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  • Sea rising by 2100 is proyected on 0.6 meters.

    And sea rising predictions made in the 90s haven’t been the more accurate.

    The harmful consequences of climate change have more to do with desertification, hotter summers, more energetic storms. And of course the fear of breaking some oceanic current and send Europe into an ice age.

    In general is hard to say what will be that thing that will make people say “ok, we really fucked up”. As it’s incredibly hard to predict the consequences of such a fast climate variation. Sea level rise was the jam in the 90s early 00s but as predictions fall short on that front and even the worse numbers doesn’t look like mass migration number for a few centuries at least, worries are more focused on other things that could happen.







  • I’m a very fluid person. So I think I have great inside in the differences between genders and sexualities in loneliness.

    A lot of it have to do with “be approached”.

    As a woman presenting person a get approached a lot, a lot of people I don’t know want to talk with me. It’s ridiculously easy to make new acquaintances and friends. Everyone wants to talk and be around you.

    As a male presenting person I also get approached a lot when I’m in “gay spaces”. Again it’s impossible to be alone unless I voluntarily would want to.

    Yes, these two have the handicap that a lot of approaches are “sex related” of by people wanting sex. But not all of them, among so much approaches there’s always some that doesn’t just want sex.

    Then, as a male presenting person in not gay spaces and even more so in straight spaces. I don’t get approached, never, at all. Zero people talk to me just because they want to be near me. If I want to meet somebody I always have to be the one initiating the approach.

    In my experience this is the root of the issue. And the experience that most people complaining about “male loneliness” are talking about.

    There are other type of loneliness. As a Queer I’m quite familiar with loneliness related to being different, and people literally hating you for what you are, or not accepting you. But that’s a different thing. The male loneliness is that feeling of having the burden of all your relationships in your shoulders, knowing that if you don’t go after people people won’t ever go after you. And that can be devastating with time. Because your self worth get tanked, specially if you are introvert and have a hard time approaching people.

    I suppose it won’t end until it get normalized to approach cis men the same way it’s normalized in the other situations I talked about. The reason of why people don’t approach cis men as easy can be discussed, I get that there’s a fear/danger factor in approaching a cis male, specially after being approached by so many menacing people in your life. But still, I do think the root of the issue is that. And there’s also de commodity of knowing that you don’t need to approach a cis man because some will approach to you regardless, so you don’t even need to try. I’m the first guilty of it. I don’t approach men either, I always wait for them to approach me, because I know they will, so why bother approaching? I suppose there’s a great imbalance. Maybe if men would go into strike and refuse to approach people the balance would be restored, who knows.


  • There are a lot of explanations about how it happens.

    But the word, inflation, only means that the same amount of money “tokens” can buy less amount of “good and services” in relation of two different moments in time.

    How that can be caused is where complication and expectations (and a LOT of political propaganda) begins.



  • I’m against it for several reasons. Running unauthorized heavy duty code on your end. It’s not JS in order to make your site functional, it’s heavy calculations unprompted. If they would add simple button “click to run challenge” would at least be more polite and less “malware-like”.

    For some old devices the challenge last over 30 seconds, I can type a captcha in less time than that.

    It blocks behind the necessity to use a browser several webs that people (like the article author) tend to browse directly from a terminal.

    It’s a delusion. As shown by the article author solving the PoW challenge is not that much of an added cost. Span reduction would be the same with any other novel method, crawlers are just not prepared for it. Any prepared crawler would have no issues whatsoever. People are seeing results just because it’s obscurity, not because it really works as advertised. And in fact I believe some sites are starting to get crawled aggressively despite anubis as some crawlers are already catching up with this new Anubis trend.

    Take into account that the challenge needs to be light enough so a good user can enter the website in a few seconds running the challenge on a browser engine (very inefficient). A crawler interested in your site could easily put up a solution to mine the PoW using CUDA in a GPU which would be hundreds if not thousands of times more efficient. So the balance of difficulty (still browsable for users but costly to crawl) is not feasible.

    It’s not universally applicable. Imagine if all internet were behind PoW challenges. It would be like constant Bitcoin mining, a total waste of resources.

    The company behind Anubis seems more shady to me each day. They feed on anti-AI paranoia, they didn’t even answer the article author valid critics when he email them, they use clearly PR language aimed to convince and please certain demographics to place their product. They are full of slogans but lack substance. I just don’t trust them.