I got bored about 50% of the way through, but honestly this wasn't too terrible if you can get over the preachy tone. Its a decent overview of some of the actual climate data at least, even if it has no solutions and no understanding of the root of the issue.
I wish people would stop arguing about what's causing climate change and focus on slowing it down or reversing it. In the US you can't discuss solutions without it devolving into a gaslighting debate about reality and statistics. I can only hope those who are reaping rewards from ignoring the problem are really getting their money's worth.
What we need is a World War Two level of the global economy focussing on the issue; there is a lot going on and the fact that there’s over production capacity of solar cells is bonkers, it should be used.
But it is more complex than that with grid connections, and storage key, let alone transferring combustion processes to electric.
Are there any artificial life simulation models that people can use to model agents for future usage patterns; I can’t but help this would make an amazing game, educational so people can try to resolve it.
As you said in an ideal world we (globally) would be forgoing all unnecessary consumption and redirect all activity until the problem is under control. In reality...
The EU "forcing approach" of making GHG emissions expensive is getting people increasingly angry because it drives up prices and makes you seem like a slouch to financial markets. It could work but people need to be understanding of what's going on and adapt their consumption and profession and I don't see that happening at the required speed without it falling apart.
The US "ship all dirty production elsewhere approach" looks good in the books but is fake and it also makes people angry because of lost jobs. But it does get you great innovative power to the point of hoping magic AGI fixing everything.
Then there's the "don't care approach" of e.g. Russia and the "can't care approach" of the global south.
China however may have realised it's a losing game anyway and it has all the materials, manufacturing and authoritarian clout to push ahead and be the last one standing.
Meanwhile everyone has to navigate geopolitical power games in a WMD era. It's troubling...
Why is that odd? Slavery is explicitly legal for felons in america right now. We don't typically compare our principles against the worst of history, we try to be better than that.
lol they're paying (with my money) something like 60k for each one of those.
Should have just bought police explorers like the cops are driving and saved 15-20k+ per unit. Plus as a bonus you might have actual parts availability for the foreseeable future, unlike when Oshkosh corp decides burning money in a barrel is more financially viable than building replacement parts for the postal service and the 40-70k of these that they'll actually get ordered before the budget gets slashed or whatever.
So the airline sells a last minute ticket and after the customer pays, the airline's agent initiates steps to coerce the ticket holder from enjoying the travel he just purchased. All in the name of profit. Sounds unfair, deceptive and damaging to me, exactly the sort of thing that ruins reputations and balance sheets.
It's like the big boy version of a venue that has an employee who tips of a tow company to have people's cars towed without sufficiently good reason and gets a kickback for it.
I love watching the feds scramble to stop committing crimes whenever someone with a camera happens to walk by. Really makes me believe they're behaving when we're not looking.
I think I'll run my gaming computer on its own isolated network and do a reinstall of Win10 every month or so rather than install Win11 (or pay MS for patches lol; like wtf, I might pirate those just out of principal). Win11 is genuinely that bad of an OS from my limited experience with it.
Not that Win10 is drastically better, but at least you can turn off most of the dumb Win10 things that Win11 will absolutely force down your throat, given half a chance.
I did the same earlier this year and have been very happy with how well Linux meets my desktop computing and gaming needs. For the most part, the Steam games I play just work under Proton. There have been a few cases where I needed to force it to use a particular version of Proton, but that's easy enough to do.
What's great about Linux is that the computer actually serves me again, instead of trying to extract value from me.
If it's not networked, what's the benefit to monthly reinstalls? Or do you mean still give it internet access but isolate and regularly wipe in case it gets malware?
A simple "what color is this traffic light?" test would go a long way towards saving cyclist lives thats for sure, but when you're that exposed to 4,000lbs vehicles moving at ~50+ MPH operated by people who took at best, 8 hours of instruction from their health class teacher, well, a lot of the issues you run into are not going to be your fault.
That's a fair point. My context is London England which can be dangerous if cycling on roads, but in most instances traffic is so congested and there are specific cycle paths and routes.
From reading some of the other posts, it sounds like distraction is a major issue regardless of the mode of transport.
As a motorcycle commuter, who sits about 3 feet higher than most sedans in my area and can see into all the cars around me as I drive, I can confirm that at least half of the ones I see every morning on the road have the driver either staring at their lap using their phone, or rolling giant vape clouds out their window, and are probably high. Often, I see someone doing both.
We need to nurture a culture of competency on the roads and excellence in automobile operations. My personal fav idea to help with that is build more race tracks :)
Another moto / cycle rider here. Recent phenomenon that makes me weep for road going competency: Phone or tablet on a suction cup mount playing YouTube, Netflix, whatever. Preferably at night with the screen 4" from your face to really make visual acuity dicey.
I thought this was a one-off, but I see probably 5-10 of these idiots a week.
