J6 Defendant Mark Aungst Who Pled Guilty to "Parading in US Capitol" Commits Suicide Before Sentencing

Electronic_Antelope · 2022-07-23T18:43:52+00:00

Damn, that's a shame. It's always a tragedy when someone feels no escape but to take their own life.

Electronic_Antelope · 2022-07-23T18:36:57+00:00

There are some people who believe just about anything you could name; it's not a very significant observation.

Electronic_Antelope · 2022-07-23T18:27:43+00:00

I don't think that's the characteristic stance.

Electronic_Antelope · 2022-07-23T18:11:05+00:00

Here's an assessment of the performance of a variety of models.

Electronic_Antelope · 2022-07-23T18:03:30+00:00

You wouldn't be aware of it because it is not true. Not even almost true. Not even within the same country as true.

Yeah, that's what I was intending to suggest. Some crazy ideas around here.

Electronic_Antelope · 2022-07-21T02:44:30+00:00

Pff, you still believe in the moon?

Nah, seriously. Amazing that it was done. Especially with the technology of the time, it's incredible to imagine.

Electronic_Antelope · 2022-07-20T08:57:46+00:00

Sulfate aerosols? Yeah, it's pretty much the only politically realistic option. People seem quite unwilling to stomach decarbonization, even if it could take effect fast enough.

Electronic_Antelope · 2022-07-20T07:18:54+00:00

As a gas, it has no lattice structure to absorb/emit a range of any spectrum.

Blatantly wrong right off the bat, not much point in going further.

(About the conclusion that it therefore can't absorb a range, naturally, not the absence of a lattice.)

Electronic_Antelope · 2022-07-20T03:08:26+00:00

Is she an eco crusader? I'm only aware of her being affiliated with some stupid reality show or other.

Electronic_Antelope · 2022-07-20T01:21:07+00:00

claimed on Friday that a man in an adult bookstore was forcing a girl between the ages of 10 and 12 to participate in sex acts with male customers.

The investigation revealed at no time were any sex acts performed or offered by any of the individuals in the establishment as reported by White.”

Seems pretty clear-cut.

Electronic_Antelope · 2022-07-20T01:09:52+00:00

Apparently,

CBS chairman Leslie Moonves explained that the name of the new network was formed from the first letters of CBS and Warner Bros, joking, "We couldn't call it the WC for obvious reasons."

Because CW was formed from a union of the WB and UPN (the latter of which was owned by CBS).

Electronic_Antelope · 2022-07-20T01:06:34+00:00

I'd say "What is this, a joke?"

Electronic_Antelope · 2022-07-20T01:04:48+00:00

High IQ engineers and computer scientists aren't going to solve anything, even if it were a simple matter to ensure them.

However, eliminating genetic diseases through in-utero testing and early abortion of carriers seems like a no-brainer.

Electronic_Antelope · 2022-07-19T22:45:52+00:00

It's both, of course. Global warming refers specifically to the rising temperatures, climate change refers to the suite of other effects that go along with that, like those shifts in rainfall patterns previously mentioned. Associated with the temperature change, but not, strictly speaking, the same thing.

They try to predict those too, but, eh, I'm dubious how accurate any such prediction can be - it's trying to model a phenomenon a hell of a lot more complex than the temperature, which ultimately is a simpler system of energy out vs energy in.

Electronic_Antelope · 2022-07-19T22:24:29+00:00

You'll find heat in both rainforests and deserts. Now, what I think you're getting at is that, yes, in fact, if the atmospheric CO2 concentration were really pumped up to 500, 600, whatever ppm, and everybody heated up a few more degrees, the places that ended up with good rainfall would probably be quite suitable for growing crops! If the soil was also decent, of course. But there's issues of, where's that going to be, what will be the rainfall and climate in the farmland we already have, how quickly can our agricultural centers really shift while maintaining production, how much will the coastlines recede along the way, what other species will be unable to biologically adapt to the rapid shifts and go extinct...

Humans in general are quite well-equipped to survive global warming as a species, and probably even to make the best of the world that results from it. Which is good, because I don't think we're sociologically equipped to do anything about it, save maybe geoengineering via sulphate aerosols. But there'll be a lot of disruption and losses and, almost certainly, human suffering along the way. If we could, it would probably be best to avoid it.

Electronic_Antelope · 2022-07-19T22:01:49+00:00

No, I'm saying that the metabolic use of carbon dioxide by plants is unrelated to the heat-trapping effects of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The greenhouse effect is called that more in relation to the glass walls and ceilings of a greenhouse, which act to admit light but trap heat in a manner similar to CO2 and other "greenhouse gases" in the atmosphere.

Obviously, greenhouses have been around quite a bit longer than we've had devices to supplement their CO2 concentration.

Electronic_Antelope · 2022-07-19T21:36:52+00:00

https://www.ars.usda.gov/ARSUserFiles/50820500/GPRG/2011PublicationsandSummaries/ElevatingCarbonDioxideInACommercialGreenhouse[Article].pdf

The drawdown of CO2 in a closed system is an often ignored issue and in some instances, can lead to plant growth problems. Measurements as low as 175 ppm CO2 inside greenhouses have been recorded (FrantzandSchmidlin,2009), and CO2 concentrations are commonly 300 to 330 ppm (390 ppm atmospheric or outside), even in well-ventilated greenhouses.

There are additional growth benefits, though, to increasing concentrations above atmospheric, to a peak apparently around 1000-1200 ppm.

Electronic_Antelope · 2022-07-19T21:25:37+00:00

Sure, it's just (relatively) opaque to infrared, absorbing and re-radiating it in all directions instead of allowing it to be transmitted through and lost.

Ultimately, though, the physical mechanism barely matters. The heat retention capabilities of carbon dioxide were observed as far back as the 1860s - called here "carbonic acid," based on its solution form in water. We know perfectly well it traps heat, we know the proportions in the atmosphere have increased sharply, we know the temperatures have increased sharply; the conclusions are pretty straightforward.

Electronic_Antelope · 2022-07-19T19:26:43+00:00

No, I'm not aware of any of that.

Electronic_Antelope · 2022-07-19T19:09:45+00:00

Because otherwise, all the growing plants in an enclosed space will significantly reduce the amount of carbon in the air available for photosynthesis. That has no particular relationship to carbon dioxide's heat-trapping effects in Earth's atmosphere.

Electronic_Antelope · 2022-07-19T19:06:16+00:00

Not like the ones who say they're women without making any of the relevant structural changes are more reasonable...

Electronic_Antelope · 2022-07-19T19:02:17+00:00

And what does that mean, precisely? Is he capable of committing evil? If he, hypothetically, commanded men to kill and eat their children, would following that command be righteous?

Electronic_Antelope · 2022-07-19T19:00:25+00:00

I don't want to, they're gross.

Electronic_Antelope · 2022-07-19T05:15:12+00:00

Eh. Theologically it's a problem either way. If good is defined absolutely, irrespective of god's actions, then god isn't actually needed for any kind of moral authority, and indeed can be morally assessed as sinful. (Drowning almost everyone on earth comes to mind, biblically.)

On the other hand, if good is defined as "whatever God does and decides," then it's all a bit philosophically hollow - moral rightness reduces to nothing more than obedience, and if god decreed it, cannibalizing one's children could be "good."

Electronic_Antelope · 2022-07-19T05:07:44+00:00

We are at the top of the food chain. We aren't meant to eat bugs. At worst, we should eat things that eat bugs.

Just saying it's gross and you don't want to do it is a lot more reasonable - this is basically nonsense, in terms of the underlying biology. Not only is there nothing special about eating creatures at higher trophic levels, but essentially all the animals we do eat are indeed primary consumers.

Electronic_Antelope · 2022-07-17T04:47:39+00:00

From philo- "love" and logos "word"

Electronic_Antelope · 2022-07-17T04:19:56+00:00

I'm in favor.

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