Horrible idea. No one sees this button, no one knows what it does, and upvotes definitely should have that effect.

You should access Reddit only via a mirror as you wouldn’t want to contribute there anyway.

I wonder what people who upvote this are thinking, obviously the point is moot unless you are also vegan. And who upvotes someone going “meat is murder” in the comment section.

I find the kbin website to work rather well, it’s good work. Also the backend seems stable for now, I didn’t notice any hiccups recently when commenting. If things can be made simpler and more intuitive over time, it does seem like a viable alternative.

Well, speak for yourself. I don’t have an issue at all with a bot that summarizes publicly available posts and comments.

Meanwhile votes and favorites by username are publicly accessible. I consider that an actual threat to privacy. This here seems more like somewhat pointless anti-AI rhetoric that anyway hardly affects OpenAI‘s ability to collect the publicly available data we post here.

This is a literal conspiracy theory.

I went through 3 pages of their comments and what I‘ve read were respectful and well articulated comments from someone quite religious and with conservative values.

Maybe I missed some extreme stuff but I wouldn’t be surprised if you guys are completely making this up.

In other words, you switched out of fear of restrictions that still haven’t manifested nearly two decades later

I like your attitude

What they wrote:

Hopefully the human race will be extinct

Yeah, right. Likable attitude.

I don’t know who you guys think needs those semi-correct explanations filled with half personal opinion. It seems somewhat obvious that the mentioned understanding of patterns likely results in something that could well be considered understanding in general.

What you write suggests to me that temperatures would, in a worst case scenario, rise beyond approximately +4C after 2100. Often, when I read comments, they seem to imply runaway climate change. Last I checked science was saying that this seems very unlikely to be possible at all, and that a hothouse earth would possibly reach a stable state at approximately +4C.

I also figure that most people to not know that additional warning would require more, and not less CO2. As far as I know, research has shown that humanity would likely not be capable of reaching such a level of emissions.

So, what we are left with is the +4C scenario. Its consequences are uncertain enough, that’s fair. However, when you say that this is an environment humans did not evolve to live in, while technically true, it just makes it sound a lot more dramatic than it probably is likely to be.

To get back to the initial claim about the end of human civilization, this clearly requires unsurvivable conditions globally, including in regions least effected by climate change. While this may sound cynical, the worst effects that are likely to affect Africa, the Sahara, or the Middle East, certainly to not mean the end of human civilization. Implying so is in my opinion dubious. If we look at that Wikipedia article that has been shared, there seems to be a lot of handwaving about a combination of effect supposedly somehow combining to lead to humanity’s extinction mostly by triggering migration and wars. A dubious proposition.

Without trying to go into conspiracy territory, it often seems to me that scientists are hesitant to clearly communicate basic facts around climate change that might be used to oppose needed climate action.

And for the record, I agree that action is needed. However, I disagree with spreading apocalyptic scenarios that seem very unlikely to even be possible, much less a likely outcome. Studies have suggested that climate fears affect a large number of young people, it’s in my opinion a mental health concern. People online love to fuel it, there’s nothing more popular than climate change hyperbole.

And I had to start again after each system update. And the nightmare of individually updating each driver and software

I certainly didn’t have a better experience on Linux in this regard. Maybe Windows updates occasionally come with m a nagscreen or unwanted applications nowadays.

However, at least the updates usually install successfully. On Linux, depending on the distro, an update means it’s manual conflict resolution time. For other distros, users generally recommend a clean install over updating.

What I would save in nags screens would seem easily replaced by effort needed to get drivers and basic features to work correctly in Linux. Last I checked, it was still an odyssey to get lag-free 4K playback on YouTube working in the browser.

At the end of the day, I feel like it’s a lot of annoyances and effort on either platform. Now that I think about it, probably macOS comes out ahead somewhere in the middle. Less nagware but little exposure to the usual Unix complexity.

Ah, well, that would make sense. I guess it was the weird wording starting with the “this might appall some people” that let me to believe they had something more sinister in mind.

Well, if this wasn’t a threat of terrorism, then do enlighten me what the user meant by getting his hands on a drone to bring up insurance premiums for retailers. I understood it to be arson.

It does seem superior for the weather and cooking.

Having the weather between 50-100 instead of 10-40 kind of makes sense.

And for the cooking, having the steak temperature at 130-135 or 135-145 is clearer than 54-57 or 57-63.

Not that I’d think it would make sense to change, but it just seems plain stupid how we like to pretend the imperial system would be inferior and stupid.

I find it hard to disagree when it appears to be teenagers burning and looting for the thrill of it.

I don’t even need to check your comment history to conclude you’d be some sort of radical leftie.

It’s obvious when your response to me critizing literal threats of a drone attack is met with you stalking my profile to post a worthless personal attack. This is about as stupid as it sounds.

To understand how this has happened, how humanity has gambled its civilisation on no more than promises of future solutions

A casual implication of climate change ending human civilization. I don’t think this is backed by science, like at all. Why should I trust anything else the authors have to say if they can’t stick to facts from the start?

This might appall some people, but someday I’m going to gain access to a drone, and subsequently the insurance premiums on various Amazon and Walmart properties would be about to experience a drastic rate hike…

The hell? There’s a stark difference between uncovering illegal activities with a camera drone and literal terrorism against retailers you dislike. You should legitimately be put in prison, which you will be, if you were to follow through on your insinuated threats.