Yeah, that’s completely reasonable. Or mandate reductions on a fixed schedule, e.g. 50% of today’s numbers in 3 years, 0% in 6.

How much do you think extreme climate change is going to lower living standards globally?

If personal transport and home heating and whatnot were transitioned fully to green energy, and fossil fuels were used exclusively for large-scale shipping, it would be a huge net gain.

I don’t think anyone’s suggesting we just immediately pull the plug on fossil fuels entirely, that’s not at all realistic, but heavily taxing them and using the revenue from those taxes to go towards cleanup and green energy would be a step in the right direction. The reliance on fossil fuels might drop considerably if the price of gas increased heavily. To your point, it’s an industry because people buy it, and people buy it because it’s the most cost effective solution in many cases. If it was no longer cost effective, people would gravitate towards green alternatives where possible.

What’s your proposal - let them just keep drilling, keep pumping, and keep polluting? It’s “legal” for them to do it, so there should be no guardrails, no accountability? They’ve been pushing back heavily on even legislation to make them pay a considerable amount towards cleanup efforts. The article states:

“Despite global climate commitments, a small group of the world’s largest fossil fuel producers are significantly increasing production and emissions. The research highlights the disproportionate impact these companies have on the climate crisis and supports efforts to enforce corporate responsibility.”

What would you have us do?

I’d even make the argument that these companies are directly contributing to the deaths of billions through climate change, the extinction of entire species… It’s not hyperbole. As such, if they refuse to stop what they’re doing, rather than let a relatively small number of people effectively decide the fate of everyone, isn’t it our (‘our’ as in ‘everyone else’s’) moral obligation to stop them, through whatever means necessary?

If they were threatening to launch nuclear missiles or something, we’d agree that without a doubt they should be stopped and no methods were too extreme, so why is it any different just because the method they’re using is slower?

I don’t think he cares. He doesn’t give a shit about the US, or how much damage he causes. He only cares about himself, and maybe a few of his associates, maybe, though I’d wager that caring only extends so far as they continue to act sycophantic. He’d turn on them in an instant if they stopped playing into his ego.

If another country’s leader was pulling this shit against the US, we’d have arranged for their leader to be deposed, or to fall down some stairs, or for a coup to occur, or something. If only some other country would do the same now.

A lynching?

That was another thing his lawyers were arguing, actually - that since his arrest was over-publicized and spun in a particular light (for instance the widely circulated photo with him being escorted by an entire precinct worth of police) that they skewed public perception and created a presumption of guilt.

Really, though, this is important largely because of the jury is even the least bit sympathetic, points like this could go a long way towards getting them to acquit him, even if they believe he did it. “Well, I think he’s guilty, but the judge said we had to ignore all of this evidence, sooo…”

Maybe we’ll have another pandemic, and we can convince all the republicans that they shouldn’t get vaccinated, and it’ll solve some problems for us.

Make it Pay Per View, reduce the deficit to zero in one night.

Yes*!

*As long as you make $400k or more.

Like, he’s had the chair a month, and he’s going out and doing local station news interviews already.

I really feel like they all need to be doing this, as much as possible. Get out there and publicize just how fucked things are, and what they’re doing to fight back, and how Trump’s cronies control the entire government right now and what’s happening is directly their fault.

Hamas staged a public ceremony in Khan Yunis before releasing the bodies as they displayed images of the hostages and blamed Israel for their deaths, a claim Israeli officials strongly ‘rejected’.

Yeah, they spent more than a year basically leveling Gaza, killed tens of thousands of people, but the suggestion that these 4 might have been among those they killed is just unthinkable.

Some Boeing workers could be real American heroes right about now.

I’m increasingly convinced that that’s his ultimate goal. Or maybe Putin’s ultimate goal and Trump is just being used as a puppet.

Also, inappropriately denied medical benefits should be theft with damages of 3x.

If they deny coverage on a necessary procedure and the patient dies because they didn’t receive it, it should be involuntary manslaughter at the very least.

and potentially their brand sponsors

Well, there it is. In-game ads in the form of “user-generated content”, from the sound of it. Also has paid mod vibes.

Hope I’m wrong and it’s actually great.

I don’t have the links you’re looking for, so I can’t be any help there, but I do want to give you a hearty welcome to Lemmy anyway!

It does, though, because not every instance federates with every other instance. If someone is coming from Reddit, and they interact with a set of specific subs there, and they want to interact with the analogue communities here, they don’t want to join an instance like, for example Beehaw, that has very strict federation policies, or (probably) .ml or lemmygrad, where they’ll be exposed to stigma they weren’t aware of going in and which might not apply to them.

A list of servers with very open federation could solve this problem in theory, assuming new users knew to reference it, but that might not be what they want, either.

The invite code idea is actually solid, I think, assuming they’re handed out to people who have things in common with the target userbase of the instance, and not arbitrarily.

There’s also some instances that hold united views on specific topics, for example blahaj with trans rights, and someone arbitrarily choosing that instance that doesn’t hold those same views might feel that they don’t fit in.

Obviously anyone can just choose a new instance and move, but for a new user coming in, that’s a ‘quit moment’ in many cases. Giving an invite code to someone that leads them to an instance that at least broadly fits what they’re interested in could help solve for this.

Edit: I think having more instances that have specific themes and topics, like slrpnk or programming.dev (or pawb, for that matter) would help, too. Someone looking in from the outside might not understand federation, but if they see an instance geared towards a topic they’re interested in, they might be inclined to join it even if they incorrectly think that’s all they’ll be able to interact with.

Normally this is where I’d say “They should all tell him to fuck right off when he does find a way to contact him”, but that seems like a job we don’t want entrusted to some nepotism hire or college freshman.