Groomercord is gay corposlop on a centralized server with shitty paywalled features. IRC was leagues ahead in terms of aesthetics, protocol and trout

Cool handles? Mandatory.

Autism? Mandatory.

!oldstrags

Just a reminder that everything is terrible and consuming product only brings pain

Debating whether this should be here or in /h/kino. The beginning scene is burned into my memory, as well as most scenes where a new creature is introduced.

Also brigade! Brigade! Brigade!

So here's the link to her video. Basically she says became a physicist back in the 90s filled with idealism, says she's against female only scholarships as she got one and her colleagues doubted her suitability due to that. Then she talks about how most of her job (and that of academic physicists in general) is limited to writing useless papers or using PhD and post Doc students to write said papers with your name in order to get more grants while being dissuaded from doing research in the fields you're interested at.

https://old.reddit.com/r/DecodingTheGurus/comments/1bx6od8/sabine_hossenfelder_my_dream_died_and_now_im_here/

https://old.reddit.com/r/Physics/comments/1bwn5vi/my_dream_died_and_now_im_here/

The reddit threads

She's already done some sketchy vids in hot topics beyond her expertise.

Her vids about Trans people for example, in which she speaks about ROGD as though it's a real medical phenomenon.

TERFdom is a massive canary in the coalmine for influencers/commentators

At this point it's a great litmus test of guru-dom, whether or not they have an strong opinion on trans issues. It's like a pound shop version of the gurometer.

I predict that in the future she will 1.Talk worse about academia and academics 2.Talk more about american politics (fox news stuff) 3.At some point she will start simping for some capitalist

Sabine rapidly descending down the grifter pipeline

As long as she's talking about real science and doing it accurately, how is she a grifter? Because she accepts money from sponsors?

Aye, this one not so much! More the ones where she talks about… capitalism? And other topics she doesn't have expertise in

Yeah the capitalism video was quite stupid

!anticommunists !neolibs

Bonus on her capitalism video

https://old.reddit.com/r/DecodingTheGurus/comments/17tugi5/sabine_hossenfelders_weird_capitalismposting/

https://old.reddit.com/r/BreadTube/comments/16pdxot/sabine_is_wrong_again_capitalism_wouldve_killed/

Breadtubers DEBOOOONKING

https://old.reddit.com/r/climatechange/comments/1btxtpi/whats_the_point_of_doomerism/

In another episode of their self-enforced world ending session, the of /r/climatechange debate whether doomerism is even desirable

The writing is on the wall. If some people cope with that through nihilism or however else you want to define doomerism, that's their prerogative. Gen Z has been brought up with previously unimaginable access to information, lived through a pandemic during our formative years, and a lot of us are entering the workforce with no hope for being able to afford a house, family, or even basic necessities. And it is not likely to get much better for us financially, as far as I can tell. Doomerism is here to stay, at least for awhile. In my view, it's a coping mechanism.

zoomers again are the most disadvantaged generation in human history

It's a grief coping mechanism for when people think they have no power.

It's not a permanent state but it is toxic, don't give into it.

Sounds reasonable, let's see the replies

no. that is not a factual assessment of the situation or the reaction to it.

We are doomed. facts don't care about our desire for hope.

It isn't hysteria. The world's major governments were warned we needed to be almost done transitioning away from fossile fuels by 92. they reacted by increasing production and use dramatically. the gulf stream is dying, the oceans are warming very rapidly. and we haven't seen the results of the massive loss of permafrost yet.

Unless we are rapidly transitioning to a socialist economic system and radically cutting our emissions through lifestyle changes and stopping the use of nonrenewable energy sources, I'm not sure what you count as progress.

climate change?

https://old.reddit.com/r/climatechange/comments/1bu38i1/seven_hard_truths_about_the_climate_crisis_the/

Here /r/environment discusses le 57 companies cause climate change

https://old.reddit.com/r/environment/comments/1bv8u63/just_57_companies_linked_to_80_of_greenhouse_gas/

Surprisingly they're not swallowing what the Guardian journos write

https://old.reddit.com/r/climate/comments/1bvjt44/flying_should_be_rationed_to_reduce_huge_climate/

How are goods and services traded in the solar punk utopia?

In some proposed anarchist systems, contracts that basically outline any duties you have in your community as well as the benefits you get from that community, so you do your duties and than head off to the food depot (which can look more or less just like a modern grocery store or farmers market or what have you) and they just take whatever food they need, no currency exchange, and farmers grow that food because they can also benefit from free goods and services in that community. This system functioned even during war time in Catalonia during WW2, where currency was forgone for organized unions sharing resources in absence of a top down hierarchical government, and could probably be improved over time as more people lived within it and gave input.

Again with Catalonia

We can be confident about what isn't solarpunk - fast fashion, proof of work, things that are wasteful of resources and harmful to the environment.

But we can't definitively say what's most solarpunk in either fashion or economics. Because solarpunk is local, anarchistic, and community focused, and in both cases communities should develop (or recover from precapitalist days) the customs that meet their particular needs.

Money is both uninteresting and trivial to solve. People have had this solved for thousands of years, using anything that denotes debt. That's what money is, an IOU.

People have written what they owe on clay tablets, on papyrus, they have used seashells, carved rocks, beads, etc and it's all worked relatively well. With electronic record keeping (NOT BLOCKCHAIN) , it's super simple to record everything and share those records.

With or without a post-scarcity reality (I'm not holding out for a Star Trek replicator), money isn't hard to create and use.

Dude there's no need for currency, we'll do what the ancient egyptians and Mesopotamians did but with electronics

!neolibs !anticommunists

This is a good alternate scene !trekkies!

Savage Dragon is the first comic property to degenerate into straight-up porn

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!math am I being bamboozed by this fricking nerd or what?

NEWS 🚨: The Event Horizon Telescope has captured the first image of our supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A, in polarized light pic.twitter.com/6KdrtMG4x1

— Latest in space (@latestinspace) March 27, 2024

https://eventhorizontelescope.org/blog/astronomers-unveil-strong-magnetic-fields-spiraling-edge-milky-way%E2%80%99s-central-black-hole

A new image from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration has uncovered strong and organized magnetic fields spiraling from the edge of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). Seen in polarized light for the first time, this new view of the monster lurking at the heart of the Milky Way Galaxy has revealed a magnetic field structure strikingly similar to that of the black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy, suggesting that strong magnetic fields may be common to all black holes. This similarity also hints toward a hidden jet in Sgr A*. The results were published today in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

https://old.reddit.com/r/climatechange/comments/1boane3/how_do_you_really_think_the_world_will_look_by/

Continuing with my lurking on climate related subs it seems like despair has completely taken over

Think what is happening in Haiti as we speak. Gaza. Ukraine. That's where we are heading. That is our trajectory. There will be green zones, but they will be under siege by the displaced and forgotten. Just a guess. I don't see anything that will really stop it. The inertia in the systems is profound. It will take more energy than was used to create it to turn it around. But maybe this is an opportunity to change. It could happen. Who knows? History tells another tale. Complex societies collapse. As in every single one.

Now the Gaza and Haiti comparison interesting because I'm seeing more and more talk on climate related subs about “climate refugees” I remember a comment (I can't find the thread anymore) where this redditor claimed the central american immigrants currently crossing the US border are climate refugees running away from draughts, which makes me wonder if they're going to start labeling every single economic migrant as a “climate refugee” from now on as well as labeling violent deaths in Central American (which is an ongoing thing for decades due to political instability m) as climate related deaths attributing their instability and poverty solely to climate Change.

And even fewer places to grow crops. Most of the worlds breadbaskets will be incapable of growing foodstuffs.

Extreme food insecurity fearmongering

We and the other life on this planet are going to be continuing the 6th mass extinction caused by our materialism.

Supply lines will be unreliable, electricity, water, in the developed world will slip into a state of disrepair.

I thought it was hyperbole but some people there seem to believe Mad Max is some sort of documentary

We spend a lot of time indoors or in closed spaces because of temperature extremes. Our food has changed dramatically because a lot of crops won't be sustained. Coffee for example will change to a different variety

Climate lockdowns and eating bugs

Imagine Gaza × (1,000 - 3,000)

Humanity is in a fear spiral and there is nothing so deadly as a scared human.

Xenophobia runs in our DNA. Clan warfare and scapegoating will run wild and there will be a great war of attrition.

Financial markets are already collapsing in a wealthy country like the US as the private insurance industry is unable to keep up with wildfire and flood risk.

Bonus thread on the economy

https://old.reddit.com/r/climatechange/comments/1bogpjo/save_the_world_or_save_the_economy_why_not_both/

One simple rule: You can't have infinite economic growth on a finite planet.

Sustainability, equilibrium, steady state, call it what you want. But growth can't continue. Economic inequality can't continue to increase

Don't these “people” understand degrowth means more poverty and inequality? Unless you mean more equally poor !neolibs

They want more green power plants, more housing, more public infrastructure all of this boosters GDP growth, the only coherent degrowth turds are neo ludites

This is probably fine pic.twitter.com/Q1p6qCyXpB

— ØSØ (@OsoBlanc0) March 24, 2024

https://futurism.com/the-byte/biologist-says-sun-conscious

A bong rip of a theory suggests that all matter possesses some form of mind or consciousness, not just animals — including, as one biologist suggests, the Sun itself.

In a fascinating dive into the hypothesis, which adherents call "panpsychism," Popular Mechanics reports that this out-there concept has existed for thousands of years, and in its more crystallized form has been bubbling around for the last few hundred years.

Though inklings of similar thought had existed since ancient Greece, the term "panpsychism" was, as the report explains, coined in the 16th century by Italian philosopher Francesco Patrizi. Though it enjoyed 19th century credibility when the psychology superstar Williams James publicly ascribed to it, the theory was veritably killed in the 1920s by the Vienna Circle when its "logical positivism" — the idea that philosophical questions must have logical answers — took hold of the philosophical world.

Fast forward to the year 2004, when another Italian, the neuroscientist and psychiatrist Giulio Tononi, proposed what he called the "integrated information theory of consciousness," which suggests that consciousness is, essentially, almost everywhere. By and by, a sort of panpsychist renaissance began to take place, and in 2014 — nearly 100 years after the Vienna Circle killed the feel-good theory — the respected neuroscientist Christof Koch argued in Scientific American that if lumps of matter can form into human bodies and become conscious, there's no reason that groups of elementary particles couldn't either.

While AI pioneer and fashion-forward hat-wearer Ben Goertzel has been an adherent since at least '04, perhaps one of the most compelling instances of panpsychist thought came in 2021, when biologist and author Rupert Sheldrake published a paper questioning whether the Sun itself might be conscious.

"Consciousness does not need to be confined to brains," Sheldrake told Popular Mechanics in its new story. "The link between minds and physical systems seems to be through rhythmic electromagnetic fields, which of course are present in our brains. They are also present in and around the Sun, and these could be the interface between the solar mind and the body of the Sun."

To be fair, there isn't a lick of evidence of support this theory. And Sheldrake is a peculiar character; he does hold a PhD in biochemistry, and he did research at Cambridge University in the 1970s. But since then he's been drawn to a variety of extremely out-there topics ranging from crystals to telepathy, and been largely dismissed in the mainstream.

Still, it's a fun idea in a sci-fi type of way. The Sun is a complex system; maybe it harbors mysteries we haven't yet comprehended.

And say the whole thing is somehow true — if so, what would the Sun think about?

"It may be able to choose in which direction to send out solar flares or coronal mass ejections," Sheldrake mused to PopMech, "which can have an enormous effect on life on Earth, and to which our technologies are very vulnerable."

Discuss.

https://x.com/StarfleetDesign/status/1772111358487625907