“See, if only 10% of people die, that’s a reasonable price to pay to do nothing.” ?
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 19-Mar-2023 02:49:50 JST Thomas 🔭✨ -
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 19-Mar-2023 03:06:33 JST Thomas 🔭✨ @bdimcheff Fwiw in modern English it just means “kill, destroy or remove a substantial part”, so it has strayed significantly from the original/historical meaning/root ot the word of “punishment of killing 1/10th of a group of soldiers”
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 19-Mar-2023 03:10:34 JST Thomas 🔭✨ @jrconlin yeah that’s implied: he’s rich so he isn’t affected because he can buy himself out of it
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jr conlin (jrconlin@soc.jrconlin.com)'s status on Sunday, 19-Mar-2023 03:10:35 JST jr conlin What I love about arguments like these is that the person making them:
1) feels that they're not part of the 10% loss
2) believes that they or someone they know will have some control over the loss. -
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 19-Mar-2023 03:18:55 JST Thomas 🔭✨ @Homebrewandhacking if we continue like we are, most people will die because at some point wars will break out over food and they will escalate to mutual destruction (and make sure there’s even less food). ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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PJ Coffey (homebrewandhacking@mastodon.ie)'s status on Sunday, 19-Mar-2023 03:18:57 JST PJ Coffey We've gone from 100% of people die (+4C, 2003) to 10% die (+2C, 2023), but I kinda feel that's not getting the job done.
How about we go for target zero? No acceptable losses.
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 19-Mar-2023 03:56:43 JST Thomas 🔭✨ @bastianallgeier That was just an example I pulled out of my ass
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Bastian Allgeier (bastianallgeier@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Mar-2023 03:56:44 JST Bastian Allgeier @thomasfuchs where do the 10% come from? The 3 degrees by the end of the century which we currently are heading for seem likely to kill a lot more than that.
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 19-Mar-2023 03:57:13 JST Thomas 🔭✨ @bastianallgeier And yeah I agree with you
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