Paraphrase of a recent Jacobin article titled, "Crash and Burn: You can't have capitalist growth without environmental destruction".

I'm not sure how many of you read Jacobin; it's a very liberal journalism magazine covering the spectrum of politics and culture. As always, I strongly urge you to stop right here and read the article, but I've pulled out some important sections to comment on.

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/04/fossil-fuels-decoupling-growth-oil-climate/

In fact, a close look at the decoupling studies shows how misleading they are. Global emissions have dropped, but they’re falling far more slowly than they should to cap warming at the 1.5 degrees called for at COP21; the studies’ carbon budget does not include aviation or transportation, artificially inflating decoupling’s gains; figures in both reports do not count methane, the greenhouse gas being released with new abandon by the global fracking boom; and with the exception of the United States and Uzbekistan, every country listed in the WRI study is European.

Emissions, in other words, aren’t plummeting — they’re being offshored. Old-fashioned, carbon-hungry growth has moved south as finance capital and a poorly-paying service sector bloom up north, made possible by armies of low-waged workers up and down commodity chains. The spoils of this low-carbon growth are reserved for a wealthy minority.

Capitalist growth has never been green or just. The decoupling studies are poor evidence that it could become either. Why not, as British economist Ann Pettifor has argued, abandon the concept of growth entirely?

As she explains, growth — as the go-to metric for economic prosperity — was invented in the 1960s to replace the Keynesian focus on “levels” of factors like unemployment and inflation.

Full employment in the United Kingdom was seen as insufficiently profitable, so “growth men” set new targets to be met with credit booms and deregulation. “While markets, banks, firms, and millions of individuals ‘crashed and burned,’ the economic theory and policies behind limitless growth were untouched,” Pettifor writes. As the planet itself threatens to crash and burn, benchmarks for growth remain intact.

Austerity, justified by capitalism’s growth-fueled booms and busts, could prove as harmful to the planet as climate-change denialism.

There are many more things wrong with the economy than its reliance on fossil fuels. Capitalism’s addiction to dirty energy is just one reason it is deeply unsustainable.

Quote from: HollowedTurkey on April 22, 2016, 05:34:42 PM

Herniated a disc in my back trying to deadlift too heavy. To this day I never go over 275 because the pain will come back.

Ouch, what did that feel like? Crushing feeling?

When it happened I lost my grip on the bar and couldn't stand up straight. For weeks after it felt like a very sharp pain from any bending movement or pressure, including stepping (because each foot forward places asymmetrical load on your spine). Couldn't bend over a counter to cook, brush my teeth, etc for about a month. Didn't lift for several months and at that point I'd lost pretty much any progress I'd made (I was fairly new and it resulted from my bad form, going too heavy too quickly).

Form before weight, folks.

Herniated a disc in my back trying to deadlift too heavy. To this day I never go over 275 because the pain will come back.

I promise you guys I will drop this site entirely.

Verb for mod 2k16

It would be a smart and ethical personal decision, but it shouldn't be forced on someone.

Quote from: Cheat on April 20, 2016, 07:17:56 PM

I never saw the appeal of steak. I'd rather have a burger or something.

Dude, have you ever had an expensive well done cooked steak before? Its fucking delicious. Getting a burger is like getting a run down used beat up old car. Steak is the real deal.

expensive well done

pls no

If you held everyone in the 1800s to today's standards, history textbooks would be blank.

Will they only be worth 3/5th of what Jackson's $20s are worth?

The real problem is how those 2.5% people who are in prison for something they never did got there in the first place.

So would you agree that the premise in the OP is a bit hyperbolic and maybe doesn't reflect the actual problem you have with the justice system?

The quote could be talking about 100,000 guilty men and you'd still be fucked up to disagree with it.

So with about 1.5 million inmates in the US,  an estimated 2.5% of whom are innocent, you would advocate releasing everyone currently incarcerated to give the innocent ones relief?

Why not just rent something with dat sweet BAH?

We were planning on renting, but mortgage payments are less than rent and it shouldn't be hard to find renters after we leave. And if I get assigned there for my first deployment we'll be there four years, and then I could stay on as an instructor and stay another three.

I wouldn't buy unless you know for a fact that you'll be there for at least 5 years. Otherwise you're most likely going to take a loss.

Even planning to rent it out after we leave?

Legit stuck here.

Killed Yhorm, killed the Abyss Watchers. Turned their cinders in. I've killed the Pontiff, too. Walkthroughs say the next step is Anor Londo or High Wall of Lothric, both of which require three Lords of Cinder killed to access. What do I need to do next?

I was considering putting this in Serious, but it's fine here.

I'm thinking about buying a house when I move to Norfolk, VA in June. I'll be there for about a year, and could continue to stay there another three years. I know that monthly payments tend to come out a few hundred dollars less than rent, and we'd rent it out using a property management company when we leave, rather than sell it. Norfolk is a huge military town so we'd never have a problem with finding reliable renters. Right now we're DINKs and intend to stay that way for at least 4 more years.

But still, as a 23 year old it's a huge responsibility. We're looking in the $150,000-$250,000 range, using a VA loan for the down payment and a 30-year mortgage around 3.75%.

I know there are only a few homeowners here, but any advice would be appreciated.

Fucking Siegward

Every wiki said he pretty much solos the Yhorm fight. I ran in, grabbed the sword, and by the time I had it equipped he was dead and hadn't hit Yhorm once.

You're right, but it's even shittier that the developers couldn't think of anything more creative than that stupid choice. There's really no reason removing a tissue sample of her brain would kill her, and Joel basically just murders a bunch of well-meaning doctors because muh vidya morality.