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MutantScalper said:
This is the internet. Try to build up some resistance to negative stuff, especially when it's very generally aimed at the politics of your nation. If you visit Europe as a tourist, it might be a wise idea not to proclaim loudly you're an American, not everyone will celebrate it.
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Yeah, I suppose I can understand what you're saying. With a buffon in the Oval Office we are the laughing stock of the world.
 
MutantScalper said:
This is the internet. Try to build up some resistance to negative stuff, especially when it's very generally aimed at the politics of your nation. If you visit Europe as a tourist, it might be a wise idea not to proclaim loudly you're an American, not everyone will celebrate it.
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However, the fact that a lot of people on the internet are dicks does not give you an excuse to be a dick yourself.
 
MutantScalper said:
This is the internet. Try to build up some resistance to negative stuff, especially when it's very generally aimed at the politics of your nation. If you visit Europe as a tourist, it might be a wise idea not to proclaim loudly you're an American, not everyone will celebrate it.
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yfk12 said:
However, the fact that a lot of people on the internet are dicks does not give you an excuse to be a dick yourself.
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Well cant say I will argue with @yfk12 on this.
 
Hassknecht said:
CO2 tax and heavy investment in next generation nuclear fission and fusion technology, improvement of public transport, and a de-ideologization of climate research. I'm sorry, but Harald Lesch for example, as good as a teacher he is, is not trustworthy. Some of the things he says about nuclear power are so utterly and blatantly wrong that he should hand in his degree retroactively.
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No objection there, there should be a hell of a lot more investments in research.

However, where do you see the 'ideology' in climate research here? I mean in all honesty, it's not just climate research that's telling us that we're heading in to a global colapse of the ecosystem - besides many of the predictions the Club of Rome made in the 1970s are becoming now a reality. But it's not only Lesch who's warning us, there is also Neil De Grasse Tyson, or Stephen Hawking and many more that said similar things like Lesch. We're fucking up this planet at an increasing speed basically turning it in to a dumping ground, they warned us about the effects of our current lifestyle, but they are just the popular figures here. There are many more countless scientists and resarchers of different kind of areas in biology, like entomology or marine science for example that simply tell us, what we're facing right now is very serious threat. And now you have in Brasil a President that's not giving 'one inch to the indegenious people' in the rain forrest anymore and is keen on cutting more of it down. Just splendid I guess.

The point is, those are hard data and they keep pilling up, telling us that something is seriously wrong with our global ecosystem. Can we really afford to ignore those warning signs and just continue with our current economic model if it becomes more and more apparant that it's leading us in to a dissaster and that it's not sustainable in the long run? And we still have no clue how long it will take before nuclear fussion will become a viable energy source but even if it does, it doesn't solve the issue of overproduction and overconsumption. We kinda need affordable soltuions right now, just like the CO2 Tax you mentioned. I mean it's not just since yesterday that some demand changes here, that we finally get away from business practises that relly on (planned) obsolescence and unlimited growth rates. Why is it alright that it's cheaper to throw away whole products than offering ways to repair them? Why is that economically viable at all? This is the kind of things that I would like to see changed as well.

Just out of curiosity though, where do you think Lesch is wrong about nuclear power.
 
Yeah, and I remember Tyson recently also saying some seriously retarded shit.
Ideology is when an "climate research institute" goes on to talk about how the strong snowfall in the Alps now is a compensation for the dry summer, which is complete bollocks. Ideology is when numbers are twisted and turned to make snow on roofs seem like it's suddenly waaaay more dangerous than in the past, or that the snow is something unprecedented.

Lesch once did a Terra X video about Thorium salt reactors, for example.

It gets a few very fundamental things wrong, and nicely enough he actually realized that he basically talked out of his arse and reuploaded the video with corrections.
There are still some things wrong, like self-regulation, which every modern reactor design with a negative void coefficient also does, and the ability to use certain types of waste to breed fuel.
 
MutantScalper said:
This is the internet. Try to build up some resistance to negative stuff, especially when it's very generally aimed at the politics of your nation. If you visit Europe as a tourist, it might be a wise idea not to proclaim loudly you're an American, not everyone will celebrate it.
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How a normal conversation went when I visited Europe:
They: "Where are you guys from?"
Me: "We're visiting from the U.S."
Them: "Oh, cool."
Me: "Where are you guys from."
Them: "We're visiting from Sweden."
Etc.

How Scalper imagines an exchange between a European and an American
American-dude-bro: "MAN SO THIS IS JEW-ROPE? HEH, CANT SAY IM SURPRISED - HEY, CHUNGUS WHERE'S THE NEAREST PIZZERIA?"
European-chungus: "E-ehm, we don't h-have pizze-"
American-dude-bro: "WOW UNBELIEVABLE, WELL I'M FROM A M E R I C A AND OVER THERE WE HAVE ALL SORTS OF OPTIONS - YOU KNOW LAND OF THE FREE AND HOME OF THE BRAVE - MORE THAN I SAY ABOUT THIS ISLAMO-DUMP."
European-chungus: "O-*voicecrack*-ok, sir."
 
Hassknecht said:
Ideology is when an "climate research institute" goes on to talk about how the strong snowfall in the Alps now is a compensation for the dry summer, which is complete bollocks. Ideology is when numbers are twisted and turned to make snow on roofs seem like it's suddenly waaaay more dangerous than in the past, or that the snow is something unprecedented.
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Ok, fair enough but can you be a bit more specific? What institute are we talking about? I was talking about reputable climate research, which is based on measuring temperatures all over the world and sources like NASA. If you're seriously suggesting that they are driven by ideology - no clue if you do, then I feel that basically means there is NO science we can trust at all anymore or the informations they release, not even the field you're working in.

We shouldn't also forget that we have a ton of missinformation floating around currently.

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The issue with nuclear technolgy that's not used is also another example of how our 'economic' thinking, can really get in our way of progress. New reactor types simply do not seem to be as economically viable like the current types we have in use. So, there no new investments by the big companies like RWE. And the nuclear lobby doesn't really seem to be very interested in building new technologies, since the old ones are litterly gold mines. I mean we also don't really see those new reactor types beeing build in either the US, Britain of even France.
 
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Crni Vuk said:
Why is it alright that it's cheaper to throw away whole products than offering ways to repair them? Why is that economically viable at all?
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While it is a consumer friendly practice companies don't want you repairing anything and want you to buy the replacement right now. Hell some actively sabotage their own products so you will want to purchase a replacement. Enjoying your Iphone and see no reason to upgrade? Well with this new firmware update it now runs it at 10% of it is original operating power so I guess it is time to upgrade to a new one.
 
I don't know. I'm assuming he linked the article to prove a point about American's being disliked in Europe, but he used an article in which an American student was beaten to death because he was black and took a picture with a white bartender (the bouncer that instigated it was Serbian). Feels fucking weird man.
 
Jesus Christ CIA, I am so glad I wasn't trying to drink something, I laughed way too hard on that imagined euro-American banter.
 
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