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so the conceptual trick that says future costs of present actions can be discounted not only relies on an assumption the future is always richer, it also elides that consequences will be experienced not by a single future 'we' equivalent to the present 'we' but a long series of future collectivities

but e.g. the ton of carbon we produce now to enjoy benefits in the present does not just cause a time-limited harm in 2050, 2100, or 2300, but in all the years in between and potentially thousands of years into the future

one basic feature of the discount rate as a concept obscures just how much it downplays the destructiveness of present actions: it generally compares the value of a good or action taken now to its assumed relative value at a single point in the future.

if we actually take seriously the prospect that carbon emissions or habitat destruction occuring now may degrade or eliminate the basis for the production of necessary goods in the future, we may quickly reach the conclusion that the discount rate should be not just be low but be *negative*

the discount rate, as currently deployed, is so fundamentally wedded to the ideology of constant increase—that line will always go up—that it can't really integrate the notion that actions we take today may entirely foreclosure future generations from enjoying certain benefits or goods

The virgin AGI existential risk vs the chad global warming

but Playtime and Trafic are extremely design-skeptical films! I don't think Tati would be the least bit surprised at designer modernism overtaking the world without achieving its purported goals

Seattle has a Republican mayor

congratulations to the folks at the Oslo Freedom Forum for the tireless lobbying work they must have done to get this Nobel Peace Prize result

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It's literally all projection, exhibit one million

Over 40% of corn grown in Indiana is used to make ethanol that cars burn. One acre of corn yields about 16,500 vehicle-miles per year of ethanol, which sounds high until you realize that one acre of solar yields about 2,700,000 vehicle-miles per year: 16,000% more driving for a given plot of land.

I haven't rewatched the whole thing, but from what I recall, Wolf Blizter gets most of his points by running the board in the D.C. Sports category and strikes out pretty much everywhere else

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A Greek millionaire who went to Cambridge couldn't translate "The Last Supper" from Italian to English. "It's something like the final something."

The final scores in a Jeopardy match between Wolf Blitzer, Arianna Huffington, and Oliver Stone. Blitzer is at $4100, Huffington at $300, and Stone at $15,000.

The Final Jeopardy question: "The Italian name of this 15th Century masterpiece is 'L'ultima cena'"

alright, I was misremembering it somewhat. Blitzer is actually in the lead until the end, and Stone rockets to a commanding lead in Final Jeopardy. Huffington was never competitive. (Blitzer answered the question below with "David," lol)

Jeopardy 1997-11-20 Power Players Week : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive 1997 Power Players Week game 4.From DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.Host: Alex TrebekOliver Stone, a screenwriter and director from A Child's Night...

ah, it's still on Internet Archive. thanks, Internet Archive.

YouTube video by Pierre K 45 grams of fat! - Fat stopper ad from Oliver Stone's Jeopardy show appearance

the actual episode doesn't seem to be on YouTube anymore, but there's still a video titled "45 grams of fat! - Fat stopper ad from Oliver Stone's Jeopardy show appearance." It's real, it happened. I saw it. Oliver Stone appears to be stoned the whole game www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAKN...

What makes this funnier is that it's not the only time Wolf Blitzer has been completely embarrassed at Celebrity Jeopardy. Oliver Stone wiped the floor with him, in a match where he couldn't even keep up with Arianna Huffington. he's a real life SNL Celebrity Jeopardy character

nice to be reminded that there was probably a good reason I got blocked by him on Twitter

This one highway is projected to cost 85% of what CA has spent on high-speed rail over 15 years and hundreds of miles. If we can afford this, we can afford high-speed rail.

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Just remembered this jaw-dropping graph by @oceansclimatecu.bsky.social showing the rate of change in CO2 during the previous two deglaciations of the Pleistocene (which, as a fun aside, featured ~400 feet of sea level rise) as compared with today

Resist Lib solidarity entryism in DSA is a very funny scenario that has never occurred to me. don't know that I think it's likely though

One thing people should know is that Choe works for Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk's group, and was at the WH on behalf of that group

anyway Stephen Miller is going to declare that DSA membership is a criminal federal isn't he

I am fondly recalling the time I saw a black bloc kid smack Jonathan Choe's phone to the ground while he was recording at a protest action

anyway, I am still convinced there must be some kind of bodies in some kind of basement there

A tweet from November 10, 2017. It reads: "Jack Posobiec definitely seems like by far the creepiest of these young fascist shitheads. Someday we're going to learn some extremely dark shit about him"

eight fucking years...

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