you have no way to convince billionaires to fund it.

give everything left to billionaires so that they follow a plan that addresses global warming but in a way that’s profitable for billionaires without putting any constrain on them”

What I wrote is really not that complicated but it’s clearly beyond your understanding. I’m sure other people will get it.

No, the alternative is to elect people who give a damn and know what they’re doing, go after the oligarchs, tax the hell out of them so that states actually have resources to get shit done.

Ok, so keep waiting for everyone to wake up while the temperatures raise. That worked great for the last 3 decades. I’m sure we can keep doing it for couple more with same results. Let’s just move the goal to 3C and keep waiting.

Public money that we give to them in exchange of a promise they’ll do something useful?

I already explained. Not for a promise, for implementing it. We have to come up with actual, concrete plan that will lower temperatures. It will be very expensive. To implement it we will have to extract even more wealth from the 99% and pay private companies to implement it. 1% will benefit by implementing it, not by promising something. Private contractors make money on public projects every day. Look it up.

And let’s be clear, I obviously know that the world will go with your plan and nothing will be done while everyone waits for revolution. I jut want people to understand what’s going on.

You have two choices:

• get up right now, storm the headquarters of the oil and AI companies, kick out the corrupt politicians and change the system
• pay the rich people to save up

Did you get up? Are you storming? No? Then it’s already too late the only solution is to pay up.

Maybe if more people will realize what the choices are something will move.

By the way: geo-engineering is not a “solution” backed by climate experts.

Geo-engineering is taboo. Climate experts are afraid that if we start talking about it seriously we will abandon other, less risky, sustainable solutions. Those solutions are gone now.

In theory it’s not too late to stay under +2"C,

But in practical terms it is. While we were waiting for “radical measures” we blew past 0.5C goal, 1C goal and now we will blow past 2C goal. Turns out waiting for solutions simply does not lower CO2 emissions.

It’s incredibly naive to think they’ll “fix it” by giving them even more money.

I’m not saying that we should just give them more money and they will be nice enough to fix it. Yes, that would be naive.

What I’m saying is that we have to come up with a plan they will get behind. They will only support a plan that’s profitable for them.

they have no idea how to fix it

I’m not saying we should ask them to come up with the solution. Scientist will design the solution. It will be extremely expensive. The money will be extracted from lower classes. Private companies owned by the oligarchs will implement it and profit from it massively.

The alternative is to continue demanding the ruling class sacrifice their wealth for the greater good while they ignore us and nothing gets done.

Yes, because the current plan is working and everything is going so great!

Let’s face it, paying our ruling class to solve climate change is the only viable solution. We have two options:

• let them amass all the wealth while they destroy the planet
• let them amass all the wealth while they save the planet

The other options are gone already. Experts are saying that if tax the wealthy now we may be able to limit the heating to 2C. 2C is mass deaths and destruction. Our best hope now, if we do the impossible and introduce global wealth tax, is a global disaster…

Current plan failed already. Time for plan B: pay the oligarchs not to kill all of us.

And don’t even start with the “time for a revolution” bullshit. It’s too late for that to.

US press is pathetic. White House press corp was taken over by right wing influencers and weaklings straight out afraid of Trump. He insults them right in their faces and they all just stare at him blankly. The entire WH Correspondent’s Association capitulated over free speech and just to get Trump to sit at their dinner canceled the traditional entertainment section. Entire fucking networks are cancelling shows Trump doesn’t like. US media was taken over by capitalists and no one stands up for the people anymore. Sad!

It will grow more than that when we finally admit geo-engineering is the only way to deal with climate change and we’ll have to use SpaceX to send sun-blocking shit into orbit.

1. Buy stock when it’s valued at $1.75 trillion
2. Elon says on twitter he thinks it will be worth $3 trillion soon
3. Some idiots buy stock, price goes up
4. You sell
5. Profit

You can keep doing this as long as there’s a bigger idiot down the line. If you’re still holding the stock when it collapses you’re the biggest idiot and you lose.

I bought a 35 euro WiFi router that works great with OpenWRT.

Still inconvenient and still can be easily stolen just by looking over your shoulder.

Blackberry had unlock mechanism that let you unlock phone with a single, quick gesture and was impossible to steal.

You had to swipe the number overlay to put a correct number in a specific place in the image. Quick, easy, secure.

I’m saying that PIN is inconvenient. Most people prefer fingerprint over PIN because it’s so much more convenient but it means you can be easily forced to unlock your phone. Pattern is a nice compromise but GrapheneOS developers decided to remove it because they consider it not secure enough. Which is baffling because PIN is just as easy to steal just by looking at someone’s screen.

Because it’s a de-googled android with better features.

Yeah, I prefer iode but when I got my phone Pixel 8a still wasn’t supported and I installed Graphene. Now I have too many apps to reinstall. My next phone will be iode though.

That’s great. Can I also add 5 min mandatory wait time between the fingerprint and PIN to make it even more inconvenient?

Ok, the authorities can try to unlock my phone to look for evidence HAHAHA

What? They just used my thumb without consent?

Because GrapheneOS only lets you use PIN or Fingerprint?

Because they think pattern is not secure?

Well, shit.

I honestly don’t know what part of this is enshitification and what part it’s actual inability to protect their ranking algorithms. There’s so much money in SEO now companies are willing to do crazy things to position their spam. They host entire networks of sites that link to one another, pay people to write spam content and so on. Maybe they could spend more money on detection and keep fighting it, maybe at this point it’s impossible.

I think it’s the smell. I remember some scientist did a experiment where he sat in a room full of mosquitoes and counted the bites to different parts of the body. He got most bites in the feet but when he washed them and tried the mosquitoes stopped attacking feet more than other body parts.

most mosquitos would be hanging out under your desk where your feet are.

Nooooo! No my feet!

1. Announce plans to build shitload of datacenters
2. Sign deal with NVIDIA to buy chips for those centers
3. NVIDIA’s stock goes up. NVIDIA invest profits in AI companies
4. AI companies use this money to offer tokens below market price
5. AI companies say usage is up so they will need more datacenters
6. Repeat until everything explodes
7. Profit

Maybe you’re right. People have less resources and less spare time. Maybe we are fucked, even in the short-mid term. It looks pretty good to me (a lot of big players rely on Linux and core open source infrastructure, open source/self hosted tools are generally recognized as better for the business, we moved out from proprietary standards to open ones, there’s push for interoperability and so on) but maybe there are deeper issues I don’t see and it will all collapse sooner than I think.

You’re missing the point. Sure you do, that’s a nice anecdote, but the data shows most people don’t. You are part of a shrinking cohort that is already insufficient to maintain what we need in the long run.

But you accused me specifically of not contributing. If you’re making a broader point don’t single me out.

And then what ? Only large corporations can finance their own in-house tools and they gain even greater advantage against the rest of society ? What a great outcome…

Yes, that will be the outcome. And it will suck. I’m not optimistic, I’m realistic. If people wills top caring about open source it will die. Throwing AI at the problem may buy us some time but in the end LLMs also require resources and without support from community all the models will be controlled by corporations.

My sensation is that we’re doing fine for now. The community is still big enough for a decade or two. No idea what will happen after that.