jbu

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by jbu 1y ago
“That's libertarians for you — anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.” - Kim Stanley Robinson
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by jbu 2y ago
Bye.
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by jbu 2y ago
I do wonder if the cost of capturing that carbon has been included in the published cost of a launch? at $0.5/kg that's $10,000,000.
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by jbu 2y ago
One of the authors (Johan Rockström) created the planetary boundaries framework ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_boundaries ) which includes all of those. So they are being included by most. Certainly there are
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by jbu 2y ago
ok. yep that's a thing.
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by jbu 2y ago
I keep hearing this, and it doesn't make sense. We don't have a london-sized tent city anywhere. But we have generations that can't afford to buy a home, and the rental market is brutal, but we have piles of london 'inve
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by jbu 3y ago
I know a bit of the history with this one. Back in the day there was a smaller consultancy with awesome developers called LShift (mentioned here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_London_Tech_City ). They worked out tha
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by jbu 3y ago
That's why we now have the Vimes Boot Index - https://www.vimesbootsindex.co.uk/
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by jbu 3y ago
9 mortal men? Look out for the one ring to rule them all…
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by jbu 3y ago
Why is reporting scientific findings considered political?
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by jbu 3y ago
It's useful to realise that humanities yearly CO2 production is greater (by weight) anything else we make. by far. So yes, if we don't stop producing industrial quantities of CO2, we'd need to plant about 1 USA sized forest&#
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by jbu 3y ago
I really prefer Ministry to termination shock. I mean, it's a fun book, but it offers no solution (eg sulphur seeding does nothing for ocean acidification, not to mention termination shock). The fact that people read it and thing it of
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by jbu 3y ago
News people don't like is often dismissed as 'hysterics', 'alarmism', etc, which is a well known cognitive bias. Nearly all people trying to improve the future do so sensibly, following established processes and no
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by jbu 3y ago
I guess you mean Naomi Wolf, as the sub-title makes clear? Quite different people. Klein is an excellent writer and thinker. Wolf is deep in the conspiracy hole.
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by jbu 3y ago
There was a fascinating(!) thread here https://twitter.com/ProfColinDavis/status/165555527715073229... with a longer story: Right-wing "English Constitution Party" were going to demonstrate with rape ala
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by jbu 3y ago
I live in (as I remember it) the prime example here. Birmingham UK. There were many articles about it some years ago. So, to fact check from the ground, there are no no-go areas. We're multi-cultural, and we do it well.
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by jbu 4y ago
True. But whenever I discuss the climate crisis/future with non-billionaires (i.e. most people I know) there's a significant population of 'don't worry we'll move to mars if it gets too bad'. I mean, have you b
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by jbu 4y ago
Laser cutters. every library should have one. https://www.oodihelsinki.fi/en/services/urban-workshop/
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by jbu 4y ago
We should do a thread of our favourite libraries: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Birmingham * https://www.oodihelsinki.fi/en/ * https://wellcomecollection.org/pages&#x2
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by jbu 4y ago
Yes! Also https://uther.wtf/blog/the-life-changing-magic-of-refactorin...
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by jbu 4y ago
Perhaps for you it's fine. For low lying states it's not good. Turns out that's Florida too. Australia had to add levels to their fire danger charts. etc, etc... look, on the off chance that your remark was in good faith and
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by jbu 4y ago
It seem we do have the ability to control the climate, because that's what we're doing. So, we can stop making it worse which is good! But we're definitely going to have to adapt because even if we stop it we've already
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by jbu 4y ago
Danny is awesome
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by jbu 4y ago
Yeah I had a jacket that had worn through, and sent it back to them for repair for free. Brilliant.
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by jbu 4y ago
Ohh, I loved this blog - glad to find it again! Particularly remember https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/08/recipe-for-climate-change... - an understandable back-of-the-envelope calculation of how f*&ked we are w
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by jbu 4y ago
If the train had enough battery to get through the tunnel, but was charged on the main line, that would work wouldn't it?
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by jbu 4y ago
It sounds like you are doing a lot in your personal life. Well done! Don't be so quick to disempower yourself. Everyone has something they can do (you're already doing a lot). Even just talking about it is extremely important ( ht
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by jbu 4y ago
I've stopped at Activism. I accept that it's already happening, but how bad it gets is entirely up to us. I don't get the <throws hands in the air>It's just a done deal, back to netflix</> attitude, and
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by jbu 4y ago
This has been a good resource re: what h2 is useful for, and what is hype: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/clean-hydrogen-ladder-v40-mic...
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by jbu 4y ago
Indeed. I found this useful: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/clean-hydrogen-ladder-v40-mic...

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