Remember this is water, which has a much greater thermal capacity than air.

I realized why your comment bothered me so much: I am kind of an antinatalist myself, so for me having children is always dooming them in some way, especially nowadays when our civilization is on the brink of collapsing, but I don’t judge these people to be more selfish than the usual. People with Li Fraumeni Syndrome have a 50% chance to pass down the mutation to their offspring, it’s no certainty, and the article is clearly showing current technology can detect cancer earlier so people can act upon it. You are calling these people, who have cancer or mostly certainly will, selfish, when you don’t have the faintest idea of what it means to live in their shoes. If it is selfish or not, that is something for their children to decide, not you. Passing shallow moral judgment on the reproductive decisions of disabled/sick people is very dehumanizing, not to say it’s one of the core elements of eugenics ideology. It’s not hard to see how your standing would enable a more extreme view arguing that people with Li Fraumeni Syndrome should be sterilized.

You know what is fatal 100% of the time? Living at all.

Reproduction is not about logic anyway, it’s just a very common and fundamental feature of life. People who are disabled or fatally ill also have ordinary dreams, desires and human rights. Framing the issue as “these people are dooming their progeny” makes it seem like their own lives are worthless because they will die young, as if the value of human life rested on longevity. It’s quite frivolous to assume we can understand the desire to have kids of people with such diagnoses.

You have a point. India and Pakistan are out of the Security Council because they are underdeveloped and are busy having their nuclear missiles aimed at each other. North Korea has at most only a couple of ICBMs and is unable to destroy our entire civilization, even though it can create a lot of destruction with those. That is the most troublesome of nations for the UN, because they don’t give a fuck about rules and are slowly increasing their bellic power, thus all the fuss about them improving their nuclear program with the help of Russia. Geopolitics is fun.

We need to reform our monetary system. Credit generates money, which is supposed to represent actual created wealth. In order to obtain credit, social agents have to convince banks and nation-states that they will create actual wealth in the future. Thus, money is created in advance of wealth and is attached to an expectation of growth.

The financial system has always been broken and it’s incapable of dealing with the climate crisis. These researchers know how swiftly we must take action for a civilization to exist at all in the next few decades. Global economy has only one possible future apart from annihilation, which is to stop emitting greenhouse gases and to start capturing carbon. That project and all it entails should be the promise that generates new money, since any wealth will be rooted in that endeavour. Money is the soul of an economy, and ours is based on colonialism, slavery, exploitation, expropriation and wealth concentration, that’s why the world worships the US Dollar.

It’s all about nuclear power. All nations in the Security Council have the power to end civilization with nuclear weapons. That’s what this war is about as well, Russia is just showing it can do as it pleases. There can be no democracy with such disparity of bellic power, that’s the reason that institution exists and it’s foolish to assume Russia could be expelled.

I’m not sure I know what you mean by diagnosing, but it’s usually a good idea to use the same distro you’re having trouble with.