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  • Finally, a post in which I have some academic expertise.

    Corals have adapted over thousands of years to thrive in the temperatures in their areas of the globe. As such, they are able to survive the natural rise and fall in temperatures year-round. However, as climate change increases all temperatures worldwide, and makes heat waves more likely and more intense, it directly threatens all corals around the world.

    Corals bleach if temperatures reach 1 °C above long-term monthly averages* for one month, and die if it is 2 °C above for a month or 1 °C above for two months. We passed the tipping point where corals start bleaching in the 1980s.

    As CO2 levels have continued to rise (past 400 ppm as of today), and as global average temperatures have continued to increase, more and more coral reefs experience temperatures above their bleaching tipping point. As a result, today corals around the world bleach every single year. They bleach so often that they have no time to recover and simply die.

    The IPCC and COP’s CO2 targets WILL guarantee that coral reefs go extinct. However, current governments’ policies are not even meeting that standard. In order to preserve coral reefs, we need to not only stop all CO2 emissions, but reverse our previous emissions to pre-industrial levels (280 ppm) and reduce global temperatures through technologies like rewilding, carbon dioxide removal, and solar radiation management.

    Until then, we will have to use technologies like electrified reefs (Biorock) and genetic breeding of heat-resistant corals to hopefully preserve some modicum of coral reefs for post-climate change days.

    Some people will bring up causes such as sedimentation and destruction due to human activity, and toxicity from waste and sunscreen. While these are factors, they are extremely localized and do not account for the majority of bleaching events worldwide. Pristine corals in the middle of the ocean that have never experienced human activity are also bleaching.

    If anyone has any questions around this topic, feel free to ask!

    * for scientific and data reasons, long-term monthly averages for any location on Earth are defined as the average temperatures of the hottest months at that location in the 1980s



  • North Korea will always need a sizable military budget until occupied Korea and the USA stopped practicing how to invade their country twice every year. South Korea’s military is also enormous and is the same size as North Korea’s.

    My argument is that it lets them spend less human resources on the the military and instead direct it to improve the country.

    Also, I don’t trust any Western reports on North Korea supposed military expenditures. They will always try to depict North Korea in the most nonsensical, worst possible light.








  • Here’s the original article: https://nypost.com/2024/04/27/us-news/nyu-professor-says-hamas-loving-students-need-to-have-more-sex/

    Somehow, he makes an even worse take one paragraph down. Scott thinks these protests against Zionism will lead to the rise of Nazism again, and blames the original rise of Nazism on socialists in Germany in the 1930s.

    Quote:

    Galloway said American society would not survive if its people could not rally behind noble causes — adding that much of what he was seeing reminded him of the early rise of Hitler.

    “It’s easy to poke fun at these kids, but history has a way of repeating itself, and this is how it starts. In ’30s Germany, a progressive community, a thriving gay community, excellent academic institutions. And how it started, was it was fashionable to wear a brown shirt and mock students at the University of Vienna,’ Galloway said.

    He seems to think that the socialists turned into Nazis, and not that the Nazis were created by capitalists in reaction to the socialists.

    We are already starting to see liberals like Scott co-opt the righteous anger of young people and redirect them toward useless electoralism and antisocialism.

    Scott recently made a viral TED talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEJ4hkpQW8E) where he points out all the problems that young people face, but of course proposes solutions that will never be implemented without changing the political system entirely.

    Instead of blaming rich capitalists for squeezing us more, he just blames all old people, and makes sure to also knock affirmative action along the way for “reasons”.

    Fighting misdirection from people like this is why we organize and educate.


  • They’re not even subtle about this shit either. To be able to legally invest in more sophisticated investment vehicles, you have to be an accredited investor. To be one, you must have either:

    • a yearly income exceeding $200,000
    • a yearly joint income with spouse exceeding $300,000
    • an individual or joint net worth exceeding $1 million, excluding the value of your home

    These requirements essentially hardlock the status to the top 5% in the US. Being one is the only way to buy into venture capital, private equity, hedge funds, etc., where all the real money is made.

    The SEC sells this to the public as “keeping the uninformed public safe”, but it actually puts a hard wall on the ability of commoners to make lucrative investments.


  • This pivot against FOSS in the West will just hurt themselves. The strength of FOSS is its huge potential for reach, while its drawback is that it’s harder for FOSS devs to make a living.

    In the West, FOSS devs all live on donations. While a few FOSS programs become huge enough to sustain themselves, most fail. Western governments have deliberate policies of not finding much FOSS development, exacerbating this issue.

    Socialist countries’ (e.g. China’s) policies of government investment in development invariably leads to more investment in FOSS, providing FOSS developers more stable incomes. For example, China has multiple government-funded Linux OSes (UOS, Kylin, Deepin), OpenHarmony OS, etc.

    This will ultimately snowball into more and more FOSS programs, creating a vibrant socialist-developed software ecosystem the developing world can quickly plug into at low-cost.