Gaza and Xinjiang are located on opposite sides of Asia

This is your brain on nationalism. Your physical sense of geography distorts to suit some lines on a map.

Xinyang is literally the geographic center of Asia. Beijing is almost exactly twice as far from Gaza as Xinyang is (going by the closest points). But because Xinyang is “part of China”, it is “on the east coast of Asia”, and thus on the opposite side from Gaza, which is on the west coast of Asia. For the record, Gaza is on the opposite side of Asia from Japan.

On a personal level: prepare a bug-out bag and practice migration; hoard enough food to last triple your household a couple weeks; get used to poverty; vote for the leftmost viable candidate in every election and primary;

learn useful skills for a disrupted society such as first aid, de-escalation, crisis counseling, safely preparing nearly bad food, physical endurance and practical strength, mending, DIY, public speaking, herding large groups of people, recognizing “authorities” and other groups’ hostile intentions, violence, transformative justice, etc. ;

organize with local anarchists/leftists and wean yourself off the capitalist economy; learn to take care of your own emotional state and how to cope in a healthy way with huge amounts of stress; learn languages that will prove useful in mass migration; etc.

We are human. For millions of years our ancestors have lived through cycles of plenty and famine, surviving plagues and crop failures and massive droughts. We have evolved to handle crises such as this.

Not enough minerals. All the uranium and thorium that has been prospected would not come close to being enough to fuel carbon capture.

To be clear here, for carbon capture we would have to produce ten times more energy than the entirety of human civilization consumed over the past two centuries, within a handful of decades. Current green energy infrastructure - including the massive solar power boom of the past couple years - is less than 1% of the size it would need to be.

Because those all vary a lot over the course of years, so if you keep them in you can’t tell how much of the change of global temperatures is going to stick around for decades or millennia. That persistent change is called “global warming”.

Back in the early 2010s people were saying global warming is fake because global temperatures hadn’t gone up significantly in 15 years. This was the case because all those effects happened to result in temporary cooling. They were liars, but so would we be if we pretended El Niño was global warming.

When you posted this, there was only one direct reply to Astronut’s comment, with nine comments directly or indirectly replying to that one. So you’ve probably either blocked or been blocked by the user that posted the other direct reply.

Eight years, to be precise.

Isn’t metal fully recyclable already? Much more so than wood?

Speaking from experience, EU government green innovation grants are often wasted on ill-considered “solutions”. There’s a whole ecosystem of corporations specializing in convincing bureaucrats with no scientific education to give them grant money rather than trying to build stuff that makes sense.

Wooden wind turbine blades are exactly the sort of thing that makes an EU green tech bureaucrat salivate. Visible but inoffensive, cute but grand, natural but industrial, a rustic solarpunk-aesthetic without actually requiring any sort of social restructuring.

Look how curved the US-Canadian borders are, and how Ellesmere island is compressed. This clearly isn’t Mercator.

I mean, the world is going up in flames. That is a pretty big thing that is happening. Those 5 countries and their mutual defensive pact allies are responsible for a majority of global emissions that are heating the planet to the point of uninhabitability.

Billions of people will die violently, for a large part because if the UN-mediated stability of capitalist global trade and its unlimited industrial capacity to make the planet uninhabitable.

The UN with its veto system has effectively prevented non-permanent UNSC member nations from coming to binding agreements and pushing them on the privileged few. 6 billion people from across the world matter less than 70 million British people, even though India and Pakistan both have nukes too.

The law part sucks too.

The law is impartial, which is to say it does not care for the wishes of the victim. The law is blind, meaning anyone who finds a loophole is in the clear. The law asks whether people are guilty or innocent, meaning complex situations have to be assigned a binary label.

You’ll want some way to protect people who are in danger from others, whether that’s warning them of others’ selfishness or violent mutual aid. But you don’t need a rigid law for that. Situations can get messy and benefit from things being cleared up, but that’s closer to investigative journalism than to courtrooms referencing obscure clauses written by lawmakers who never conceived of this situation.

Laws were made by centralized states to enforce the wishes of the central authority on its behalf. They are shaped like authority, not justice.

She Plays to Win Lionesses A Team have fallen foul of a rule designed to boost female participation in the sport.

The Four Nations Chess League (4NCL) requires all of its first division teams to have at least one player of each gender on its roster.

That’s more sympathetic than I was expecting. I wonder if they’re even allowed to set an “at least one woman” rule without running afoul of UK law.

The concept of rape being possible between people who are married is new to Abrahamic and Greco-Roman culture. Historically, rape is a crime against a patriarch a woman belongs to. It being possible to rape one’s wife or slaves was considered nonsense in the western world until quite recently.

And while raping women that belonged to enemies was recognized as such, it was generally considered a good thing, such as the Rape of Sabine Virgins, the Iliad (Achilles is mad because Menelaos is selfish about the rape loot table), Viking raids, etc.

There is no time in Mediterranean/European written history where the majority position is that physically abusing your wife until she has sex with you is bad until the 20th century.

I quit before it got fun.

Of course I tailored my definition to suit the subject we are talking about, isn’t that a good thing?

People are saying these soldiers may have killed themselves because of a guilty conscience, then someone says it’s common among militaries as if to counter that theory, so I ask if they have an example from a military whose members shouldn’t have a guilty conscience.

And hey, whaddaya know, we have the same list.

Okay, so which of those countries that have committed genocide in the past century do you think qualifies?

JK Rowling will get them that money back in under a day.

Do you have data from a military whose purpose wasn’t to enforce the exploitation others?

For the first 30 hours, bosses kept dying to summon jellyfish roll roll heavy attack roll roll heavy attack before I got to learn any interesting mechanics. I heard a streamer say that the underground stag enemy was a beautiful fight, but when I got there I kicked its ass and hardly got to see it do anything. If anything, the game is too easy.

On the other hand toxic right wing misinformation? That can go fuck itself

That’s what they said, “right wing content”.

The only measure by which “we need police to protect people from criminals” is less toxic than “we need to stop migration to preserve the white race” is how palatable it is to centrists. Both promote causing harm to millions of people while pretending to be necessary for the safety of you and me, tricking people into supporting egregious violence against vulnerable minorities.

I’m not your mom, I can’t tell you how to resolve your cognitive dissonance, but the boundary you’re proposing is merely a popularity contest.