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"Prior warming events were so slow that ecosystems were able to migrate across entire continents to follow the temperatures and rainfalls that best suited them. This requires tens of thousands of years at minimum to achieve.">

I feel like humanity has already taken some inadvertent steps to address this point by accidentally spreading the most aggressive, virulent species across the globe as invasives.

I try to plant natives where I live, to help the native wildlife that's currently here. But I have this small sliver of hope that maybe at least the worst of the invasive species will survive what's coming.

in a century or so there will be no significant biosphere left to pull CO2 out of the air faster than it is going into the atmosphere.>

I appreciate that these tipping point events also accelerate global warming by putting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but I have to think that once humans are gone, there could still ultimately be a significant slowdown? I gotta review the math.

People also act like all hope is lost. We could start scrubbing CO2 from the atmosphere tomorrow if the political will was there.

By "feel the fallout", do you mean they won't be able to buy replacement parts when the company goes under/ there will be a ton of maintenance due to poor product quality? Or do you mean the blowback from other liberals/ progressives? If the former, I can't help but agree. If the latter, I guess that's what I'm trying to take issue with/ head-off.

What do you think about folks buying them second-hand? Some friends of ours are fairly liberal and dislike Musk, but they wanted an EV and couldn't afford a new one. So they bought a used Tesla. As a liberal, I think the environment is my top issue... So I just shrugged. We can't fix humanity's bullshit while society is collapsing due to worsening climate disasters. It can be hard to get people to focus on something so esoteric though when people are struggling with more immediate needs, so I get the opposing view that it's lower priority even if I disagree.

Right! Facebook making a whole business model around exploitation of teenage girls' body image issues pretty much proved the point to me that they're here to eat our children.

I think you're wrong about being in the social majority... https://www.axios.com/2025/01/09/luigi-mangione-approval-poll-gen-z

But regardless, I'm not sure what alternative you're left with when the people committing heinous acts take in profits instead of prison sentences. Especially for someone like Trump, who is actively making the world worse and more unsafe in a myriad of ways, it's clear he will never receive justice, nor will he ever willingly leave office. How else do you see people no longer suffering his "leadership"? I mean, I'm still hoping he keels over from natural causes, but it's still a wish for him to keel over.

Just because Google doesn't do it doesn't mean they can't. I don't believe you that they couldn't implement some automated means of vetting it; it's just more profitable not to.

I think this is what makes me the most angry.

My daughter wanted some toy, so I Google it, and go to one of the top results for it, thinking it's a legitimate website. I go through the checkout process, but it's weird and hanging. And then they text me some "verification code" I'm supposed to enter which is actually my CC code for my account. A total scam. I do some more searches and this is a common scam for this toy. So I cancel our credit card immediately.

But what pisses me off is that this totally fraudulent website was a top results from Google. They could have verified that shit! But instead they chose to serve me up to wolves.

I think Nextdoor encourages it. I'm from a very liberal state (Maryland). Around here, people started posting on there complaining about a house right beside an elementary school always flying some garbage flag. For a while it was a Confederate flag, then a FJB flag, etc. So someone posted a picture of it asking if there was some kind of ordinance it was violating for which they could submit a complaint, and then people piled on about how much they hated it and how inappropriate they thought it was. The next thing I see is that the post was taken down and the poster was given some kind of warning for endangering the owner/ doxing them, even though the street address was not posted and the owner's name was not mentioned. Everyone in the community knows which house that is and could look up the owner from the county records if they want to!!