Hank Green made a video blaming this on changing regulations on shipping fuel. We were essentially geohacking by sending clouds of particulates into the air when burning the fuel, they blocked the sun temporarily but made global warming worse in the long term.

So by changing fuel standards, we basically pulled forward some warming to minimize the total amount of warming. Which is good that we are reducing the total warming, but obviously jarring in the short term.

If that is an accurate read, it isn’t going to go back down. Hopefully it spurs us into action so it doesn’t get much worse.

If you cook with your own blood, no animal was exploited because you freely consented.

Ironically one of the only ways forward for them is to open up immigration to more people. GDP is going to be permanently lower unless they go heavy automation like Japan (requiring a lot of capital that is going to be a lot more expensive post-Brexit), or let a lot more people in.

Actually only half of all people saw the obvious downsides. The other half said “nuh uh it’ll be great, way better in fact” with no evidence or facts and folks went with that.

And human blood can be vegan!

At least 3.

The uproar is the point.

The Satanic Temple makes it clear its members do not actually worship the devil or believe in the existence of Satan or the supernatural.

But somehow conservative Christians believe that there are huge swaths of people who agree that their religion is 100% correct but worship the weak bad guy character.

(Which is not to mention that there are actually multiple bad guys who got combined, Satan and Lucifer and The Snake were originally different people)

This actually sounds accurate and not out of touch.