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Is there any good reading on the argument that corporations are artificial intelligences?
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Nov 4, 2021 09:20
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Good morning climate change thread, guess what... I made another human!  But more on that later. Did you know there's a thing called a steam steriliser, a big plastic container that you fill with water and plastic baby bottles and then wack in the microwave for 5 minutes? And then after sterilising the baby bottles every single day, they go in the baby's mouth? I'm sure this has no downsides 
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Nov 4, 2021 10:02
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Cup Runneth Over posted:Is there any good reading on the argument that corporations are artificial intelligences? This piece was pretty good https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/12/01/ai-has-already-taken-over-its-called-the-corporation/
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Nov 4, 2021 10:05
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Good morning climate change thread, guess what... I made another human!
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Nov 4, 2021 11:26
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Shipon posted:This piece was pretty good https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/12/01/ai-has-already-taken-over-its-called-the-corporation/ Isn't this basically the thesis of Das Kapital? The system is stuck in a feedback loop of accumulating capital into as few hands as possible and we're all just the cogs. It's so autonomous and flawed that it can easily cause itself to come off the rails. In this model the winners of capitalism are also more or less cogs[powerless in the face of number must go up], just cogs that benefit tremendously Jokerpilled Drudge has issued a correction as of 13:08 on Nov 4, 2021 |
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Nov 4, 2021 11:43
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Good morning climate change thread, guess what... I made another human! Lol, lmao.
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Nov 4, 2021 13:00
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https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1455915682550321156?s=20 https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1455917744285646849?s=20 https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1455918265369202692?s=20 this thread becomes more and more insane the longer it goes. is this guy some kinda well-known dumbass?
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Nov 4, 2021 14:08
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Serf posted:[ quote:Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us AllEdit
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Nov 4, 2021 14:35
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https://twitter.com/dwallacewells/status/1456248842546995207 cool quote:Though the new contaminant list is disturbing, it would be much longer if regulators and utilities were properly monitoring the nation’s water supply, said the EWG senior scientist Tasha Stoiber.
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Nov 4, 2021 14:39
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re: Michael Shellenberger https://unherd.com/2021/11/climate-change-will-not-be-catastrophic/ quote:The best science now predicts that temperatures are likely to rise just 2.5-3°C above pre-industrial levels. It’s not ideal, but it’s a far cry from the hysterical and apocalyptic predictions of 6°C, made just a decade ago. A 3°C increase is hardly an existential threat to humanity. quote:Given how good we are at mitigating the effects of natural disasters, it’s ironic that so many climate alarmists focus on them. It’s perhaps because the world’s most visually dramatic, fascinating events — fires, floods, storms — make their cause stick in the minds of voters. If it were acknowledged that heat deaths were due to lack of air conditioning and forest fires were due to the buildup of wood fuel after decades of fire suppression, alarmist journalists, scientists and activists would be deprived of the “news hooks” they need to scare people, raise money and advocate climate policies. quote:This is part of a common pattern: the people who claim to be most alarmed about climate change are the ones blocking its only viable solutions, natural gas and nuclear. quote:Indeed, the best available economic modelling finds that, by 2100, the global economy will be three to six times larger than it is today, and that the costs of adapting to a high (4°C) temperature rise would reduce gross domestic product by just 4.5%. Why kill ourselves trying to eliminate a problem that just isn’t that severe? quote:When a hurricane hits Florida, it might kill no one, but when that same storm hits Haiti, thousands can die instantly through drowning — and thousands more subsequently, in disease epidemics like cholera. The difference is that Florida can afford to prepare properly, and Haiti can’t.
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Nov 4, 2021 14:43
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lol, lmao
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Nov 4, 2021 14:54
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so, it's not that bad yet then
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Nov 4, 2021 14:54
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quote:A 3°C increase is hardly an existential threat to humanity. 
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Nov 4, 2021 15:02
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sometimes it gets a lil hot just go inside
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Nov 4, 2021 15:07
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https://twitter.com/BBCSteveR/status/1456265096049487884?s=20
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Nov 4, 2021 15:22
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I had no idea the ice was such a big part of the structure of the soil, that's really cool to watch it all just cave in like that
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Nov 4, 2021 15:25
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time to fire up a bunch of bulldozers and flatten it all again i guess!!!
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Nov 4, 2021 15:54
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more jobs and economic activity, thanks to climate change
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Nov 4, 2021 15:54
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Shellenberger is a professional science misunderstander. He works hard to find new ways to misunderstand science and write them down with the full authority of someone who claims to once have been a climate activist.
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Nov 4, 2021 16:32
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Cold on a Cob posted:more jobs and economic activity, thanks to climate change we have switched over to a new ideology it's just basically this monologue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VTsFtwO0u0
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Nov 4, 2021 16:43
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Dick Valentine posted:re: Michael Shellenberger goddamn it must own to be a moron with lots of self-confidence
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Nov 4, 2021 16:46
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brakeless posted:goddamn it must own to be a moron with lots of self-confidence you can just say mod
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Nov 4, 2021 16:53
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Serf posted:this thread becomes more and more insane the longer it goes. is this guy some kinda well-known dumbass? it brings me great joy to know this motherfucker will be alive to see just how wrong he is
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Nov 4, 2021 17:23
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this is why i only drink beer, which as we all know is beer not water and therefore is fine
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Nov 4, 2021 17:24
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gently caress COREY PERRY posted:it brings me great joy to know this motherfucker will be alive to see just how wrong he is But until then, he gets to make bank by being a "dissenting voice for hire." 
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Nov 4, 2021 17:33
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gently caress COREY PERRY posted:it brings me great joy to know this motherfucker will be alive to see just how wrong he is Nah, it's gonna be this forever  quote:Some of us warned that climate activist efforts against natural gas would backfire. Eight years ago I defended fracking for making natural gas cheaper than coal. Reducing natural gas exploration would make gas more expensive, I argued, and delay the transition away from coal.
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Nov 4, 2021 18:17
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With that Bjorn Lomborg guy it really looks like a concerted effort to get these idiots published with shitloads of "FALSE ALARM" and "CLIMATE CHANGE IS GOOD ACTUALLY" books. "THERE WILL NEVER BE A PROBLEM: BUY STUFF"
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Nov 4, 2021 18:34
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This came out in August: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.1c01103 quote:All migrates induced baseline toxicity, 22 an oxidative stress response, 13 antiandrogenicity, and one estrogenicity. Overall, between 17 and 8681 relevant chemical features were present in the migrates. In other words, between 1 and 88% of the plastic chemicals associated with one product were migrating. Further, we tentatively identified ∼8% of all detected features implying that most plastic chemicals remain unknown. While low-density polyethylene, polyvinyl chloride, and polyurethane induced most toxicological endpoints, a generalization for other materials is not possible. Our results demonstrate that plastic products readily leach many more chemicals than previously known, some of which are toxic in vitro. This highlights that humans are exposed to many more plastic chemicals than currently considered in public health science and policies. Includes "food-safe" plastics like yogurt and drinking bottles etc. e: I wonder what the shade balls are made of RIP Syndrome has issued a correction as of 19:01 on Nov 4, 2021 |
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Nov 4, 2021 18:53
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one sec hooking up a water purification system to my municipal water supply like I had well water
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Nov 4, 2021 19:31
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RIP Syndrome posted:This came out in August: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.1c01103 no it's cool the salesman in the video said the shade balls are good and don't leech chemicals
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Nov 4, 2021 19:35
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I don't understand why the balls aren't white
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Nov 4, 2021 19:42
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it was cheaper to make them from shredded car tires
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Nov 4, 2021 19:59
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Serf posted:this thread becomes more and more insane the longer it goes. is this guy some kinda well-known dumbass? well apparently he lives in california, a place that is literally achieving climate change-related automated desertification in front of our eyes, and says climate change is a fake crisis created by college kids so lmao
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Nov 4, 2021 21:35
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https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/03/americas/bolivia-heatwave-highlands-intl/index.htmlquote:"The sun is burning. This sun isn't normal," said La Paz resident Segundina Mamani cocaine trees roasting on the Bolivian plateaus -- surely this will motivate the 1% to fight climate change.
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Nov 5, 2021 00:47
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"The sun is burning. This sun isn't normal." ahhhdhsgfhdf just when i thought all cracks were pinged
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Nov 5, 2021 01:01
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I'm definitely done child having but I have a history of pelvic floor trauma and post surgical complications and I've been specifically told by a conventional pelvic PT that I trust that a vasectomy is substantially higher risk for me because of existing problems in the general area plus scar tissue from a prior procedure. We are on the IUD train for now, but I'm not really sure that's gonna take us all the way to menopause. On the other hand, maybe the atmosphere will turn to acid before we have to think about it. Laterite posted:"The sun is burning. This sun isn't normal." psst citizens of Earth, your star is actually a giant ball of death and the only reason it keeps you alive is insane distances plus a very carefully balanced set of conditions you are actively loving up, hth
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Nov 5, 2021 01:07
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Gravid Topiary posted:https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/03/americas/bolivia-heatwave-highlands-intl/index.html quote:Levels of UV radiation have at times in recent weeks hit 21 on a scale that normally only goes up as far as 20. According to the World Health Organization, a UV index of 11 is regarded as "extreme," with people cautioned to avoid exposure to the sun. Hey, at least it hasn't hit 22. Yet.
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Nov 5, 2021 01:09
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Good morning climate change thread, guess what... I made another human! as a first time parent I am sure you are worrying about anything and everything the same way we did, and also I know kids are way more sensitive in those critical first few months, but, poo poo, based on my own upbringing plus having a 5 year old and a 1/2 year old, sterilization in general is overrated. They didn't loving have microwaves when I was a baby, I bet my bottles were soap washed if that. The amount of times I've seen my kid just straight up eat dirt is legion at this point, we live in a wood box in the middle of the woods. Anyway we've made it through 2 kids with no steam sterilizer, I believe in you. We soak bottles and related poo poo in a tub of soapy water.
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Nov 5, 2021 01:11
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Leroy Diplowski posted:It'll be fine. The procedure is a breeze and having wanton unprotected sex is fantastic. this was exactly what i needed to
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Nov 5, 2021 01:13
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gently caress COREY PERRY posted:this is why i only drink beer, which as we all know is beer not water and therefore is fine  RIP Syndrome posted:This came out in August: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.1c01103
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Nov 5, 2021 01:30
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