late_pessimistic

Even if he leaves in 2029, the US doesn't have that much time to sit on it's ass and let all social progress, climate action, relationships with allies, economy etc get demolished.

We have Germany, Russia, China and Japan hiking military spending and remilitarizing, preparing for a confrontation.

Climate crisis is not getting any better either and we have just crossed the point of no return where we could have still saved coral riffs.

This is the worst possible time to allow Trump admin free reign

If money isn't going to be a thing in 10 years, then why not just spend like crazy right now?

I guess as always: people lie with their mouth, and tell the truth with their wallet.

I am curious how Elon expects robots to create infinite abundance with limited resources.

Where those robots are going to be getting fresh water? Nuclear energy? Rare earth for GPUs? They are all limited.

There is also only a limited amount of CO2 you can pump into the atmosphere until you create uncontrollable spiraling of greenhouse effect. And since basically all consumption creates additional CO2, you can't have infinite consumption without causing infinite CO2

"I can't write a cohesive argument on why I am intuitively against this idea so let me ask AI to do it instead"

Ethics exist independently of any deities even if they did exist.

If ethics didn't exist separately, and God is actually the source of good, then we would have a lot of logical paradoxes to solve.

For instance, let's assume God is who defines goodness and educates us on it, and goodness does not exist without God.

Thus, we recognize we don't have inherent ability to define what's good or bad. But that also means we can't prove God is good, because we already recognized only God can define what's good.

I might have butchered the logical fallacy a bit, logic is hard, but I remember it roughly being stated this way.

Building anything underground is extremely expensive and energy intensive, as you have to constantly pump ground water and pour concrete to keep walls from breaking under pressure of tons of soil.

So yeah, underground could work, but better used sparingly when benefit outweighs the costs, like maybe in areas that could go literally uninhabitable on the surface. Otherwise not worth it.

Urban planning wise: I think ivy walls, or other greenery covering residential buildings.

For reference, you might want to look up Bosco Verticale in Italy, or lush green roofs in Norway.

I know this isn't a catch-all solution, but it could help mitigate climate crisis impact in addition to other options people offered here.

Or both! Don't consume where possible, seek out the most ethical option when you must

Jurisdiction doesn't matter, it's an myth spread by Protonmail marketers so everyone thinks their privacy is ensured by some strict Swiss privacy laws.

Although privacy laws are pretty mild everywhere. Even GDPR is quite outdated and is barely enforced.

Proton, Tuta and others do it because "Swiss privacy" or "EU-based" brand is much more recognizable and easier to sell people on, compared to "we do metadata obfuscation" or "here is our 50 page long security audit".

However, what actually matters more is security architecture. Signal is US based, but they thought through how to retain as little data on users as possible, so when FBI asked them for info, Signal could only give them date of account registration, user ID, and last login.

TLDR ignore country of registration and HQ location, evaluate on the merits

NYM seems promising, they are trying to build a decentralized VPN with multiple nodes, same as TOR but faster, so no one has full data who talks to who and what type of traffic.

However it's only been around for a year, so we still don't have enough data if their approach works or not compared to traditional VPNs.

iVPN is a good one, it has been around for 15 years now, and is also privacy and FOSS focused like Mullvad.

However they lack some security features that Mullvad has: DEITA, diskless servers etc.

Ultimately I would say go with:

• NYM if you want to gamble (high risk high reward),

• Mullvad for good security, but yeah your money goes to a far-right party in Sweden,

• iVPN: worse security than Mullvad, but more trustworthy than NYM, and your money doesn't fund right-wing populism

Its my crack I can't stop coming back to all while hating every second of it

The diverse crowd are usually pretty wary and reserved these days when it comes to interacting with white men. Can't blame them, but its not as easy to make friends as say "hi", because you have to prove first you are not one of "those" white men.

And I am more radical than most, I am pro positive discrimination (like 55% of government should be women, even if people want to elect men), subsidized gender affirmative care, open borders with no checks, drugs decriminalization etc whatever.

But I do also hate virtue signaling and being performative male who can't shut up how he hates patriarchy to get laid. And fortunately or not, no one ever knows if I privately donated money to RAINN.

Paradoxically even this comment by me is virtue signalling, oh well.

So, we are basically in a stalemate where I am asked to perform and I don't like doing that, thus we are both at arms length, although technically I would considered myself an ally.