You are not making sense.

• and those who rightly recognise that black swans exist?

You may enjoy unsound conclusions, but don’t project that inadequacy onto the rest of us.

The U.S. already witnessed the damage and chaos of a Trumpster Fire presidency.

After 4 years of progress under Biden, it voted for more damage and chaos.

Americans are humans, and humans are all too often short-termist, irrational, and destructive.

If that is what they meant, then that is what they should have said.

But it isn’t what they said, and therefore presumably isn’t what they meant.

Having studied formal logic, I’m well aware of what a tautology is. It is a statement logically equivalent to A = A.

Relevance here: a bad outcome is a bad outcome (regardless whether it happens now or later).

Some old people are the ones who pioneered climate research, renewable energy, de-growth, and environmental activism!

Without them, no-one would understand what exactly has gone wrong or what can be done about it.

Learn to distinguish people based on their individual actions (for which they are responsible), not their involuntary characteristics (such as age).

sometimes change needs to happen for better or worse

Change for worse is not a good thing.

Arguing otherwise is arguing against a tautology.

The article does not mention mountains. Mountains are often more suited to trains than planes, cf. Switzerland.

The article does quote Anna Hughes of Flight Free UK, who echoes my sentiments: “The reality of decarbonising travel will inevitably be travelling a lot less, investing heavily in rail, and only then electrifying the flights that remain.”

France’s short-haul flight ban is excellent and more countries should adopt it.

As for “counterpoint”, no-one here disagrees with decarbonising island routes rail can’t serve. Still, I’d favour sail or electric fast ferries over aircraft where possible.

Relevant David Revoy cartoon: https://thebrainbin.org/m/comicstrips@lemmy.world/t/1848750/authenticity-problem

This is by David Revoy, who has started getting wrongly accused of using AI for his art

EHRC, not ECHR.

I’m all in favour of decarbonisation.

Still, the physics mean aviation will never be as energy-efficient as high-speed rail.

Governments and others should overwhelmingly invest in the latter. It has higher RoI.

Plenty of shallow people in the world, sadly, enjoy vicariously living even shallower lives than their own.

IPMI/BMC have been known problems since 2015, if not before.

Matthew Garrett: IPMI - because ACPI and UEFI weren’t terrifying enough

https://youtu.be/OejpzwzHLho

For a beautiful moment after reading the headline, I thought this must be an uplifting piece about European weather systems.

Then reality set in 🫠

What are your main issues with Matrix?

I feel the same way, but can you explain how a VPN would help achieve that in the face of Google’s proposed developer verification scheme?

How would that help you?

The article says, “unverified apps will only be easily installable in the sanctioned countries where verification doesn’t exist.”

So even if you used a VPN to trick Google into thinking you live in a sanctioned country, you wouldn’t be able to distribute apps to those countries without breaking sanctions.

For 20+ years. Fixed in 2019.