Yea, I guess I figured if the worst takes 15 years to get here, then I’ll be older and killed by it and it’ll be okay because my kids will be young adults with their best chance of survival.

But if it’s next year, then my kids are still pretty young and vulnerable. And if my kids don’t make it, I don’t really care to either.

I think it’s probably still outweighed by his axing subsidies on renewable electricity generation, axing subsidies on electric vehicles, removing regulations on fossil fuel electric plants, and subsidizing coal plants.

I was almost excited, but then you (rightfully) crushed it, OP.

With all sources of carbon considered, including deforestation, total global CO2 emissions are set to continue increasing.

Sigh. Still on track for my children starving to death in the famines to come.

Geoengineering is the only thing that can really blunt this at this point…

“AI data centers are ALSO bad” wasn’t your initial statement, and you know it.

And even if it was, that’s kind of beside the point. AI data centers are a relatively new (10 years) usage of the energy produced with the burning of hydrocarbons. The burning of hydrocarbons is the problem and has been for 150 years.

We can’t focus on the real problem if you insist on redirection of people’s ire towards your latest socio-political beef.

Conservatives in the US (at least as a platform, not so much down to the individual) have mostly given up pretending that the climate isn’t changing, they are just refusing to take responsibility for it. They are currently pretending it’s an act of God/ nature and that it’s laughable for man to be able to influence it.

Ehh, disagree. We have a battery backup system (they charge from the electric lines) for our house because we have a well instead of sewer lines, so when the power goes out we don’t have water. Our next big purchase will be panels to charge the batteries as further backup.

They fired most of their specialists on the region, so that will probably be their excuse. But honestly, firing all of your specialists is kind of an acceptance of this kind of BS.

I’m not advocating it. They just seem removed enough from the hot conflicts at the moment to weather the coming moment. If the discussion about this+Venezuela being a pincer move targeting China’s oil supply pans out and/or they move on Taiwan, I guess that could change.

Generally agree, but if China plays their hand well, they could do alright/ lead the following century.

Hmm… I wonder if nuclear winter would slow global warming.

Are you talking about trans men? Or are you talking about other types of slavery?

I mean, my sex ex courses were mostly taught by conservatives, but we were always told the pull out method alone isn’t going to get the job done. Though, I think it’s supposed to be decently effective if the woman is also tracking her ovulation carefully and you abstain during ovulation.

Pretty sure the re-enslavement of women into perpetual baby makers is part of their plan.

Yea, I feel like this has some civil war outcomes possible.

I don’t know if blue states have steeled themselves enough for it yet, but I don’t think they will take this lying down.

Aren’t a large portion of them glad to have summers off because their kids have summers off? I think if there was a paradigm shift of childcare needs like that, it might not be so bad.

I am actually really angry that in the aftermath of Covid, and all the ground that children lost, that we did not overhaul schools to be year-round like they are in Asia. Kids lost whole years of education with the endless school closures!! Why the fuck didn’t we make it up with the summers?! Why did we just go back to the same shitty broken system?!

Because they had no means to have sex without kids.

Yes.

You can’t let them explore on their own to build independence and confidence without CPS being called on you.

When kids misbehave in public, all the boomers get their panties in a wad. My parents get flustered when the grandkids get loud playing together in a back bedroom.

Getting kids launched well in life, with some chance of adult prosperity, requires thousands and thousands of dollars in private clubs/ competitions/ tutoring/ schools/ etc - the highly competitive nature of the US economy has reached down into elementary aged children at this point. Where I live, people even pay for tutoring to get their children into GT programs.

Obligatory IANAL, but I think US law is similar. Murder is any premeditated killing of another person. Voluntary manslaughter seems to be spontaneously but intentionally killing another person, and involuntary manslaughter involves criminal negligence that results in someone dying on accident. It seems here they have decided that he was not criminally negligent… Despite the fact that he was drinking, the gun was loaded, he pointed it at her, etc

Texas corruption is just out here showing its ass on the world stage. I would guess some Kool Aid drinking gun nuts got put on the grand jury and empathized with the guy.

Edit: Well, after reading the NY Times article on it, it sounds like the prosecutors office didn’t really try to make a case to the grand jury. The girl’s mother is quoted as saying: She also said that the grand jury in Texas “seemed to have no option but to conclude” that “no prosecution could be brought, based on the evidence they were presented with.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/world/europe/lucy-harrison-shooting-uk-texas-coroner.html?unlocked_article_code=1.MVA.DolI.x1nlgDGUNYkg

Maybe he is. They should have still brought charges against him.