It’s their utter disregard for the future of their own offspring.

Also disregard for our living planet and all life on it. Which is, take note, the only place we know in the universe that life exists there.

It is not only a cult - it is a death cult.

Bezos: “it will solve all our problems.”

Wow.

That is not optimism - it is religious fervor.

That has become a religion, or it might be more apt to say, a cult.

We need really to do something against that manager bonuses and shareholder incomes might cease to grow faster and faster!! /s

Germany is not lacking work productivity. It is lacking proper distribution of wealth and sane social-democratic policies. You see that when you compare to Scandinavia.

Another big problem, actually, is that renewables tends to not be available when you need them the most

Not true: Wind turbines generate more energy in Western European winter - when we need to power electric heat pumps - and solar in Southern European summer - when we need to power A/C units.

Plus it does not matter if 2% of the time we need to fire up fossil backup generation.

Plus it is easily possible to build seasonal heat storage for multi-family houing units. Basically big tank with water and lots of insulation.

I am tired of that disinformation.

Do you know that particulate matter from open fireplaces is very bad for health and is suspected to contribute to early dementia?

What many people do not realize is that there will be large regions of the world affected by food scarcity where hundreds of millions of people can compete with many less well-off Europeans on food prices.

It is not that upper middle class people in China or Brazil will stop to feed their children because food becomes expensive. The thing is that this upper middle class will soon count more people than Europe has as a whole.

What I find interesting is that a lot of these changes which are attributed to the purportedly “inevitable” changes associated with AI (or partly with its not-adoption), are real consequences of climate change.

• loss of employment? Check.
• profound change to living conditions? Check.
• loss of labour productivity - including knowledge work? Check.
• threathening the stability of the world-wide financial system? Check.
• increasing likelihood of war? Check.
• threathening even the continuity of human civilization? Check.
• threathening the capability to compete on national scales if the change is not reponded to swiftly by governments? Check.
• Correlated with obscene amounts of wealth concentration, impoverishing the huge majority of people, and disintegrating societies? Check.

It’s as if AI is used as a distraction. Like the “accusation in a mirror” pattern.

That’s way too hot. You really need to go somewhere else. I’d sleep in a church building or underground station in that situation, if I had no other safe place. Keep in mind that heat also infers significantly with the ability to react appropriately to such a situation, so don’t wait too long.

Don’t forget that Jeremy Corbyn was ousted as top Labour candidate for being “anti-semite”, which merely meant disagreeing to which degree the Labour party which he was leading had a specific problem with antisemitism. Where “antisemitisn” was sometimes defined as “criticizing the Israelian Government”.

Not new that leftwing politicians are measured by far higher standards than conservative-rightwing ones.

Funny how the terms have changed their meaning, when I was young it meant cold very foggy days in the Rhine area.

With high temperatures, humidity is normally low in much of Europe (compared to humid climates). But somewhat higher in the Rhine valley.

It is this time more humid than normal, too.

Here is a table on the combined effect of heat and humidity:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_index

Heat becomes much more dangerous with high humidity. Which is why metereologists make charts with the wet bulb temperature or the dew point tenperature .

Don’t forget these are geological changes. Normally, they happen in tens of thousands of years. It is bone-shaking to witness how fast they happen.

By the way, secure open trust systems are hard. Around 2000, there was a FOSS web site called kuro5hin.org, a slashdot-sryle discussion board, which experimented with trust networks. As far as I remember, they did not find a good solution.

Wikipedia or stack overflow has the same issues.

I think a kind of real-life-based(!), signature-based web of trust like the GnuPG web of trust (but ideally with more user-friendly software…) could be part of the solution

Using Linux is not a dick measuring contest (and man I hate these threads asking “why is your distro the best?” - it feels like trolling and sowing division and grief to me. A bit like asking a mother “What is your favorite child?”.)