I guess it’s subjective.

Sure, climate change is starting to have an impact and more people might die due to malnutrition which is related.

My predictions within 5 years are something like :

• intensifying weather events like floods, storms, cyclones / hurricanes, to a point where insurance becomes a real unavoidable problem, putting trillions of dollars of real estate at risk.
• intensifying weather events like droughts where some traditionally viable agricultural areas no longer are, maybe a 10% reduction of arable land in any given region.
• localised famine events generating a few hundred thousand climate change refugees per year.
• increasing commercial interest in arable land in regions less likely to be impacted, farm values doubling in some areas
• increasing political interest in arable land in these same regions, with escalating political tension

I think societal collapse is still a decade away at least. However, the poor and impoverished are certainly going to start to feel the burn.

On the one hand I have a left leaning progressive mind set and have with young children - I’m heavily motivated to try to change our trajectory. On the other hand I’m 43 years old and I don’t remember a period where people weren’t predicting societal collapse in 5 years.

Climate change is bad. Mass extinctions, severe weather events, and famine, are all a certainty in the coming years. However, this needs to be balanced by technological advancements that are going to mitigate the effects. Just as an example, we can produce more food from less land than ever in history.

I’d never heard of the XY Problem before.

I get it - big opportunity to waste lots of time.

However, while I’ve never posted a question on stack overflow or similar, a common complaint is that it’s a toxic community because of responses related to this problem - a user asks about X and is accused of asking about Y and most responses undermine the premise being question Z.

I have been fiddling with trying to build a Dockerfile and container

I disagree.

I dont think its particularly likely there will be famines in the next 5 years or so on a scale that can’t be countered by aid.

Sure, economies might start to feel some very serious consequences, shit might start to get very real, I just dont think we’re quite at the point where people start dying.

I’m sure most plugs have identical features.

Thats a generalisation.

It depends what the objective of your protest is.

Obviously people standing outside a politicians house with a sign are ineffective, thats just not how politics works.

Obviously large scale protests aren’t going to make Trump change his ways or resign.

However, I think large scale protests might activate a lot of apathetic people, and get them connected.

America doesn’t need Trump to resign and Vance to take over. You need societal change. You need your population to realise that your trajectory is pretty awful and that it doesn’t have to be.

Sync is one of those things that seems like it should be trivial but is actually super complicated.

This seems kinda harsh.

CSAM distribution is possible on pretty much any platform.

As long as the platform isn’t obfuscating a user’s IP address then I don’t see how it’s any worse than any other platform.

A few weeks ago everyone in this community was fawning over some dev’s new anonymous zero-knowledge file sharing platform and no one seemed to care that it would be overrun with CSAM.