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Climate Crisis

Any news source that reports "record-breaking temperatures" is, deliberately or not, making these dangerously increasing temperatures sound like a good thing.

This extreme heat is costing us $$$

No, record-breaking means it broke a record. If it was used almost exclusively for positive things, you might have a point, but it is routinely used for negative things as well. For example, "storm" is the third most related topic based on Google trends.[1]

1: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=record-breaking&g...

I missed the part where "deadly heat wave" was a framed as a good thing.

that's pronounced "mee-sheer"

they mean that since _everything_ is awesome these days, awesome now means "ordinary"

I didn't meant that at all.

exactly. What other features of our faces will software "correct" next ?

Maybe they'll turn electrical signals into a picture using complex image processing that varies between sensor manufacturers.

To make sure I don't get banned for being ironic, that's intended light-heartedly to say lots of processing already goes on. The tool is attempting to represent what both sender and recipient usually intend.

Literally just “what a slippery slope!”

Well, doesn’t whether that is reasonable depend on how slippery the slope is?

That's not how the slippery slope fallacy works.

You can elaborate on what you think will happen and why, if this gains traction. Anything else is just... literally FUD.

Highly recommended is the interview on Econtalk with him. What an erudite man.

the denial is strong today

Divides a big number by a huge number and now it doesn't seem so bad

I think the lack of social interaction from the office is a good thing because it's healthier for our friends to be outside of our work

regardless of meeting size in any company where people don't trust each other there will be more gossip and backstabbing