Posts by AGTMADCAT@infosec.exchange
(DIR) Post #AR9wWz0DtAa52KXdoG by AGTMADCAT@infosec.exchange
2022-12-30T19:25:56Z
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@ivan I'm using Tusky connected to a Mastodon instance and I can see a difference between those paragraphs!
(DIR) Post #ARBZy7gtmhvJAjOYcq by AGTMADCAT@infosec.exchange
2022-12-31T11:58:27Z
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@ivan Just that little blue line! Everything else in that post was the same.
(DIR) Post #AXByVheAy7W6CWccls by AGTMADCAT@infosec.exchange
2023-06-29T18:41:55Z
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@freemo @just_a_frog @jerry Hold up, your last suggestion was Affirmative Action again. So your replacement for AA would be... AA?
(DIR) Post #AXOuZnm4FuqxbKUWTA by AGTMADCAT@infosec.exchange
2023-07-05T03:15:13Z
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@GreenFire @demvoter @CarlG314 Honestly and genuinely, I would like to know what you propose as an alternative.
(DIR) Post #AXOuZpLuO97IUmGeyO by AGTMADCAT@infosec.exchange
2023-07-05T17:13:33Z
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@GreenFire @demvoter @CarlG314 I am quite serious, I'm not sure why you think I "don't care", that's very strange.Germany is a very interesting example - their rapid phase out of nuclear provides a clear case study in what that looks like. It provides a very exact counterargument to your last statement that we need to transition off fossil fuels "as fast as we can". If Germany had maintained its ~20GW of nuclear generation, coal generation could have been cut in half by now. Yes, renewables growth has been very impressive, but instead of replacing dirty fossil fuels they've been replacing clean nuclear power, which is a significant diversion of critical construction resources. We do not have time left in our carbon budget to mess about with these sorts of detours.My question was in regards to primary energy consumption though, not just electrical generation sources. To stick with Germany, they currently receive only about 1/6th of their primary energy from renewables:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/pwgetzbb11i54xlypt3b5yaxa4h4zj7.pngWe need to decarbonize every sector of global energy use and we need to do it in the next decade, ideally faster. The two largest consumers of carbon power in most countries are transportation and heating. Most of that is going to need to be electrified, which will mean massive new power generation capacity is required. To stick with Germany, using rough math they will need to increase their electricity generation to about 4x their current total in order to satisfy their current primary energy needs.I have not seen any plausible analysis that suggests it would be even remotely possible to meet this massive new demand using renewables alone. This is a problem that we need to throw the proverbial carbon-free kitchen sink at. Everything I've read suggests a continued full-speed-ahead renewables build-out would get us less than halfway to a total decarbonization by 2035. If we were to simultaneously start construction on hundreds of new reactors, then when they eventually come online a decade from now, they'd replace another almost-half of our carbon energy, with the final few points being solved through efficiency. If you have analysis showing that we can accomplish this goal on renewables alone I would genuinely be interested in hearing all about it, hence my initial question. Do you have anything along those lines you're willing to explain?
(DIR) Post #AXOuZqfnTgcUaka3c0 by AGTMADCAT@infosec.exchange
2023-07-06T00:15:52Z
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@GreenFire @demvoter @CarlG314 Please expand on that "quite adequate" statement, that's the part I'm interested in drilling down on. Can you expand on that thought?
(DIR) Post #AYpzdSkil22SRdvwBc by AGTMADCAT@infosec.exchange
2023-08-17T23:55:04Z
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@KimPerales I do appreciate that the FBI can and does still arrest cops for this, even if it's not as frequent as we might like.
(DIR) Post #AZvgIqeDUqFPllYNOK by AGTMADCAT@infosec.exchange
2023-09-19T15:38:16Z
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@freemo @georgetakei We keep an eye on her and consider her as getting off with a warning this time. People need a little space to grow and learn from mistakes, but once they've used that space on a topic they need to be held to a higher standard going forward.
(DIR) Post #AZviXc8pubUb212o0u by AGTMADCAT@infosec.exchange
2023-09-19T16:03:00Z
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@freemo @georgetakei I think if she'd crossed not one but two picket lines to put on her show that definitely would have been doing something wrong. Strikes only work when everyone stands unified. And strikes working is inherently good for society in a multitude of ways.
(DIR) Post #AZvnyiq3cUTnOM0R1s by AGTMADCAT@infosec.exchange
2023-09-19T17:04:51Z
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@freemo @georgetakei Do you have any concrete examples of strikes being used for bad causes and having any success? Ideally from the last 50-100 years. I'm not aware of any significant or successful labor actions which have been used to increase oppression. I think a significant part of the reason is that labor actions are fundamentally a tool of the oppressed or weaker classes against the rich and powerful. Racism is the opposite - it's a tool of the rich and powerful against an oppressed class. It's very difficult to set up a scenario where those two opposing interests align.I would argue, though, that in the current world people are generally feeling disenfranchised and powerless, and that any kind of successful organized action shows people that they can stand up for themselves against the rich and powerful. That can only increase democracy and social engagement. Even if you or I might find an individual demand in some industry we're not in strange or unreasonable, that's not for us to judge, that's between those workers and those companies. They have a right to some degree of democratic control of their workplace.
(DIR) Post #AZwJdp5eNY5pETNUC8 by AGTMADCAT@infosec.exchange
2023-09-19T22:59:38Z
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@freemo @georgetakei If you consider that oppression then I don't think we have enough common ground for any meaningful conversation so we should leave it there. Have a good rest of your week.
(DIR) Post #AaddL5H2Urge5FVqr2 by AGTMADCAT@infosec.exchange
2023-10-05T07:00:48Z
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@BestPreston @gabriel @throsby @kcarruthers Voter fraud isn't really a thing in the US either but you'd never know it by how much the right wing cranks go on about it!