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“Essentially, overshoot is a crisis of human behaviour,” says Merz. “For decades we’ve been telling people to change their behaviour without saying: ‘Change your behaviour.’ We’ve been saying ‘be more green’ or ‘fly less’, but meanwhile all of the things that drive behaviour have been pushing the other way. All of these subtle cues and not so subtle cues have literally been pushing the opposite direction – and we’ve been wondering why nothing’s changing.”

The paper explores how neuropsychology, social signalling and norms have been exploited to drive human behaviours which grow the economy, from consuming goods to having large families. The authors suggest that ancient drives to belong in a tribe or signal one’s status or attract a mate have been co-opted by marketing strategiesto create behaviours incompatible with a sustainable world.

“People are the victims – we have been exploited to the point we are in crisis. These tools are being used to drive us to extinction,” says the evolutionary behavioural ecologist and study co-author Phoebe Barnard. “Why not use them to build a genuinely sustainable world?”

Just one-quarter of the world population is responsible for nearly three-quarters of emissions. The authors suggest the best strategy to counter overshoot would be to use the tools of the marketing, media and entertainment industries in a campaign to redefine our material-intensive socially accepted norms.

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two U.S. Navy SEALs are missing after conducting a nighttime boarding mission Thursday off the coast of Somalia, according to three U.S. officials.

The SEALs were on an interdiction mission, climbing up a vessel when one got knocked off by high waves. Under their protocol, when one SEAL is overtaken the next jumps in after them.

Both SEALs are still missing. A search and rescue mission is underway and the waters in the Gulf of Aden, where they were operating, are warm, two of the U.S. officials said.

The U.S. Navy has conducted regular interdiction missions, where they have intercepted weapons on ships that were bound for Houthi-controlled Yemen.

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

they've already weathered a decade of CIA drone strikes and Saudi air strikes. did anyone believe these recent strikes were anything but performative actions by a humiliated US administration?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/13/us/politics/houthis-yemen-us-airstrikes.html

 

lmao, gotta respect the grift

 

Obviously just a vibes problem that can be fixed with better messaging...

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Accurate. Also lmao at the break dancing.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I was gonna say... do these libs actually believe Biden is the one governing and working on policy? This isn't like most White House admins where the president (and vice president) is at the center of policy discussions and constantly signing off on kill-orders (remember when Obama bragged about how every morning he signed extrajudicial kill orders), instead Biden is purely a figure head for a cabinet of Mayor Pete and Samantha Powers types. I also doubt it is a Nixon or Trump situation where the executive is constantly ranting and giving orders to nuke stuff that everyone has to pretend they didn't hear issued. Fkd up thing is I don't actually have a problem with this after considering the alternative.

Even more comical is that it isn't a Bush-Cheney situation because obviously Kamala isn't the one running the show but like Biden is a well-medicated figure head being shuffled around.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

programming.dev actually has some pretty cool people that have real discussions after everyone gets to know each other. like we have had some heated threads but almost all of them have resulted in everyone eventually going "huh, learned something new today". They seem to be mostly nerdy internet forum types and that is super cool. startrek.website seems to be the same deal.

Now shit.just.works on the other hand seems to be a bunch of anime profile pic social media users who spout reactionary thought-killing bullshit. No attempt to better understand each other or even defend. Can't even just have a normal discussion about hobbies, entertainment, or tech without one of them jumping in to say something despicable then act outraged when someone asks "wtf, why can't you be normal".

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Shouldn't be a surprise. Did everyone forget that figures like Jordan Peterson became famous online due to being prominent Quora users. Quora hasn't recently become like this, it has always been like this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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