There’s no hope of zero warning. There’s hope that we can minimize the warming to that 6C or lower. And hope that we can help ecosystem adapt to new climates. There are corals that are adapting, we need to make sure they survive and spread. We might even need to engineer in heat tolerance. Warming is coming, if they only need to deal with it, they might be able to adapt. But when you stack an half a dozen other significant stressors, it becomes much less likely to survive. So reducing those stressors helps, even if global warming is going to be bad.

Yeah, the defeatist view is really dangerous. But as the video addresses, by limiting other stressors, reefs can recover even at higher temperatures.

Hank Green video on what we can do. Reefs can actually recover from bleaching, which I didn’t know.

https://youtu.be/hxZDyV-E5WY

Prior to Ukraine the stockpile was good. Then it started disappearing.

Covert Cobal has been classifying in mainly 4 categories. Abysmal is the lowest one, and are often missing such minor accessories as the turet, tracks, engines, and wheels. Not to mention having sat outdoors for upwards of 50 years. Those conditions are mostly what they’re down to. It might allow for slightly higher throughout on production to start on these rusted husks rather than from raw steel, but it’d definitely be harder and more expensive to make these usable than to build a new tank from scratch.

https://youtube.com/@covertcabal

Yup. Not because they were out of more modern tanks yet at that point, but because the more modern tanks took longer to refurbish. But now they really are scraping the bottom of the barrel.

It’s seriously astonishing that they managed to wear though the entire massive Soviet stockpile.

Covert Cobal has great tank and apv counting vids, documenting the ever worsening condition of the vehicles remaining. https://youtube.com/@covertcabal

Interestingly, the US has forward positioned B2s to Diego Garcia to be within easier striking range, along with support aircraft and crew. So they could drop the entire stock of MOABs to dig into hardened buried facilities pretty quickly if they decided to.

Alex Hollings Sandboxx vid https://youtu.be/XgLNZ1Rgbfw

Mid-day should be the middle of the day. Mid-night should be the middle of the night.

You’d need new clocks, those times drift every day, so 12:00 midday would need to change automatically.

For reference, he bought it for $44B.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquisition_of_Twitter_by_Elon_Musk

Maybe if the US is kicking Ukraine out of its sphere of influence, China thinks they can get it into theirs? I wonder how that’d effect their relationship with Russia, since they’ve been benefiting from cheap oil.

It’s a self reported survey.

Our happiness ranking is based on a single life evaluation question called the Cantril Ladder:

Please imagine a ladder with steps numbered from 0 at the bottom to 10 at the top. The top of the ladder represents the best possible life for you and the bottom of the ladder represents the worst possible life for you. On which step of the ladder would you say you personally feel you stand at this time?

This question is both democratic and universal. Rather than constructing an index from multiple metrics, the Cantril Ladder empowers people to make their own judgements about what matters most, regardless of their culture and background.

The question does not mention concepts like happiness, wellbeing, or satisfaction, so it can be easily translated and understood in many different languages.

Looks like the US is 24 out of 147. It’d be interesting to see the correlation with median income, I’d bet the US is even more behind where a nation of it’s wealth would tend to be be.

Moscow repeated that any settlement must address “the root causes of the crisis”

Agreed, we need to get rid of Putin, the root cause.

Ukraine’s infrastructure strikes have been some of their most cost educative, whereas it’s baffling why Russia is investing so many missiles into infrastructure attacks with so little result. Russia would need to offer concessions to induce a mutual infrastructure attack pause, not the other way around. Makes me think it’s a ploy to look like they’re offering something without actually offering anything.

No because what I described is part of a systemic process and is ongoing

So it is comparing the current state, yes? Taking into account how history shapes it sure, but the current state.

You’ll need to do more to connect oil why pricing oil is racist. Because it competes with other countries like Venezuela?

We are comparing the current state of countries, yes? Do you think Norway for example currently has an imperialist settler core?

What would you call China’s ambitions regarding the nine dash line and Taiwan if not imperialist?

Do you think China is more human rights focused and/or less racist than anywhere else in the world?

Have you seen Europe? And how about freedom of expression?

Human rights?