I should have been more specific, I was just referring to the storm surge flooded areas.

I’m surprised there isn’t more movement to just completely ban building in these areas. Getting everyone else to cover the cost of their predictable destruction seems very unfair.

I am aware that they have a state insurer in Florida. They are going to need it. I can’t see a single private insurance company wanting to touch anything to do with rebuilding in areas affected by this. They know climate change is getting worse, and this is only going to happen soon again.

Like Covid, it seems humans have to wait until disaster is right on their doorstep, before they pull themselves together to do something about it.

Cement accounts for 8 to 9 percent of global CO2 emissions. I think it is really under researched, when it comes to looking for climate change solutions.

When might it integrate Lemmy?

Renewables are way, way cheaper. Nuclear is finished. I’m sick of hearing its supporters never ending excuses.

I think I might try that approach, you’re right it could motivate a subset of people. We have a pinned post spot at the top of the sub-reddit I’m going to use again in a few days. When I used it before, I’d guess a few thousand people read the post, but it seemed to generate very few people moving to the Lemmy site.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/15wi75l/rfuturology_is_now_in_the_fediverse_at/

Slightly off-topic, but how are you finding encouraging Reddit users to make the switch to Lemmy?

I mod r/futurology, which is close to 20 million subscribers, but most of the growth for futurology.today has come from within the fediverse. Any tips for encouraging Redditors to migrate?

Great info. Out of curiosity what does your hosting setup say about visitor numbers? Futurology.today uses Cloudflare. They give a figure of about 10k per day for what they call unique visitors. That seems unduly high when you look at how busy our lemmy instance actually is. We have just short of 1K subscribers, so I would assume visitor numbers would be lower than 10k per day.

If you haven’t seen any of the classic late 60s/early 70s horror movies, they are worth checking out. ‘Rosemary’s Baby’, 'The Exorcist, ‘Don’t Look Now’, or ‘The Omen’ are all fantastic.

It should also worry investors open-source AI is only months behind the big tech leaders. I looked into AI voice cloning lately. There’s a few really pricey options. Like $25 a month for a couple of hours voice cloning.

However, there’s already an open-source version of what they’re selling.

I wonder when this is going to seriously affect world oil demand? People used to think “Peak Oil” would be when supply was constrained, it turns out it will be when demand is constrained.

A US company just announced 1,800 new jobs manufacturing 10GW of solar power for India. Those post-coal jobs are out there, it would help if government bodies helped bring them to where they are needed.

Ukraine deserves to be in the EU, but they’ve a long way to go, and its not just the war. They have a vast corruption problem which needs fixing before becoming one with the other EU nations. The EU should start a process that ties progress on that, to getting nearer to EU membership.

I think fediverse people are wildly overestimating how much 99% of Reddit users care about this. The mod team on r/futurology (I’m one of them) set up a fediverse site just over a month ago (here you go - https://futurology.today/ ) It’s been modestly successful so far, but the vast majority of subscribers seem to be coming from elsewhere in the fediverse, not migrants from Reddit.

This is despite the fact we’ve permanently stickied a post to the top of the sub. r/futurology has over 19 million subscribers, and yet the fediverse is only attracting a tiny trickle of them. I doubt most people on Reddit even know what the word fediverse means.

Maybe I’m missing something, when I try to interact with Mastodon from futurology.today there’s zero ability to interact. It seems to give the option to send DMs, but when I test it, they never arrive.

Since they are US banks, they would just move the financing to the US

No, they are in Ireland because the EU requires some of their operations to physically be located in the EU, to have access to the EU single market.

Ireland needs to tackle this by getting EU-wide consensus. It already has tough climate requirements for domestic banks, these banks are foreign subsidiaries (mostly American) based in Dublin to be in the EU. If just one EU country gets tough on them, they’ll move to another. This action needs to be tied to their access to Europe & done at the EU-level.

The Lemmy dev does not want Mastodon to be integrated into Lemmy.

Something tells me this isn’t the last word on the issue. If the fediverse concept is to succeed, then its two (current) largest players need to have some cross-functionality.

Perhaps the fediverse will get big enough that third-party developers will step in to fix this. Twitter & Reddit both benefitted hugely from the extra functionality third-party developers enhanced both platforms with.

Its anathema to the whole concept of the fediverse that one person - a lemmy dev - gets to decide something so important.