Then a heat pump won’t do any good. Achieving the right temperature is far more important.

But does it more effectively keep houses warm in cold weather, and cool in hot?

Sounds like you ought to stop it and think about what you’re doing.

Yet somehow I, the shit person, know how to behave as a mod better than they do, so that tells me all I need to know about them… and you.

You’re exactly the kind of person whose feathers get ruffled upon hearing these words and that tells us all we need to know about you. None of it is good.

Projecting much? Because I am not the one not listening to reason here, it’s you. It’s not just about this one particular douchebag. It’s the principle of the thing, that is applicable to all mods everywhere on every site.

You don’t get to just decide mods arguing with people in their own communities is okay because you find one particularly likeable. You as a user have a responsibility to hold mods to higher standards to maintain the integrity of the community too, and the only one who stands to suffer because of your refusal to accept it is you.

Firstly, the one rule of the instance of the community you are commenting on is “be nice”, so maybe relax on the hostilities.

I would say the same of you but it’s obvious you’re not listening. And that is entirely a you problem.

I’m a mod myself and an asshole, yet somehow I manage to not argue with my own users on my own subs. If I did, you’d be the first to call me out for being disrespectful and abusing my power, so why in the world would I or anyone listen to rhetoric from someone so disingenuous as you?

You don’t care about principle or properly managing a community, you only care about the fact that what I pointed out ruffled your feathers, hit too close to home, and you don’t like it.

People, above all, don’t like hearing the truth. And the truth is that you are just plain wrong and don’t want to accept it. Mods have responsibilities toward their users and that doesn’t change just because you don’t like it.

Let me tell you what you’ll tell me: go outside and touch some grass, it’s not that serious. Find it within yourself to accept it’s okay to be wrong about something.

This isn’t a job. They are a user like you who happen to also volunteer to mod because someone has to.

And they willingly chose to accept the responsibility that goes along with being a mod in exchange for that kind of power over others. That means they’re going to be held to a higher ethical standard than regular users and are looked down upon if they argue with users openly, because to allow it is to allow them to do worse shit, like ban users for disagreeing with them or even winning said arguments.

It doesn’t matter if mods get paid or not. They have to adhere to that responsibility or everyone suffers, even if you personally don’t care what they do. You’re just part of the problem.

Why would any of you think it’s okay for mods to power-trip? Is it because you have no standards? Or you wish to do the same yourself?

They seem to have handled the situation just fine and even left the report for other mods to handle. I really don’t see what the big issue is.

It’s the principle of the thing, which you don’t understand because you don’t have any real values.

I said argue, not contribute to discourse.

It’s immature, and unprofessional. Anybody could goad a mod like that to misusing their authority, driving people away from the sub and completely destroying their credibility. Other people won’t put up with it.

What kind of a mod argues with people in their own community? 🤔

It needs to change then, at least for stuff like this. It’s too serious to let off on a technicality.

Letting criminals off on technicalities is one of the things that put us down this dark road in the first place. Justice is far more important and letting them off is not justice, I don’t care how the original U.S. system was set up.

It needs to go.

Okay then, we just build Lofstrom loops and run them on nuclear reactors. Launch materials to put a solar shade up in a Lagrange point to cool the planet down until we stop all fossl fuel use and sequester enough CO2 when it is no longer needed. Construct the shade out of millions of smaller mirrors so that we can move mirrors away slowly over time so as to sync with the lowering CO2 levels.

Those loops only cost like $10 billion. That’s like a third of NASA’s yearly budget.

It’s not pie in the sky or some dumbass excuse to give the ruling class an out on climate change. Actually, the opposite – with cheap access to space, we will have access to near unlimited solar energy so we won’t need fossil fuels anymore, we can mine NEAs for metals making surface mining unnecessary, and actually build the Jetsonian post scarcity future our abusers promised us and failed to deliver on.

We really don’t have a choice anyway – we don’t have access to enough resources down here to make any of that happen, and without the solar shade no surface-only effort to stop climate collapse will work anyhow since the temperature will go up without it no matter what we do down here.

So we are left with a choice to kickstart human expansion into space or allow the biosphere to collapse. Grow or die. I say we grow.

Sauce: Wiki - OG paper

A lot of launches would be more safely done at sea or in the high desert than in coastal areas close to population centers.

Removed by mod

“On oil and gas companies who have spent decades burning fossil fuels - ramping up the world’s carbon emissions - Mehta said the law couldn’t go back in time and punish past activities."

Are they fucking serious? Why have any legal system at all then? People would just be allowed to rape and pillage as they please under that auspice.

Maybe he responded to the wrong post

Does anyone know how they even got on the server? I thought they were banned

No one is seriously committing genocide against Russia. Stop overreacting

This instance blocks tankies

Not really. :/

Sure, we give Ukraine weapons, but that’s not really going to be enough to drive out Russia for good.