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I will treat this as Google reader and there's nothing you can do about it.

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According to the U.K. Institute and Faculty. of Actuaries, it could. Actuaries are mathematicians who assess economic risk for banks, insurance companies, and governments. The Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, or IFoA, is the professional association that regulates actuaries in the United Kingdom; it traces its roots to the nineteenth century. It's hardly an environmental advocacy group, let alone a radical one. Yet last week it released a study in collaboration with scientists at the University of Exeter showing that economists have severely underestimated the potentially catastrophic economic costs of global heating. Again, worst-case scenario, we lose 50 percent of GDP this century.
January 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Well, in my defense I got in as soon as I could without an invitation.
Celebrating 10M users *3,214,824 rafa @rafafb.bsky.social Joined Feb 6, 2024
September 17, 2024 at 10:49 AM
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This paragraph is like probably the best summary about the current wave of far-right conservatives out there. Bravo @davidjroth.bsky.social
That is it. The tide rushes out on everything else, every other idea that the conservative movement (never very convincingly) pretended to have, and leaves this behind. The actual beliefs are self-evident: that the suffering of others is a tool, or a toy.; that everyone else in the world is a threat or an obstacle or something to wad up and throw away; that even the most abstracted inconveniencing of their own sainted comfort is tantamount to the end of the world. [...]
September 16, 2024 at 5:12 PM