• mke@programming.dev
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    19 hours ago

    Don’t worry, cheaper solar panels, electric cars and entrepreneurs will save humanity. And by humanity I mean a specific share of the world’s developed nations. Discourse on this frustrates me to an unhealthy degree.

    If you promote techno-fetishism laden, borderline tech-bro driven or shitass bill gates financed media, please reply so I may wish upon your remaining bloodline an everlasting mildly inconvenient curse.

    And if you like Kurzgesagt tech videos, please reply so I may respectfully call you a fucking donkey.

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      3 minutes ago

      I’m frustrated by the discourse too but I’m not sure it’s for the same reasons as you.

      What frustrates me is we never seem to discuss goals and why we have those goals.

      Is the goal to keep the average temperature of earth as low as possible for as long as possible?

      Is it to minimize the impact and costs for humans?

      What exactly are we aiming for, and why?

      What is your frustration with the discourse?

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      17 hours ago

      What’s that about kurzgesagt?

      I often found good citations/ research evidence linked to their claims (on climate change)

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        6 hours ago

        They list their sources! Their content tends to be pretty well done, even if not perfect.

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        13 hours ago

        They repeat whatever their donors claim without any checking on their part. Sometimes this lines up with science, sometimes it’s just propaganda.

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          Any example videos that are propoganda?

          I’d like to scrutinize one so I can fact check better in the future. I mainly check the citations in the links.