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Intellectuals Are Fucking Idiots

75 points · 97 comments · speckx

  1. jzellis · · focus · HN ↗
    ">Do you think this is really about climate change? No, these are empty human beings, desperate for their lives to mean something. And their apocalyptic climate change model has done that for them. It has nothing to do with science. They probably don’t realize that the marginal rate of energy cost is fast approaching zero. That technological innovation is exponential and carbon capture can likely be made economical relatively soon. Hell, they probably aren’t even pro-nuclear."

    Jerkoff sneering at intellectuals uses "marginal costs" as a metric without considering externalities that have nothing to do with economics (the softest of soft "sciences") and states that technological innovation is exponential as though that's a law of nature rather than a limited observation of a brief period in human history.

    I remember the first time Daddy let me have a sip of a wine cooler too. Yawn. Hand him a moist towelette when he's done, somebody, wouldja? The grownups are working on grownup stuff.

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