AltMaarri [they/them]

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Cake day: 2026年3月13日
  • AltMaarri [they/them]@hexbear.nettoEarth@hexbear.net•This El Niño is going to be somethingEnglish
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    4 天前

    And if a massive climate disaster event occurs, do you think that’ll be enough to convince them

    For a lot of people, I do. I think many people like this are ultimately buried in their cultural context, and never had an event breaking them out of that mould / making them question what are for them basic assumptions about reality.

    I think the vast majority of people are good and would care; it takes constant reinforcement to make them accept (and for many, barely, despite the image they may project) their constant participation in an absurd, evil system and to make them actively link their self-worth to it.

    Also, at the end of the day, there are more and more people barely surviving and there are less and less people like your brother as time goes on; eventually we reach a critical threshold. And at that threshold there are a lot more of the former than the latter willing to fight.

  • AltMaarri [they/them]@hexbear.nettoEarth@hexbear.net•This El Niño is going to be somethingEnglish
    17·
    4 天前

    Who believes in “effective altruism”

    That’s really really bad, though I’m sure you’re fully aware.

    As for the rest of your comment, the material benefits you describe are ultimately in large part extracted from exploited countries through imperialism; I suspect that’s where you’d see the first modern switches away from our current system (look at Burkina Faso for example), not in the imperial core. How many of these treats are actually manufactured in the west ? what happens when they can’t impose their world order ?

    Look also towards countries like China; it’s going to become really obvious really soon they’re able to offer much more material benefits to their citizen than countries like the US, for a fraction of the cost and the environmental impact. It will become hard to explain such a disparity. This has already begun.

    And also, and again: we’re entering a really dangerous zone. Most of our climate predictions were based on extremely optimistic scenarios and models not taking into account unquantifiable feedback loops; as well as carbon-removal technology that has never been demonstrated at scale, and that would be all but impossible to implement in a capitalist system even if it was. And we’re still emitting more and more each year. Much of what you describe may come to an end sooner than expected.

  • AltMaarri [they/them]@hexbear.nettomemes@hexbear.net•[CW: SA] my goodness, what an ideaEnglish
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    4 天前

    Maybe this; I quote (I’m assuming I don’t need to CW given the whole thread is but I’ll edit if I’m wrong):

    Computer-assisted self-interviews were completed with a random sample of 163 unmarried Caucasian and African American men in a large metropolitan area. Almost a quarter (24.5%) of these men acknowledged committing an act since the age of 14 that met standard legal definitions of attempted or completedremoved; an additional 39% had committed another type of sexual assault involving forced sexual contact or verbal coercion

    Then again it might be this (depressing I found two candidate studies immediately with a single shitty search):

    In college and community samples, rates of self-reportedremoved perpetration range from 6% to 15%, and rates of sexual assault perpetration range from 22% to 57%

    I didn’t look at either in depth / their methodology; but I wouldn’t be surprised. I am a man and I can count on the fingers of a single hand the amount of men I’ve known in my life that didn’t feel comfortable saying objectifying stuff about women when there were none around.

  • AltMaarri [they/them]@hexbear.nettoEarth@hexbear.net•This El Niño is going to be somethingEnglish
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    4 天前

    traditional window units

    I am aware these exist thanks to reading US comments on the web, but I have never ever seen one in the EU. Then again I very very rarely see windows that open like these here either.

    If you can’t drill / install an actual unit (with external condenser) we either have those, which are extremely inefficient energy-wise, don’t work that well, and require you to have a large tube connected to the outside (so window opened with an isolation kit), or stuff like these where it’s an actual AC unit with an external block - the condenser - but transportable, and you still need a cable to the outside but a much smaller one (along with an isolation kit).

  • AltMaarri [they/them]@hexbear.nettoEarth@hexbear.net•This El Niño is going to be somethingEnglish
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    4 天前

    If you do not have an AC, please obtain one or be aware of where to reach one; it’s becoming a question of survival, not comfort. And monitor humidity levels and temperature where you live during heatwaves. We have already reached the day of regular lethal heatwaves, and it will get worse - I fully expect heatwaves to kill millions annually in years, not decades. In fact I suspect they already kill tens of thousands annually in say, India, but it’s not properly being counted / reported on.

    I live in the EU and one of my friend had a family member die in the recent major heatwave. The victim was 40, living alone, body found days later in their flat. When they called the forensic doctor dude to get a cause of death they were very surprised about the fact it was the heat, and the doctor explained they saw several bodies a day of victims that were in their 30s.

    And bear in mind this is from the direct effects; the agricultural yields collapses we’re about to see will likely kill far more.

  • AltMaarri [they/them]@hexbear.nettonews@hexbear.net•Bulletins and International News Discussion from July 6th to July 12th, 2026 - Millions Attend Khamenei's Funeral / Omani Hormuz Route In Flux / Latin America Nearing Completion Of Comprador WaveEnglish
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    4 天前

    The US could nuke every major city in Iran I guess and end the war that way but I don’t see that happening

    End the war maybe, open the strait I don’t think even nuclear carpet bombing would work. There would be survivors in those missile cities and I suspect they would keep going.

    (all of this assuming an absence of international reaction on top of it, obviously)

    I’m worried that the likely outcome here is the US continues to economically destabilize Iran by killing people and destroying civilian infrastructure until Iran collapses.

    As you said I think the global economy would collapse before that. This is not a stable situation that can keep going for many more months. I still think this is a much worse energy crisis than in the 70s, and that one changed the world. The reserves are still being drawn, and the paltry amount of traffic during the MoU doesn’t change shit. The fact the markets haven’t caught up yet / are being manipulated doesn’t change the facts - in fact it’ll likely make the eventual wall even worse (that or as someone from the previous mega said there’s a huge puzzle piece missing / our or at least my understanding of how modern civilization works is deeply flawed).

    You say the US is fully ready to go that far, but I think that would make it risk collapse itself and the bourgeois there would find an exit before that, like offing Trump - it’d make a good excuse to end the conflict, doubly so if you false flag it towards an easier target (say, Cuba).