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justaaron commented on Pictures of dead migrants inspire our sympathy. But what use is that to them?   theguardian.com/commentis... · Posted by u/justaaron
dang · 6 years ago
Your posts to this site have been breaking the site guidelines. Could you please review them and stick to the rules when posting here?

It's not that the issues you're talking about aren't important; of course they are. They're more important than virtually anything that is on topic here. But for that very reason, they will easily take over the site completely if we let them, and that would go against its mandate.

Besides that, posting in the flamewar style, which you've done a lot of today, is not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

justaaron · 6 years ago
I've posted exactly one post in the past months, this one.

Perhaps you are referring to my comments on other posts?

justaaron commented on Pictures of dead migrants inspire our sympathy. But what use is that to them?   theguardian.com/commentis... · Posted by u/justaaron
justaaron · 6 years ago
I post this as I saw a basic humanitarian essay "flagged" by one of our less enlightened fellow readers. The humanitarian essay that was "flagged" is the following link:

https://joelx.com/american-immigration-policy/14965/

shame on the person who flagged it, you risk your very soul...

justaaron commented on Pictures of dead migrants inspire our sympathy. But what use is that to them?   theguardian.com/commentis... · Posted by u/justaaron
justaaron · 6 years ago
Criminalizing basic humane behaviors (such as saving drowning people, or giving water to a dehydrated person at risk of death) is making things worse and strips us of our very humanity. We wring our hands and move on, preferring to not know about it, instead.
justaaron commented on Ask HN: Why is producing so hard?    · Posted by u/produceconsume
justaaron · 6 years ago
Play around. Make things. Try things. Sit down with a rough plan and a few hours and see what ends up slowing you down, then surpass it.
justaaron commented on Temperatures in France cross 45°C threshold for first time since records began   euronews.com/2019/06/28/f... · Posted by u/reddotX
mooseburger · 6 years ago
Even discounting the feedback loops, an energy transition only in the developed world would do very little.
justaaron · 6 years ago
be prepared for rich nations/people to aid poor ones.

there can be no winners in such a disaster, let's stop jostling for position.

(We, the USA, are literally the only unilateralist nation with regards to this issue. We are an outlier, some would say a criminally negligent outlier. Time to make up for past misdeeds!)

_iiu1 commented on Temperatures in France cross 45°C threshold for first time since records began   euronews.com/2019/06/28/f... · Posted by u/reddotX
mooseburger · 6 years ago
Even discounting the feedback loops, an energy transition only in the developed world would do very little.
_iiu1 · 6 years ago
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justaaron commented on Temperatures in France cross 45°C threshold for first time since records began   euronews.com/2019/06/28/f... · Posted by u/reddotX
starbugs · 6 years ago
While I share your frustration to a degree, I think what you say might signal to other people that what they do now doesn't matter anymore. This might make the situation even worse, which isn't necessary IMO.

We obviously already have a feedback loop that doesn't act in our favor. While it's surely a good idea to start preparing for the worst, I think it's not a good idea to add to the problems by spreading hopelessness.

justaaron · 6 years ago
Indeed. There are still plenty of people spreading doubt and nonsense about the climate emergency not being real or not being caused by our industrial-scale burning of stuff for "energy".

We unequivocally NEED to stand behind a singular message:

1) it IS our activities causing it

2) we can and should curtail these activities IMMEDIATELY

3) while we can't avoid the effects "in the pipleline", we can prevent further effects from piling up.

4) number 3 is our duty to the children and their children, it's our legacy.

justaaron commented on Major Outage Reported at Slack   reddit.com/r/programming/... · Posted by u/turingbook
justaaron · 6 years ago
Why anyone uses this glorified "hello world" app, let alone bases anything serious on it, is beyond me.

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