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Presumably because he (the company) doesn’t actually own the building. So any modifications have to be approved by the building owner.

Same way you can’t really paint the wall of your rented accommodation. It’s not your property.

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But climate preservation is clearly not working: Humanity is not disciplined enough

We are but we have to reach absolute tipping point first we only turn back from the edge when we’re right on it. That has always been how governments operate.

Up till the Cuban missile crisis the American military were all about using nukes in every possible situation for in even a small conflict. After the crisis they started to back off from that policy. The insanity of it was always clear, but until we actually got to the edge no one was prepared to act.

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I had to put on a coat the other day. So clearly global warming is a conspiracy to make the world a better place for no reason. I’m not having it, that’s why I burn a barrel of crude oil every night in my garden.

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Hottest 3 consecutive weeks. Not, oh there were three weeks spread randomly throughout the year that were quite warm. It was starting from the beginning and going on continuously to the end, every single day was hotter than the previous for three weeks continuously.

And it’s worth pointing out that the graph can actually go back a lot further than 44 years. It’s just that we don’t have data yearly for prior to that point. What we have is from ice cores, which are unreliable at targeting periods of less than about a century, but we do know that the climate has been steadily getting hotter over that period as well.

So we have two data sets we can stick together, one taken every hundred years or so, the other taken every year, but if both were shown in the same graph climate change denyers would jump up and down on the discrepancy, despite it not actually being an issue.

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It means conservatives don’t like it. And the reason usually given for not liking it is because it is woke.

It’s an infinitely dumb self-referencing argument, it’s best to just ignore them until they find something else to be outraged about, and then ignore that as well.

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Nobody will know if it’s unbelievably woke because nobody outside of America cares. So it’ll do fine. Also Margot Robbie is in it so it’ll do fine anyway.

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About 8 years ago I installed an extension that redirects youtube.com to youtube.com/subscriptions and then forgot the homepage exists.

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Even if you know nothing about cars, you can tell that from both context, and the fact that it clearly isn’t plugged in.

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Every atom in your brain gets replaced every four five years anyway so clearly it’s the position and structure of the atoms that’s important rather than the atoms themselves. So obviously there is no point worrying about it because it happens anyway, and you’re clearly fine.

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I am with Bob Johansson (Bobbyverse) on this one. Star trek is utterly inconsistent with how transporters work. They only ever play up when it’s convenient for the plot line, but the rest of the time they’re totally fine and no one worries about it.

Transporters are supposed to move the atoms by converting them into energy, moving that energy through subspace, and then converting them back to atoms on the other side, the only energy in the system is the energy that was created when the atoms were converted, so it shouldn’t be possible to create a transporter clone, no matter how many “confinement beams” you have, as where would it’s atoms come from?

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