[worry]

Yah, that's literally her argument. There's critiques to be made of the media et al for choosing her as a lone poster child, and ignoring a long history of climate activism -- particularly from indigenous peoples that have already seen the most disastrous fallout of ignoring/exacerbating the issue -- but her anger is righteous and thrums with the reality of what is being left to her generation and beyond.

[worry]

My hunch is there is some dark wintry intra-Scandinavian blood feud stuff going on here.

[Tiste Simeon]

worry, on 26 September 2019 - 07:11 PM, said:

My hunch is there is some dark wintry intra-Scandinavian blood feud stuff going on here.

Yeah Apt just wishes he was Swedish.

This post has been edited by Tiste Simeon: 26 September 2019 - 07:44 PM

[worry]

Instead, he will just have to settle for being so sweet-ish!

[Aptorian]

Tiste Simeon, on 26 September 2019 - 07:43 PM, said:

worry, on 26 September 2019 - 07:11 PM, said:

My hunch is there is some dark wintry intra-Scandinavian blood feud stuff going on here.

Yeah Apt just wishes he was Swedish.

That's the worst thing you've ever said to me.

[Primateus]

Aptorian, on 26 September 2019 - 08:24 PM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 26 September 2019 - 07:43 PM, said:

worry, on 26 September 2019 - 07:11 PM, said:

My hunch is there is some dark wintry intra-Scandinavian blood feud stuff going on here.

Yeah Apt just wishes he was Swedish.

That's the worst thing you've ever said to me.

Who in their right mind would want to be Swedish? I mean, it just doesn't make any sense.

[Macros]

Who indeed

[Maark Abbott]

Primateus, on 26 September 2019 - 09:16 PM, said:

Aptorian, on 26 September 2019 - 08:24 PM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 26 September 2019 - 07:43 PM, said:

worry, on 26 September 2019 - 07:11 PM, said:

My hunch is there is some dark wintry intra-Scandinavian blood feud stuff going on here.

Yeah Apt just wishes he was Swedish.

That's the worst thing you've ever said to me.

Who in their right mind would want to be Swedish? I mean, it just doesn't make any sense.

Someone said banana curry pizza?

[Tsundoku]

Interesting. I hadn't heard much about this side.

Why renewables can't save the planet (at least at current tech levels)

[Tsundoku]

Why not Thorium? LFTR summary, with investment perspective comments:

https://www.forbes.c...e/#484a442e1d80

"The Bottom Line

Thorium is three times more abundant in nature than uranium. All but a trace of the world's thorium exists as the useful isotope, which means it does not require enrichment. Thorium-based reactors are safer because the reaction can easily be stopped and because the operation does not have to take place under extreme pressures. Compared to uranium reactors, thorium reactors produce far less waste and the waste that is generated is much less radioactive and much shorter-lived.

To top it all off, thorium would also be the ideal solution for allowing countries like Iran or North Korea to have nuclear power without worrying whether their nuclear programs are a cover for developing weapons… a worry with which we are all too familiar at present.

So, should we run out and invest in thorium? Unfortunately, no. For one, there are very few investment vehicles. Most thorium research and development is conducted by national research groups. There is one publicly traded company working to develop thorium-based fuels, called Lightbridge Corp. Lightbridge has the advantage of being a first mover in the area, but on the flip side the scarcity of competitors is a good sign that it's simply too early.

Had it not been for mankind's seemingly insatiable desire to fight, thorium would have been the world's nuclear fuel of choice. Unfortunately, the Cold War pushed nuclear research toward uranium, and the momentum gained in those years has kept uranium far ahead of its lighter, more controllable, more abundant brother to date. History is replete with examples of an inferior technology beating out a superior competitor for market share, whether because of marketing or geopolitics, and once that stage is set it is near impossible for the runner-up to make a comeback. Remember Beta VCRs, anyone? On the technical front they beat VHS hands down, but VHS's marketing machine won the race and Beta slid into oblivion. Thorium reactors aren't quite the Beta VCRs of the nuclear world, but the challenge they face is pretty similar: it's damn hard to unseat the reigning champ."

This post has been edited by Tsundoku: 06 October 2019 - 04:41 AM

[QuickTidal]

In case anymore missed it, as it's JUST starting to go viral this AM.....this. clip. is. amazing.

Greta Thunberg's UN speech remixed into Fatboy Slim's Right Here, Right Now.



The speech is already fantastic, but this kind of signal boost is EXACTLY the type of thing that the message needs.

Also subtly...this is Gen X-ers (Fatboy Slim) and Millennials/Zennials (current era) mashed up into one thing. It really made me think. My generation WANTED these changes, but we could never get past the hump of the old white men Boomers who refused to look any further into their climate future than their own fucking lifespans, or their own lust for power...and it's taking the kids and generations that will be 100% affected by climate change to really get things moving....as such I feel like using an anthem from my era, to signal boost a speech from the current one...is a great thing to have done.

[worry]

[Macros]

So like, a fraction of the annual military budget?

[worry]

Yeah. I took it as something to be relatively optimistic about? Until you think about the political will issues, I guess, but I'm trying not to be cynical.

[Aptorian]

Shit, that's less than a third of the war chest Apple has saved up.

[Macros]

Jeff fucking Bezo could nearly foot the bill himself

He won't.
The world's richest could pay this in a heartbeat and it wouldn't take a flinch out of their collective worth.

They won't

[Tsundoku]

Time to break Mme Guillotine out of her museum slumber, there's work to do. Those rich bastards heads aren't going to remove themselves.

This post has been edited by Tsundoku: 24 October 2019 - 09:43 AM

[Maark Abbott]

Tsundoku, on 24 October 2019 - 09:43 AM, said:

Time to break Mme Guillotine out of her museum slumber, there's work to do. Those rich bastards heads aren't going to remove themselves.

Now yer talkin'.

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

Tsundoku, on 24 October 2019 - 09:43 AM, said:

Time to break Mme Guillotine out of her museum slumber, there's work to do. Those rich bastards heads aren't going to remove themselves.

But if you kill them, how will you open their Bitcoin wallets?

[Macros]

Real billionaires don't have bitcoins