Love David Revoy.

I’ve been boycotting them my whole life already

This. I’m just upgrading my galaxy s9 that was released in feb 2018. Although many parts of it are starting to die (e.g. screen burn in, a dew cracks), it’s only because my service provider is killing it off because it doesn’t support VOLTE (and I refuse to use the default Samsung OS).

Upgrading to a fairphone. You better believe that’s gonna last another 7 years.

Uh… Aren’t the sellers also like… Half of it?

The economy can go fuck itself. I’d rather have a society and an ecology.

In a tent 10m from a tree that got struck directly - some bark blew off it. I was bending over at the waist to pick something off the floor and involuntarily jumped immediately. My memory is that I jumped before I could have had time to react, so I think the electrical field made my muscles spasm which made me jump. Not sure if that’s possible or not though.

I’m very happy to criticise China, the petro-states and the US as well. Australia just gets special attention from me because it’s home turf.

Thought this was a biblically accurate lorikeet from the thumbnail

Yeah, coal is decreasing as a share of our domestic usage, but we are still one of the world’s biggest coal exporters.

I’m Australian. I’ll criticise Australia as much as I want. Both of our major parties have been dragging the chain on fossil fuels for decades. If you think Australia is going to go into that conference without a pro-fossil fuel agenda (at least relative to what is actually needed), then you are deluded.

Labor: no thanks, we’ll just dig it all up and ship it overseas with barely any royalties and then do some creative accounting with offsets that we know are bullshit anyway.

The problem is the concept of externalities, which means that capitalism will happily overshoot our sustainable resource base, and then collapse. It’s the Minsky Moment at ecological scales.

Sure we will. It might just be an equilibrium that doesn’t include us anymore.

That’s… Not how genetics works.

There was at least a coherent rationale for the GFC bank bailouts - if you let parts of the finance system collapse a) real people lose lots of savings, and b) it might destabilise the whole system, and cause a domino effect (not saying I agree with it)

That rationale doesn’t apply for AI (though there will certainly be investment banks that collapse, I guess)

I hate how everything about this is makes sense including the fact that if Nazis made a time machine it would just move forward through time at a rate of one day per day.

There’s nothing evolutionary about it. Humans have been doing altruism and cooperation for hundreds of thousands of years. It’s cultural.

What’s this a reference to?

I guess it might have come across as escalating if the dad was homophobic as well as racist…

Nah, he’s the arsehole here.