapnel, fpv drones and small arms fire).

I am so turned on in a SFW way like my skin is tingling this is awesome news!!! Very Fucking Cool.

HEADPHONE JACK - I scream into the void

I think the difference between cats and dogs is mainly tens of thousands of additional years of co-operative evolution. Cats are amazing but dogs you can almost assume can understand your emotions and care, that comes from the absurd length of time dogs and humans have been friends, it is a relationship that far predates other domestication by an immense length of time.

But, they’ll have to make something that more people like than the AI.

No, it does not have to be better than the AI image to be preferable.

Don’t let the framing be set for you (you referring to a general appeal not OP*) here, make sure to take a step back and consider why Russia is turning to potentially using jet engine drones that can fly higher and faster.