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Homeless Friend posted:you should absolutely install LED's, not to save the planet but the save your sanity from having to change lightbulbs lol they replaced the streetlights here with leds like a year ago and they're all failing already so every third one you go past roasts your eyeballs with ultraviolet light. im sure the nocturnal animals love it 
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Feb 7, 2022 22:20
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LED streetlights work fine everywhere else.
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Feb 7, 2022 22:22
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There's some kinda led where it fails in this exact way very quickly. Backlights turn to blacklights on some screens, poo poo like that
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Feb 7, 2022 22:34
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Charlatan Eschaton posted:lol they replaced the streetlights here with leds like a year ago and they're all failing already so every third one you go past roasts your eyeballs with ultraviolet light. im sure the nocturnal animals love it Yea they love it so much they stopped mating Fame Douglas posted:LED streetlights work fine everywhere else. Change your acc name to syq
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Feb 7, 2022 22:37
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Street lights in general are another factor in the whole "mass murdering the insects" thing https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-58333233 quote:The researchers think street lights may deter nocturnal moths from laying their eggs or put the insects at risk of being spotted and consumed by predators such as bats. I also kind of assume they are spraying weed killers and poo poo along those roads too though uhh anyway
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Feb 7, 2022 22:40
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Cup Runneth Over posted:As one they adamantly refuse to allow effective changes to be made to their homes and run their property into the ground, possibly killing themselves in the future. As a collective, they do the same, but to the nation. What is to be done? 
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Feb 7, 2022 22:41
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Blue color-temperature night lighting is shredding the rhythm of the planet. We're already so out of phase - nightblinded by car taillights and digital screens - that we don't notice.
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Feb 7, 2022 22:54
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err posted:Has anyone read Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson? Been wanting more climate fiction after The Ministry for the Future. 
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Feb 7, 2022 22:55
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https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1490754760223375362
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Feb 7, 2022 23:21
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sounds like that whole oceans rising thing was a myth then  e: dammit someone beat me to the hot take 
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Feb 7, 2022 23:32
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There's those words again. sooner than anticipated
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Feb 8, 2022 00:00
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Has there been a single climate related thing that has taken longer than we thought
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Feb 8, 2022 00:06
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i mean, the ozone hole
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Feb 8, 2022 00:08
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The horrors are accelerating.
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Feb 8, 2022 00:11
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p. sure the fix for that was replacing cfc’s with hfc’s which contribute to greenhouse gases a billion percent worse than CO2
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Feb 8, 2022 00:11
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Homeless Friend posted:you should absolutely install LED's, not to save the planet but the save your sanity from having to change lightbulbs I don't like LEDs because you pretty much have to have a dimmer, and dimming is annoying, especially with three way switches. if you're not super careful the dimmer will result in a buzzing sound, even if the light says it's compatible with it. the reason I say you have to have a dimmer is LEDs are only available at 450 and 800 lumens if you want something pretty dim. They don't have anywhere near the number of choices as incandescent or halogen. I needed like 550-650, and was able to find a 570 lumen incandescent bulb.
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Feb 8, 2022 00:46
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silicone thrills posted:The horrors are accelerating. lol lmao
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Feb 8, 2022 00:59
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during winter when using indoor heating anything like a light bulb or refrigerator or laptop that generates heat indoors can't waste electricity because the waste is put out as heat even light eventually becomes heat unless it escapes out the window so grandpa worried about the light bulbs affecting the heat could still be mining dogecoin fwiw and still not waste electricity obv opposite is true in the summer
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Feb 8, 2022 01:13
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:There's those words again. We have to be more careful now because the situation's changed. Tales of water scarcity in particular should be received with greater skepticism after the commodification of water.
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Feb 8, 2022 01:20
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gggh
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Feb 8, 2022 01:27
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37% more water in the Himelayas than previously believed is good news. Hooray for all of those people. 11% less water overall is the news I've come to expect though.
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Feb 8, 2022 01:34
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SniperWoreConverse posted:I can't be right about the furnace because as the Child, I am lower than the Parent and this is enough to just be wrong in and of itself. Only a recognized authority in the matter can be correct. But the actual HVAC technicians are also wrong and not recognized as authorities. The only authority people like that recognize is themselves.
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Feb 8, 2022 01:40
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Unless posted:i mean, the ozone hole Lmao I remember that. Did we actually solve that?
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Feb 8, 2022 01:42
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Cup Runneth Over posted:But the actual HVAC technicians are also wrong and not recognized as authorities. The only authority people like that recognize is themselves. Not true. When a trans person won jeopardy things were restructured to accommodate, and all of their own personal history of being hideous assholes about it was perfectly redacted. Despite being rigid it can't be too brittle, it has to be possible to make some changes. These changes have to have always been in effect like some reverse causality. If it were fully inert and impossible to rise or fall it wouldn't be emotionally useful to believe in cause you'd be locked in. If it were too loose it would be a free for all which is emotionally dangerous cause any bullshit could dislodge you -- not useful to believe. Being the hvac guy is lower on the chain because it's not prestigious enough. White collar is higher than blue, even if this person clearly has genuine expertise. Money helps, but it has to be big money, or the styleand image of big money. Because zero sum if someone has big money they are pretty high up the ladder. Prestige is also zero sum and not having it means lower rank. No part of any of this is ever reflected upon, it's all off the cuff. I'd add a third axiom where all this is sorta rarified by the opinions of recognized authorities or peers. Another thing that comes out of this is you're allowed to kick people lower than you but punching up is forbidden cause it could destabilize the belief system. This facilitates moving up and helps prevent you from backsliding, so it's useful.
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Feb 8, 2022 02:07
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Cup Runneth Over posted:Lmao I remember that. Did we actually solve that? lol just like leaded gasoline, those will be 100% phased out any day now... any... day... now...
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Feb 8, 2022 02:30
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also it turns out methane skullfucks the ozone layer
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Feb 8, 2022 02:31
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Cup Runneth Over posted:Lmao I remember that. Did we actually solve that? In the Southern Hemishpere we did, for now. In the northern hemisphere, the stratospheric inversion layer caused by GHG emissions is creating a quickly worsening ozone hole there. Oops.
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Feb 8, 2022 02:32
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Cup Runneth Over posted:Lmao I remember that. Did we actually solve that? Ehhhhh, stalled on it, as mentioned above. Some improvements, surprisingly, for once, but offset by, for instance, a recent resumption in some pollutants that had all but disappeared and other climate change effects affecting the whole process. So, uh, not good, getting worse, but for once it is something that's deteriorating more slowly than expected. Damning with faint praise.
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Feb 8, 2022 02:35
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the ozone problem was acted on quickly and decisively because the oil and gas industry was a willing partner to the talks, but by the time the us government started paying serious attention to the greenhouse effect in 1989 the industry had switched tactics to fight any and all attempts to rectify the problem
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Feb 8, 2022 02:58
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also, those rabbits going blind in tierra del fuego and people coming down with UV radiation poisoning was pretty striking to our 90s sensibilities https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEORxpfQMTA
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Feb 8, 2022 03:06
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silicone thrills posted:biosphere collapse: the horrors are accelerating
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Feb 8, 2022 03:06
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don't worry guys, the mass desalination plants will make it so we don't have to worry about the bottlenecks
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Feb 8, 2022 03:37
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glaciers containing less water than previously thought means less sea level rise checkmate
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Feb 8, 2022 04:04
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SKULL.GIF posted:don't worry guys, the mass desalination plants will make it so we don't have to worry about the bottlenecks clean water for the rich, salt brine for the poor
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Feb 8, 2022 04:40
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There used to be literal clouds of Bogong Moths every spring in Australia and we are now at the stage where citizen science is required to report moth sightings so we can see if they make their pilgrimage to the alps to reproduce. they are also the primary food source for the pigmy possum which is also breeding during the melt in spring. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogong_moth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_pygmy_possum the camp sites we used to visit as kids would run fluorescent lighting in the bathrooms and at night the windows would literally hum from the all the moths flapping their wings against the windows trying to get to the lights. the theory is the lights distract them from the moon which they used to navigate to the alps, then bats etc eat them. I have seen this in practice - moths gather around street lights and the bats hang out nearby and just fly through the cloud of bugs like a whale shark on a school of fish. the last time I was there during this period, maybe 10yrs ago, I saw maybe 2 moths total.
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Feb 8, 2022 05:06
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https://twitter.com/BullandBaird/status/1490851374078251009
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Feb 8, 2022 05:19
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Creating great content
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Feb 8, 2022 05:29
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I mean, the nuclear power looks rad.
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Feb 8, 2022 05:31
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we got any 'things arent as bad as expected' tweets to balance it out a bit?
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Feb 8, 2022 05:36
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product advertising is an Olympic tradition and occidentals are just mad the Chinese are selling nuclear power plants instead of coke
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