MostlyHarmless
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Grumpy. Jesus freak. A treaty would be ideal, but push for the Voice: perfect shouldn't stand in the way of good. (Also applies to carbon credit reduction scheme.)
A.R. Moxon, Verified Duck đŸ¦†When persuading those who refuse to enter a shared reality or respect humanity, it is far more effective to persuade them of consequences—that if they engage in abuse, they will be understood as an abuser and treated as one.
This persuades them without giving them authority over the persuasion.
So often persuasion is framed as one person changing another's mind. But a person is the only one with the power to change their mind, and appeals to logic and morality are only effective on those who have decided to be moved by logic, who have chosen a morality of equality rather than of domination.
Bowie
Prof. Sam LawlerI'll say it again: there is a hard limit to how many satellites you can have in orbit without terrible consequences, and I am quite sure we are already above that limit, mostly thanks to Starlink.
Does it ever seem utterly ridiculous that for a brief 50 years, we had nearly everything that every society on earth since the first creatures that could be considered human has yearned and worked and struggled and striven for...
And in that 50 years we just burned all our future to the ground? Poured petroleum on it and flipped the match? Ignored the screams of those who tried to persuade our society that we could live in moderation and give our children and our children's children a tilt at the same kind of bounteous existence...and just added another match or a dozen.
Sometimes I think how grateful I am to have lived at the apex of human civilisation. And then I am enraged that my nephews and nieces and their peers will never know this wild wealth of human thriving.
Random Mandelbrot