Erik Haugen @ech@qoto.org

@freemo "To me this is her mocking the very thing her people has been tortured with her whole life." – right – the raping, torturing, child-kidnapping terrorists the other day brought her this sense of mocking delight.

"overwhelming majority of isralis are people who choose to migrate" ooh ooh please be careful there. A lot of people who moved to Israel over the years were refugees fleeing some pretty bad situations.

"In their eyes that makes them valid targets" This is ghastly, far worse than her other comments. You join the Navy or whatever and suddenly its ok to rape you and post videos of you bleeding out from the rape online because you are or were "active military"? Can you see how this is not actually a valid, or interesting, point? (Did she really say that?? I can't find it.)

Hamas doesn't give a shit about the people of Gaza – they do things like kill babies in order to cement their own power at the Palestinians expense, whom they then use as human shields. Khalifa plays right into their game. Who would want to be suckered into amplifying such a foolish murderer-rapist-kidnapper-supporting message like hers?

Lots of other people seem perfectly able to criticize Israel without rejoicing in the bloodshed and terror of the other day: read the last few posts on the subject from @QasimRashid for example. FWIW I disagree with almost every post he has ever made, but see how he does it without supporting kidnapping raping baby killers? Without trying to justify it with completely psychopathic arguments about "active military"? It's really not that hard.

@freemo Ok, but "if she supported Hamas" ... she almost kinda sorta did? And you didn't quote everything.

The snarky "I can’t believe the Zionist apartheid regime is being brought down by guerrilla fighters in fake Gucci shirts" feels like grave dancing.

"Zionist apartheid regime is being brought down" – i.e. the thing that happened was good. Granted, a stretch.

"the biopics of these moments better reflect that." – here we see a desire to ... something like memorialize the humiliation? There might be a better way to rephrase what I'm saying, but hopefully you see my point.

The next comment you quote about making sure there's good footage of "my people" makes a connection between the raping terrorist child-killers (the videos she had just been talking about) and the people getting out of the bad situation in Gaza – this is a bit of a stretch, admittedly, but I suspect it had something to do with her termination: it's a – sort of if you squint at it just right – argument that abducting children and elderly people, murdering, raping, and posting videos of dragging around women bleeding between their legs because you just raped them are necessary for liberation and justice.

Elsewhere, she called the terrorist rapist child-killing murderers "freedom fighters", which certainly crosses the line for me: I'd kick her off my platform if I had a platform. (She kinda sorta not really walked this back, but didn't.)

(She isn't Palestinian, but that doesn't matter wrt. your point, I think.)

@revphil @deosil @foggyruins@infosec.exchange @danielquinn @debasisg@mstdn.social @breadandcircuses @ClimateHuman a lot of times cost correlates with fuel used. So I think a carrot is already there.

@tofugolem @Raven47 @gwensnyder no, it wasn't, at all, an attempt to do that. 😂

@HolgerFiallo @superheroine But escalating violence (if that is what they're doing, I can't tell because few will talk about this without a political agenda) isn't necessary for that, and will ultimately be unhelpful – I think that is the point others are making here. So: if they're hunting down Hamas terrorists, that's fine – if they're bombing schools, not so much. Too much nuance?

@Raven47 @gwensnyder @tofugolem They fought over land and other resources long before agriculture.

@metaphorology @gwensnyder Two observations: (1) they aren't as "acute" – we don't have anything like these videos of Hamas kidnapping civilians that are covered in blood – instead it's just like oh maybe Israel isn't responding to reports of settlers harassing shepherds as fast as they should – and (2) Hamas keeps diverting attention away from Israel's sins by covering civilians with blood and then kidnapping them.

I guess one way to look at it is like what others are saying in this thread: Hamas is really doing any warmongering Israeli politicians a huge favor by keeping the narrative focused away from whatever Israel is doing wrong.

It's like Putin: maybe he had a legitimate complaint about too many countries joining NATO or whatever. Nobody cares about that anymore, to say the least. (He must have known this would happen, though, so I suspect his real reasons are elsewhere. Same with Hamas.)

@debasisg@mstdn.social @breadandcircuses @ClimateHuman I don't know if there's really any great alternative at this point if we're to maintain the lifestyles to which we've become accustomed. Like, ethanol sounds great – sustainable carbon cycle and all that – but would it even work if we switched to that wholesale? land use, energy required to process, etc? I remember a few years back it looked like the answer was "no" – have things gotten better?

With governments like Germany moving away from nuclear it is starting to feel hopeless.

@freemo @roboneko Yeah I think we do better than dogs in hot weather, dogs only do better in extremely cold weather, horses somewhere in between? I'm sure it depends on a lot of things. Hyenas I think also can run long distances, but most mammals can't.

@freemo "stop discussion" and also "put that on the table for discussion"?

@wiseguyeddie “There’s nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos.” Yeah it's tough being a centrist, just look at what's happening to Sinema and Manchin. Of course, none of this is a coherent argument that any given person or group is wrong or should change, just an observation about today's US party politics.

@freemo I think the expensive part is getting enough horizontal speed. Taking off at LEO-heights, you avoid air and the need to gain potential energy. This is like a fifth of the fuel or something. But sure: not nothing.

@VoxDei @freemo In a lot of counties – I mean places that this ruling is directed at – this is not remotely an honest description of what was going on. You could be a world-class expert in firearm usage or whatever and not get a CCW in these places. And the problem was not hoops to jump through to prove your expertise: they just didn't issue.

@freemo "130 miles to be at the lower end of LEO and service the ISS." But it's whizzing by at 5 miles/sec; most of the work is just getting up to speed, isn't it?

I guess the higher up you go the better, (less air etc?), but unless your elevator is quite a bit higher than these numbers you don't really get the main savings of a space elevator.

@freemo tl;dr – I don't have anything intelligent to add about maximum heights using rock or other modern material...

How high would it have to be? 100km to "space", but what application does a 100km space elevator have?

I found something saying that 10 miles is the max mountain height, but I think that was taking into account how fast mountain growth processes are vs. erosion, so I don't think it applies to this project: we can probably go quite a bit higher.

I agree it seems like if you go wide enough the rocks can probably support 100km without basically liquefying and squishing outward? I think? But I think the crust will deform a ridiculous amount, so be sure to take that into account. :)

@birwin @JustinMac84 @emma_cogdev @Sheril I hope you aren't driving your car to the nettle patch.

@Robru3142 @emma_cogdev @JustinMac84 @Sheril ah but see tree nuts there on the very bottom. Is that wrong?

@colo_lee @JustinMac84 @emma_cogdev @Sheril Yeah the graph might be more usable if it was in terms of per serving or something. (Also I'd like to see beans or something on there, as an alternative to meats – but soymilk is looking good so I'll go with that.)

One thing gets through accurately: clearly beef and other animal products, as they're typically farmed, are high-impact foods.

@Sheril I appreciate easy-to-consume data like this, because it seems like our assumptions about what choices are better or matter most are often (almost always?) wrong. (paper vs. plastic bags, cloth vs. disposable diapers, for example) So it's great to be able to focus our attention back on things that matter. thanks!

@JustinMac84 @emma_cogdev @Sheril It's fine – it's high up on the list because the impact per kg is high, but you don't consume very many kg of coffee per day. (I'm assuming this is kg of beans.)

I mean, nearly everything we consume has some kind of impact, of course, but I doubt drinking a cup of coffee has more impact than a dinner of prawns (the next lower item on the list).

I think one take-home point of this post is things like this: I would have assumed that buying beans and then brewing coffee myself was wildly less harmful than buying bottles of brewed coffee, just because of the transportation cost of the water in the coffee bottles. But maybe that assumption isn't quite right.