That_Mad_Scientist

Hmm. I see it as a failure of his own responsibilities. To each their own, I guess. The power imbalance is certainly going his way. Otherwise, it could be argued that his being shat on in the ama was problematic? It's a short message that encompasses discontentment pretty broadly. I think leaders need to be held accountable. To me, this is the equivalent of saying "fuck macron" or something, which is something me and a lot of other people do on a semi-regular basis. But behind it is solid criticism, and it's a shorthand for protesting being ignored, silenced, or denied democracy.

It absolutely is. What a shame. If it's any consolation, it's not like our leaders really represent us right now...

I don't know this would work. Right now, I'm using my pixels to add more fuck spez. I suggest you do too. Anything more coordinated than that would require fishing people out from every site they scattered to. We're still pretty small.

Fash scum needs to be treated like the cancer that it is. Can't even imagine living like this. Oh wait, I can. The alt-right: coming to a country near you!

It's seriously hard not to be cynical at this point. It feels like nowhere in the world is safe. I'm afraid it might only get worse...

Ideally, I think you'd want to use hydro and geothermal first, because they are local resources that can be built with relatively low overhead, and where you can't, just spam nuclear (assuming it is within the country's capabilities), with a massive storage-infrastructure-stabilized (preferentially offshore) wind and solar kickstart. Classical renewables have the advantage that you can build up capacity efficiently, and we are definitely on a timer here.

However, the real world is a little bit more complicated, so I think really we should just take what we can and not overthink it too much. Functionally, there's no single, clean, silver bullet energy source.

It seems most people there are on board with making a giant "fuck u/spez" in the center of the canvas. It's not like reddit easily forgets, even if we don't really do anything about it.

It's not, but I like it very much!

El. Psy. Congroo.

I don't think that's really granular enough, though. I guess it would be fine right now with the amount of content we're getting, but on reddit, I lose count on the number of posts I upvote and mostly just forget about on a daily basis, so long term it wouldn't work out, I think.

Also, it's a specific social signal that you think the post is good and so others may want to look at it. I do think it's really interesting how there are separate upvote and downvote counts showing controversiality intsead of a tally which may hide interesting dynamics.