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#31
Off the Record / Re: Are we in the opening scen...
Last post by Josquius - January 04, 2026, 03:44:12 PMCarbon capture plants will have so little to do with solving climate change. as to be effectively zero.
Without an amazing breakthrough they just don't work in remotely the league of something that could make a different.
They're basically just a scam being pushed by polluters so they can pretend to be responsible whilst changing nothing.
Climate change is far from solved too.
The current rate of change in efforts to tackle it is such that an end is in realistic sight but not fast enough yet.
If you're an optimist you can see the speed of change picking up so we do avoid the worst... But we are already past the "very bad" level. No helping.
Agreed on making having kids affordable.
Also promoting general economic equality, housing, and transport so people can live reach of their parents.
For mitigating climate change my hope, though far future wards, is in space borne solar shields to try and bring temperatures back down towards optimal levels albeit in a reversible way if they re unforseen impacts.
Without an amazing breakthrough they just don't work in remotely the league of something that could make a different.
They're basically just a scam being pushed by polluters so they can pretend to be responsible whilst changing nothing.
Climate change is far from solved too.
The current rate of change in efforts to tackle it is such that an end is in realistic sight but not fast enough yet.
If you're an optimist you can see the speed of change picking up so we do avoid the worst... But we are already past the "very bad" level. No helping.
Agreed on making having kids affordable.
Also promoting general economic equality, housing, and transport so people can live reach of their parents.
For mitigating climate change my hope, though far future wards, is in space borne solar shields to try and bring temperatures back down towards optimal levels albeit in a reversible way if they re unforseen impacts.
#32
Off the Record / Re: Vote in the New York City ...
Last post by Syt - January 04, 2026, 03:40:29 PMQuote from: Jacob on January 04, 2026, 02:02:40 PMQuote from: Josquius on January 04, 2026, 01:57:41 PMName one historian who isn't a freak.
Suetonius?
He's a gossip columnist.
#33
Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...
Last post by Admiral Yi - January 04, 2026, 02:58:24 PMQuote from: Tamas on January 04, 2026, 02:49:24 PMI need a definition of definition.
Why?
#34
Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...
Last post by Tamas - January 04, 2026, 02:49:24 PMQuote from: Admiral Yi on January 04, 2026, 02:35:59 PMQuote from: mongers on January 04, 2026, 02:21:13 PMWere you just quoting trump or have you jumped on the 'fake news' intellectual bandwagon?
I need a definition of fake news intellectual bandwagon.
I need a definition of definition.
#35
Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...
Last post by DGuller - January 04, 2026, 02:41:32 PM"Fake news" was a concept before Trump adopted it. In fact, he probably adopted it to neuter the original legitimate meaning, which became popularized when discussing fake content on Facebook and the likes that impacted the 2016 election.
#36
Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...
Last post by Admiral Yi - January 04, 2026, 02:35:59 PMQuote from: mongers on January 04, 2026, 02:21:13 PMWere you just quoting trump or have you jumped on the 'fake news' intellectual bandwagon?
I need a definition of fake news intellectual bandwagon.
#37
Off the Record / Re: Are we in the opening scen...
Last post by Legbiter - January 04, 2026, 02:32:48 PMAll this geopolitical turmoil feels like a warm old blanket to me. Cold War 2.0
AI is hyped to the sky by overleveraged SF tech elites, so far it's been an upgraded spellchecker and wiki assistant. I can see it freeing a lot of drudge type white collars from their desks. School exams will go back to written essays and verbal exams (already happening).
As to climate change, it's largely solved, if imperfectly, giant carbon capture plants in Iceland will sequester excess carbon to turn it into rock. Already happening on a small scale, fairly easy to scale up. As an aside, we're just about out of the Little Ice Age so the next few centuries would be balmier by default. So if you get more heat related weather events, a simple kyrie eleison should do. God will preserve his own.
As to birth rates, just pay them. That's it, just pay young people the same eye-watering amounts we spend on treating cancer in boomers to give them an extra 1-2 years of shitty extra life. Problem solved.
AI is hyped to the sky by overleveraged SF tech elites, so far it's been an upgraded spellchecker and wiki assistant. I can see it freeing a lot of drudge type white collars from their desks. School exams will go back to written essays and verbal exams (already happening).
As to climate change, it's largely solved, if imperfectly, giant carbon capture plants in Iceland will sequester excess carbon to turn it into rock. Already happening on a small scale, fairly easy to scale up. As an aside, we're just about out of the Little Ice Age so the next few centuries would be balmier by default. So if you get more heat related weather events, a simple kyrie eleison should do. God will preserve his own.
As to birth rates, just pay them. That's it, just pay young people the same eye-watering amounts we spend on treating cancer in boomers to give them an extra 1-2 years of shitty extra life. Problem solved.
#38
Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...
Last post by mongers - January 04, 2026, 02:21:13 PMQuote from: Admiral Yi on January 04, 2026, 02:12:43 PMQuote from: Jacob on January 04, 2026, 02:01:22 PMFair.
What I'm really wondering is what you think drives the current sentiments we hear about the affordability crisis (that there is one and that it's a big deal), if inflation is actually low?
Are there actual economic realities behind it separate from inflation, or is there something else that drives the narrative?
To be transparent - I don't have a strong opinion on the issue and no real understanding of how real or not real the affordability crisis is in the US.
My reddit feed has a semi-steady stream of articles with headlines with "'I Can't Afford This' Trump Voters in Rural America Stunned as Cost of Living Keeps Rising" and I'm wondering how real it is beyond the anecdote.
To be blunt I think it's Democratic fake news. CNN and NPR hunt down some anecdotes, avoid quanitifying it, and call it a thing.
Were you just quoting trump or have you jumped on the 'fake news' intellectual bandwagon?
#39
Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...
Last post by Admiral Yi - January 04, 2026, 02:12:43 PMQuote from: Jacob on January 04, 2026, 02:01:22 PMFair.
What I'm really wondering is what you think drives the current sentiments we hear about the affordability crisis (that there is one and that it's a big deal), if inflation is actually low?
Are there actual economic realities behind it separate from inflation, or is there something else that drives the narrative?
To be transparent - I don't have a strong opinion on the issue and no real understanding of how real or not real the affordability crisis is in the US.
My reddit feed has a semi-steady stream of articles with headlines with "'I Can't Afford This' Trump Voters in Rural America Stunned as Cost of Living Keeps Rising" and I'm wondering how real it is beyond the anecdote.
To be blunt I think it's Democratic fake news. CNN and NPR hunt down some anecdotes, avoid quanitifying it, and call it a thing.
#40
Off the Record / Re: Vote in the New York City ...
Last post by HVC - January 04, 2026, 02:08:08 PMQuote from: Oexmelin on January 04, 2026, 02:05:32 PMMost historians are pretty boring.
Boring people can be weird. Ever meet a train guy?