Basically:
- Canada has a lot of boreal forest
- The scale of fires in boreal forests have increased sharply due to higher temperatures (including indirect effects, such as by enabling bark beetles to survive the winter)
Basically:
Kennedy. Got busted with heroin a while back.
Nobody cares because he owned up to having a worm eat part of his brain, and that's a lot worse
The crazy part is that there are two men running who fit the description
They apparently set up a checkpoint and asked people if they were Jewish, presumably to beat up or kill those who acknowledged their religion
I look at a graph of gasoline prices for WA state, and a national one:
and it looks like somewhere around a $0.10/gallon higher premium on WA state gasoline as compared with the country as a whole. That's a pretty negligible effect.
Yes, Curtis Yarvin, writing under the pen name Mencius Moldbug
The average donation was about $91.
I'd say that it's a broad swath of the middle class kicking in.
Pretty much "Science fiction warns us of the evils of building the Torment Nexus. Let's tell people why a Torment Nexus is really great and build one!"
They wrote a book saying that, yes.
This is seriously messed up:
He then concluded that the “best humane alternative to genocide” is to “virtualize” these people: Imprison them in “permanent solitary confinement” where, to avoid making them insane, they would be connected to an “immersive virtual-reality interface” so they could “experience a rich, fulfilling life in a completely imaginary world.”
Yarvin’s disturbing manifestos have earned him influential followers, chief among them: tech billionaire Peter Thiel and his onetime Silicon Valley protégé Senator J.D. Vance
Which means that it takes bottom-up organizing to force politicians to address climate.