wow, I'm a pretty climate-literate person but this is the first time I've heard this stat. can you recommend a reference to substantiate the 5.5% figure / that military emissions are generally not included in traditional estimates?

"including digital descendents" idk what this means but there are ~10^80 atoms in the universe, mostly hydrogen. split 10^58 ways that is ~10^22 atoms per sentient being. so the entire universe turned into human moral equivalents at a ratio of ~0.01 grams of hydrogen per human equivalent

curious how this will square with the incipient LNG boom

"[...] To hope is to give yourself to the future — and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable."

www.haymarketbooks.org/books/791-ho...

on the other, I recall this quote from Hope in the Dark by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social:

"Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency."

fossil words are a real thing! though they typically refer to archaic words that are "frozen in time" through their sole remaining use in common idioms:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_...

the "hydro" in magnetohydrodynamics is indeed a fossil etymology and doesn't necessarily refer to water — see also e.g. "hydraulics" which originally meant "water piping" but now refers generally to the mechanics of incompressible liquids

not sure if you're being sarcastic but the "hydro" in "hydrocarbon" does indeed refer to hydrogen. hydrocarbons can be non-fluids (e.g. solid paraffin waxes) — the "hydro-" is a remnant of hydrogen's own etymology that water (hydro) is *gen*erated when it is combusted

oh my god they got Jonkers

fossil fuels will get more expensive as shallow reserves are depleted and companies shift to more expensive and deeper secondary reserves. but we can't count on that scarcity to singlehandedly effect a shift to clean energy, especially if governments continue to subsidize fossil infrastructure

i'm unequivocally against fossil energy but the notion that we will run out of coal or oil has been shown to be false since the theory originated in the ~70s.

there is more than enough fossil carbon in the crust to push atmospheric CO2 >1000ppm. (whether those reserves are economical is another q)

cost of oil (WTI crude) in 1988: ~$40/bbl (inflation-adjusted)

cost of oil in 2025: ~$60/bbl

~50% cost increase

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only semi-related but when/why did we allow these dipshits to commandeer the ✨ emoji. AI is not magic, it does not leave a fucking trail of pixie dust. use the 🤖 emoji you soulless robotic freaks

is it good when py and python are different versions

deca- has always been an oddball prefix because it's the only (?) SI prefix to have a two-letter abbreviation. like whaddya mean a decameter is a 'dam'?

"in stage 3, the missile approaches a speed of 3900 standard squares per combat round"

—Monster Manual, Kalibr missile statblock

not currently in DC, but neither is National Harbor — the convention center is a good 30min drive south from the city proper