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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Dog it's the end of September and it's 110° degrees outside right now.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

Can you feel the hard work of keeping civilization going? my-hero

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Every single ipcc report has drastically under-estimated both the amount of heatig and the rate at which heating is accelerating.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I despair at the people who see that and take from it "the IPCC is therefore always lying, doesn't know anything, and we should burn more fossil fuels"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Sometimes I hope aliens do invade and try to save the few of us humans who did nothing wrong from fascists.

Imagine being an intergalactic archaeologist and you stumble upon earth. After some research you and the rest of your team have to explain with a straight face that the species known as ‘human’ went extinct because saving the planet was too unpopular.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Climate scientists being off by 20% on a century long prediction is "credibility diminishing" but elon musk saying provably false information every day incessantly is actually cool and smart.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

This selective shit really pisses me off. This dude said there'll be millions on mars in 20 years. Solar city hyperloop robotaxi all BS. Full Self driving kicked down the road. Turned shittee into the biggest disinformation peddler on the net. But climate scientists are the ones with dimishing credibility

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

This dude said there’ll be millions on mars

Millions of dollars into more or less faulty probes

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

so-true "Heh... off by 20%! Goes to show how little the 'experts' know!"

soypoint-1 "E~L~O~N SAYS MARS COLONY BY 2012 I MEAN 2020 I MEAN 2024 I MEAN 2026 I MEAN" soypoint-2

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Dude sells EV’s for a living and he’s standing up for the competition…

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

New bit: A CHUD who wants to cancel Elon Musk because he sells EVs and built a brand on sustainability, and also had pro-lgbt things to say in the past and never apologized for any of it.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bro posted this the day after Hurricane Helene, which put USA at the same number of Cat. 4 or 5 landfalls in the last, like 8 years, as all the previous 50-ish

You better start believing in extreme climate experiments Mr. Musk...you're in one

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

lathe-of-heaven Cat 4 rapid intensification storm wipes out SpaceX Texas.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It’s scary to think that the wealthy and politically powerful think like him. Makes you realize we’re absolutely getting the worst case scenario.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

When the choices are socialism or barbarism and the barbarians rule us already. marx-doomer

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Can someone please launch this prick in to the sun?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Takes a lot of energy. Cheaper just to fling him out into space so he can watch everything get darker and darker as we leave him behind.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I'm hedging my bets on someone shoving him into the first test ship to Mars to start a bloody corporate succession war over who inherits the Alpha Bazinga's holdings.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

~~God's Strongest Soldier~~

Shell's Strongest Soldier

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

He could drop evs tomorrow and start making gas cars and I doubt anyone would notice or care.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

He could drop evs tomorrow and start making gas cars and I doubt anyone would notice or care.

Chuds would more openly and cheerfully buy his garbage. It's the smartest business move at this point for him.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

leave the farmers alone

I hate that argument. Most food production in the imperial core comes from like a few highly industrialised corporations ruthlessly exploiting cheap labour from eastern europe. We' re not in 1800 anymore where "the farmer" is just some humble person selling their produce on the local farmers market. And even if they were it wouldn't make them immune to progress

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Holy shit, so much propaganda is wrapped around the idea that a “farmer” in the modern day is a kindly old white man tending to his fields and not some landed gentry millionaire who has immigrants doing all the real work under the table.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

He said a whole bunch of nothing as usual. No wonder he steals memes and quotes others.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

At this point I think my-hero counts as low hanging fruit.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

He's the highest profile kind of low hanging fruit. I have other material for the Drej Tank.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

"We should not vilify the conductor of this train who is making sure we go full steam ahead (off a cliff)"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

“Guys think of the poor corporations that are an active threat to humanity!”

L + ratio + nice commodity fetishism + kid named nuclear + other kid named rapidly growing renewables + cope.