Nix Panicus posted:

There's gonna be survivors. Humans went through a genetic bottleneck once, they'll do it again

ram dass in hell posted:

how you do anything ripples through how you do everything, and if you are throwing trash out the window of your vehicle you are 100% metaphorically doing that in all of your relationships. you should not want to not litter. you should recognize that being the type of person that does not litter is a more enjoyable and fulfilling way to live your life. namaste

Hubbert posted:

HazCat posted:

But if you become the kind of person who doesn't care about throwing your trash out of the window of your vehicle, you'll fit in better with the people who've completely burned out their ability to empathise with other living creatures in order to pursue infinite wealth, and those people have a shitton of MDMA and once they start experiencing chemical empathy they will just give that poo poo out to anyone like it's candy.

This is probably also why they leave their bikes behind - the comedown from MDMA is basically full-blown anhedonia, which means they can't imagine caring about their dumb bikes enough to pick them up out of the dirt onto the same vehicle that they came out on.

Ignore_Me posted:

that’s a really interesting theory about a bunch of people who never suffered any social or financial repercussions for literally anything in their entire life and probably never cared about the bikes in the first place

they’re definitely on MDMA though

AceClown posted:

I've been thinking, even if we somehow managed to find a completely zero emission fully renewable and hyper efficient source of power it wouldn't make a bit of difference in the long term.

We'd still cybertron the gently caress out of the planet, destroy entire biospheres and all it would do is speed up humanity loving up other planets and solar systems.

We really were hosed from the beginning.

AceClown posted:

I've been thinking, even if we somehow managed to find a completely zero emission fully renewable and hyper efficient source of power it wouldn't make a bit of difference in the long term.

We'd still cybertron the gently caress out of the planet, destroy entire biospheres and all it would do is speed up humanity loving up other planets and solar systems.

We really were hosed from the beginning.

Rauros posted:

i always took umbrage at "simple, protein-based bodies." cellular machinery is way more complex than a microchip.

Hubbert posted:

Skaffen-Amtiskaw posted:

Even if we had fusion with no bad byproducts, you couldn’t form a Cybertron or Coruscant because the waste heat from these power plants and all our economic activity would literally boil the oceans. Four centuries more of 3% growth in GDP will get us there.

Xaris posted:

i always wondered how that works since locking them up doesn't seem to be common. i mean i get most of the bikes there aren't that nice and kinda cheap but still, i think you'd want to lock them up after personalizing them, maybe spending effort putting on new tires, adjusting seats or maybe buying a nice butt cushion seat, memories and attachment, whatever.

in america if you leave it unlocked it'll be gone in under 6 hours no matter how crappy of a cheap bike. i even had a cheap bike with a broken brake (literally could not brake) and a chain that was malfunctioning get stolen, and i live on a steep hill so they probably crashed

Mr SuperAwesome posted:

99.99% of bikes are always left locked (on the street), this is just the stolen bikes for drunk people

4d3d3d posted:

https://twitter.com/NateB_Panic/status/1777633396165890369

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statewide coverage of giant kelp that formed dense floating canopies on the water surface was more than 400 hectares in the late 1990s but collapsed to less than 10 ha by 2015.

Zodium posted:

a significant amount are left in the canals (lock status unknown)

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Fifty years on is often a good time to look back on a radical change. It fits well with a human lifespan. It lets people born after the change understand better what is special about the world they have always known, what is necessary and what contingent. Those towards the end of life can provide first-hand accounts of the change and its aftermath.
That would be reason enough for taking stock of the world which the oil shock of 1973 created.

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Before the embargo the oil price had been stable for decades. Since 1973 it has been persistently, sometimes remarkably, volatile

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The UAE produces about 3m barrels of oil per day (bpd) and the state-owned producer, the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, hopes to increase its production capacity to 5m bpd by 2030.

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The emirates are thus the world in microcosm. The disastrous hazards of climate change are manifest. The oil industry has never been bigger. When demand slumped during the covid-19 pandemic some hoped that it would never return to its previous heights. But it has since surpassed them.

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The [UAE] sees itself as being able to keep going until the end of the end, if necessary. The best of the reserves around the Persian Gulf are both vast and relatively cheap to exploit. What is more, for the most part working them does not, in itself, emit as much carbon dioxide as does production in other places. Other things being equal a world reducing its dependence on oil will abandon higher-cost producers first.

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the oil shock of 1973 and its successor, the shock which followed the Iranian revolution of 1979, “framed energy policy for half a century”.

The 1970s showed what a range of economic, political and geopolitical effects oil-supply shocks can have. In developed countries the increases in prices and the central-bank reactions to them drove up inflation and stifled the economy. That set the scene for the rise of free-market politicians like Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan in the years which followed.

Because many of the opec countries had little to invest in at home, the “petrodollars” they were raking in ended up invested in international banks, making them keen to lend. Developing countries, keen to borrow, saw their debt climb quickly. The imf calculates that 100 developing countries saw their foreign debt rise by 150% between 1973 and 1977. The 1979 shock then sent interest rates soaring, triggering the third-world-debt crisis of the 1980s

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The shock of 1973 (which had, among other things, led to the creation of the iea) was focused on oil alone and had its prompt effects in developed countries. The post-February 2022 energy crunch was felt more widely more quickly.

But if more of the world was vulnerable than it had been in the 1970s, the energy system was also more robust.

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In response to the shock of 1973 consumer nations set up petroleum reserves, co-ordinated by the iea, with which they could counter sudden supply shocks.

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In the 1970s the oil market was a brittle, secretive enterprise. Over the decades which followed it grew into a sophisticated and largely transparent market worth over $2trn—bigger than the markets for the next ten commodities combined.

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And then there was a third factor. Over the course of the 1980s and 1990s [...] fracking [...] had been the subject of government research. [...] In the early 2000s fracking [...] saw previously untappable shales produce gas in abundance.

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The blunting of Russia’s gas weapon is just one of the ways in which America’s new drilling technologies changed the world.

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climate politics might see countries try to restrict supply. It would be a hard task. To shut down another country’s fuel exports is both hostile and difficult, as Russia’s ability to keep exporting oil shows. To shut down your own exports penalises domestic industry and, in a world with large and liquid markets, is unlikely to do much to lower overall emissions.

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this led to a glut that almost destroyed opec by heightening the fundamental tension within any such cartel. In the long run the cartel as a whole stood to gain if its members limited production enough to raise prices; in the short run each member had an incentive to try and circumvent such limits.
As the swing producer, Saudi Arabia had the job of matching supply to demand. In 1985 it became sufficiently fed up with reducing its own output to try and constrain supply while other opec members broke their quotas that it turned on the taps. The oil price fell like a stone.

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“Saudi Arabia has played its cards very well,” Christyan Malek of JPMorgan Chase, a bank, observed at the time. With opec+ controlling 40% of the world’s oil production, the card sense of the cartel’s dominant power matters a lot. Saudi Arabia’s clout within the cartel comes not so much from the level of its production (Russia produces roughly as much), but more from its singular willingness to allow significant capacity to sit idle. As the swing producer it can stabilise or raise prices by reducing production or soften the market by increasing it. Lower prices cause disproportionate harm to producers whose costs are higher than the kingdom’s—that is, to almost all the rest of the cartel.

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Some, such as Badr Jafar of Crescent Group, an Emirati business, think the Saudis use this power to keep things on an even keel. They act “as a kind of beneficial central bank for oil supply”, he says, “with price stability [the] primary objective.” Others are less charitable. Saudi Arabia has twice flooded the market to lower prices, in 1986 so as to punish the cartel members who were not adhering to the cartel’s production quotas, and in 2014 to hurt us shale-oil producers. In its attempt to squeeze a recalcitrant Russia into cutting production in 2020, when covid lockdowns were crashing demand, it kept its taps so open that oil prices became negative; for a short while traders had to pay for the stuff to be taken off their hands. Edward Morse, formerly of Citibank, argues that on balance the Saudis are “a very disruptive entity in the market despite claims of being a force for stability.”

Nix Panicus posted:

In fact, lunar manipulation could solve the problem of human made global warming forever if employed correctly

Perry Mason Jar posted:

https://x.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1777758579812163736

Perry Mason Jar posted:

https://x.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1777758579812163736

Perry Mason Jar posted:

https://x.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1777758579812163736

Stereotype posted:

my cat died and I’m sad about it

Stereotype posted:

my cat died and I’m sad about it

Communist Cop posted:

https://twitter.com/hausfath/status/1777719953267003494?t=nasGP0XWkDHmXtDPhqBhcA&s=19

Communist Cop posted:

https://twitter.com/hausfath/status/1777719953267003494?t=nasGP0XWkDHmXtDPhqBhcA&s=19

Stereotype posted:

my cat died and I’m sad about it

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-09/data-can-t-explain-off-the-charts-heat/103649190

Stereotype posted:

my cat died and I’m sad about it

4d3d3d posted:

https://twitter.com/JulianCribb/status/1777812549792383219

Communist Cop posted:

https://twitter.com/hausfath/status/1777719953267003494?t=nasGP0XWkDHmXtDPhqBhcA&s=19