That graph showing it’s 50% above the record for this time of year in terms of rapid intensification is very cool and normal 🙃

“Millenials, Gen Z unaware of price paid for cheap ‘green revolution crops’. They should stop eating to prevent ocean dead zones”

When the entire supply chain of a critical commodity has serious issues, you can’t fix it on the demand side.

Idk apparently he’s being held at Rikers right now

Paris is actually quite close to New Caledonia…provided you go through the center of the Earth. I’m sure controlling an island on the other side of the world is a trivial task that the French will surely succeed in! /s

Yeah, I’d venture to guess most people alive in China today spent their childhoods in rural areas based on the urbanization trend. There’s been a lot of recent progress in marriage law within the last year or so. The gist is something like for a woman to divorce her husband you needed evidence of him wronging you and had to wait a cooldown period. Those rules have been relaxed in a drive to combat domestic violence.

One thing people haven’t touched on is how socialism could be more effective at fighting obesity. At the end of the day, farmers produce surplus calories for the rich world far beyond the per-capita caloric needs. Sellers are able to create demand so farmers can get paid by making high calorie foods unsatiating and ubiquitous, which creates an energy surplus as the population level. An obesity epidemic is implicitly a policy decision.

Production could be planned to meet caloric and nutritional needs for the entire population if a society looks past the profit motive. Furthermore, certain food ultraprocessing methods could be better-controlled to contain foods that are basically poison for the body’s energy balance

Thanks for taking the time to write this out! I really appreciate it. Having secure physical resources that are immediately useful is a good idea, I’ll think of what I can do to that extent.

That’s a great point, I hadn’t thought of that

What do you mean by dprk route with bitcoin?

I can’t find this video anymore, but I watched something with this guy who elucidated a lot of this. The main points were that a country in the global south is likely to do some kind of cheap solar irradiation management to turn down the heat, which is a couple million a year, so countries like Bangladesh or Venezuela could do it relatively cheaply.

I think the main gist of the lecture was the cynical idea that “people loot before they starve”. So, central america will likely see migrations into the states and canada in a way that we are only seeing the beginnings of today. Right now the border is open because capitalists like cheap labor. in the future, they might close the border, but apparently the only way we know how to do that effectively is through the credible threat of killing those who trespass.

Furthermore, the idea was that europe will be extremely divided since the sahara will park itself on spain and italy, so that extreme desertification will cause those landmasses to be abandoned, which will be a problem for parts of west eurasia that are further north

Holy shit, NYT deleted that top comment to control the narrative. I honestly didn’t think they’d be so bold. It’s gone. The new top comment is:

Good that we have funding for Ukraine. The funding for Israel should go to relief supplies for the people of Gaza and not the Israeli military.

No kidding. Also, spending $1 billion on aid, and $60 billion on weapons to kill the same people, is insane on its face.

Some good news - this is so on the nose that even the good liberal subscribers are not biting. Most upvoted comment atm:

“It’s a good day for world peace,” - how utterly grotesque. I sometimes wonder if Joe Biden genuinely has no idea he’s going to lose in November.

It’s crazy because China has essentially created public transit infrastructure that is everything western transit nerds want. All the discourse about more trains, denser development, multimodal transit, accessible transit etc. has already happened in some Chinese cities. Still lots of problems (e.g. aggregate traffic fatalities), but it’s incredible stuff getting done.

I don’t live there but I came to complain about how Bentonville, Arkansas (where walmart is headquartered) is one of the friendliest places for cyclers in the US. Why? Because one of the heirs to the walmart fortune likes cycling. Nothing says freedom like billionaires planning your economy based around their personal hobbies!

I think this kind of meme is the best for lib agitation. Most don’t need to be convinced that people are more important than profits. Now we just need to find a way to insert the idea about just what kind of economic system prioritizes people over profits…

Ben Norton has been absolutely killing it recently

I wonder how history will explain these moves. It’s comforting to assume actors being rational, but this is a case of just the opposite guiding a country. Argentina is basically a vast expanse on the edge of the earth. What purpose could a military possibly serve for them? Their relationship with Brazil, their literal only credible threat, was good until recently…it’s just incredible that anyone is able to conjure a lens through which this looks like a good idea

An update for anybody who was following this: it was a wonderful visit! But in fact they were so old I never got to talk about politics with them as they were confusing their daughter for their granddaughter 🥺. It turns out being in your 90s can be tough

What about Chile