BREAKING : scientists discover weaknesses in ice shelf holding back Antarctica’s 'doomsday' glacier suggesting it could shatter within the next 3 to 5 years— Ben See (@ClimateBen) December 13, 2021
Can someone give me good news? Maybe this is a fake story?
but a few really do get high on their own supply.
Steve Jobs effectively killed himself
True, but liver cancer is way more complicated than global warming.
as dumb as Steve was, it's infinitely more plausible to believe that "cancer can be cured by fruitarianism" than to believe that "global warming will be fine"
True, but what billionaire doesn't own farmland? All it takes to outrun climate change (for a billionaire) is to buy a few acres of farmland in a sparsely populated region, and build a bunker nearby.
Even if they truly believe they can fix climate change, all they need to do is take a private jet ride when it becomes obvious that they're wrong. They can literally wait until the last minute, their "yes men" will literally fly the jet to them just before the cities start burning down.
Yeah, there are billionaires who have explicitly built underground bunkers in bumfuck Canada surrounded by dozens or hundreds of acres of farmland
But even the "bluepilled" billionaires own SOME farmland. And they have private jets. It's as simple as "holy shit the supply chains are collapsing, I was wrong, I have to gtfo" and then they just do it. Because y'know, they own a private jet. simple
I don't think elon is that dumb. I think he knows that people are that dumb, and he enjoys acting dumb. He knows his companies are worthless, and he's just milking it and making IRL SimCity plans (which will only ever be plans) for as long as the facade lasts.
The only things that fundamentally matter are land food and guns. I don't think there are any billionaires that are too stupid to realize this
Has Elon bought up a bunch of arable land? I'm pretty sure Elon is that dumb, in the same way Trump is just as dumb as people think he is. They have a kind of self awareness but not enough that questioning themselves ever happens, they just insist a thing is true and their yes people agree.
It's not like the news would report "Elon just bought 200 acres of land". Bill gates had to buy 269,000 for them to report on it. For reference it takes 2.67 acres to sustain a person comfortably (US style diet). Maybe bump that up to 6 acres to account for inefficient use due to newbie farming skills.
Nobody is going to report on a billionaire buying the amount of land needed to sustain them, because it's just such a tiny amount of land that it's forgettable in comparison to everything else they do.
You could theoretically buy a hovel and store some canned sardines and lentils in there to last you 5 years. The food supply would cost only a couple thousand bucks. People's survival needs aren't expensive.
If you're just talking about a contingency plan, I don't think that implies Elon thinks he's wrong, just that he's hedging a bet. I'm sure you've read stuff about him back in the aughts etc but none of the accounts of him back then suggest to me that he's particularly grounded in reality.
there are two basic interpretations of the "mars" plan
humans will terraform mars and it'll become a major haven for human life. This is what some people unironically believe and it is obviously totally delusional.
humans will spend enormous amounts of money to create a base on mars or the moon
I think #2 is possible, and probably is what elon is trying to make happen or believes can happen. I don't think that's particularly unreasonable
you mean the billionaires want you to think that they actually think that
no billionaire is dumb enough to think that--in reality they all have isolated bunkers and humongous plots of farmland which they will fuck off to.
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True, but liver cancer is way more complicated than global warming.
as dumb as Steve was, it's infinitely more plausible to believe that "cancer can be cured by fruitarianism" than to believe that "global warming will be fine"
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True, but what billionaire doesn't own farmland? All it takes to outrun climate change (for a billionaire) is to buy a few acres of farmland in a sparsely populated region, and build a bunker nearby.
Even if they truly believe they can fix climate change, all they need to do is take a private jet ride when it becomes obvious that they're wrong. They can literally wait until the last minute, their "yes men" will literally fly the jet to them just before the cities start burning down.
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Yeah, there are billionaires who have explicitly built underground bunkers in bumfuck Canada surrounded by dozens or hundreds of acres of farmland
But even the "bluepilled" billionaires own SOME farmland. And they have private jets. It's as simple as "holy shit the supply chains are collapsing, I was wrong, I have to gtfo" and then they just do it. Because y'know, they own a private jet. simple
have you heard of elon musk?
I don't think elon is that dumb. I think he knows that people are that dumb, and he enjoys acting dumb. He knows his companies are worthless, and he's just milking it and making IRL SimCity plans (which will only ever be plans) for as long as the facade lasts.
The only things that fundamentally matter are land food and guns. I don't think there are any billionaires that are too stupid to realize this
Has Elon bought up a bunch of arable land? I'm pretty sure Elon is that dumb, in the same way Trump is just as dumb as people think he is. They have a kind of self awareness but not enough that questioning themselves ever happens, they just insist a thing is true and their yes people agree.
has he not?
It's not like the news would report "Elon just bought 200 acres of land". Bill gates had to buy 269,000 for them to report on it. For reference it takes 2.67 acres to sustain a person comfortably (US style diet). Maybe bump that up to 6 acres to account for inefficient use due to newbie farming skills.
Nobody is going to report on a billionaire buying the amount of land needed to sustain them, because it's just such a tiny amount of land that it's forgettable in comparison to everything else they do.
You could theoretically buy a hovel and store some canned sardines and lentils in there to last you 5 years. The food supply would cost only a couple thousand bucks. People's survival needs aren't expensive.
If you're just talking about a contingency plan, I don't think that implies Elon thinks he's wrong, just that he's hedging a bet. I'm sure you've read stuff about him back in the aughts etc but none of the accounts of him back then suggest to me that he's particularly grounded in reality.
there are two basic interpretations of the "mars" plan
humans will terraform mars and it'll become a major haven for human life. This is what some people unironically believe and it is obviously totally delusional.
humans will spend enormous amounts of money to create a base on mars or the moon
I think #2 is possible, and probably is what elon is trying to make happen or believes can happen. I don't think that's particularly unreasonable
Space flight is just a money put used for people interested in asteroid mining and creating sealed environments to live in when they go galt