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skhunted commented on Leaders in Democratic States Begin Planning to Fight Trump Policies   nytimes.com/2024/11/07/us... · Posted by u/whack
toomuchtodo · 10 months ago
Helping Rural America may have been a noble goal previously, but now best to speed run its decline and leave the sunbelt to address its insurance and climate crisis alone.
skhunted · 10 months ago
Yes. Liberal states like the one I'm in should be in favor of massive federal tax cuts. I'm tired of subsidizing morons.
skhunted commented on Leaders in Democratic States Begin Planning to Fight Trump Policies   nytimes.com/2024/11/07/us... · Posted by u/whack
skhunted · 10 months ago
We are going to see liberal states talk about states rights and Republicans fighting that notion.
skhunted commented on Elon Musk joined Trump-Zelensky call amid concerns for future of Ukraine war   cnn.com/2024/11/08/europe... · Posted by u/peutetre
Terr_ · 10 months ago
> But Europeans should do more for their own defense and not rely on the U.S.

They already have been, when you look at Ukraine assistance by GDP. The US isn't especially generous, just especially rich.

skhunted · 10 months ago
The U.S. outspends most NATO countries on defense spending a percent of GDP. The Europeans couldn't end the Serbia/Kosovo situation on their own. They needed the U.S. Europe needs to do more to defend themselves and not rely so much on the U.S.
skhunted commented on Elon Musk joined Trump-Zelensky call amid concerns for future of Ukraine war   cnn.com/2024/11/08/europe... · Posted by u/peutetre
skhunted · 10 months ago
Russia is not so good on the battlefield but great at sowing dissent and getting their man elected. I’ll never understand Biden giving Ukraine just enough to not lose but jot enough to win. Ukraine is fucked. But Europeans should do more for their own defense and not rely on the U.S.
skhunted commented on State of the climate: 2024 will be first year above 1.5C of global warming   carbonbrief.org/state-of-... · Posted by u/doener
gigatexal · 10 months ago
What if I told you that evidence has shown that immigration was deflationary and contributed to the low inflation that the US experienced where other nations had it far worse than we did?

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/did-immigration-bring-down-inf...

skhunted · 10 months ago
Immigration at it's current levels might be great but not necessarily if it greatly increased. What you have to demonstrate is that in a world full of climate change caused chaos allowing tens of millions of people into the country is it a bad idea. We don't live in that word yet so referencing the effect of current levels of immigration is not relevant.
skhunted commented on State of the climate: 2024 will be first year above 1.5C of global warming   carbonbrief.org/state-of-... · Posted by u/doener
hollerith · 10 months ago
I hope you don't have the notion that global warming means global drying. Warmer ocean temperatures increase rate of water evaporation, which in turn increases rainfall.

Some regions will probably become dryer (just as some regions will probably become colder), but I doubt you've have a rational basis for a belief that Central America in particular is likely to be one of the regions that will become dryer.

skhunted · 10 months ago
https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/joc.7310

.. but I doubt you've have a rational basis for a belief that Central America in particular is likely to be one of the regions that will become dryer.

Is your belief rationally based?

skhunted commented on State of the climate: 2024 will be first year above 1.5C of global warming   carbonbrief.org/state-of-... · Posted by u/doener
hollerith · 10 months ago
I hope you don't have the notion that global warming means global drying. Warmer ocean temperatures increase rate of water evaporation, which in turn increases rainfall.

Some regions will probably become dryer (just as some regions will probably become colder), but I doubt you've have a rational basis for a belief that Central America in particular is likely to be one of the regions that will become dryer.

skhunted · 10 months ago
The Panama Canal is having problems now due to a prolonged drought. There have already been migrations from Guatemala and Honduras due to droughts in the highlands. Mexico City is facing a water problem partially due to drought.

From NASA: Increased evaporation will result in more frequent and intense storms, but will also contribute to drying over some land areas.

Don't know if Central America in particular will dry out in the long term. Was just using it as an example of the types of migrations that will come from global warming. Please try to understand the overall point and not pedantically nitpick.

skhunted commented on State of the climate: 2024 will be first year above 1.5C of global warming   carbonbrief.org/state-of-... · Posted by u/doener
gigatexal · 10 months ago
Water can be solved with desalination and investments in energy output improvement tech.

Mass migrations can be handled by destroying all the layers of laws that NIMByYs use.

The solution is more trade, more cooperation, not isolation.

skhunted · 10 months ago
Water can be solved with desalination and investments in energy output improvement tech.

New Mexico can’t build desalination plants. Probably a good idea to not allow water intensive crops to be grown there that are exported.

Mass migrations can be handled by destroying all the layers of laws that NIMByYs use.

It’s rational for a country to not have open borders and allow anyone to just come. It’s also rational to not allow more people to come in than what the citizens are comfortable with. It’s going to be much more Darwinian in the future.

India, for instance, isn’t going to be able account 200 million climate refugees from Bangladesh.

skhunted commented on State of the climate: 2024 will be first year above 1.5C of global warming   carbonbrief.org/state-of-... · Posted by u/doener
gigatexal · 10 months ago
Are there any climate believing republicans in the US? And are they powerful enough or enough in numbers to affect climate change action? (I doubt it and as such worry that this is a forgone conclusion)
skhunted · 10 months ago
It is a foregone conclusion. Countries should take steps to mitigate what happens to them. For instance the U.S. should prevent Saudi companies from exploiting water resources in the U.S. And we should build a wall to prevent mass migrations northward as Central America dries up.
skhunted commented on Top Billionaires make nearly $64B in post-Trump election stock surge   theregister.com/2024/11/0... · Posted by u/rntn
fsckboy · 10 months ago
>the greed is good mantra

people on this site are frequently very interested in compiler optimization, processor and instruction set optimization, faster clocks, pipelining, datapaths, effective utilization of cache, etc. etc. That's what "greed is good" means, greed drives people to try to improve, to get the most out of what they have.

The use of that line in the film was very clever, it had two meanings, but you don't seem to get the subtle one. There is nothing wrong with greed, greed is good.

what there is something wrong with is envy and jealousy; all cultures and ethical traditions recognize that.

skhunted · 10 months ago
There is nothing wrong with greed, greed is good. what there is something wrong with is envy and jealousy; all cultures and ethical traditions recognize that.

Supply side Jesus appreciates you.

greed drives people to try to improve, to get the most out of what they have.

Salk was not good at what he did because of greed. Leonardo was not great becuase of greed and being more greedy would not have made him better.

Greed is not good. All ethical traditions recognize this. Your view is pathetic. The actual Jesus does not appreciate you.

u/skhunted

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