I WOULD RATHER FUCKING DIE THAN HAVE TO LOWER MY STANDARDS, SO I’LL FUCKING KILL YOU TO REMOVE MY SHARE OF CO2 IF YOU TRY TO FORCE ME TO LIVE WITHOUT MEDICATION, VIDEO GAMES AND THE INTERNET. I HATE YOU, I FUCKING HATE YOU, YOU PIECE OF SHIT FROM THE ASS OF A SON OF A BASTARD, NEVER TALK AGAIN!

It’s full nazi to kill people for what they believe. If you think Christianity is evil, then everything is evil because nothing is perfect. Christianity is not perfect, not objectively good and not more than an ideology no matter what it’s followers claim. That does not mean you get to go around killing people solely because you believe they’re evil. YOU’RE evil. You also aren’t being logical or reasonable, so take your jackass atheist self with delusions that everyone should have to face oblivion instead of SOME FORM of afterlife, and go fuck yourself.

I am transhumanist, not Christian, but I understand fear of death and always will. If you refuse to accept that it is NATURAL and OKAY to want to live forever, to try and stay as young as you feel forever, then I am done. Go away, or I’ll make you so fucking miserable you’ll beg for death. I’m done negotiating with the species that always found a reason to hate me since 2017.

You get personal attacks when what you want is directly in complete opposition to the only logical response. If the climate fails because we continued growing the middle class, then mankind was never meant to exist and we should go extinct. Fuck you, I hope you fucking suffer.

I was disappointed to realize this, but you’re probably right. If there’s no efficiency factor, it likely was not yet (if ever) a plausible energy source.

You have to understand, people are individuals but they are also a holistic collective. If you genuinely ignore the national borders, if race, religion, politics, wealth, sexuality, technological skill and freedom of choice are all removed from the “collective average” of the world’s opinion?

You get people who are afraid. And without those normally-acknowledged “boundaries” to muddle the numbers, you realize that collective is backed into a corner, and it is going to either die or kill whatever is planning to kill it.

That collective doesn’t actually exist or have a will of it’s own, no. The result of it’s effects are not any different than if it did, though, and that means we have a serious problem.

Even in WWII, people were taken in by nationalism in some form. We don’t have that this time. There is no overall “full unit of community” we respect. People will not join armies, people will not join cults, people will not join rebellions, parties, gangs. They, we, need to stop this now. If we do not stop, there will not be a rebuilding in the aftermath. People are too disillusioned with everything to rebuild.

When people fear the whole world, when they fear authoritarianism and anarchy in the same breath, when they cannot trust democracy because they cannot see each other as deserving of a stable, safe world? When having happiness is seen as antithetical to reality itself?

Stop. This. We can discuss how to fix this once we’ve demanded every government on the planet step down at the same time, and begin elections with ALL previous public servants barred from running, or face the consequences. If we don’t demand it, if we consider money to be worth anything anymore, we are all dead. Money is dead and it will remain so until we arrest the people adding to this pile of bullshit for treason.

If we don’t stop it, there’s no reason to be here. Let’s all just commit mass suicide if everything that exists is only there to exploit us.

I’ll be fair and say I admit anything I’ve said is not somehow more knowledgeable than those actually involved. I call it how I see it, and I know I can be wrong about things.

It would likely be a benefit to humanity if it were open-sourced but I’m sure that those countries/orgs that own these projects think otherwise.

Let’s be real here.

It would likely be a benefit to humanity if it were open-sourced but I’m sure that those countries/orgs that own these projects desire and work towards otherwise.

I didn’t click your link but even you wouldn’t be spreading the conspiracy theory of secret global police that kidnap random yellow people for the cpc, right?

Wait, that’s a hoax? Fucking TV news, even reposted on youtube where you have trouble telling who’s who, they manage to convince people of shit.

I’ll be clear though, the CCP is not to be unconditionally trusted. If you wouldn’t want a random person you never met to be suddenly world dictator, why trust an oligarchy that has proven they refuse to admit fallibility when they do fuck up? Tianamen square is - regardless of what you believe - no different than the people calling it with conspiracy theories about the US (or the whole “Global West”) and “a secret cabal of social elites” (and even if there is no cabal, look where we are now?).

The reason to not forget history is not because you can prevent it from repeating. It’s there so we can punish leaders who set themselves up to benefit from it repeating, because we all know where this is leading. Someone is going to commit the last straw, and the bloodbath against leadership in every country in retaliation for exploiting the masses cannot be stopped.

After that, I can’t forsee society recovering. We don’t want to recover. Too many people just want to murder anyone who, regardless of whether the victim deserved it, doesn’t fit into their worldview. Saying they deserved it doesn’t make it so. They only deserve it if they want to punish collectives for things, and most of the people who want to kill someone hate collectives, not individuals.

I hate Trump, Vance and Musk, but I don’t instantly jump to the conclusion that everyone’s already allied with them in the government. The purge is happening, but it’s not yet complete and it’s not too late to fight back.

The climate has to get worse for the goal of adding more people from the lower class to the middle class. As someone IN the middle class, who has actual empathy for other human beings, as long as we aren’t going out of our way to kill animals slowly and painfully and/or to the point of extinction, and the ecosystem hasn’t collapsed, I refuse to believe in any goal that puts some vague emphasis on “the climate” as the “good guy” in this.

Evolution is an endless process of monsters eating the babies that need the most help to survive. Nature is the reason we’re killing the environment, “survival of the fittest” i.e. only those with advantages survive and adapt to the changing status of the climate, is the very essence of the very capitalism that is killing the climate.

Survival of the fittest is obsolete and cruel. It’s time we stopped fighting for “the climate” and started defying capitalism, the one place where we can remove Darwinian competition from it without just destroying it further. Sadly, nature needs competition and death to be what it is. That is why we CHOOSE to see humans as separate, instead of justifying it by calling ourselves “just animals”. In the absence of an actual judge above man, we should strive to meet the expectations we would want a benevolent judge to force us to meet.

But let me guess, you’re some greenwashed zealot who only eats vegan food and will probably think I think avocado on toast is common for “young people”? Because only privileged assholes want middle class standards to be lowered. If the superyachts or personal “business” jets were barred from being used by wealthy people like bicycles to globetrot where “the riffraff” can’t afford to go, the dent in carbon emissions would outweigh ALL carbon emissions by everyone else. The rich need to stop riding alone, they can travel 1st class if they want but none of this having a personal jet plane with more seats than the owner has immediate family members. When a teenage “princess” owns a jet so she can fly back and forth to Europe partying non-stop in-flight and until they get back home from vacation-partying every weekend, owning a jet with more than 4 seats is no longer a reasonable thing for the law to allow for private citizens.

I can’t survive without the few luxuries in my life because I literally feel so miserable without access to video games that I would commit suicide. That’s not the same as thinking you’re too good to fly commercial, because I believe no one can reasonably be denied access to the luxuries I have and I understand that people are denied much of what I have. If society can’t uplift most people to middle class, fuck the climate. We’re better off dying if it is doomed to collapse before we achieve a world where people are able to truly enjoy living, not just survive.

Tesla’s death ray concept was both scary and crazy awesome-looking, I’ll give you that. I can understand why “shiny donut filled with PURE ENERGY” can be mistaken for a Tesla coil, and that it’s been revealed Tesla was a Eugenicist rather than the perfect old-fashioned science hero of the Industrial Revolution, but fortunately that and the reputation of the danger of nuclear power are severely overstated.

A fusion torus, essentially, is a wine glass. The plasma is the wine. Sure, it contains ethyl alcohol which is flammable (chefs use it in “au Flambe” dishes") and so people assume that because alcohol burns when you light it on fire to cook fancy food, but if you drop a wine glass, what happens?

It shatters. Except, even better, this wine glass is made with safety glass so that when it shatters, cleanup won’t mean sweeping up glass shards and treating cuts. What’s a little spilled wine compared to having a house named Wormwood (Chernobyl) burn down? This isn’t just a revolution in energy generation, it’s a revolution in the safety of energy generation. Hundreds of thousands die every year, mining coal. Tens of thousands have died for oil. Even renewables, while mostly non-fatal, have a higher ratio of deaths per unit of electricity than the “worst” case scenario of a fusion torus. Nobody has died from the worst case failure of a fusion torus, and that worst case failure has happened countless times before we got a stable fusion reaction.

I understand the pessimism on a political level, but if we survive this the way we survived WWII, fusion will mean a cold war of Mutually-Assured Destruction will be unlikely because now the only reason to have nuclear reactors is to produce compounds needed for medical purposes, which means no more meltdowns (such reactors aren’t for power generation and thus built to use its’ nuclear material in a not-meltdown-able way) thanks to replacing them with fusion.

Now, I know you’re thinking this could turn out to not be scalable or even too expensive to operate, like Concorde was to airplanes. Yes, that is a possibility. The good thing is, we’ve been holding back on redeveloping nuclear power plants because we wanted to at least hear “Oops, guess you were right, fusion is awesome but impractical” from the people trying to get it to work before we made any commitments.

Now we know it is possible. Now, there’s no excuse to not upgrade our electrical grids and use other safe nuclear plants like Thorium reactors or 4th Generation reactors (meltdown-proof thanks to a mechanism which relies on gravity to cool down the fuel, not mechanical “failsafes”) if fusion really is a pipe dream.

If you doubt that last one, imagine an electromagnet is holding a flange closed while the power plant is powered. The fuel is in a spherical shape, submerged in heavy water that boils from the radiation. Suddenly OH NO there’s an earthquake and tsunami and now the power plant is completely unpowered.

The spherical fuel pods not only can power the plant’s own systems, if that fails due to complete catastrophe, the flange that is on the bottom of the pipe at a 90-degree bend loses it’s electromagnetic fastener… and the spheres all plop into an underground chamber filled with more than enough water to keep them cool and thus prevent them from, you know, literally melting their way towards the center of the earth.

It’s not foolproof but unless the lead-lined cooling tank is breached, probability of meltdowns are outside the realm of reasonable doubt. Now think about what fusion offers. Not just “outside the realm of reasonable doubt”, it offers no chance of a meltdown, ever.

This isn’t a weapon. This is a tool that could have saved the Fallout universe (fusion-powered Corvega cars, but in that world America banned their export and also they exploded in mini-nuclear mushroom clouds when damaged, go figure) from weapons, and it can still help save ours from weapons. The worst this will do is make the use of renewables an undeniable way forward, the best could - if we’re lucky - push us permanently into a post-scarcity society.

Smartphones and computers, like the fediverse’s instances, still need electricity. Until now, most electricity has needed to be partly powered in blood. Let’s change that.