wonderingwanderer

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[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

Wow, you're so skilled at missing the point entirely. Either you didn't read any of my previous comments or you have selective amnesia.

When you call the A/C repair man, he doesn't have to rebuild your entire house just to make it compatible with A/C.

Not to mention, you're the one calling him in; not some imperialistic nation-state actor guilty of cultural erasure of virtually every ethnic minority group within their own borders.

You have yet to answer how A/C is going to protect people in open-air houses from the effects of climate change. This magical "China will save them" is a silly utopian fantasy divorced from reality.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

No, I'm just calling out the implications of your assertions.

You say,

It's crazy that you treat this as an insurmountable obstacle. Much less that there's no political cache in surmounting it.

How do you expect to surmount the obstacle? Just give them A/C units in their open-air homes? Or replace their homes with something enclosed and insulated? If it's the latter, how do you expect to do that without demolishing the existing structures?

Or do you mean to force them off their lands and put them somewhere else where you built new houses?

You seem to be doing a lot of work to try to justify your initial insinuation that global warming somehow won't affect the global south.

You scoff at wet bulb temperatures as if you have some easy obvious solution. Well, this is what your "solution" looks like in practice.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 month ago

I think it's a whole company. They got "private jets" listed as "green transportation."

Words are fucking meaningless these days.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Okay so just send in the Chinese with their concrete and bulldoze these people's homes to build them nice new climate-controlled living spaces while also indebting them in higher amounts than they're likely to make in their lifetimes.

Cause that's different from colonialism how?

"Don't worry, primitives, we're here to surmount your obstacles for you. Because it's totally our place to decide that."

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago (6 children)

You do realize how many people in the world live in houses that aren't even fully-enclosed, right? Usually in some of the places that will be most impacted by climate change, too. Air conditioners won't be of much help to them.

Also, do you know how much coal China burns each year?

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month ago

Yeah, and someone was just arguing with me in a different thread saying vertical warehouse farming is stupid and we should just grow our crops in the ground outside 🙄

Like, I'm trying to be helpful here, but sure let's continue to make no systemic changes to the way things are done and just be frustrated when our problems only continue to get worse...

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maybe I just lived in a poorly insulated house, because I swear I could hear outside as plainly with the windows closed as if they were open.

It was an old house, mind. Also drafty...

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

He must have a well-insulated house if opening and closing the door makes a 23 decibel difference.

Too bad he can't open his windows, though. Or enjoy his yard.

Can't wait for the backlash to tear these datacenters down, or the economic cliff to shut down their operations.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

"green" gas turbines, what the fuck?

Mmm, nice clean diesel 🥴

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

Oh fuck, I'm clearly too tired to do math in my head right now...

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Wait so you're telling me 2000 was not a leap year? But 2200 will be?

I was too young to really pay attention that year.

That's interesting about the proleptic calendar and stuff.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

Waow, based proverbs

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