Like I said, the future isn't bright, but envisioning a dark future
creates a self-fulfilling prophecy.

"President Donald Trump said Thursday that his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping produced "enormous respect" between the two nations and a series of major agreements expected to benefit U.S. farmers, energy producers, and national security."

And when Trump says it, it's true.
Good for you that the US finally made up with China.
I expect all the tariff nonsense to be over now.

Of course I'm just making fun of your article. Trump has achieved nothing.
International trade and the position of China in it is worse for everyone involved
than before Trump's new stupid tariff nonsense.

"As of October 2025, clear signs the American economy is currently at risk include
a rapidly cooling labor market (downward job revisions, stalled payroll growth,
rising unemployment rate), persistent above-target inflation driven partly by tariffs,
and a significant decline in consumer confidence and spending."

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Just in general; older, grey, hairy, white man, with marks of weathered resentment
in their face. That guy would be a Republican, if Trump hadn't turned it to fascism.
It's very much possible that he is a fan of Charlie Kirk, and just didn't like how Trump doesn't give a fuck about his murder, except for using it to his political advantage.

"According to the Perry County Sheriff's Office website, Bushart was arrested the following morning on a charge of Threats of Mass Violence on School Property and Activities, a class E felony punishable by between one and six years in prison and up to a $3,000 fine. Worse, Bushart's bail is set at an astonishing $2 million."

Where are the Threats of Mass Violence?

Not long ago, phart defended the free speech of Julie Sweeney, a 53-year-old
from Cheshire, who was jailed for 15 months after posting on Facebook:
“Don’t protect the mosques, blow the mosque up with the adults in it”.

I accept nothing but a defense of the free speech of Larry Bushart Jr.

Do you watch other videos on YouTube, than everything gun related?
I see you live in the US, but in The Netherlands, people who become fascinated
by gun videos would be a source of concern to their families.

True, I don't know anything about firearm maintenance.
I hope to never need it either, but the future isn't bright.

Oh sure, stand with the landlords, not with the renters.
You gobble up all the propaganda from the wealthy they feed you.

Larry Bushart Jr., a retired cop, spent more than a month in jail for posting a meme
of Trump saying "We have to get over it!" on the Facebook page of Charly Kirk.

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This guy looks like dgraff. Was he mistaken for an illegal immigrant?

Now tell me that you are NOT supporting enforcing obedience.

It saddens me that you consider this educational,
but it saddens me more that I must agree.

Was it lack of experience or lack of focus?

Who is talking about killing and stealing? Yes, that is wrong.

When people break the law, we have police to arrest them, and prosecutors,
lawyers and judges to determine guilt or innocence and punishment, if applicable.
That the system of law and order that I support.
You are however supporting that your law enforcement breaks the law. That's wrong.

It's wrong to fight crime with crime. It destroys the legitimacy of the state. It makes the state more dangerous than the criminals, because the criminals don't have the power of the state. If you get attacked by a criminal, you have the right of self defense, but if you get attacked by law enforcement, you don't. That means you are at their mercy.

When you allow law enforcement to break the law against criminals, you also allow them to break the law against everyone else. That means that you support law enforcement to enforce obedience, rather than the law.

Is that making sense for you at all?

Of course not, you are just always wrong.

Of course Bill Gates isn't going broke. Billionaires will be the last group to suffer
from climate change. Better think about yourself and people like you.

This is the actual post by Bill Gates:
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Here are some important statements:

"There’s a doomsday view of climate change that goes like this:
In a few decades, cataclysmic climate change will decimate civilization. The evidence is all around us—just look at all the heat waves and storms caused by rising global temperatures. Nothing matters more than limiting the rise in temperature.
Fortunately for all of us, this view is wrong. Although climate change will have serious consequences—particularly for people in the poorest countries—it will not lead to humanity’s demise. People will be able to live and thrive in most places on Earth for the foreseeable future. Emissions projections have gone down, and with the right policies and investments, innovation will allow us to drive emissions down much further."

"Although climate change will hurt poor people more than anyone else, for the vast majority of them it will not be the only or even the biggest threat to their lives and welfare. The biggest problems are poverty and disease, just as they always have been. Understanding this will let us focus our limited resources on interventions that will have the greatest impact for the most vulnerable people."

"To be clear: Climate change is a very important problem. It needs to be solved, along with other problems like malaria and malnutrition. Every tenth of a degree of heating that we prevent is hugely beneficial because a stable climate makes it easier to improve people’s lives."

"In short, climate change, disease, and poverty are all major problems. We should deal with them in proportion to the suffering they cause. And we should use data to maximize the impact of every action we take.
I believe that embracing the following three truths will help us do that."

Truth #1: Climate change is a serious problem, but it will not be the end of civilization.
"Even if the world takes only moderate action to curb climate change, the current consensus is that by 2100 the Earth’s average temperature will probably be between 2°C and 3°C higher than it was in 1850."

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He is referring to the “MODERATE ACTION” scenario, which is somewhat subjective; whether the world will indeed follow a moderate action path is uncertain. If action is weaker (or worse) the warming could exceed 3 °C.

At the moment Trump is refusing to do anything and he is ramping up fossil fuel consumption. Other countries are also not doing anything even close to reach that “moderate action” scenario. That means they are performing along the high emissions scenario (SSP5-8.5), of which the range is about 3.3–5.7 °C projected temperature increase.

That projection MIGHT not predict the complete end of civilization, but it will force billions
of people to move from the hottest places on Earth.

Still, there is the risk of a "Hothouse Earth" feedback loop.
The paper "Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene", published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) in 2018, explores how crossing certain tipping points could lead to a long-term temperature rise of 4–5°C even if human emissions cease, with devastating consequences like massive sea-level rise.

It describes conditions leading to "serious disruptions" and an environment "inhospitable to current human societies," suggesting such a trajectory would likely take the climate beyond human adaptation limits, making the planet "largely uninhabitable" and raising the specter of civilizational collapse.

Part of what's left of civilization could possibly survive on Greenland, which is why
your billionaires are interested in conquering it. They want their progeny to survive,
on Greenland (or on Mars), while everyone else suffers and dies.

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The current temperature has increased by about 1.3 °C to 1.6 °C above 1850-1900 levels, with 2024 being the warmest year on record and exceeding the 1.5 °C threshold.

In the hottest regions on Earth, climate change is
intensifying existing threats and creating new ones, primarily through more frequent and severe heatwaves, water scarcity, and desertification. The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is warming at twice the global average, providing a clear example of these accelerating impacts.

Extreme heat and health
The most immediate and life-threatening effect is the dramatic increase in the intensity, frequency, and duration of heatwaves.

Health crisis: Heat-related mortality is increasing, particularly among the elderly and outdoor workers. High temperatures also worsen existing health issues like cardiovascular and respiratory diseases.
Threat to life: Some projections indicate that parts of the MENA region could experience heat and humidity levels that exceed the limits of human tolerance. In 2023, Al Hudaydah, a major city in Yemen, was projected to face over 300 days a year of unbearable heat if global warming continues at its current rate.
Urban heat island effect: Cities in hot regions trap and retain heat, making them significantly warmer than surrounding rural areas. This intensifies the effects of heatwaves for millions of urban residents.

Water scarcity and desertification
For regions already suffering from a lack of water, climate change is compounding a severe water crisis.

Accelerated water loss: Higher temperatures increase evaporation rates, drying out soil and reducing available water resources. The MENA region, with 12 of the world's 17 most water-stressed countries, is facing unprecedented water scarcity.
Desert expansion: Rising temperatures, less predictable rainfall, and land mismanagement are causing deserts to expand and consume fertile land. This process, known as desertification, reduces arable land and threatens food security.
Saltwater intrusion: In coastal areas like Egypt's Nile Delta, rising sea levels are causing saltwater to intrude into freshwater aquifers and farmland, poisoning the soil and displacing millions.

Food and agriculture
Agricultural systems are extremely vulnerable to heat and water stress, leading to a decline in food production.

Crop and livestock failure: High daytime and nighttime temperatures can damage crops and cause livestock to suffer from heat stress, resulting in reduced yields and productivity. Repeated droughts, such as those that contributed to the Syrian civil war, have devastated agricultural production in the Middle East.
Intensified food insecurity: Reduced crop yields and water scarcity are increasing food insecurity and malnutrition, especially in vulnerable communities.

Economic and social consequences
The environmental effects of climate change trigger a cascade of economic and social crises in the hottest areas.

Displacement and migration: Food and water shortages, combined with rising sea levels, are forcing people to flee their homes. Climate change adds another layer of pressure to already unstable regions, with millions projected to be displaced.
Infrastructure strain: Intense heat puts immense pressure on power grids and other infrastructure. Increased demand for air conditioning can cause energy shortages and blackouts, and heat can damage transport systems like railways.
Socioeconomic inequality: Those with the fewest resources suffer the most from climate change impacts. In hot areas, wealthier individuals can use air conditioning and migrate during heatwaves, while low-income workers, particularly those in outdoor jobs, face much higher risks.

That's a very useful instructional video for table saws. Thanks!

Personally, I don't have a table saw. I let the Hardware store cut the wood for me, or I go to my brother, who has a professional table saw, for fabricating frames, doors and furniture.
But anyone who touches one, should watch your video first, at least.

The most important safety instruction for table saws, is to never lose your focus
on what you are doing. If you are too sleepy, sick or stressed out, better not use it, because that's when accidents happen.

Very cool, but the educational value is a bit farfetched.
"Don't get shot!" is knowledge that most people have.

And that's why you are sicking the national guard on your own people.
Because freedom of expression and state's rights, right?

So, the fact that you have never been even been tempted to accept even the slightest detail, that I bring to you, is my lack of providing fact and arguments?

I have never said that I don't accept that some folks are simply evil, simply lazy, simply waiting for handouts, I just don't accept you making it an argument for EVERYTHING. That idea is rejected by all the great results of public systems, everywhere in the world.

There is no such thing as free health care, free food, free housing, there are
2 options: privately funded and publicly funded. When it's privately funded, someone is making a profit and the people have limited control over it.
When it's publicly funded, no one is making a profit, only people who work in it get paid and the rest goes back into the system, and the people have democratic control over it. This is undeniable.

One example, your healthcare system or the British NHS. Both crap, but the British system achieves a higher life expectancy and a lower infant mortality at less than half the price, because you have private, for profit insurance and they have a single-payer, publicly funded universal system.

I have told you this many times, they are just straight up facts, it should be basic knowledge to you, but you keep saying these nonsense straw-men. That means your mind is closed to even INDISPUTABLE arguments. I'm not even talking about what is better, you're just unwilling or incapable to even UNDERSTAND it. When you keep saying 'free', it means your mind is completely closed.

It doesn't matter if I have a 1000 hp twin-turbo jet-boat,
there is no stream that leads to convincing the closed mind.

Funny, how you are directly contradicting tecsan, by saying
"the so called winners rewrote history to make the south look bad."

If I look at his personal page, I see a lot of curiosity adventure seeking.

The KKK is not limited to being a bit racist, it's a racist terrorist group.

You are putting FOUR fallacies in just one argument, WOW:

1. Tu quoque (appeal to hypocrisy)
“You can’t criticize Trump for a family history with the KKK, because Biden has also been racist in some ways.”

2. False equivalence
You equate:
- The KKK’s systematic, ideologically central to racism.
WITH
- Minor or incidental acts of discrimination by Biden.

3. Conceptual stretching / motte-and-bailey definition shift
Redefine “racism” so that everyone is racist, and therefore the KKK isn’t uniquely bad.
Motte: the safe, broad claim (“everyone is racist in some way”), difficult to refute.
Bailey: the controversial claim (“therefore the KKK isn’t particularly bad”), smuggled in under the broad definition.

4. Whataboutism
When this is done strategically to deflect moral responsibility by bringing up unrelated wrongs, it’s also a form of whataboutism, a rhetorical tactic rather than a logical refutation.

Nice how I get to use my Motte and Bailey Fallacy picture from Aug 6:

You think of order as OBEDIENCE, and you don't care about the law,
or at least not when your side breaks the law.

Pretty expensive to shut up one obnoxious and nosy Dutch guy.
Here you are, suggesting an attack on The Netherlands, for opinions.
That pretty much validates my reason for calling you lot fascists.
You are already DOING IT, in your own country.
Because 'freedom of speech'...

The term "woke" originated in African American English in the first half of the 20th century, with phrases like "stay woke" appearing as early as the 1930s to describe awareness of racial and social injustice. It gained wider recognition in the 2010s with the rise of the #staywoke hashtag and the Black Lives Matter movement.

After the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, "stay woke" became a rallying cry for BLM activists to raise awareness of police brutality and racial injustice.

2014–2017: Mainstream adoption. As the BLM movement gained national and online prominence, white liberals increasingly adopted the term "woke". Initially, this was an attempt to signal their support and act as allies for racial justice. During this period, the term began to be applied to a wider range of social justice issues, a trend that accelerated on social media platforms like "Black Twitter".

2017: Recognition and dilution. In 2017, the Oxford English Dictionary added "woke" to its official entries. Some linguists and critics argue this mainstream recognition formalized the term's "semantic bleaching", a process where a word loses its original, specific meaning through wider usage.

2019: Co-option by the right. The term had been weaponized by right-wing commentators and politicians who used it pejoratively to dismiss progressive ideas. This conservative co-option was a direct response to the term's adoption
by progressive activists, including many white liberals.

He is indeed much like Trump. There are many characters like them,
all over the world, selling right wing policies that favor the wealthy and
fuck everyone else, with a message of hate towards people who are
even worse off in the world.

Yes, within the European Union (EU), citizens of member states generally have the right to cross borders and work in other member countries without major restrictions. This right is guaranteed by EU law.

A major part of the SP’s approach is less about outright banning labour migration, and more about regulating the conditions: requiring employer responsibility, improving rights of migrant workers, licensing of recruitment agencies.
Through higher minimum wages, stronger enforcement, and automation or training incentives, the government can reduce employers’ reliance on cheap foreign labor.
This approach doesn’t restrict workers’ rights, but employers’ access channels, which is legally defensible under EU law.

The SP and similar parties have also floated invoking a concept of “social disruption”, arguing that uncontrolled migration strains housing and social cohesion.
However, this would be legally fragile: the European Court of Justice (ECJ) interprets these exceptions very narrowly, and economic or social pressures alone aren’t enough.

The SP wants the Dutch government to push in EU-frameworks for stricter regulation of labor migration from other EU countries, including exploring a permit system for workers coming into the Netherlands.
They believe that EU countries should make bilateral/multilateral agreements within the EU to limit and regulate flows of labor migration, rather than simply allowing free movement without additional controls.

The Dutch Socialist Party (SP) explicitly calls for rethinking the Dutch economic model to move away from low-value, labor-intensive sectors
that depend on cheap migrant labor, and toward higher-value, more sustainable, and less labor-intensive production.

Are you triggered, little snowflake?

There are many 'normal' things that I find interesting, like what programs as
'How It's Made', 'MythBusters', 'Dirty Jobs', car shows, creativity competition shows, many home renovation shows, cooking and baking shows, some traveling shows, some gameshows, a little bit of sports occasionally (Formula 1, snooker, darts) and some business shows (mostly on BNR radio during commuting). And on Youtube, several gaming channels.

I just like a lot of things that might be less 'normal' for most people, like discussions
on religion, politics, economics and philosophy (specializing on logical reasoning)
and developments in science in many fields, but not all.

I just want to know how the universe and the world works.
It's also goal of self improvement, and to improve the world around me.

I can agree that this topic is pretty damn complicated.
But TOO complicated? For what? It's not 'rocket science'.
This is what ChatGPT says about its complexity.

Elementary School (Grades K–5)
Level: Basic conceptual understanding
Focus: Observations and simple cause-effect ideas
Explanation Level: Students can understand that the Earth’s temperature can change over time.
They learn simple ideas like “the Sun warms the Earth,” “plants and animals depend on certain temperatures,” and “pollution can make the air dirty and affect the planet.”
Teachers might introduce the greenhouse effect as a “blanket” that keeps Earth warm.

Middle School (Grades 6–8 )
Level: Intermediate understanding — introduction to systems
Focus: Earth systems and feedback loops
Explanation Level: Students can begin to understand greenhouse gases (like CO₂ and methane) and how they trap heat.
They’re introduced to the carbon cycle (how carbon moves between air, water, plants, animals, and rocks).
Geological history can be introduced as “Earth has had warmer and colder periods in the past” — e.g., ice ages, volcanic activity, and asteroid impacts.
Can handle simple charts showing CO₂ and temperature correlations over time.

High School (Grades 9–12)
Level: Advanced — systems-level understanding
Focus: Quantitative and process-based reasoning
Explanation Level: Students can study the greenhouse effect in detail (infrared absorption, radiation balance, albedo).
They learn geologic time scales and how events like volcanic eruptions, continental drift, and mass extinctions affected global climate.
Biological feedbacks (e.g., photosynthesis lowering CO₂, ocean acidification) can be explored.
Students may look at data analysis: ice core records, CO₂ trends, isotopic evidence of past temperatures.

College Level (Undergraduate Earth Science, Environmental Science, or Geology)
Level: Full systems complexity
Focus: Interdisciplinary, modeling, and quantitative analysis
Explanation Level: Students learn about climate modeling, paleoclimate reconstruction, plate tectonics and CO₂ cycles, Milankovitch cycles, and biogeochemical feedbacks.
They can integrate geological, chemical, and biological processes to understand Earth’s long-term temperature regulation.
Understand how greenhouse gases, biological productivity, and tectonic activity jointly determine Earth’s average temperature.

What we are discussing is at maximum High School level.

And now finally, we come to the Anthropogenic influence, the effect of human activities on the environment and the climate. About 10,000 years ago the effect of humanity was negligible, because there were between 1 and 10 million people. They did some agriculture and deforestation. The Earth's CO2 concentration was mostly very stable, around 275 ppm to 280 ppm.

Still, our effect on the Earth increased, due to our CO2 emissions. The population around 1600 AD was approximately 545 to 579 million people. Then around around 1610 AD, there was a sharp, short-lived dip in global CO2 levels, called the "Orbis spike" caused by the Great Dying, the massive depopulation of Indigenous peoples
in the Americas due to European colonization, disease, and conflict. The resulting reforestation of former agricultural lands absorbed significant amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Scientists can measure this very accurately, with Antarctic ice core sampling,
because it's such recent history on a geological timescale. The CO2 concentration dropped from 285 ppm to below 275 ppm. This effect is pinpointed as the start of
the Anthropocene epoch, because it allows science to clearly measure the effect
of human activity.

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Scientists can also clearly measure the effect of the Industrial Revolution, starting around 1800 AD. The Ice core analysis clearly shows the massive CO₂ increase from fossil fuels. The global average CO2 concentration in 1800 AD was approximately 280 ppm. By 1850 the CO2 concentration was 290 ppm and by 1900 it was 295.7 ppm. By 1950, the CO2 concentration start to accelerate. It was 310 ppm on 1950, but the next 50 years it rose to 369 ppm. We are now in 2025 and the CO2 concentration today is 426.24 ppm.

The last time the CO2 concentration was over 425 ppm was roughly 3 million years ago during the Mid-Pliocene Warm Period. Humans created that in 75 years.

Humans are a biological organism. If we emit CO2, which is changing the climate,
that is just as valid of an 'epoch' as when primitive microorganisms emitted O2, causing the Great Oxidation Event (about 2.4 to 2.1 billion years ago).

There is nothing political to any of this, this is just science.
If there are now pressures to cancel the Anthropocene as a recognized epoch,
that in my opinion is political, which is why I cannot discuss it here,
because I would be violating my own terms of this topic.

It's related to your own argument against climate change, which you have repeated several times: the average temperature of earth has been higher and lower many times, for billions of years.

Yes, we know. There were interchanging ice ages and warm periods, that scientists have several levels of evidence for. I will not go into all the evidence now, I will just mostly talk about the periods.

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The first hot period of earth was 2 billion years long. That's when the earth was formed and after a collision with another planet, leaving it extremely hot, and creating the moon from the rubble in orbit colliding. The average temperature is estimated to be 160–210 °F (70–100 °C). It had intense volcanism, frequent asteroid impacts, and a dense greenhouse atmosphere (mainly CO₂, methane, and water vapor).

[The earliest signs of life are chemical signatures, microbial fossils, and geological structures, aging between 3.5 and 4.2 billion years ago. The earliest widely accepted, or "strong" evidence for life comes from microbial fossils found in rocks in Western Australia that are approximately 3.48 billion years old. This evidence consists of fossilized structures called 'stromatolites', which are layered rock formations created by communities of microorganisms.]

[Before the Great Oxidation Event, the sun was significantly less luminous. The planet was kept warm by an atmosphere rich in methane, a greenhouse gas many times more powerful than CO2.]

During the Great Oxidation Event (about 2.4 to 2.1 billion years ago), the emergence of photosynthetic cyanobacteria introduced free oxygen into the atmosphere. This triggered a chain of events that drastically reduced atmospheric methane concentrations. This resulted in the first ice age, during the Paleoproterozoic Era, called the Huronian glaciation "Snowball Earth".

During "Snowball Earth", there were less bacteria able to use photosynthesis, but there were already bacteria that could use oxygen. There was even some more complex life, like sponges. The periods of low oxygen, then the influx of oxygen from photosynthesis devastating anaerobic life, then ice covering the oceans and making photosynthesis hard, and the ice cap closing off the oceans lowering oxygen again, all forced life to constantly evolve.

After 300 million years, in local pockets of oxygen-rich water, newly adapted aerobic microbes, early eukaryotic cells and methanogenic microbes (converting hydrogen and carbon dioxide into methane and water), together with volcanic activity, the ice melted. It exposed darker surfaces (ocean and rock) that absorbed more solar heat, further accelerating the warming. This created a runaway greenhouse effect that rapidly ended the deep freeze.

The geological record immediately following the glaciation is marked by distinctive cap carbonates, layers of rock that indicate a sudden and drastic shift from extreme cold to a period of intense greenhouse warming. This "hothouse" phase was short-lived on a geologic timescale, as the increased weathering from the newly exposed land eventually helped draw down CO2 levels, allowing the climate to stabilize once again.

The end of the post-Huronian hothouse marked the beginning of a long period of planetary stability known as the "boring billion," which lasted until about 720 million years ago.
Life was then still mostly confined to the oceans and still consisted mostly of microscopic organisms. Life existed only on the edges of land near water, as bacteria and algae formed extensive mats in shallow marine environments. There was some forms of complex life, such as seaweed.

Then the Earth completely froze over again, the second "Snowball Earth" event, called the Sturtian glaciation. It was likely caused by a combination of factors. Continental breakup (the supercontinent Rodinia began breaking apart around 750 million years ago). This triggered large-scale erosion of newly exposed continental rocks. Weathering processes consume atmospheric carbon dioxide. A period of unusually low volcanic activity, further reducing the amount of CO2 being released into the atmosphere, contributing to the cooling effect.
Life continued to exist in deep ocean hydrothermal vents and possibly in meltwater pools or thin areas of sea ice.

The Sturtian glaciation, which occurred from approximately 717 to 660 million years ago, ended due to an extreme buildup of volcanic carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Weathering of rock was suppressed, because of the ice.
The CO2 concentration reached extremely high levels, perhaps as much as 350 times present-day levels. This trapped an immense amount of heat, eventually overwhelming the ice's high albedo (reflectivity) and causing the planet to thaw.

Afterwards the CO2 plunged Earth into a period of intense heat. The post-Sturtian hothouse, was caused by a "supergreenhouse" climate. Earth's average global temperatures were extremely high, with some estimates suggesting average global temperatures soared to around 122°F (50°C). This period was eventually brought to an end by accelerated silicate weathering, which removed large amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere. The climate did not settle into a long, stable warm period but eventually slipped into the next major "Snowball Earth" event.
Marinoan Glaciation (around 650–635 million years ago).

Then Ediacaran Period (635–541 million years ago): A warmer, more stable period followed the Marinoan glaciation, allowing for the diversification of the first complex, multicellular organisms.

Paleozoic Icehouse (around 450–420 million years ago): A brief but intense glacial period during the Ordovician and Silurian periods, likely caused by a combination of continental drift and plant evolution pulling CO2 from the atmosphere. This the first time that life on land acted on the climate, instead of only the land (silicate weathering) itself.

Devonian Period, a "greenhouse" period (420-360 million years ago). The continents were first colonized by small plants and arthropods, but by the end of the period, the first forests had appeared, and the first vertebrates began to emerge from the water. The iconic Archaeopteris, a progymnosperm, grew into large trees with conifer-like trunks and fern-like leaves. It formed the first forests, with some trees reaching heights of 30 meters (98 feet). Other significant groups that appeared included lycophytes (clubmosses), horsetails, and ferns. By the end of the period, the first seed-bearing plants had also evolved, enabling them to reproduce more easily away from water. The increasing plant life, with its new root systems and decaying organic matter, created the first true soils, fundamentally changing the landscape. Animal fossils from this period include mites, spiders, scorpions, and myriapods (relatives of centipedes and millipedes). The oldest known insect fossils also date to the Early Devonian.
CO2 levels dropped steeply throughout the Devonian, partly due to the expansion of land plants, which sequestered carbon.

Late Paleozoic Icehouse (around 360–260 million years ago): This long icehouse included the Carboniferous and Permian periods and was characterized by lower atmospheric CO2. Unlike the "Snowball Earth" events of the Cryogenian period, the Late Paleozoic Icehouse was not a period of complete global glaciation. Regions closer to the equator, such as what is now North America and Europe, remained moist and tropical. These areas were dominated by vast rainforests, which later became the coal beds for which the Carboniferous period is named.

Mesozoic Hothouse (around 251–66 million years ago): A warm, ice-free period, primarily caused by high levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, which trapped heat and drove global temperatures approximately 11 to 16°F (6 to 9°C) warmer than it is today. It was the era of the dinosaurs.

Approximately 66 million years ago, a 10-kilometer-wide asteroid struck Earth in the Yucatán Peninsula, creating the 200-kilometer-wide Chicxulub crater. The impact contributed to the mass extinction with global wildfires, massive earthquakes and tsunamis and extreme acid rain. The immediate effects were devastating, but the longer-term environmental consequences proved fatal for most life on Earth. The impact ejected immense amounts of dust, debris, and ash into the atmosphere, creating a thick, planet-encircling shroud. This blocked sunlight from reaching Earth's surface for months or even years. The blockage of solar energy caused global temperatures to plummet. Some studies indicate that average global temperatures dropped by as much as 47°F (26°C). It's important to distinguish this event from the long ice ages driven by changes in Earth's orbit and atmospheric gases. The impact winter was a brief but catastrophically intense event that happened over years, not millions of years.

After the devastation, life entered a new era of opportunity and recovery, leading to the rapid diversification of surviving groups. The disappearance of the dinosaurs left many ecological niches vacant, which paved the way for mammals and other organisms to flourish.

Cenozoic Icehouse (around 34 million years ago to present): Earth's current climatic state, characterized by polar ice sheets and glacial cycles. It was initiated by tectonic shifts that caused the formation of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and the uplift of mountain ranges, increasing weathering and pulling CO2 from the atmosphere.

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I now described the whole of Earths history in which the climate fluctuated over billions of years, hundreds of millions of years and tens of millions of years, due to geological effects on greenhouse gasses, combined with very long term effects of primitive life that did not evolve into a stable ecosystem. The climate of Earth was dominated by those early geological effects, that have mostly come to rest now.
Today's biosphere plays a powerful role in regulating the climate through the carbon cycle. Plants and soil act as important carbon sinks, taking in CO2, while other biological processes release it.
In summary, the transition from geological to biological dominance of climate was a long, complex, and chaotic process. Early life repeatedly caused catastrophic climate changes, showing a lack of stabilizing feedback. It was the evolution of more complex, integrated ecosystems over billions of years that led to the kind of biological balance we see today, though this balance is now being rapidly disrupted by human activity.

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Modern Ice Ages (last 2.6 million years to present): A series of glacial and warmer interglacial periods driven by Milankovitch cycles (Earth's orbital variations). We are currently in a warmer interglacial period. Those periods are not measured in billions of years, hundreds of millions of years and tens of millions of years.
These cycles of glacial advance and retreat have occurred approximately every 100,000 years.

Last Glacial Period (c. 115,000 to 11,700 years ago): The most recent major cold period saw massive ice sheets cover much of North America, Europe, and Asia.

Current interglacial: Holocene Epoch (11,700 years ago to present).
This is the warm, stable interglacial period we live in today, following the retreat of the last great ice sheets.

The whole evolution of humans into a civilization has been going on in this stable interglacial period. All of the history, with extreme cold and extreme heat has been occurring at a pace of about 1000 times slower than the 'Modern Ice Ages', which
by itself are 10 times slower than the complete history of human civilization.

It's very interesting, but I just deleted phart's comment for it being too political.
I have to be unbiased.

How easy it is to believe whatever you want, if you can just call everything "fake" that doesn't fit your narrative. It's lazy and dishonest.

You're a waste of time.

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Since this is more political than scientific, I think we shouldn't discuss it here.
For billions of years, we had ice ages and warm ages. The holocene and pleistocene were just the last ones. We should be heading towards an ice age, but the earth is warming. That is now called the Anthropocene. Denying it is political, not scientific.

EVERYTHING related with how people relate to each other is a social construct.
The Constitution says a lot of things, it doesn't guarantee that you respect it.
If there are more obstacles for some groups of people than other groups of people, that IS social injustice.

What a horrible situation. I'm so sorry that your son, you and your family are going through this. I wish you a miracle. We are due for one, let it be your son.

No one at the distance from your life as we are, even if we might think we got to know you pretty well, has the right to tell you how you should deal with this situation. I can't imagine what you are feeling, but I'm here to listen or offer some input/ideas from a logical problem solving perspective or some medical/scientific knowledge.

There are a lot of snake-oil salesmen and disinformation peddlers in the world, and they are causing great damage to humanity. My parents were one of the many people who were victimized by big banks, who used their credibility to push share lease constructions. These were fraudulent products that could never benefit the customer, but created big profits for the banks. My parents lived in financial hardship and stress for a decade, but they finally won their class action lawsuit and were compensated.
I was too young when they got scammed into it, but I helped them with the legal research. I even found a contract violation that the lawyer overlooked. It's was a factor in their favorable judgment. This has been part of my political development and taking an interest in recognizing deception. I'm always harping about fallacies, because I see the damage of deception to society. If I knew about your sorrow, I would have picked another example.

Yes, Biden is definitely racist. Not KKK level racist, you need Trump for that.
Does Biden have a Family’s History with the KKK?

But please give me some examples of Biden being racist, and I raise you a Trump.

I'll draw a nice one for you, just to start off:
Trump on black supporter: "Look at my African-American"
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Let's play 'Racist Spades'.

Your comment was nothing special. Make it somewhere else and let's talk about it.

Why We Stay Poor - Barrys Economics
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The idea that carrots are not food is of course not claiming that many victims,
but the next one is more effective in manipulating people, with more damaging results:

"Cancer is the body's healing mechanism"
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For phart: the carrot nonsense debunking was level 1.
This is level 2, in helping you 'understand how folks steer YOU'.

I'm not sure if you're discouraging them, mate.

Wealth Tax Excuses - Barry’s Economics
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Fascists don't care about what is illegal or not. You know that.
They think of the unemployed and disabled as undesirables.
You are supporting your own persecution.

US Holocaust Memorial Museum - The Murder of People with Disabilities.
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"The Nazis saw people with disabilities as an obstacle in their attempts to create an idealized "German race." In 1939, the Nazi regime began a systematic program to murder them."

They started murdering disabled people, before they started murdering Jews.

I just told you that they are TAXPAYERS TOO.
$6.4 B is more than $660 million, ISN'T IT?

A good sign is that the right-wing corporate party (VVD) is doing badly.
People understand who fucked them over, they just fall for the lies of the distraction party.

Geert Wilders is again promising to stop immigration. He was the biggest party, had cooperation from the 3 parties in his administration, and several other willing parties, but he achieved NOTHING. His proposals were wildly unconstitutional and unlawful, so he couldn't get them passed. He also completely ignored labor migration, a huge problem. Our Socialist Party has achievable and lawful plans to reduce the net migration to 40,000/year, but Wilders keeps promising 0. Simple-minded people believe him, while he has cut funds for the migration services and shelters, making the problems of migration worse.

Geert Wilders is again promising to drop the deductible on health insurance. The VVD wants to raise it to €440. All his voters know that he didn't do it, while he was the biggest party, but they still trust him when he again promises to do it. He has no financial backing for his promise. He didn't present his program for independent financial validation.

Our Socialist Party also promises to drop the deductible on health insurance, but we DO have financial backing and independent financial validation for ALL our plans.

People are distracted by tough rhetoric and false promises,
even while reality shows them that Wilders is absolutely useless.


The SP has plans to solve migration, without any need for breaking the law:

You have used the term. You of course use the straw-man definition.
However, you also love racial prejudice and social injustice.

Why not build tent citys to keep the unemployed and disabled?
Oh, damn that's you. Know that it's the next step from what you said.

Are the Super-Rich Gods? – Barry’s Economics
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We have less of them, but I'm sad to say that our 'wappies' are just as crazy.

There is a downward spiral of right-wing policies creating inequality,
people feeling abandoned and angry, turning them to the populist right-wing,
making inequality and anger worse, making them turn to the populist right-wing even more. Once their brain is fucked up to believe populist right-wing lies,
it's almost impossible to rehabilitate them.

It happens. By the way, that was the new definition of woke, which I was making fun of. The original definition is to be aware of and attentive to racial prejudice and social injustice. Maybe you agree with that?

It was appropriated by white libs, who added lots of other meaning to it, and later twisted by right-wingers to mean whatever the most extreme lefty green-haired teenage lesbian can think of, and then accuse every liberal of supporting that.

He can only do the simplest kind of Deflection and Gaslighting. Sad!

I love woke stuff. The gay parade, drag queen shows, people who leave you guessing
with what genitals they were born, all make me very happy. FREEDOM!!!