First, please reconsider whether there is really a problem. I don't mean to recheck the fearmongering articles, I mean to think fundamentally about 1) the real history of earth with respect to CO2 and the climate and 2) what can actually be known about cause and effect in complex systems.
Is the climate changing? Of course, trivially true. It would be far more remarkable to find any physical system that wasn't changing.
Is the climate changing in any unprecedented way? I don't think so. For context, look at the graph on http://scotese.com/climate.htm All but the last few pixels are, of course, before the possibility of human influence, and we clearly see the temperature varying between 10 and 25C. We've been in what Scotese calls the "ice box" for all of human history. What would you expect to happen? I'd expect it to warm up. What else would it do?
That's temperature. What about CO2? Humans are thought to have added about 100 ppm over about a century, from around 300 to around 400. Not that long ago, though, CO2 ppm was twice what it is now. Not that long ago, it was 10x what it is now. The earth at that time was a jungle teeming with life.
We're often told that CO2 level are dangerously high, when in fact CO2 is almost as low as it's ever been in all of earth's history. Have you ever heard of a dangerous low CO2 ppm? It's about 150, at which apparently plant respiration fails. It seems we have been much much closer to cataclysm from low CO2 than from high.
Please let me know if you find anything in there that actually addresses the fundamental issue I raised about these alleged tipping points, rather than just being a pile of links that appears to a casual observer to be contradictory evidence.
Let's be frank. A few years in the future, the behavior this article is referring to as stoking vaccine skepticism for money, will be rightly seen as fighting the vaccine / medical tyranny hysteria.
This was at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28097038 but was unjustly flagged, so here it is again. Pathetic little weasel who flagged it, I dare you to try to justify hiding this information from others.
So, if 450 ppm is bad, wouldn't 900 ppm be worse? It wasn't so long ago in the climate's history that it was that way. Not so long before that, it was 1800. Wouldn't that make the world ultra-XXXL screwed beyond belief? What happened there?
These doomsday prophecies are always conveniently distant. You can tell people any scary nonsense as long as it's far enough away that everyone will have forgotten the details of your prediction by the time it fails to come to pass.
It's just the same as how we can show people today any number of doomsday prophecies from the past about how the world was definitely going to be wrecked by 2020, or 2010, or 2000, or 1990, but somehow nobody thinks they were serious back then... but then they take the doomsday prophecy about 2030 seriously.
> There's room in the FOSS space for both GrapheneOS and CalyxOS.
I doubt strcat disagrees with that. He's responding to specific statements comparing GrapheneOS and CalyxOS. I don't think we would have seen those comments if nobody had mentioned GrapheneOS.
When you see it's from WaPo, there's always an excellent chance that it's propaganda that serves the establishment, and this seems to be yet another example of that. There's no ongoing effort to disenfranchise eligible voters; there's an ongoing effort to count legal votes and not count illegal votes.
Felons can't vote; those under 18 can't vote; those who already voted somewhere else can't vote; you can't vote if you put your address down as a post office box or an empty parking lot; you can't falsely claim to be indefinitely confined and vote by mail; if you do vote by mail, there are procedures that have to be followed, things like verification that the ballot was actually sent out, verification of the signature, etc.
But all of those rules and many more were broken during the last presidential election, which made a lot of people wonder if we actually put the correct man in office, which in turn is why we're seeing this dishonest article today.
I agree with you. I remember Snopes being really useful. I don't think I ever foresaw it being corrupted... your idea that politics corrupted it seems plausible. On the other hand, more generally, it seems like whenever any entity becomes so useful that many eyes are on it, it becomes like a magnet for corruption. In other words, it becomes a tasty target. Maybe Snopes is a victim of its own success.
No big explanation is needed there -- many posters including myself get shadowbanned within hours of account creation, for nothing more than having the wrong opinion.
This is the truth. People here are overwhelmingly advocating what I think is probably the most dangerous argument I've ever seen seriously advanced, that some medical procedures are not eligible to be decided by the individual, because they're matters of public health.
If we go down that road, what government injection proffered in the name of public health could ever be refused? It's not as if you won't still be labelled a selfish anti-science anti-vaxxer if you refuse, say, the tenth injection rather than the first one.
I don't think there's really a fact-checking industry -- the industry that exists is something like a leftist Ministry of Truth. That stuff is unpopular because everyone is realizing that they're just more liars, hired by other liars.
All the centralized blog sites go through the same general syndromes. The value of them is that they're a single name to remember in order to get to a lot of varied content. The harm of them is that eventually they start removing people for political reasons ("deplatforming") or doing various other things the content creators don't like, but have little power to stop.
I wouldn't create an alternative to Medium, because I just think it's the wrong approach. We know the answer, because it's what everyone had no choice but to do before: run your own stuff, host it yourself, own your own domain, have your own process, keep things much more under your control. RSS.
Let's be real. First, HCQ and ivermectin will most likely be vindicated. You might not like to hear that, but if your loved one was ill, you'd want them to be treated by Dr. Varon using the MATH+ protocol that he's used to save many thousands of lives. The old, cheap medicines are being suppressed for legal and profit reasons.
Second, there are thousands examples of the MSM saying things that we later learned weren't true, but those videos won't be blocked, and those accounts won't be suspended or banned. On YouTube, you can say whatever trash you like if you're on the VIP list. If you're not on that list, telling the truth is no defense; if you contradict the official story and are getting any traction, you'll be squashed.