hanrahan

hanrahan, 18 hours ago

And Texas

hanrahan, 19 hours ago

And Russia is going to North Korea and China for shits and giggles becase they too need help as well as selling thier fossil fuels far and wide.

The issue isn’t Russia stops at Ukraine and it’s happy families, that can’t occur, millions of Ukranines will conduct partisan operstions for decades if they did take Ukraine at all.

The issues are many, an example, do you help your friends in times of need if they ask ? The US did sign a treaty in '91 saying they’d come to Ukraine’s defence if Ukraine gave their nukes up. Another issue, do random countires get to invade other countires and we’re all just meahhhh. It will also embolden countires to just say, no one will care and invade a neighbor (China, North Korea are watching) The US is sending a token amount of military, getting rid of their old shit and refreshing thier weapons systems, spending huge amounts of money in the US to do it. Simialry.otjer nations, like the Netherland, Denmark etc was getting rid of the F16s to replace them with F35s etc. The tanks gifted we’re old ones as another example…

Russia has already said they won’t stop there, so when they take Lithuania, what then ? Try it with Finland and what then ? What if they decide they want to take Poland, what then ?

Fuck Russia, give Ukraine what they want and need. We should be putting boots on the ground ) not at rhe front perhaps but logistics, mechanised repairs etc and military jets in the air.

hanrahan, 20 hours ago

So, GOP voters?

hanrahan, 19 hours ago

Every day, becoming more like the USA :(

hanrahan, 16 hours ago

And Tom.Cotton.

hanrahan, 18 hours ago

Reading the BDSM sections of the bible about stoning the ladies ?

hanrahan, 2 days ago

Quit work at 35, am now 58.

Regrets ? Not brave enough to quit earlier.

hanrahan, 5 days ago

I watched the original movie and thought it one of the best SciFi movies I’d ever seen with an awesome premise. The series was …farirly good .

hanrahan, 5 days ago

George Orwell quote “A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, theives and traitors are not victims…but accomplices”

hanrahan, 4 days ago

While that seem ostensibly sensible it isn’t really useful, you can’t transition away from just large cars, you still won’t have the carless infrastructure in place anyway.

As to vegan, i find the entire thing worrisome, conflating say a poor Cambodian who eats a little chicken with his noddles with a vegan American is ridiculous. The americans refrigerator alone is more destructive then his chicken, veg and noodle dinner. The entire idea is to look holistically. If yoire a vegan with a large dog, for example, you’re going to eat more meat then I do with my little permeculture set up and the poultry I raise and eat.

hanrahan, 4 days ago

Maybe they can send the poop emoji in reply if Meta does reaches out?

hanrahan, 6 days ago

Not sure what this has to do with climate change aside from potentially make it worse ? Seems it would increase emsisions and GDP as “the poor” will spend it.

We need to all emit like the poor do now. I’d suggest instead they spend it on good quality free PT and AT (cycling infrastructure etc) so the poor don’t need a car for example, immensely improving their lives and lowering emissions, pollution and heath care costs…

With less roads and parking they can infill with smaller, well insulated cheaper medium density housing, and trees and bushes, making many homes cheaper to live in as they don’t need as much energy, this immensely improves the lives of the poor and reduces emsisions.

Giving “poor people” more money within the orthodox neo-liberal shit show will make anything climate or enviormentally adjacent worse. Taking it alll off the rich will help in spades but this is tokenism that won’t help with emissions or biodiversity loss or plastic use etc.

That asdie, The Australian Green party went into the last federal election with a policy to tax the very wealthy much more but voters soundly rejected such policies, 75% voted againt it. I voted in the minority for it.

hanrahan, 6 days ago

Miami, Las Vegas, and Phoenix spring to mind as worse

That aide, there was a study published years ago, The Appalachians was mentioned as probably the best option from memory.

hanrahan, 5 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

the nobel in economics is just a fake award of other pseudoscientists tugging each others dicks.

For sure . for those not in thr know the Economics Nobel is set up by a Swedish Bank and uses Noble’s name.

There are plenty of absolutely damning counterarguments to nordhaus that make it so that nobody serious takes him seriously. hes a shill plain and simple

I don’t agree he’s not taken seriously, which is unfortuante. He’s the professor of Economics at Yale. Lots of his work was leant on by other confident idiots like Bjorn Lomborg and the likess of Richard Tol when he was involved in working group 3 of the IPCC and that’s often what informs policy decisions governmentally.

PS nice to see you here from Reddits collapse group? I don’t visit there anymore but did fire over a decade.

hanrahan, 6 days ago

Luckly they didnt divest huh ?

That said you can’t thave a fossil fuel company with a Climate plan. You’ll end up with some stupidity where they subsidise ecars for thier employees while expanding gas exploration and saying job done.

The only emissions worthy of consideration are scope 3, we have the same ludicrous situation at airports claiming to be Carbon neutral and enviormentally because they put solar panels on the roof and use rainwater for flushing the shitter.

hanrahan, 6 days ago

there should be an awakening in most voters’ minds about the idiocy of this policy.

History would seem to suggest the opposite. Or perhaps I am just not the optimist you are ? People voting for the LNP aren’t particularly “woke” to much of anything in my expereince, aside from entitlment and tribalism.

"I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative - John Stuart Mill

hanrahan, 6 days ago

It also allows them to shift blame to The Greens for pushing back againt nuclear when it all falls over. “See climate change and energy prices are The Greens fault” will be a simplistic mantra they can use to keep the outrage alive.

I heard that same thing endlessly after the 2019/2020 bushfires from numpties like Barnanby and every older perons I spoke too about the fires when they found out we’d lost so much in then said “you must be really upset with The Greens”. I’d just look and then say “No, I’m only upset with voters who didnt Vote Green”.

hanrahan, 6 days ago

The bridge was the myth sold by gas, no one was going to get excited by “slightly better then coal if everything goes right and there are no fugitive emissions”

science.org/…/natural-gas-could-warm-planet-much-…

Just have to look at the shitshow mess we’ve made of this with @ZLabe stuff for Berkly Earth (methane chart part way down"

zacklabe.com/climate-change-indicators/

hanrahan, 4 days ago

This… Does it still get updates or do I need to start again ?

hanrahan, 4 days ago

Just no, please no, for the love of god no ? that way inevitability leads to enshitification. YT itself is a giant shitshow from decades past

hanrahan, 6 days ago

Because I don’t remember voting on that

But surely anyone voting LNP/ALP must know that? Decades of voting for the orthodoxy means this is the inevitable for seeable result. The only ones occasionally pushing back againt this shit occasionally is The Greens.

None of this is new, I remember back in the day Bob Brown, an Australian Greens Senator and party leader no less, was banned from Parliament during a speech by US President Bush. As an Australian I was horrified. How is it that a member of our parliment was banned ?

The ALP lost it all after Gough was booted out and stopped being an alternative party and became the other arse cheek of the orthodoxy. He wanted to throw the lid off the shenanigan at Pine Gap.

Yes, I’m that old, yes I Vote Green

hanrahan, 6 days ago

This was such a harrowing read. In a just world, they’d all be up on manslaughter charges.

I am sure in 2 years they’ll be able to retire with PTSD on workers comp.