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Crush corporations, swiftly and without fanfare rebuild capitalism with worker co-ops, seize the means of production without all that stagnation and failure that usually follows.

A mistake many men make before going into a serious relationship is they think avoiding conflict and avoiding arguments should be their goal for both finding a partner and sustaining a relationship with them.

The whole idea of committing to someone long-term is that you want to pick someone who can share your life, that means you need someone whom you feel safe enough with that you can talk about or argue about the most personal of topics. You can disagree with each other and still be safe. A good relationship lets you be vulnerable with someone else and gives you a place where you can both let down your masks and be honest, and this often takes the form of emotional efforts to understand each other.

But where we're at now is a rapid backslide from that ideal image of relationships. We have people retreating to social media and bubble-worlds online where you can get your every terrible idea validated and your every insecurity defended. Where if you don't like how someone makes you feel, you can just click them away or call for mods. With men in these spaces, their attitude about women who disagree with them is less than charitable, to say the least.

When you spend time in that kind of environment and then go into a relationship with another person, you won't have emotional growth, it will be worse than if you were just a blank-slate. These forums and sites create bad mental habits. In self-defense I taught people for many years "It takes five minutes to take on a bad habit, and five years to get rid of it."

We are sponges for ideas and feelings of others, if you fill that sponge with angry men lashing out at the world and ranting about their own fantasies and validations, you're not going to be ready to have a real, intimate connection with another person.

They love weird insults that only make sense to them. Like "cuck."

There are millions of conservative men that find this deeply insulting, they hear the word and every nerve in their body lights up at the very idea of cuckolding. They sling the insult at other men expecting it to connect the same way and become enraged when they are met with smirking and chuckling and quizzical expressions.

They invented this insult at about the same time that cuckold fetish porn was lighting up and trending hard. We don't need to do TOO much math here to connect the ends of this soggy, frayed rope.

As I've said elsewhere here, the root of fascism always has been and always will be about sexual insecurity and the combination fear/arousal dichotomy that deeply repressed men have about their kinks. They will allow the world to burn and millions of lives extinguished just to preserve the narrative that they're "normal" while at the same time beating off like wild animals to the fantasy of swarthy, masculine, dark-skinned gentleman having sex with their wives or girlfriends.

In the words of the greatest treatise on political philosophy of our time, Disco Elysium, the entirety of Fascism boils down to "putting women in their place."

Everything else is just garnish and dressing to get to this one, fundamental idea, which is "women are scary" and need to be controlled in some way.

They will burn the world down and spark world wars that take millions of lives just to commit to the bit, but really it was always about just a deep sense of personal, subjective sexual insecurity.

There's a reason why so many incels and their ilk online identify as nazis and fascists. They are the same movement.

"This is totally normal, despite the fact that leftists and democratic voters generally don't do anything like this and aren't even offended."

I am happy to have raised the bar a little for online science discussion, it's very tempting and easy to rip someone's throat out if you don't understand what they're trying to communicate, and sadly I think that weird dopamine hit of attacking a stranger has become a worldwide addiction reaching pandemic proportions. But we're really shooting all ourselves in the foot by making a world where we can't talk to strangers. People stay strangers that way and strangers are less inclined to help each other, and in the coming decades... we will really, really need each other.

That all said, I am passionate about science with decades of study, and lately, specifically, geology and climate... I highly recommend some youtube channels like https://www.youtube.com/@HistoryoftheEarth or https://www.youtube.com/@myroncook for some starting points that are accessible and fascinating looks at the long, intense, unimaginable history of our planet, or another way of looking at it, the story of how rocks became something that can question where they came from.

I want seats next to nobody. How hard will that be to pull off?

I was raised by hoarders. I was the only one who ever did any cleaning. I was the only one in the house who knew how to operate the washing machines and vacuum cleaner at age 10. I made huge efforts sometimes to keep the place clean and organized, which turned into huge dramas as my parents used the new clean space as a reason to fight and be victims, until they would bring more shit in and leave it piled on top of the old shit.

To this day, if I could live in a blank, white box with nothing else at all, it would be heaven.

Nah, it looks like someone wanted to design a car but realized curves are complicated and hard to draw and model.

Judge Dredd aesthetic is brutal but aggressively practical, with function deciding form. The cybertruck was made in reverse, with a design that the Tesla engineers were forced to cram a vehicle into.

My only real claim is that we don’t know shit.

This is partially true. But I want to stress partially.

We do have very robust models of climate, of exchange cycles, of how chemicals and atmospheres and heat and cold and life all interplay, if we didn't have these models we wouldn't be aware of the impending danger and we would be saying "wow this hot spell sure is lasting" so let's give science some credit here.

And that's MY only position and reason for pushback. There STILL can be things done to avert the worst-case models, it's going to be bad but it could also be a lot worse if no action is taken, and more likely than not, our species is going to slide through this one like Indiana Jones grabbing his hat behind the lowering stone block, but it's not going to be without a lot of suffering and sorrow and loss of life.

But if this science denial/doubting continues, we might not gain enough traction and momentum in our education and outreach efforts to ensure actions are taken to reduce the amount of harm coming. The harm coming is going to be worse than anything we have imagined in Humanity's long history, but we CAN get through it, we may even fix it if enough people can start working together. Maybe a few more degrees and people's discomfort will finally drive our species to avert course at the last second like we tend to do a lot.

But science denial has been an agent of chaos that has put us here to begin with. I don't like using science to predict the near future and then abandoning it when we need to make educated speculation on what can and cannot happen. If you truly believe that this trend is going to lead to iron boiling on Earth's surface, that's fine and you can believe that and it's not a hill worth a fight much less a death, I'm just telling you that's not what's going to happen. Life will survive us.

The "exponential" heating curve you're seeing on the graphs is a measurement of rates of change, NOT a measurement of maximum possible heat indexes or a prediction of long-term climate models, because Earth's climate is complicated, it tends to change itself over long periods of time.

The most extreme instance we can see in the fossil/geological record was the Permian Extinction, where Earth lost 96% of all life, this was due to the Earth basically disemboweling itself across what's now Russia and Siberia. This was a lake of fire that covered a sizable portion of Earth and gases and ash that plunged the Earth into a runaway greenhouse with deadly acid oceans and then eventually back to frozen snowball as the greenhouse gases began to stabilize (most greenhouse gases don't have geologically long lifespans unless some process is replenishing them like Venus's volcanic activity, even Carbon will eventually react or bond with things and over vast stretches of time be pulled back into the Earth from a variety of biological and abiotic processes.)

It's also speculated that life was already thriving while Earth was undergoing the Late Heavy Bombardment, a period of around a billion years where Earth was just getting pummeled by everything from space debris to small planetoids, this was the period of time that saw the formation of the landscape of the Moon, and Earth didn't look too different, with seas of molten lava and craters everywhere.

While sure it's possible for a runaway greenhouse to create sterilizing conditions, there is just no scenario where we can see that as an outcome from human activity based on what we know.

And speculation does have its limits, we're just all trying to be smart here and show we understand those limits. Just because there are gaps in our knowledge, we don't need to summon Russel's Teapot.

We should leave AI to the realm of producing fringe/impossible porn, like it was meant for and like what everyone actually wants from it. All this "search engine" stuff is just cover like when you buy some non-lube products like groceries along with the tube of astroglide at 1:00 AM.

Yah I'm so happy every major internet and tech company is deciding to deliberately power every system we use with random word salad generators, there's no chance will cause any problems.