“If you reach Net Zero by 2050, if you do it worldwide, you avoid about a third of a degree of warming. If it’s just Europe and the Anglosphere, it’s closer to a tenth of a degree,” says Dr Richard Lindzen, an atmospheric physicist and professor emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). “So you have avoided a tenth of a degree of warming at a cost of probably tens of trillions of dollars. Doesn’t seem like a bargain to me,” he adds. “How far will the population go in saying, we will sacrifice ourselves for a symbolic gesture?” [Read More]

For some time, as a regular feature of comments and conversation in this website's vidchats, we've been talking about the epistemological warfare being waged in our time, and against virtually every institution. For example, for many I've entertained a very high octane speculative hypothesis about the so-called "Mandela effect" as being an experiment both in social engineering, and as an experiment in the possibilities of the "observer effect" on the macro, and not quantum, scales. One may get a handle on this speculation by posing a simple question: what happens - if anything at all - when a group observer has its memory altered or changed while another group does not? Minimally, one may say that this creates two very different timelines, at least mentally. But how - if at all - would this spill over into the physical world. [Read More]

Micro-housing construction in the United States has surged by double digits in recent years, with compact rental units under 441 square feet becoming a widespread solution to the nation’s growing rent crisis. A report by StorageCafe highlights that cities across the West - especially San Francisco, Seattle, Honolulu, and Portland - are leading the charge in building what are increasingly referred to as “shoebox apartments.” [Read More]