The quality of slashdot is amazing. They hit the spot 20 years ago with selective moderation and all other news aggregators sacrificed the moderate way of slashdot: between egalitarian (everybody can vote) and elite (only admins can vote) for more clicks and more users.
There are plenty of other user generated content, but in terms of politics, it's either a liberal circlejerk like reddit or various right-wing circlejerk alternatives like voat.
Slashdot amazingly combines balanced presentation of both liberal and conservative views and mostly, these are insightful, comments.
I have been an active reader almost since the beginning, had infatuation with reddit for a while, but lately i returned back.
For every single piece reported both on Slashdot and Reddit, Slashdot consistently provide more interesting user-generated reading material, more diverse, more thoughtful, than that sesspool Reddit. Screw the egalitarianism. If I never see again another pimply 27-year old barrista online, I'll die a happy man.
To Slahdot admins: would you please retire "Flamebait" and "Troll" modifier? Every single article on the front page in the that rectangle of mosly commented articles is already flame by definition. Are you downvoting people who bring the article to a front page?
This does not make sense. And Troll is a stupid designation, it is used 100% of time against people with minority political opinions.
I'll see your anecdotal evidence with my own. Where I am, forty years ago it was common to see the winter temperature drop below -50C for several days at a stretch, spending several weeks below -40C. The last few years, the coldest day of winter kissed -40C once, briefly, but otherwise got no colder than low -30s.
I am struggling to understand what is your complaint here. Are you some kind of creepfan of freezing nose-frostbiting climate?
What I love about Slashdot is absence of censorship. Reddit would ban three times already all three of us for our comments (what a shithole, I wish slashdot had more users, of course, that would convert slashdot to reddit, because Eternal September, do not get me started)
To me the constant Global Warming Boogeyman is the lefts version of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
No, it's not. First of all, FSM is a satire, as you know, second, it does not involve any scare. Third, it's very fringe satire, and only pimply juvenile imbeciles ever use it in their opportunistic fight with "the man".
An especially clear example of this is todays NYT feature on Scary Global Warming, How much hotter is your hometown [nytimes.com].
When you were born, the SecretTown area could expect about 2 days per year to reach at least 90 degrees
(why am I forbidden to copy/paste this, stupid NYT?)
Today, the SecretTown area can expect about 4 days at or above 90 degrees per year, on average
year of birth, (do not ask, it's impolite to ask old people about their age):
4 days>=90 (can't show you the website not to reveal the country)
Which is expected, given that the proposed arbitrary measure of severity of local climate changes (I am more interested in number of flood days, number of tornado days, number of 100-people-a-day-immolated-alive days per year).
In my area, for example, let's pick a different measure: number of days where temperature drops below -20C = -4F (that's when schools used to close in my childhood - important economic factor given that the parents will likely skip work as well to look for the children):
winter 2017/2018: 30 days -4F or lower
year of birth: 34 days -4F or lower
Looks like we get worth in summer and better in winter equally in the area of interest. I am not really sure what this proves. It's just some data-wrangling fun:-)
I would LOVE to see a serious discussion on climate at some point.
I do not know the worth climate and how it will be but on the Internet it will always be September climate. So, no, LOVE whatever you want, you won't get much of it anywhere nowadays.
You are absolutely right. We need to take measures handling climate change consequences, not only measures preventing more drastic climate change.
We are breathing out now, literally, more CO2 than we produced by all burning in 1950 and by that time we were already up 0.5 degrees Celsius compared to XIX century.
We are already experiencing effects of climate change and instead of shouting "I told ya!" and in addition to calling for changes in regulation that will affect climate change in 10 years only, we need to invest a lot now in federal measures to handle existing consequences.
Oil burning will be there with us for a long time. Oil is a strategic fossil fuel - everything in military runs on oil, because oil is most autonomous way of having an energy supply in the battlefield. Nuclear subs are the only exception to that.
No major military country will sacrifice their military needs more than required by current slow-moving disarmament tendency (does it even exist now?) . Anybody who would argue with this does not know how things work
What we can do and should do is handling existing problems that are 100% happening instead of future consequences.
Do both things: reduce greenhouse gas emissions AND spend more on infrastructure to prepare for warmer Earth.
Another point that what happened a million years ago cannot be used by himanity in any practical way. All that matters is what we have now: technoloy, experiments, verifiable and falsifiable hypotheses.
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Get lost, troll
Saying ASAP does not sound like expert should be saying. Too non specific
The quality of slashdot is amazing. They hit the spot 20 years ago with selective moderation and all other news aggregators sacrificed the moderate way of slashdot: between egalitarian (everybody can vote) and elite (only admins can vote) for more clicks and more users.
There are plenty of other user generated content, but in terms of politics, it's either a liberal circlejerk like reddit or various right-wing circlejerk alternatives like voat.
Slashdot amazingly combines balanced presentation of both liberal and conservative views and mostly, these are insightful, comments.
I have been an active reader almost since the beginning, had infatuation with reddit for a while, but lately i returned back.
For every single piece reported both on Slashdot and Reddit, Slashdot consistently provide more interesting user-generated reading material, more diverse, more thoughtful, than that sesspool Reddit. Screw the egalitarianism. If I never see again another pimply 27-year old barrista online, I'll die a happy man.
Again: look what this dumbass angel'o'sphere said:
You are not only an imbecile you are also a lying sleight of hand piece of shit bastard because that's not I was commenting about at all.
Again: look what this dumbass angel'o'sphere said:
To Slahdot admins: would you please retire "Flamebait" and "Troll" modifier? Every single article on the front page in the that rectangle of mosly commented articles is already flame by definition. Are you downvoting people who bring the article to a front page?
This does not make sense. And Troll is a stupid designation, it is used 100% of time against people with minority political opinions.
I am struggling to understand what is your complaint here. Are you some kind of creepfan of freezing nose-frostbiting climate?
What I love about Slashdot is absence of censorship. Reddit would ban three times already all three of us for our comments (what a shithole, I wish slashdot had more users, of course, that would convert slashdot to reddit, because Eternal September, do not get me started)
No, it's not. First of all, FSM is a satire, as you know, second, it does not involve any scare. Third, it's very fringe satire, and only pimply juvenile imbeciles ever use it in their opportunistic fight with "the man".
(why am I forbidden to copy/paste this, stupid NYT?)
2018:
https://www.timeanddate.com/we...//historic?month=9&year=2018
Tested may-through september - 5 days >= 90
year of birth, (do not ask, it's impolite to ask old people about their age):
4 days>=90 (can't show you the website not to reveal the country)
Which is expected, given that the proposed arbitrary measure of severity of local climate changes (I am more interested in number of flood days, number of tornado days, number of 100-people-a-day-immolated-alive days per year).
In my area, for example, let's pick a different measure: number of days where temperature drops below -20C = -4F (that's when schools used to close in my childhood - important economic factor given that the parents will likely skip work as well to look for the children):
winter 2017/2018: 30 days -4F or lower
year of birth: 34 days -4F or lower
Looks like we get worth in summer and better in winter equally in the area of interest. I am not really sure what this proves. It's just some data-wrangling fun :-)
I do not know the worth climate and how it will be but on the Internet it will always be September climate. So, no, LOVE whatever you want, you won't get much of it anywhere nowadays.
Have you ever done any modeling, dumbass?
I have been modeling biological data for 35 years, shithead, and you an insane imbecile
Answer his question:
bq. For example, how big a rise was he predicting — and how big is claimed by the measurements both back then and today?
You are downvoted unfairly.
You are absolutely right. We need to take measures handling climate change consequences, not only measures preventing more drastic climate change.
We are breathing out now, literally, more CO2 than we produced by all burning in 1950 and by that time we were already up 0.5 degrees Celsius compared to XIX century.
We are already experiencing effects of climate change and instead of shouting "I told ya!" and in addition to calling for changes in regulation that will affect climate change in 10 years only, we need to invest a lot now in federal measures to handle existing consequences.
Oil burning will be there with us for a long time. Oil is a strategic fossil fuel - everything in military runs on oil, because oil is most autonomous way of having an energy supply in the battlefield. Nuclear subs are the only exception to that.
No major military country will sacrifice their military needs more than required by current slow-moving disarmament tendency (does it even exist now?) . Anybody who would argue with this does not know how things work
What we can do and should do is handling existing problems that are 100% happening instead of future consequences.
Do both things: reduce greenhouse gas emissions AND spend more on infrastructure to prepare for warmer Earth.
Step 4 is the only rational step. The other three is just stupid libertarian retarded retro-dream.
Grow up already. Thats not how things go in post industrial society.
Go back to xix century, libertarian pest
Where is the website where old people like me still complain about Eternal September?
I want to go back to 1991 and never see perpetual brown wave of pimply brainless drone imbeciles.
As a fellow old man, I would not brag about it
Most Americans think what mass media tells them to think
I need a Win box at home to do remote desktop to work. The only other option is Mac and they are pricy
I am tired of bringing up Antarctica argument as an example of difficulties on the interplanetary expansion.
Finally, somebody else with a name, even as dubious as Bill Nye, brings it up as well
I agree. One of them was the same laptop he used to read Slashdot.
He better be using them cheap laptops for less than $1000 a piece.
$20 is the minimum people give as a charity to a homeless person. $5 is nothing.
Screw the habitat. All the wildlife in the world is not worth the life of a single human and we just burned aluve 71 of them due to this negligence.
Graphene. We already gave NP for fullerenes
Physics is over, but they laugh ot me as if I am some kind of Lord Kelvin
Another point that what happened a million years ago cannot be used by himanity in any practical way. All that matters is what we have now: technoloy, experiments, verifiable and falsifiable hypotheses.