Demosthenes @Demosthenes@qoto.org

@judgedread here ya go https://lmgtfy.app/?q=california+immigration+to+texas

@judgedread I'm a US CITIZEN, born and raised here.

@judgedread we've been over this before. If you want to shit on my arguments then by all means, leave a heaping pile on them and smack me around. But when you make ad hominem arguments without discussing what I said, it makes you look dumb.

@stux yet comfort often brings discomfort, an unhappy yearning for more.
Within the heart of every man rests a tyrant hungry for glory and power, if but to a certain extent.

@acdw such erudite musings are the sole reason I return to here. Thank you

@ChristiJunior @judgedread I'd be curious to know if Texas turning blue has to do with that, or if it has more to do with Big California Tech money flooding the large cities. Their culture is cancerous and insidious wherever it catches hold.

@ChristiJunior @judgedread not necessarily if there's s focus on integration. Texas Hispanics voted for Trump far more than what was originally projected, indicating a cultural shift in that region.

@judgedread to me, immigration is secondary to gun rights and free speech, but only by a little. Immigration can be done right if integration is strongly imposed, but no encroachment upon free speech or guns is acceptable.

@EarlThePearls but I get blocked when I do this

@calculsoberic@mstdn.social @stux I agree this is a risk, but there isn't much we individually can do to stop it. The senators are all in alignment to not support him or say that it was rigged, so that gives me hope.

@stux hopefully both parties will stop becoming more and more extreme and start finding common ground. Trump's election was a symptom of a destabilizing political system.

@khaos_farbauti "4. Platforms should follow a set of Human Rights Principles for Content Moderation based on international human rights law: legality, necessity and proportionality, legitimacy, equality and non discrimination."
I disagree with this one. It kind of pushes the liberal mindset of "you can't judge other people." I _can_ judge other people. A culture is a set of customs, norms, and beliefs that are common to a people. Keeping that culture going necessitates negative feedback for aberration from that culture and positive feedback for alignment. This rule would effectively outlaw such feedback, making my culture go extinct soon.

@evemassacre there isn't much. Not many countries are fascist nowadays.

@ravenclaw it's not rude, it just may not be for you. Websites don't _have_ to cater to everyone.

@AndrewTheGreat @colossalspam@noagendasocial.com @mcread the game theory of Mutually Assured Destruction ensures that no rational actor would ever use nukes because it would lead to self-anhaliation. That's why it is important to keep nukes out of the hands of belligerents and shitty governments.

@thor are you telling me that Germany isn't actually filled with lederhosen, Guinness, and burkas??? /s

@mcread Rome didn't show us how to fix it without collapsing though, lol

@genXr is this for real, or are you just freaking out because youtube is down?

@bonifartius liquids would require a massive amount of infrastructure too, particularly when considering the long-term costs of liquid distribution. No matter our choice, new infrastructure needs to be made.

"not eating meat and not flying would buy at least a few years" This is true, but as you mention, it's unfeasible. Such cultural change overnight is not going to happen.

It's time to be pragmatic and make steps towards decarbonization now. If we wring our hands and wait for a perfect solution, another several decades will pass and we will risk becoming Venus.

@bonifartius conventional cars were just a bauble for the rich when they were first made, too. As the infrastructure for the cars increased, the cars dropped to the point to where everyone could buy them no problem.

We're at that right bauble phase of infrastructure development for electric cars. Trouble is that global warming necessitates that we transition faster than would naturally occur. This means there need to be subsidies for those who buy to speed up the transition.

It's unfortunate that it helps rich people more than poor, but it will help everyone in the long run when electric car prices drop due to economies of scale.