It reminds me more of “The Road Not Taken”, by Harry Turtledove: https://youtu.be/aXhCX7lr2tM

People working in Israel reported half their workers not showing up because they had been recalled to serve in the army. Stuff like that doesn’t help for business.

And sell weapons to both sides

Sounds like the whole “let’s keep the invasion secret” the Russians tried to do. It certainly wasn’t more efficient. People on the ground were acting on the “training mission” and were not prepared for what really happened.

It’s why they stopped at 5. Everything was gone anyway when it hits. In a category six it’s even more gone so it didn’t make them much sense.

The pile labeled “perfect storm”

It gets rid of all the unused rental scooters lying around on the sidewalk, and that was seen as the biggest nuisance. Privately owned scooters will never reach the same height of scooter littering.

The rental scooter companies were unwilling or unable to deal with the issue. They were warned that this was becoming an issue.

Semi trucks should do the same with cars

may only have happened around once every 1,500 years, the study suggests. Climate change has made a drought of this severity around 30 times more likely, according to the researchers, and one is now expected to happen every 50 years under current conditions.

If we continue burning oil, gas and coal, very soon, we’ll reach 2C of warming and we’ll see similar Amazon droughts about once every 13 years,"

My house isn’t really built to withstand once every millenium events now happening every decade.

Classic prisoner’s dilemma.

It’s the diseased chickens coming home to roost. Humanity has set up the conditions for all this to happen despite clear warnings, because it was good for the economy.

Then some other people start greeting officials by holding a finger under the nose and the court goes bananas

To keep within biology: the host dies and others with the same vulnerability. The ones immune to this survive and gobble up what remains of the previous hosts. Everybody stands around wondering how this could’ve happened.

Business idea: start selling billionaire sauce. Slogan: for when you have to eat the rich.

The same God’s Will was used to justify black slavery. It sure is a versatile tool.

Distinguishing that from just an algorithm

That distinction is already made the moment the software starts to make decisions not preprogrammed into the code or database, but instead needs to be (self) trained and gives a form of emergent behavior.

But that starts at playing space invaders, to sci-fi androids and into super intelligence. It’s a very broad term.

They’re already saying “we had to do it, we’re great”. It’ll take some government toppling before that tune changes.

EU is warming twice as fast and is above 2.3°C. You can visit and have fun with yet another round of record rainfall and flooding. Discussion about it often goes like “But we enhanced infrastructure to deal with maximum amount of rain! Well yes, but this amount went way over the usual expected maximum.”

Or come in summer to catch a heatwave or two and drought. I hear tourism to cold regions is the new thing now.

That’s typical for authoritarian rule. The leader has a fixed idea and makes it happen while nobody dares to say anything. That way they get some things done that are hard in democracies, but they also do some really detrimental things. The longer they are in power, the more of the latter stuff they do.

I don’t know of they’d have the wisdom to do that.

Probably not. Any measure for this usually stops at Xi and his usual “it would make people lazy” reply.