ProfT @ProfT@qoto.org

@yacc143 @Teri_Kanefield @artemesia effective immunity from theft. (There is no autocrat that is not stealing)
5. Erosion of democratic institutions. I have lived through two autocratic regimes in Croatia. Creating trust in public institutions after an autocrat destroyed it is extremely hard. And every autocrat will destroy free press, high education and independent institutions. Repairing the damage takes decades.

@yacc143 @Teri_Kanefield @artemesia
3.You are framing the intervention as either or. You ban all opposition or you don’t ban anyone. There are many democracies that have bans in place that are very liberal and healthy.
4. Autocrats always bring corruption and illegal activities. If you allow them to exist and prosecute only illegal acts- they will cry political witch hunt and gain more power- thus by allowing them to exist you are giving them

@yacc143 @Teri_Kanefield @artemesia I thought some more and would like to raise couple of points:
1. Precedent- we can be pretty sure that democracy is better than autocracy (except for emergencies war...). Why repeat mistakes.
2. People are not rational. Large societal computer models allow bad faith actors to manipulate elections (see Mindf*CK by Chris Wylie - about Cambridge analytica), so outside interventon is needed to prevent this influence.

@Teri_Kanefield @artemesia @dangillmor Hitler came to power democratically, no? I suppose you gave this much more thought than me- so with all respect- I would like to have a mechanism to prevent that from happening again.

@artemesia @dangillmor @Teri_Kanefield What about Popper’s paradox? Saying that if you want a tolerant society you can’t be tolerant to intolerant people? For me it’s similar to free speech- there has to be aa limit that cannot be breached. And safeguard from totalitarianism should be division of power within government.

Ovi bi uvodili novi predmet u škole za borbu protiv Turbo-folka. Kao srednjoškolski profesor sam počašćen da imaju toliko povjerenje u mogućnosti našeg sustava. Očito je Kak nam dobro ide sa redovnim predmetima pa Zakaj ne bi riješili i ovaj problemčić 🤓

Catch is that the only emissions that matter are the global ones. If net zero target is presented in an us vs. them way that leads nowhere. Well done EU, sure, but the problem is far from solved.

@davidho when I teach greenhouse effect th high schoolers I usually stress that Venus is hotter than Mercury in spite of being further away from the Sun.

Just yesterday I read an African proverb- If you think you’re too small to make a difference, spend a night with a mosquito.

I thought you were joking at first and that it’s too early to measure the effect.

+1, #substack you nazi-loving greedy immortal bastards

From: @scott
https://pdx.social/@scott/111622356584677866

@mejs nisam našao na kartama još ucrtano al se vidi dobro na Strava heatmap

@mejs vidim da si u kvartu, ak te zanima i ovo izgleda interesantno . https://zapad.tv/zavrsena-biciklisticka-staza-uz-potok-luznicu/

@davidho

You could’ve scored extra points for having the zero of temp anomaly set at global temperature on 1. November and get negative values!

@petergleick Vaclav Smil argues that it’s close to impossible to sustainably produce plastics, fertilizers, steel and cement in the volumes of today, that reduction in consumption is needed.