You nailed it. Been trying to resolve this in my head and it’s been a challenge, but the way you framed it exactly describes what I’ve been trying to get to.
Name checks out
Forgot to add, this comparison is even more skewed in chinas favor as a lot of that emitting is on behalf of industries supplying American/western product needs, so a sort of outsourced carbon footprint in a way.
Yeah I buy that—they have, or at least had, an immense about of population as rural peasants. Also their individual modes of co sumptuous are way less than an avg American. I think this comparison works fine, but the US/USSR one would be enjoyable because they were both so neck and neck and directly competing. China is too, but it’s more of an underdog coming for the aging alpha’s neck kinda deal, whereas USA and USSR have this 40-50 year race. Anyhow, I think it would mostly be safe to assume that generally carbon footprint would be lower under communism. After all, they didn’t have 50+ brands of sugar cereal staring them down when they went to the market.
Has anyone done a decent comparison between USA and USSR during height of Cold War for carbon footprint per capita? Would be interesting to see what the differences were. That said might still be flawed, since USSR had to behave in certain ways as a response to USA capitalism, so hard to say if it would reflect communism carbon footprint not distorted by strong external pressure.
This shit is so wild. Large hyper-real push to define objecting to ongoing and unimpeachable military atrocities as hate crimes and anti-semitism. This then means that people objecting are either “Hamas terrorists” or “leftist fascists”. Therefore, use of snipers and para-military force must be employed. Like, all of this potential violence and oppression from a grotesque, albeit impressive, PR / propaganda campaign.
What I can’t wrap my head around, is that the claims are so insanely obviously fake/wrong. It really feels like some sort of shared delusion where the powers that be have agreed to just all agree that this absurd claim is reality, even though it looks the opposite to literally everyone else.
Whoever quarterbacked the destruction of Harvard and Penn’s presidents early on really did a whammy—the reactions at all of these universities seems so insanely disproportionate to what’s going on, it really reads as if they’re being blackmailed or otherwise compelled.
I really don’t see how you justify having snipers trained on your own students who are literally sitting on grass and singing/chanting.
Also, I assume it’s like a trespassing thing, but what is the legal basis for violently arresting students hanging out on quads? Is it just the university has “closed” these spaces, so the normal right to free movement of students is now revoked, and so being in these spaces counts as some sort of trespass?
I guess it doesn’t really matter, they can always fabricate whatever basis they need to bring in the thugs, but it just adds to the strange hyper-real feeling. Most of the protests haven’t had anything remotely approaching any definition of violence. The anti-war stuff in the 60s involved firebombing and lots of “property destruction” etc.
Anyhow, power to these kids, and glad they’re not balking in the face of all these threats and intimidation.
Side note: I realize that minorities and other marginalized groups have experienced the business end of American security state for years/decades/centuries, but is this perhaps a good example of the security state expanding its oppression and crackdown onto more privileged “mainstream” groups? I realize a lot of the protestors are minorities themselves, but I mean in the sense that these are college students at elite universities, some of them presumably from backgrounds of means/opportunity. Some dem senator did a voice clip on the news about how these college students are “leftist fascists” which is obviously garbage, but like everything else now, everything is just fascist this fascist that, with zero relation to the more academic understanding of the term.
If they somehow successfully get this hyper-real fiction to stick, there’s no limits to what they can get up to next—anything that challenges the dominant paradigm will just be labeled, targeted and removed. Not a unique occurrence, but certainly a signal that you’re well into authoritarian land.
I know this is an old, time-tested tactic against leftists and oppositions everywhere, it’s just one of the first times in my life I’ve noticed it really being used and pushed by mainstream media across the political spectrum. Similar shit was going down with BLM post George Floyd, but that was still mostly relegated to very partisan outlets, this feels much more broad-spectrum.
I agree that given what’s happening daily in Gaza and the West Bank, people like fetterman who are cheerleading it should not receive sympathy or any form of support.
Mostly just wanted to comment on how unhinged he seems, but I agree it doesn’t diminish the real material harm he’s doing with his behavior.
Ah gotcha, I see what you were saying then. Fair enough.
Well my comment was suggesting that he was possibly pretty mentally ill. I don’t just mean depressed—I mean like partially deranged/unhinged. I hadn’t heard about the thing you mentioned, but that would certainly fit what I was saying.
Again, I’m not saying stop criticizing the guy. He should resign and STFU. But there are people in here rooting for his “depression” to finish the job, ie off himself. And it just seems not that great, in a sub that typically projects itself as being supportive to people suffering from mental illness.
Man he’s looking… baaad. I gotta say though, yes he’s always been bad on Israel, but I think he got covid, had a stroke and he’s literally got a fucked up brain. Doesn’t mean we shouldn’t criticize him—if he was so fucked up he should have resigned, but like he really just seems mentally ill.
True, that would be a reasonable explanation for it haha
Yes, this is it exactly. What the hell is the point?
Yeah it’s a work-required thing, don’t have em on my home pc. But just brought them up because MS keeps deeper integrating them into OS, and even as standalone Products, they offer a window into the general approach and quality level of software from them right now, which one might assume is shared with win11 and its hacked together bing/copilot integrations, telemetry, etc.
Yeah you can basically convert it to something usable with a little work and some free software. Highly recommend power toys as well, particularly the fancy zones one for window snapping.
That said, recent iterations of things like teams and outlook really feel crappy to me. Teams in particular. Customization in outlook is sorta there, but boy is it non-intuitive. Also they both handle like bloated shit in terms of perceived latency on inputs. Why the hell does it take a half second for teams to bring up the menus where I can troubleshoot my audio/visual device settings…
Like we’ve been totally normalized to it—the frog in water thing. But by any objective standard, the US is a sick, sick country if this is the only outcome possible for an election. We must look so bizarre to other countries.
Despite? How about: “because”
This is pretty wild. So like potentially 20% of people who’ve caught COVID, and are not obviously afflicted with long COVID symptoms, are experiencing cognitive issues 2 standard deviations from the control?
Worldometer puts the total number of COVID cases at 702million. I don’t know how to say if that’s accurate or if it double counts repeat infections, but that would be at least 140 million people out there with significant cognitive impairment over the course of the pandemic. And that number is probably a little low, since I don’t know how to account for the people who went on to acquire long Covid compared to just contracting covid. Overall I’d guess the numbers are much more than that, since the accounting has almost always been low.
One thing that would have been interesting to know from this study, if they had access to this info, is if there were correlations to different variants. Ie, beta caused a lot of impairment, omicron less or vice versa. As well, would be useful to know how single infections can multiple reinfections compare.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/KV-13
Neat, an unused prototype that informed the IS-1.
I wasn’t expecting much, but that was legit good.