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SniperWoreConverse posted:no actually we'll need to hunt giant birds in the jungles of old new york using crossbows and bolas, and we'll need to save every scrap or the village will starve. pretty optimistic to think there'll be giant birds
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EvilJoven posted:Lmao that's just as likely to happen as techbro salvation from climate change. nah, your madmax/waterworld fantasies aren't coming true  Here's a map WHO prepared. The bigger the region on the map the higher the mortality rates due to climate change. This is a map of 'modern mortality' so yeah, it will get worse for developed countries too. But they'll suffer the least and at a far slower rate. We're already at the point where we're okay closing borders and using chemical weapons on migrants, and even letting thousands of American citizens die from extreme weather and the destruction of infrastructure it causes. We'll grumble about things getting worse, but since it won't reach disaster movie scale and speed, we'll just slowly slough off more and more percentages of the population worthy of living past 60 or having a sub 30% infant mortality rate, but we'll take it. Coolness Averted has issued a correction as of 17:55 on Mar 15, 2019 |
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Coolness Averted posted:nah, your madmax/waterworld fantasies aren't coming true Yeah I figure for at least another 20-30 years there will be a lot of "billions of people in poor countries are dying due to famine so we need to beef up border security to make sure they don't come bring their famine crimes here" coupled with "gas prices have gone up 30% in America THIS IS AN OUTRAGE DRILL BABY DRILL" kicking and screaming at even the smallest suggestion that we have to change our patterns of living
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these people will know no hardship from the destruction of the world, even their children and perhaps children's children will have great lives these are the children of chuds who voted for trump their home is going to be literally under water in their lifetime, it'll suck and we'll laugh at them but they'll survive  this teen is already hosed and his country is starting to have flare ups and border skirmishes with another nuclear power, if that doesn't kill him he'll probably live to the ripe age of 50, due to his successful career of scavenging our e-waste for precious (and toxic) metals 
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Also I'm calling it now: the same way republicans seamlessly pivoted from "it's not happening" to "it's happening but we're not causing it", they will soon pivot to "it's happening and we're causing it but that's fine because someone wrote a wiki article about geoengineering once, and I'd rather ~encourage innovation~ by giving free money to businesses that say the word "geoengneering" rather than stifle and handicap our job creators with pointless rules and regulations about not polluting" I mean I'm sure some people have already made that dumbass argument (I heard some idiot on the radio say it at least once) but I'm willing to bet that soon it will be the party line
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lancemantis posted:yeah i've never understood the worship of "tech visionaries" whose entire vision seems to be "the exact same thing as now but more shiny"
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Hedenius posted:“More shiny” always translates to “since you use an app on your phone we can somehow pay employees less and give them no benefits”. There’s a reason one of the biggest “tech” companies is a taxi service that requires the drivers to provide their own cars. But there’s an app so it’s innovative! I've said it before but Uber is actually kinda brilliant in a sinister way since they've figured out how to make the workers own the means of production (and all the maintenance and administrative costs that come with that) yet still extract most of the value from their work
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Shame Boy posted:I've said it before but Uber is actually kinda brilliant in a sinister way since they've figured out how to make the workers own the means of production (and all the maintenance and administrative costs that come with that) yet still extract most of the value from their work Somehow they lose billions every year
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Shame Boy posted:Yeah I figure for at least another 20-30 years there will be a lot of "billions of people in poor countries are dying due to famine so we need to beef up border security to make sure they don't come bring their famine crimes here" coupled with "gas prices have gone up 30% in America THIS IS AN OUTRAGE DRILL BABY DRILL" kicking and screaming at even the smallest suggestion that we have to change our patterns of living You remember the first 30 minutes of Children of Men?
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Imagined posted:You remember the first 30 minutes of Children of Men? I'm gonna be the disinterested teenager playing video games while the world dies, except instead of a teen I'll be like 60 years old.
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Imagined posted:You remember the first 30 minutes of Children of Men? Yeah that's the example I use to describe it sometimes  PostNouveau posted:Somehow they lose billions every year Oh yeah they're still managing to gently caress it up, but at the same time they're normalizing not only the ~gig economy~ bullshit but the idea that "bring your own everything you need to do your work" is cool and good
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Coolness Averted posted:these people will know no hardship from the destruction of the world, even their children and perhaps children's children will have great lives
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Chomp8645 posted:I'm gonna be the disinterested teenager playing video games while the world dies, except instead of a teen I'll be like 60 years old. gently caress 
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Hedenius posted:“More shiny” always translates to “since you use an app on your phone we can somehow pay employees less and give them no benefits”. There’s a reason one of the biggest “tech” companies is a taxi service that requires the drivers to provide their own cars. But there’s an app so it’s innovative! Shame Boy posted:I've said it before but Uber is actually kinda brilliant in a sinister way since they've figured out how to make the workers own the means of production (and all the maintenance and administrative costs that come with that) yet still extract most of the value from their work how do taxi companies work where you live? in 5 areas where I’ve lived, and where my mom worked as a taxi driver for a while, taxi drivers provide their own car and maintenance (or, more often, rent it and the medallion from someone, so mark up those costs), and are not employees of the dispatch company that runs the phone and owns the brand name (which car owners pay to have painted on their vehicles). they pay a cut to that dispatch services, are responsible for their own health insurance, and have no revenue guarantee or anything. is it different where you are, and the drivers are salaried or something? there’s a lot wrong with Uber, but I never understand the complaint about them making people own their own cars or be independent contractors. that’s not what broke things, IMO, because that’s how people already lived as drivers in most places as far as I can tell.
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This is the same company that nearly had striking engineers on Christmas Eve because they offered only barely above inflation pay increases and conditioned it on caps on overtime (which are the bread and butter of airline engineers ofc). They've also closed down a bunch of flights to various regions, some of which you can now no longer fly to. This is after acquiring some of the small, profitable airline companies serving those regions just a few years ago. Meanwhile their CEO is the top paid exec in the country and has had pay increases of 10-15% per year since 2015. This is all while still calling themselves our "national carrier". The govt still owns a 53% stake in the company. But hey, they make light-hearted safety videos with celebrities in them, and once they painted a plane to advertise Lord of the Rings. gently caress Air New Zealand, is what I'm saying.
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Dead Beef posted:who would win in a fight? 8 billionaires or 3.6 billion poor people? so far it's pretty clearly the billionaires
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We are deeply saddened by the recent tragic starvation cases in our concentration camps. Our hearts go out to the dead. Having said that, we also have to consider the well being of our shareholders, who have put all their trust and their hard earned money in us to deliver the best possible product. The shareholders and their families depend on us for their livelihood and we can not betray this trust. Of course we still love, respect and cherrish all of our workers and hope that they can grt their adequate nutritional requirements in the future. #wecare
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That's almost the same thing, you know.
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Though tbf the one rear end in a top hat argument I heard a libertarian make on the radio a while back was "if it's a problem, how come people are still clamoring to buy beachfront property  "Even the host of that show at the time was like "who's doing that? I'm in Miami and there's constant flooding now, nobody wants to buy that."
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the place I rent from started using a new payment system and they charge a 7% fee to use the autopay feature lol gently caress every major city on the west coast
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Dead Beef posted:the place I rent from started using a new payment system and they charge a 7% fee to use the autopay feature lol why would they charge more to make it easier usually you get a discount for that crap also this film is cool but weird, the main character sells out to the nsa https://youtu.be/coDtzN6bXAM
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got any sevens posted:lol why would they charge more to make it easier
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Dead Beef posted:because they know their tennents can afford it and have nowhere else to go, also landlords are parasites doesn't your bank have a bill pay feature where they'll send money wherever you want every month?
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got any sevens posted:lol why would they charge more to make it easier Because they likely have some 3rd party handling it, and the landlord's not picking up that bill.
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got any sevens posted:lol why would they charge more to make it easier Actually the main character bankrupts the NSA and distributes the money to various charities.
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500 good dogs posted:doesn't your bank have a bill pay feature where they'll send money wherever you want every month? not sure if relevant to the thread but another "gently caress you" from the landlord is a change in the lawn watering policy. previously it was entirely up to a tenant whether or not they run the built-in sprinklers to water the lawn in the summer. starting this year tenants no longer have control over the sprinklers or watering. the rental company wants green lawns. now they can come in and run the sprinklers whenever they want as much as they want and tenants have to pay the city water bill for the use. last year nobody watered their lawns in the summer and everything was brown and it made the landlords mad I guess
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Wasabi the J posted:Because they likely have some 3rd party handling it, and the landlord's not picking up that bill. i'd just pay with checks then and save the 7%... thats how i pay rent now anyway
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Dead Beef posted:yes and this is what I do now, also it's a 2% fee not 7, that's for credit card payments (which is still inflated and could be waived if the landlord wasn't poo poo) I was about to ask how the gently caress that's legal, spending money on your utilities bill, but then I remembered. America.
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