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Smitthers! ... Release the Robotic Richard Simmons...

big plans were made, but mother nature is clearly going through menopause, with all the hot and cold flashes she is having.

went from 70F one day, to SNOW the next.

Needless to say, not installing barrier cloth in snow.

The flipside of that, is unpopular, but correct, speech also gets stifled.

To combat that, you have to train yourself to still consume the offensive content, evaluate it in a cool and rational way, then either accept it despite disliking it, if it is indeed true-- or coolly rejecting it on merits, THEN show them the door.


Simply showing them the door, produces echo chambers, QED, QAnon, RedPill, et al. (more recently, "Truth", Trump's new social media platform.)

Something 'higher' than mere objection to the content, must rule the roost, or you just get a fractured society.

Are always shocked about SOMETHING...

The issue with over-equilibrium power generation is that jt is over-equilibrium, not so much where it comes from.

consider: earth's temperature was fairly steady for eons before industrialization. Energy in = energy out. [Not quite accurate, as energy was being sequestered as coal, oil, peat, and natural gas]

There are rules about how earth has to eliminate waste energy. Specifically, it has to be emitted via blackbody radiation. That is tied to the temperature of the emitting body. To emit more energy, it has to be hotter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-body_radiation

This means if you dump waste heat into the environment, like fusion would, the planet MUST heat up until it reaches a temperature that can sustainably emit that waste energy into space.

This is on top of the issue with carbon dioxide based greenhouse effects.

To make fusion work, we would need to beam IR energy into space very efficiently, and not rely on natural blackbody emission. Attempting that without a space elevator or something, would cause a lot of collateral climate consequences from local heating from the beamed energy on the way out.

Fusion is a good thing, but not sufficient by itself.

Reread, i said useful energy that strikes the earth.

Its not really useful energy if it is already being used for a life sustaining purpose. Like food production, or atmosphere regeneration.

Work related stress is on the rise.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/victorlipman/2019/01/09/workplace-trend-stress-is-on-the-rise/

https://www.stress.org/workplace-stress

Japan is not an outlier, it is demonstrative. Other industrial nations have lower stress rates, but higher birth rates.

Stress and reduced fertility are correlated.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3553357/

Worldwide stress has increased dramatically due to the pandemic. Unsurprising to me, the "expected" baby boom did not happen. Further unsurprising, worldwide birthrates are down. Not all of that can be attributed to stress, a good chunk is direct covid induced infertility, but the association holds.

It appears indicative of a stress tolerance limit in human populations, the decline in fecundity in developed countries. Not fully attributable, but enough to warrant study.