Notices by Sigma ζ (she/her) (sigma@feral.cafe)

Happy Juneteenth, everypeople.

#juneteenth

The truth is that global climate change is not even surprising. What is substantially more surprising is that our climate ever cooled as much as it did. We have a long way to go before we reach the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum or even the lowest temperature the planet ever reached during the Cretaceous.

That does not mean that humans would enjoy living in a Cretaceous climate. It might not be the end of the world, but I doubt that humans would find it to be either comfortable or convenient.

@amerika

Phooey.

If I want to get my car fixed, I am going to call up a mechanic and not a climate scientist. If I want to stabilize an economy, I am going to call up an economist and not a mechanic. If I want an estimate of where the climate is heading, I am going to call up a climate scientist and not an economist.

I believe my position on this to be imminently reasonable.

However, the comfort and convenience of humans is not the planet's concern or that of a dragon.

I want to say, I trust the Ukrainian government's judgment. I am not sure at all what I would do with Bakhmut, and I do not pretend I understand the situation at all. I just know that Ukraine's government has defeated expectations, even reality.

Be like the Cossack Nation: never ever negotiate with reality.

It is ridiculous to think that Russia can hold Crimea for very long at all, and nuclear posturing by them will get them nowhere besides deeper in the world's united contempt than they already are.

@rohrkrepierer Also, nobody actually believes that Russia is going to start launching nukes. They are outgunned on an eschatological level, and after a nuclear war, they would not have much of a country left to mourn. Russia is many things, but they are not suicidal.

@rohrkrepierer *blinks*

I beg your pardon, but I was already neurologically different from a man prior to starting the hormone replacement drugs. I was never going to be "nature's perfection" under any conditions whatsoever.

The hormone replacement drugs have actually helped me to think more clearly, and I am grateful for them.

So let me get this straight.

People are living in tent cities all over the United States, people cannot get clinical care for treatable illnesses, child hunger is rampant, union suppression is now quotidian, and some of our own country's politicians are openly sympathetic toward an authoritarian expansionist regime that tortures civilians and demolishes cities.

And the thing that you see people getting outraged over is that a few people want to get married to their dogs.

Does that cover it?

@amerika

Regarding poverty and how to deal with it, I think that "handouts" are not all created equal.

What the government actually should invest in is breaking up cycles of poverty that are clearly capable of being amended.

Exposure to noise can cause children cognitive issues, for example. Cheap nanotech-age sound-proofing could help them grow up to be more self-sufficient.

Also, putting more money into home economics classes, in poor areas, would go a lot farther than food stamps.

@amerika

Like I said, poor housing conditions for children can LEAD to them having executive dysfunction as adults, and there are cheap ways of amending such conditions.

Such executive dysfunction in their parents is the primary reason why their parents are not able to afford better housing, to begin with.

Furthermore, a lack of training in home economics passes down through generations. Furthermore, home economics courses haven't been upgraded in more than half a century.

@amerika I actually believe that militancy tends to be a precursor to a group of people getting serious about improving the condition of their next generation. While such uprisings may seem counter-productive in the short-term, they ultimately raise morale, and they instill in parents a sense of iron determination that their offspring should grow up to be strong.

A few broken windows are a small price to pay.

Besides, playing tear gas tag with the cops is is the best fun I ever had.

@amerika It is dangerous for Ukraine that they are standing up against Russian tyranny, but you often have to do something dangerous in order to break out of a cycle that is slowly killing you. Risk-avoidance is a slow death. At times, the only way out of the skillet is to leap into the fire and hope you survive to lick your wounds later.

#Fediblock

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Reason: shitposting site, says so on their front page.