The French will never agree.

Their stance has always been, if France is threatened we will use every weapon in our arsenal.

They do not have end the world stocks of nukes like the US or Russia so their attitude is, “Fuck with us and we will end you.”

Yes. And 75% of car driver believe they are above average as well…

Capitalism also needs a functioning environment to continue…

Reads post and your comment. Checks what community I am viewing.

Well, it was fun while the fediverse was not just a cesspit of US politics

Well, that turned political quickly.

Yeah…

After reading the title I thought of that person in seemingly every office’workplace who fucks shit up on purpose so it gets assigned to someone else.

If you are going all the way back, movie wise, you can start at Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan as the first one is not the strongest.

2, 3 and 4 make a good trilogy.

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

Made mid '80’s.

If you had been a fly on the wall, you would have seen the lines on the table…

Well, at least the front hasn’t fallen off.

Cool.

Let the short selling begin.

Give them advice about how to do it to someone else.

The vast majority of people (i include myself in this) will fuck it up in some way and end up harming themselves. If you seek to destroy someone’s life and you don’t actually end it, you leave behind someone who has nothing left to lose and is highly motivated to find who is responsible.

If you destroy someone’s life they may end yours.

Still worthy of pity

Not from me. They are adults, they made their bed. Their children are the real victims.

To be happy at other people’s misfortune is not ok.

I honestly don’t think this applies here. This is a direct result of their own actions. No one forced them.

To me this is a case of: You reap what you sow.

Did you read the comment you replied to or did you just spit out this pre-packaed reply that addresses nothing the original comment raised?

Simply put.

We wouldn’t notice anything.

Our perception of the world would be based only on the compute cycles and not on any external time-frame.

The machine could run at a Million Billion hertz or at one clock-cycle per century and your perception of time inside the machine would be the same.

Same with low ram, we would have no indication if we were constantly being paged out to a hard drive and written back to ram as required.

Greg Egan gave a great explanation of this in the opening chapter of his Novel Permutation City

Got a followup?

No?

Didn’t think so.

Were you expecting a reply while you typed the comment?

Sort of, although Pom is at least a century older as Seppo was coined during world war 2. It comes from the rhyming slang Yank to Septic Tank to Seppo.

It came from the swagger of the US service men in Aus during the war and the implication that many of them are full of shit.

Don’t worry Captain, it is logical. The needs of the many outweigh

The needs of the few

…or the one.

Yup. Though original is probably the better description.

My thought as well.

The people who well understand climate change know there is nothing we can actually do to stop it now.

Even if humans completely stopped greenhouse gas emissions tomorrow, the co2 already released will continue to warm the planet for centuries to come.

All we can do now is mitigate its affects. The jury is still out as to how effective that will be or even if we will actually do anything at all.