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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • To my knowledge, there had been an understanding that scientists were being fairly conservative with their statements of how bad things were going to get, and how fast it was going to happen.

    I know of two primary drivers for this (which I am somewhat oversimplifying for brevity):

    1. Scientists really didn’t want to get it wrong by saying X will definitely happen by year Y, and then be wrong, thus giving ammunition to climate deniers and vested interests running counter-PR such as oil companies.

    2. Scientists didn’t want to paint a picture of unstoppable, inevitable doom that no person could possibly imagine a way for them to fix, or contribute to fixing, thus leading to the mindset of ‘if there’s no way to stop it why even try?’.






  • I do. Reddit was this awesome super/meta community of darn near any specific, niche, rare subject you could think of - and that thing would have a community of its own in a subreddit.

    The amount of utility, the breadth of concentrated access to subject matter experience on anything, was utterly unmatched anywhere else.

    This is, in my view, the dying of that resource, that super-community, and there isn’t going to be anything that can replace it quickly. That will hurt in the short and medium term.

    On the other side of things, it will lead to a diaspora of sorts, with other communities such as this one (kbin), various instances of the Fediverse, Tildes and others seeing a significant period of growth, and, probably, an infusion of resources to speed and improve development for the better.

    It sucks right now, but I do have hopes for what will come from the ashes.