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It was modified to make these kinds of responses much more likely

They're a small group that has been pushing the same lies for the fossil fuels industry for decades. The oldest got their start pushing cigarettes and denying that those cause cancer

There's a preview of that, but link points to https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/07/grok-anti-semitic-tweets/683463/?gift=c1JLM5vSU5FaaTvxtMmEpcpUxc9MKWWfcr6Ifc8rD3w

To be clear: DAC is at best a small and expensive part of what needs doing right now. Its basically an R&D project at this point, which gets marketed as the One True Solution by the fossil fuels industry because that marketing creates social permission to keep on extracting and burning.

Every tenth of a degree matters. We can't achieve no big visible changes. We can however limit how many we get and how bad it is. I'll be there fighting every tonne of emissions

Its worldwide, but national outlets with limited global reach dont put that in the headline

Lol. Just that there won't be any warning whatsoever, even if you enable alerts on your phone

Thing we are up against is a media machine which favors racism and all the pathologies which to with that

I'll note that solar power is the cheapest, most abundant energy source in human history.

It's almost entirely about changing how we do things.

Its also the case that this kind of sudden intense rain is more likely in a warmer world, and that local and state politicians were unwilling to either restrict development in the floodplain, or even set up the kind of warning system which would let people evacuate

Problem is that what we dont need is beat cops who go around harassing people because their skin is too dark. What we actually need is detectives capable of catching killers and fences, but the incentives are to go harass minorities

Victim race too.