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This looks like the kind of unrestrained, unsophisticated blatant anti-Jew propaganda of 1930s Germany or anti-black propaganda of post civil war United States that everyone since that time, especially liberals, like to pretend they would never have fallen for. So crass, so absurd, so obvious. But when some chud or gammon mulches their brainworm manure through an AI slop machine, suddenly an image that even the most frothing Nazi who died in 1945 would have found to be a little too on-the-nose is seen as an interesting artistic political perspective. Makes me fucking nauseous.

He knows all about what makes value, and understands history and how it unfolded, proving him right again and again. Marxists have never really thought about value before, and history? Marxists have been shown to be wrong over and over again. It's just history, Marxists, sorry if you don't have any framework to understand it.

This one is really causing me to twitch. Usually this kind of thing doesn't get to me, but the deep smugness behind the sheer ignorance, the smarmy certainty in their beliefs that are the exact absolute opposite of reality - it doesn't get more pure than this.

It's a perfectly valid journalistic choice.

The temporary raising of albedo from eruptions is not relevant since it does not last, it doesn't exist on the relevant time scales. Volcanic cooling does happen (even in recent recorded history!) but it's very short-lived. Any aerosols injected into the atmosphere by volcanism (what is what causes the cooling) typically only lasts for a few years, as a general rule, not more than a decade, while warming from greenhouse gases is persistent and cumulative. It's not something that is worth mentioning as any kind of genuine mitigating factor. Just like the people hoping that nuclear winter from another world war would offset climate change. It won't, it just makes things even more chaotic on a short time scale without actually helping the problem at all on any time scale that matters.

A "volcanic ice age" would be short, maybe nasty, catastrophic for agriculture and civilization, but it would not help us, it wouldn't do anything to solve the underlying problem of anthropogenic warming. Once the aerosols clear, the warming resumes, but now with added CO2 from the eruptions. So yeah, perfectly appropriate that the article doesn't go into that.

(edit: changed the word "lowering" to "raising" which is what I meant - I'm tired.)

I said this in response to a different comment, but it applies even more here:

A big obvious problem with the "metaphor" (I hate to even give it that kind of credit) is that it presents Israel and Palestine as being equal with respect to the problem, they're symmetric. That to me is what's most lib-ignorant and gross about it.

Either way, a big obvious problem with the "metaphor" (I hate to even give it that kind of credit) is that it presents Israel and Palestine as being equal with respect to the problem, they're symmetric. That to me is what's most lib-ignorant and gross about it.

The "lazy" people you think are living off of your work get a tiny pittance of the taxes you pay, nearly the entirety of which only go to reproducing the economic system that rewards those who do not work but claim to, simply by virtue of their "ownership" of the things everyone needs to live a bare minimum survival. It is these non-working "owners" who live in obscene opulence and have unrestrained power over us all, dictating to us that we must toil while they only reap. The value you actually produce is being stolen from you by those same "owners," and not even the table scraps are afforded those at the bottom struggling to survive in a system that is built around their poverty which serves a threat to all workers if they do not fall in line. The leeches are at the top, not the bottom. You absolutely should be enraged by those leeching off your work, but you've misidentified who the leeches are.

It is a safe assumption that a majority of current US scientists who leave will most likely go to Europe, yes. But long term that's a relatively small piece of the brain drain issue compared to which countries will end up producing more (and better-educated) scientists in the coming years. It's not just a matter of the ones that already exist going elsewhere, it's that there is so much less incentive and ability for a person to become a scientist in the US than there used to be while there is significant incentive and ability to become a scientist in China. I expect the incentive in the EU is also going to rapidly deteriorate, so the influx of US scientists there is just a postponement of brain drain in the west as a whole.

But those are not our ancestors. Those guys (trilobites) are an extinct clade that have no living descendants. The creatures that existed concurrently with them that are our ancestors are agnathans which were jawless fish.

For real. I have to say also that it was fascinating watching the frontman for Pop Will Eat Itself, (a band that in the 90s made an Antifa song* a hit in Gammon Isle) go on to become arguably one of the greatest contemporary film score composers.

*Ich Bin Ein Auslander

They're nice and stationary where they've always been. You don't seem to know where the field is.

None of what you said matters with respect to my initial comment. I said what I did because it is what happened and provides context. Your altering of that context (by making up falsehoods) still didn't change the point of my comment. And just a tip: it doesn't help your credibility to ask the people you're disagreeing with to walk you through the basics of how discussions work.