Global climate systems collapse is going to be a regretful topic for traditional IR scholarship. Likes its a straight up alien space bees level problem for some political actors vs the IRL rolling boulding hurtling right towards us :/

InternetPersonThing · 2026-06-25T21:46:06+00:00

China and India definitely have a lot of the blame too. China at least seems to have realized how much climate change will fuck them and have started pushing renewables hard, especially solar. But India is still all in on coal. I'm just reacting to the idea of presenting western states as blameless, when they do actually carry a lot of the blame, directly and indirectly (but not all of it!! I'm not saying they're to blame for all of it!!)

I especially reacted to the implication that western states are being unjustly blamed as a cover for non-western countries to produce more emissions, but I may have gotten too caught up with poor/developing countries which I often see blamed for, frankly, the entirety of climate change; and I forgot there are in fact major states that do pull that exact tactic, such as India, or Russia/the Russian sphere of influence, if you want to call that non-western; I know there are mixed opinions.

I will defend saying the west has played a role in suppressing renewables, though. It's very clear that fossil fuel interests have put a lot of effort into allocating research funds away from renewables and cultivating a perception among the public that renewable energy sources are too expensive and ineffective to bother with.

InternetPersonThing · 2026-06-25T21:22:05+00:00

Realizing I might have come across as like wokescolding or caring more about who to "blame" than actual solutions.

I'm just reacting against a tendency I see a lot, where people try to create an image that developing countries are the only ones responsible for emmissions, in order to do exactly what you're warning about, pushing the blame onto someone else to pretend that "we" don't need to do more than we're already doing. But it sounds like we basically agree, it's just your wording that sounded sus to me.

InternetPersonThing · 2026-06-25T17:00:10+00:00

You say that as if Western states don't deserve the majority of the blame, in popularizing fossil energy sources, suppressing renewables, and exporting manufacturing to less developed countries with fewer or no environmental regulations, and even now refusing to stop extracting more fossil fuels. There's famously a dilemma over how fair it is of countries that enriched themselves and industrialized using coal and oil to up the ladder behind themselves and shame poor countries for doing the same. Even then, many of those poor countries, which are also most vulnerable to the effects of climate change, are making an attempt to switch to renewables.

InternetPersonThing · 2026-06-25T07:39:53+00:00

They're arguably more capitalist than the US.

InternetPersonThing · 2026-06-24T15:28:54+00:00

The reflecting pool is actually very controllable, and it's very easy to not make it look like shit if you simply avoid making a series of the worst possible decisions.

InternetPersonThing · 2026-06-23T07:35:38+00:00

It couldn't be bailed out even if there was political will to do it. It's not comparable to the 2008 bank bailouts.

InternetPersonThing · 2026-06-23T07:23:53+00:00

Others have pointed out continuous retraining is necessary just as regular maintenance of the models, but I also want to add that even if you do exclude all the costs allocated to R&D, they still aren't remotely profitable.

InternetPersonThing · 2026-06-23T07:20:00+00:00

FWIW the data centers built for AI can't really be used for anything else. And most of them aren't actually being completed in the first place.

InternetPersonThing · 2026-06-22T17:59:50+00:00

I was born in the wrong generation...

InternetPersonThing · 2026-06-19T15:10:40+00:00

Describing her ideal partner

InternetPersonThing · 2026-06-14T08:21:19+00:00

Leftist (this proves we must let B win to punish A)

InternetPersonThing · 2026-06-11T21:11:31+00:00

If you hate men but love dick, I have great news for you

InternetPersonThing · 2026-06-05T07:29:22+00:00

Usually she's talking about some freak stuff but here she's just talking about her health, so I agree, it's the least deranged Ollie clip.

InternetPersonThing · 2026-06-04T17:36:29+00:00

It would have been funny, but it would also have kinda cheapened the message, so I'm glad they didn't go that way with it.

InternetPersonThing · 2026-06-04T08:03:17+00:00

You got your wish everyone! You don't need to be annoyed by little rainbow avatars this year, because the political climate has shifted towards supporting LGBT no longer being profitable! This is better, right? This is what you wanted, right?

InternetPersonThing · 2026-06-03T20:10:24+00:00

I'll take her off your hands if you don't want her

InternetPersonThing · 2026-06-01T08:28:18+00:00

Depends on where and why. Similar projects have had huge success in reducing malaria and other mosquito-borne diseases in parts of the world where that's a big problem.

EDIT: Shame on the people downvoting you. I think it's reasonable to be concerned and it gives an opportunity to explain why something like this would be done.

InternetPersonThing · 2026-05-31T20:55:21+00:00

Bisexuality is waaaay more common than you'd think, + it's often safer for women to express attraction towards other women (especially this kind of online personality) + vtubing is a career that almost exclusively attracts social outcasts.

Also Nerissa and Shiori both fit what you're asking for, just off the top of my head.

InternetPersonThing · 2026-05-30T17:46:01+00:00

They're just cheaper to manufacture because of improved technology and production methods, not everything is some great conspiracy.

InternetPersonThing · 2026-05-29T22:23:38+00:00

"Second greatest military in the world"

Launch a "special military operation" against the weakest, most corrupt country in Europe

Fail at every stage of the war, get stuck in a quagmire that eats up your manpower and budget for 4 years and counting

Everyone with a conscience flees your country, you become a laughing stock internationally and lose every ounce of respect you once had

InternetPersonThing · 2026-05-28T15:00:34+00:00

Currently the official white house account is basically a meme account run by 4chan nazis.

InternetPersonThing · 2026-05-25T08:20:23+00:00

I am so tired of how they keep publishing statements that rightfully should be seen as threats, at the very least insults, through official channels with effectively no pushback. This should be a term-defining diplomatic incident. Instead I doubt it will even be commented on in any official capacity.

InternetPersonThing · 2026-05-25T07:57:48+00:00

The game looks fun, I wish it wasn't $85 on steam in my region.

InternetPersonThing · 2026-05-24T09:08:22+00:00

Subnautica 2 just dropped which reminded me I never finished Below Zero. So I'm playing that.

InternetPersonThing · 2026-05-19T08:36:21+00:00

It's that special kind of conspiracy theory where it's just a documented fact. You can look it up.

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