What we do in the present and future is a human decision. How bad it gets is up to us still, not something locked in by physics

We are past two important points:

• we passed the point where you would not be able to tell the difference something like 30 years ago
• we passed the point where we likely locked in 1.5°C of warming quite recently. That’s roughly where you walk into a minefield of risking major ecosystems with each additional bit of warming, and the stretch goal that small island nations wanted because it might have left them habitable.

Importantly neither point is one where we expect civilization to suddenly end.

Probably not. We’re still in a place where it’s probably possible to end up with a civilization-supporting planet. But it requires phasing out fossil fuels. And starting now. And the oil executives who bribed Trump don’t like that.

It looks like a planned gradual turnup

I’m pointing to an old one because the causes are well known, there isn’t any current propaganda campaign to confuse people about it, and its a wide-area unanticipated failure.

That kind of facility tends to have its own backup power, often with a week or so of fuel stockpiled on-site.

Back when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, there was a period where the only building with power was a datacenter. The lights prompted soldiers to break in, and the system admin wound up having to pretend that they’d discovered evidence of somebody nefarious forcing the door, so they’d clear the building and leave.

I think that one is coming from the UK Daily Mail which is generally unreliable.

During one of these events, it’s really common for all kinds of misinformation and rumors to fly, and even to come from otherwise trustworthy people.

I’ll note that the US had some very large-scale blackouts in the 1960s which were caused by fairly ordinary technical problems.

In the US, the towers that provide mobile service are required to have a few hours worth of battery backup. The EU may require more, but I’d expect them to go down not too long after the main grid goes out.

Prosperity has never been his main aim. Tariffs serve to create attention for him, and leverage to collect bribes.

Exactly. The problem here isnt that China did something bad; it’s that the US government sabotaged the future prosperity of the US

The problem is a what to actually do. Congress and the courts are controlled by people who largely agree with Project 2025. Most of the American public has no clue that it’s a real thing, and thinks it’s so out there that anybody telling them about it is on LSD and not credible.

Cars, power plants, and combustion for heating and cooking

It’s not technically hard to verify if you care to do that, and consistent with what I’ve seen about patterns of reach.

There are a ton of people who believed Musk’s words, thinking he wasn’t a fascist, for whom words are a means of manipulation, rather than a means of conveying meaning

Like a lot of the NYT, there isn’t another source. I recommend restarting your browser and/or device and making sure Javascript is enabled

It’s not even the bots; it’s that the feed ranking on 𝕏itter is tuned based on Musk’s whim, and he’s most likely modifying it so that people dot get seen if they’re not going along with his Nazism or cult.

There is a report

The following nine states have established statewide 30×30 goals and are currently in the process of implementing them: California, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, and Vermont.

I think the ones who might have a spine were purged from the Republican Party over the last few years. There might be a couple in the Senate and a few more in the house, but nowhere near enough

What do you mean nothing? They’ve actively supported him.