Daww, 30kg is absolutely a lap dog. Who could say no to that face?!

In fact, every dog is a lap dog; I've had Berners and a Leonberger who were all most definitely lap dogs, and they were closer to 50kg (100-something lbs). Might rupture your spleen and break a few of your ribs when they hopped on your lap to love you, but that's the price we pay

The only other sources I could find for this with some quick searching were other rags like Express. It's all based off some Russian Telegram channel, so the reliability is questionable at best

Why the fuck is "attacks" in quotes, Deutsche Welle?

I doubt anything will happen even then.

Well, nothing useful at least – I'm sure that with the current meteoric rise of the extreme right many things will happen, but they'll be more of the "death camp" variety than the "fixing the climate" variety

edit: I think high-emission models (ie models that assume we're going to do jack fucking shit and emissions will keep rising, which frankly seems probable) have predicted average temperature rises of 4 – 5°C. I'm trying to dig up some sources, hang on

Revenge of the Edit:
the following refer to the global mean screen temperature[^1] at the end of the century for the most pessimistic SSPs[^2]

• CanESM5's prediction is around 20 – 21°C, giving an anomaly of ~5 – 6°C
• CNRM-CM6-1 gives global mean screen temps of around 18 – 19°C, so an anomaly of ~3 – 4°C
• I think UKESM1-0-LL had an anomaly of around 3.5 – 5°C but I'm too tired to read that paper and can't seem to find the relevant figures
• ditto for GFDL-CM4

The Edit Strikes Back:

The IPCC's 6th Assessment Report (AR6) includes data from older and usually less sensitive versions (ie. very often more optimistic…) of the models above plus a ton of others, and its Physical Science Basis report's policymaker summary had this handy table:

Note that climate models are just that, models. We know they still have a lot of biases and they're not perfect, but they do already predict historical climate really well, and it should be telling that the better the models get, the worse the predictions tend to be

[^1]: temperature measured at a standardized height using a "Stevenson screen". Current global mean screen temperature is around 15°C [^2]: "Shared Socioeconomic Pathways", standardized modeling scenarios

The unfortunate thing is that it's not just American fascism that's on the rise. Here in good 'ol Europe we have multiple countries being led by more or less fascist governments - eg. in Italy's case a literal neofascist party that is a descendant of Mussolini's original fascist party – and the far right got an unprecedented amount of votes in the EU Parliament elections earlier this year. Then there's India's Modi, or Israel's Netanyahu – both unabashedly fascist.

It seems that after Trump, conservatives everywhere realized that they can actually do anything they want and not only will nobody stop them, but something close to a majority of people will actually outright support them the more fascist they get. Even most "fiscally conservative" parties seem to have dropped their masks and started leaning heavily on far right rhetoric, eg. like what's been going on here in Finland now that we have a fully right wing government – the "fiscal conservatives" are now completely indistinguishable from the extremist right wing party, right down to being anti-LGBT+ and racist. They started off with limiting peoples' right to strike, and now they're working on limiting the right of assembly using the Extinction Rebellion (who they claim are as bad as neo-Nazis) as an excuse. Personally I had a "moderate" conservative acquantance tell me that the world would be a better place if gender minorities like me wouldn't exist, apparently dreaming of some sort of Endlösung.

I don't think it's just the hardcore right that is a threat to stable and civilized societies; every single conservative seems to just be waiting for the moment they can stop the pretense and actually say and do what they really want to do, which seems to be full-on fascism.

I'm hesitant to say it because I've gotten some ridiculously hostile reactions for it, but I've really liked Kagi.

Yes, it's a subscription service but that means they have an incentive to not show you shit results. According to some, paying for a search service is wrong because online services should be free, and I'm just astroturfing if I even mention it

Yeah, definitely a "no shit?" moment – and we'll be very lucky if we stay under 2°C, let alone 1.5°C, even if we suddenly went carbon negative right at this very second.

Or, I dunno, maybe just don't use Google?

Huh, interesting (and more than a bit worrying) that it's not happening just over here in Finland too. Crime rates have generally gone down for a while now, but there's been a huge uptick in particularly brutal violent crimes perpetrated by under 15's

He'd already procreated, so unfortunately not

Münzi, as everyone called him, was only 37 years old and still had many plans in life.

I'm sure he had many plans, such as the mass-scale murder of undesirables, or the subjugation of anyone who he deemed lesser.

How so many people apparently supported that worthless fuck who's better off dead (or, rather, everybody else is better off) that he got 12 000€ for his funeral fund is sad

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The absolutely breathtakingly idiotic shit conservatives will happily believe never fails to boggle the mind.

How the fuck these people even manage to function in day-to-day life is completely beyond me.

Oh yeah absolutely; I'm not saying it's likely he doesn't know what Project 2025 is, just that his – and conservatives' more generally – goals align with it so people associated with it are going to end up in positions of power if he gets elected.

Not that Republicans need Trump to win to implement the Project, and in fact they're already doing it on federal and state levels. See eg. this PDF fact sheet^1 by Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro. And here[^2] is an article about how the Project is connected to Tennessee lawmakers and legislation, as an example of state level stuff

[^2]: EU users can use this proxied link to access the article

I mean, that may well be true considering how fucking stupid he is, but it's not like the project doesn't align with his interests regardless of whether he knows jack shit about it

But now it affects them, that makes it super important and also the LiBeRaLs' fAuLt that nothing works. An R-voting acquaintance of mine said as much and is blaming Democracts for lackluster disastr relief and they live in the deep south in a very conservative area…

Ohh based on the headline I thought they were like giving cops backdoor access to users' devices or something, but they're just selling devices to cops. So, while yeah this is pretty ironic, nothing about what Apple promises regarding device privacy really seems to have been broken here – cops are using "iPhones for surveillance" just like they'd use any smartphones in their line of work

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But who will vote for the Republicans if they do this‽

Where there is a will, there is a way