Jack

the two party system

The UK has a first-past-the-post system, yet the 2 parties that have won for decades (Labour and the Tories) are polling behind other parties like the horrible Reform and (in Feb and March) the ethical Greens.

People can choose to vote for Greens if they want, but most choose not to. The billions who fly and drive can stop, since there already are billions who don't fly or drive (tho for the latter it's mostly because they're poor, not because they don't want to be complicit in a mass-extinction event).

Is it also not the fault of the 99% who vote for non-Green parties who then make the laws causing your bullet points?

Waaaaaaaay less than the people who have used their power to corrupt said system.

In the 2024-11-05 US House election there were 149.5 million votes (I don't know how many eligible total), and 0.2 million voted Green.

In the 2024-11-05 US presidential election there were 155 million votes (only a 64.3% turnout), and 0.8 million voted Green.

In the 2024-07-04 UK election there were 48 million eligible voters, and 1.9 million voted Green. However, polling shows that despite the UK's first-past-the-post system, the Greens (in Feb and March) regularly polled ahead of both Labour and the Tories.

Is it also not the fault of the 99% who vote for non-Green parties who then make the laws causing your bullet points?

The mass-extinction causing orphan-crushing torment nexus (MECOCToN) is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it's clearly a useful one.

There are other questions around MECOCToN (like if we should be complicit in killing billions of people, and making more than 50% of genera go extinct, via its CO2e releases and water use), but "is it useful" is no longer one of those questions.

The Debian project has been and will continue to be about the technology.

Sure, the people who use it is important and often a very motivating part of the project, but in the end that's a side benefit, not the point of the project.

In the Debian community we do open source because it results in better technology, not because of ethical reasons.

And so we make decisions primarily based on technical merit. Not fear of causing a mass extinction.

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Not Conner (Connor), not for destroying (see Courtney's post), not datacentres (factory), not Skynet (which didn't exist yet).

How dare you question the orphan-crushing economy!

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Curaçao and Sint Maarten's Caribbean guilder, especially the obverse sides with fish, shells, turtle; are also beautiful: https://www.global-currency.com/currency-news/cbcs-reveal-of-the-caribbean-guilder-frame-at-1m22ss.jpg

If you don't like gross horror, I'd recommend skipping 4.02 "Home". While it's a favorite of fans of certain types of horror, it made some people completely stop watching the show.

If you decide to stop watching before season 3, I'd recommend still watching Darin Morgan's episodes, which are very funny. Especially:

• X-Files 2.20 "Humbug"
• X-Files 3.04 "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose"
• X-Files 3.12 "War of the Coprophages" (by far my favorite, tho Darin's least)
• X-Files 3.20 "Jose Chung's From Outer Space"
• Millennium 2.21 "Somehow, Satan Got Behind Me" (the spin-offs Millennium and The Lone Gunmen aren't very good, but this episode is amazing).

There are 3 more (M2.09, X10.3, and X11.4), but I wouldn't recommend watching them.

ng it thus far, Scully’s scepticism is what help pull Mulder out from trouble a lot of tim

Don't most public libraries have DVDs/BRs/CDs/LPs you can borrow? Or is it just in poor countries where we still use old computers?

Also, in D&D 5e (2014), you just roll a single d4, then add 1 and multiply it all by 3 (or multiply by higher than 3 if upcast), instead of rolling 3 dice: https://www.sageadvice.eu/magic-missile-do-you-roll-the-same-d4-for-all-darts/

I don't know of anyone who actually does that at home tables, because 3d4+3 is statistically less likely to give the minimum (or maximum) damage than (1d4+1)*3.

Pointless change… why?

I think it's to make you spend more time in the stores, see more products, and spend more money.

It probably works on most people, but there's such a small number of ethical products I buy, that it just reminds me how sociopathic these omnicidal capitalists are and that I should try to buy less things.

The two most effective legal things you can do to help with climate are eating vegan and not having children.

According to Wynes et al. 2017 PDF (graph), while it's true that not having children is by far the best thing to try to prevent the anthropogenic climate cascade, veganism is only the 6th most important thing.

Being:

• car-free,
• flight-free, and
• fossil-fuel free for energy,

are all more important than being vegan.

When not just looking at anthropogenic climate, but ethical living overall; then yes, veganism is the 2nd most important thing after being child-free, because animal husbandry and fishing result in the torturing to death of 2-6 trillion fish per year, and on factory farms the enslavement in torturous conditions of 1-3 trillion fish and billions of non-aquatic animals every year.