I have a degree in statistics, do you understand statistics?

Correlation doesn’t imply causation. But we have casual and testable mechanisms to validate these theories and what we’re seeing. We can measure the greenhouse effect directly by experiment.

I hear your argument, Earth’s been hotter millions of years ago, sure, but that doesn’t invalidate human climate change at all.

Have you by any chance looked at a graph of average temperatures over time?

Over the history of earth, much worse happened. Statistically, this change is nothing over the millions and even billions of years.

Humans did not exist for most of that time, but yes it’s inconsequential to Earth that there’s warming, Earth is a rock with spinning molten metal inside so it doesn’t care. But it’s pretty fucking important to all the things living on the Earth that there’s warming beyond what they evolved to withstand.

When it comes to climate change we know the mechanism that keeps earth warmer than other random space rocks circling the sun (Greenhouse effect, which was discovered in 1856), we know which gasses contribute to that greenhouse effect, we know that we’ve added a shit ton of them which were buried for millions of years into the atmosphere, we can measure carbon dioxide and other gasses at higher volumes than they’ve been since humans existed, which also coincides with when we started releasing them in vast quantities.

After we’ve got the means, the methods, and the triggers, what more do you need to beyond a reasonable doubt to realize man made climate change?

Mine too.

I don’t know what tankies are, and at this point I’m too afraid to ask.

Mine is $498 and I’ll throw in a rude comment

You’re only complaining because you got a bad spawn. The truth is anyone can make it to the top of the lobby, it just requires grinding and being smart.

I know this because I started out with barely anything, just a few million dollars from my trust fund when I finished boarding school.

Life’s more affordable when you’re dead, plus it’s the only way out of your student loans.

Mastodon is great!

Lemmy and kbin are getting there now that apps are coming out.

That’s rude. I offer my apologies to Mr. S. Hags.

Aren’t the cans recyclable?

But why are you putting liquids in your kitchen garbage?

Likely runs on java, hates to cause segfaults but still enjoys the occasional null pointer exception.

I’ll have you know real Lemmy users don’t use any app, we tap HTTPS requests in binary directly onto an Ethernet cable, computing the TLS handshake mentally.

FOSS is free open source software, which means it doesn’t cost money and you can use it for anything you like.

In practice this means you can download these apps and modify them or contribute to them, and you always know exactly what they do (for the most part). FOSS isn’t necessarily better than paid software, nor is it necessarily worse, but it is more accessible software.

Sync is ad supported or paid which some people are against, arguing it’s monetizing free content. They don’t like the ad tracking and I strongly agree with that.

But at the end of the day, if a developer wants to get paid to write software I’m in favor of it, it’s not like this is Google or some other large Corp, it’s a single developer building and maintaining Sync (though I think the lifetime price is way off the mark).