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by renewiltord 1941 days ago
Haha no. You have the biggest crisis. You have a problem with wildfires. You have a problem with cold snaps.

I have Bitcoin.

Yeah, I'm not particularly helping with your problem but you never really helped with mine so it's all good.
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SubiculumCode 1941 days ago
what , you live on another planet?
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renewiltord 1941 days ago
No, but I have ways to survive all this. Even climate change will only lead to some billion deaths at worst. One in seven chance? Not a big deal for me. I'll take it.
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KYjjDNtKBDe8wrj 1940 days ago
I thought this was a joke, but you sounded like someone I know, so I went digging through your history. And sure enough... I particularly liked this bit: "In fact, people quite like me." Hah. It's a small World, Rene. Remember that. Not just because of the bullshit you attach to your name online, but also the bubble you think you can maintain around you in real life.
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renewiltord 1940 days ago
Haha, I love it, text me! We'll go for a ride and chat.
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SubiculumCode 1940 days ago
Generally this attitude, if actually held, would be described as psychopathic.

And if you think that your quality of life would be the same, even if you survive, then you are blind to the violence that must surely come when the world goes to hell.

When that many people die from starvation and dislocation, you better believe that the pitchforks will come out, and no one will give a damn if you are a BTC lord, you'll be left in a latrine by roving mobs who out-number you 100000 to 1.

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renewiltord 1940 days ago
We'll see. I care enough that I'm carbon negative. Most people also take the same trade as me. In truth, they do worse things: they actively kill our future by being carbon positive.

The difference is that when I kill our next generation I don't pretend I care. It is no surprise that makes the rest of you carbon positive people uncomfortable.

What you hide from yourself so that you can claim to be pure, I don't.

I know that if the billion could die you will kill them. Because you're doing it now. So the 1 in 7 happens anyway. So I do enough to ease my conscience and then make my peace with my role in the coming violence. 14% likelihood of death? I've beaten worse.

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