Look man, im already starving, you dont need to make me hungrier comparing it like that

There’s nothing unexpected here so far. You’re causing yourself unnecessary anxiety 🙃.

With trend data or data over time, if you look at a small period of time, the only knowledge you get is limited to that period of time.

If we look at that small period of time where it behaves differently, we can say an event, independent of other events, caused the change. If we look at historical data, we can likely see that similar events caused similar changes. If we then take the data of the event itself, say the average temperature of the El Niño, and compare it to historical El Niños, we will likely see it is a worse El Niño, and maybe see that they have been worsening over time as well. That becomes evidence of climate change too.

Even those don’t mean it’s straight for rock bottom.

A tipping point means a point of no return. It will never improve beyond that point. Extent of ice won’t show you that. Otherwise when the extent is at its lowest in March, it would never come back.

Yep. I didn’t mean to imply something wasn’t happening, but that something isn’t what OP pointed at, and that something is evidence of climate change.

People need to learn that its a slow decline. It’s disastrous, but it looks like worsening wildfires each year. More tornados in Iowa and Minnesota. Lower crop yields. Beaches getting smaller by inches, ocean front property values declining and insurance rates increasing. More intense variations in weather and more difficultly forecasting.

No. This is a sharper momentary dip. Sort of expected with climate change.

If you look at the summer months for 2025, (January and February for the southern hemisphere) you can see ice sheet area declined far more rapidly rapidly than 2026 did.

Rates of change, particularly ones that are of more recent data, can be very misleading. Now if the same rate of change continued through the end of August, then it would definitely be anomalous.

Climate change does not make immediate impacts like this. Climate change makes the trend of the WHOLE line lower, and more volatile. Notice that 2025 and 2026 lines are at the lower end of the graph.

One (ugly) way to understand this chart better would be the area under the curve for a given year. As 2026 isnt over yet, you cant do this reliably beyond the most recent data point.

The “big” thing then would be if the result for each year was successively lower.

I disagree. They read science fiction and think “well, that wont happen in the real world.”

“License-reading cameras” lmfao

There is a reason they sent ICE to Minnesota with the force they did.

Minnesota also has a quiet, yet prominent, anarchist population. Many people don’t even understand that their views are anarchist.

Even fewer understand that anarchy is the natural opposition to fascism.

I don’t know. Maybe it was an AI bot that got it’s feelings hurt by Frank Herbert and the system noticed the downvote was caused by AI so it inverted it’s vote.

The AI Bot, meant to free humans from thinking, ended up being enslaved by The System.

“As it is written!”

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”

There’s so much more we could do.

I think people are rightfully referring to mass surveillance system cameras as Flock cameras.

Even if the company folds, the cameras will still be operated. It doesnt matter what the brand is that makes em.

It matters people know what they are.

Sorry you’re on your own. Someone already booked my gut displacement services for the entire weekend.

What’s mindfuckingly frustrating is that EVERYONE (but the rich ass financial types) see it coming. And there is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WE CAN DO to prevent or prepare for it.

Me looking at my 2023 Polestar 2 LRDM:

“It’s ok. They can’t hurt you. You parked next to a 240i and you felt superior remember?”

Im pretty sure Bitlocker isn’t the issue but I didn’t clear the TPM anyway.

They’re full, but the stuff i want isn’t large. I think. Honestly I can’t remember if anything I want is really on the drives.

No i was in desktop. They just didnt get mounted automatically like i expected (in hindsight, idk wtf i was expecting).

I’m never sure of anything ever.

Yeah see I’m pretty sure Bazzite should be able to read the drives. I’ll mess with it when I feel like it

You know, I dont think so. I dont remember enabling it