Recent strengthening of eastern Pacific ENSO in the last millennium paleorecord is paywalled

what an absurd sentence

Under status quo conditions yes, but we have passed beyond the point where the status quo pattern matching descriptions we have had about climatic swings are becoming less and less relevant as the system changes.

It will probably be a relatively calm hurricane season, but we really don’t know anymore just look at sea surface temperatures, we aren’t in the same regime anymore, the oceans are fundamentally changed at a general level in terms of heat exchange and weather interaction.

One of the least appreciated parts about Climate Change is how the increase in chaos makes some of our prior pattern matching/predictive capacity obsolete and irrelevant because the systems physically become more chaotic and swingey.

Wind power is so cheap though! It is always on sail!

Anybody who complains about birth rates and isn’t a proponent for kinder and more open immigration rules is a fascist, by definition.

There is no other mental construction that leads to that mindset.

I think the part that makes me feel so disconnected from society is even if there was a huge awakening of awareness about the hollowness we feel, it already has persisted most of my life as a millenial and that distance, dissonance, unreality, and disposition doesn’t go away easily even the underlying problem that caused it did.

Time lost is time lost, life lost is life lost and the manifestation of that extraction through the mechanisms of modern life is a loss of detail, a loss of vibrance, a loss of dreams…

The saddest part for me is I don’t think I will ever have the realistic option to have kids, by the time I stabilize my life and get the necessary foundations I will most certainly be too old to have kids. I don’t know if I want kids, I don’t think I do, but I don’t even feel like I even had the choice, even if I had made all the best choices possible with the options I had.

Surely the reason we are all depressed is just social media and digital screens though!

Hey!! Hey now!!! Fall back in line, now is not the time to rehash mistakes we made in the past that we will most certainly attempt to make in the future, now is too important of a fight and you are being SELFISH by attacking the good team!

Also Cuba is/was a regional power in the carribbean in healthcare training and staffing support which hurts the whole region.

There are ~2 billion muslims on earth, any beef you have with Islam is just beef you have with humanity itself.

2 billion is a number of people multiple orders of magnitude too large to make any sort of meaningful generalization about.

Bigotry, being explicitly an ideology of reductianism and simplification though attempts to disprove that by making a large chunk of earth’s population hateful in the same boring, dumb, incurious way.

Every bigot is in their heart the same bigot, even if one particular bigot is bigoted against another, doesn’t matter, they have the same rotten heart irregardless.

Especially in the US, whenever you go to a protest or in person event I think you should always assume that for every “version” of somebody that is there, there are 10 other people very much like them that just didn’t have the energy, physical capacity, mental headspace and/or they were working/too existentially exhausted from work.

From that perspective the raw amount of people that shows up is only a small window into a greater potential, which is always I think what the spirit of in person protest and events should be about anyways…

Otherwise why do them?

No that is a dangerous and incorrect mindset

Your understanding of what is driving Climate Change has been successfully focused entirely on a complex of guilt and shame within you about your own carbon footprint.

This is leading you to suggest that installing a lifesaving tool that takes up some energy is not worth the thousands and thousands of lives it saves during heatwaves.

Please stop denying your own humanity and the humanity of others and focus on fighting the actual drivers of Climate Change before you end up accidentally killing yourself just because you couldn’t live in a way that perfectly minimized your impact.

This is NOT a slippery slope we all should be obsessed with, it is not that slippery and there are far scarier slippery slopes all around us that should be getting our attention.

Ultimately being against AC is just another form of ecofascism hiding in the language of personal responsibility to obscure the responsibilities of capital, industry and society.

This is nonsense, your life is worth the carbon footprint of AC.

Install Air Conditioning NOW if you are even remotely at health risk, you don’t do anything for the world suffering in pain during a heatwave which if it doesn’t kill you may do permanent damage to your body.

You don’t have to use the AC but you DO need it, heatwaves without AC are terrifying please give yourself permission to treat your body kindly.

You aren’t the reason Climate Change is happening, put that burden down and keep only the self awareness and introspection part of that thought complex.

It is on F-Droid

Braiding Sweetgrass - great all around read

The Most Dangerous Book - FASCINATING and really inspiring, one of the most important stories of resistance in the 20th century in my opinion.

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff - Podcast about inspiring badasses from history that don’t get enough attention, Magpie the host is awesome and each episode usually has good nonfiction recommendations for reading on the subject!

edit I misread thought this was about historical nonfiction, I’ll have to think but there are definitely lots of nonfiction books that talk about how the are genuine reasons to be hopeful about our future, because the things that holding us back aren’t what is physically impossible or not…

I think it would be funnier if they were drones carrying drugs, but it was another branch of the US Department Of Defense running drugs being caught by a different branch of the US Department Of Defense who really wanted to try out their new toy and didn’t get the memo about turning a blind eye there.

I feel bad for this new generation of border guards and law enforcement though, if you blow up the drug drone in the air, a lot of the drugs probably won’t survive the crash and thus being the actual person to arrive at the cache of drugs first as the “good guys” isn’t as fun or profitable anymore.

I think it is kind of mean of you to talk about this like your mom isn’t getting along fine in her pasture.

South Carolina is a shithole government handout state drowning in conservatism and dysfunctional austerity politics.

https://wallethub.com/edu/states-most-least-dependent-on-the-federal-government/2700

Most Federally Dependent States

1. Alaska

2. Kentucky

3. West Virginia

4. Mississippi

5. Louisiana

6. South Carolina

Truthfully South Carolina is #5 because Alaska is a massive frontier and it is rational it receives so much federal funding.

https://www.thestate.com/news/state/south-carolina/article316059516.html

These were the areas that SC ranked the worst on:

Physical Health: Ranked 42nd

Violence: Ranked 42nd

Children and Families: Ranked 43rd

Citizenship and Democracy: Ranked 44th SC is only improving over time on eight of the 31 measures. These measures include:

Child mortality: Current state rank is 46th

Voter participation: Current state rank is 43rd

Economic output: Current state rank is 24th

Productivity: Current state rank is 37th

Average years of education: Current state rank is 36th

Air quality: Current State rank is 39th

Life expectancy: Current state rank is 42nd

Murder rate: Current state rank is 44th

Jail time for RFK’s brain worm is more likely.

Doing marketing for AI companies again Bill?

What happens when the Palestinian Genocide becomes undeniable in the deluge of international media about how much more unimaginably worse it was than we even thought and politicians in the US desperately start running around looking for excuses for why they weren’t complicit and to rationalize why they didn’t do anything to stop it?

What happens when antisemitism is sitting there, the comfortable old reliable spectacle of attractively hateful simplicity to distract from a much more uncomfortable conversation and self-reflection?

I am not jewish and those questions scare me, they should scare everyone, this leads nowhere good and the current alliance between Israel and the rightwing of the US (and elsewhere) is not just a fickle relationship by nature of how unreliable rightwing groups are at refraining from turning on their allies for insane reasons… it is clearly much worse, it is the set up to a betrayal narrative.

Meanwhile centrist Democrats sit there having a tantrum about Hasan Piker being a popular streamer and DNC leadership openly condescends people who see the Palestinian Genocide as an existential issue.

Every single bit of energy centrists and rightwing people have put into policing leftists on their criticisms of Israel and trying to censor it from popular media discourse is effort done to increase the antisemitic blowback rightwing ideologies will inevitably adopt in order to not acknowledge how baby like and reductive their world views are… whether people realize that or not, that is the obvious reality.

Call me Cassandra, I don’t give a fuck, I want to be wrong here, I just don’t see how the chips fall any other way given the current trajectory, and it is one of the primary reasons I am so passionate about this issue. If we don’t loudly criticize Israel and ourselves (the US) with actual nuanced, rational criticisms than it leaves a cavernous void for people like Tucker Carlson to start something terrifying that will not only silence more nuanced conversation but worse… likely grow out of control…

I am not really making any great leap of logic here, when discourse about a phenomena is silenced with reductive shouting down as if any criticism is an endorsement of hateful ideologies… it creates the ideal space for dangerous conspiracy theories to spread like wildfire.