What you describe strikes me as reaping enjoyment from technical accuracy. I think of it like mastering Moonlight Sonata as opposed to riffing something jazzy with friends. Both enjoyable, but quite different.

I’m adding this to the list of things that I would have used if not for learning about it from a shutdown announcement.

I disagree they are bozos. I’m actually coming around on the idea. Not the mirror thing of course, but the VC grift using a flashy idea. Millions of dollars and the only thing you make is a slideshow? Brilliant.

This reminds me of the venetian shade idea. ‘Trillions of dollars’ hahaha okay let’s see who wants to pitch in.

Fruit Ninja comes to mind.

Could you elaborate on this comment?

It might have been the sixth closure of the day that person was involved in.

Fortunately, I wasn’t.

Farmers are also dependant on soil quality, temperature, sunshine, equipment that largely relies on fuel, and distribution for the crops they grow.

Not being an oracle myself, I’ll take an educated guess that when the temperature keeps climbing, the conditions that allow for outdoor food production will also change. Likely, the hardiness zones will shift to places with no farmland, and the current hardiness zones will be subject to flooding or drought or both.

Might be tricky business if the best farmland is suddenly on the side of K2.

Tell that to Captain America.

urban people

Funny how I don’t remember the last hospital I saw in the middle of a corn field.

Sorry, all life? Even the mosquitoes? Damn.

Gail Berman is to blame. She cancelled Firefly and doomed humanity in the process.

If the politicians would have refused bribes,

the standards wouldn’t have come into fruition that allowed the auto industry to decouple vehicle size and weight from energy efficiency;

the trams systems wouldn’t have been bought up, shut down, and rails ripped from the ground to make room for more lanes;

the energy sector wouldn’t have septupled down on an invisible gas that’s 20x worse than burning coal;

the healthcare companies would be run by medical experts finding the best treatment instead of by money men denying care by default;

the technology we developed wouldn’t be tracking every time we blink to create advertising opportunities;

the houses we build wouldn’t sit vacant waiting for a tenant to pay half their income for the privilege of having no equity…

Greed is the problem.

It’s understandable within capitalism why corporations would push boundaries to make money, but our politicians are supposed to be the force of opposition. Instead they look the other way while pocketing another cheque or airline ticket or deed to a brownstone.

I’m as pro active transportation as anyone I have ever met, but it’s delusional to blame people for buying a large, expensive vehicle when the manufacturers keep discontinuing small, cheap cars because the return on investment isn’t as high. The politicians could require them to make two compact cars for every pickup or SUV, but they don’t because they’re greedy just like the corporations.

There are no checks and balances anymore, and the politicians are to blame. Some blame in certain places should also land on the electorate, to be sure. But with every city, neighbourhood, and street gerrymandered to look like a hand drawn map by Michael J. Fox, it’s mostly the politicians on the hook for all this.

If everyone got together and came to the decision to fix the planet, it would probably still be possible, even though it’ll likely get to a point where going outside is a complication. Generations, to be sure.

Though of course, we’re never all going to agree on how to go about it, so you might be right.

China has the highest emissions in the world!

Only right now though. And only in annual volume. And in large part because they make just about everything for just about every other country.

China has four times the population of the United States. Despite this and being the world’s factory, their CO2 emissions per capita are only 10.1 tons. Which sounds like a lot - and it is - but the United States emissions are 17.6 tons per capita.

But who cares about all that mumbo jumbo. Don’t go looking at how America got here, to this pedestal so high above the rest. There’s nothing to see in the past, just some work ethic and a good pair bootstraps. Don’t worry about it.

I’m going to call bullshit on the underlying assertion that Signal is using Amazon services for the sake of lining Jeff’s pocket instead of considering the “several” alternatives. As if they don’t have staff to consider such a thing and just hit buy now on the Amazon smile.

In any monopoly, there are going to be smaller, less versatile, less reliable options. Fine and dandy for Mr Joe Technology to hop on the niche wagon and save a few bucks, but that’s not going to work for anyone casting a net encompassing the world.

Good on you for attempting to parse different meanings out of what was said. Too few people attempt to do so and instead jump all over a misinterpretation.

Most people don’t even consider things like this. That’s why companies keep getting away with it. It’s not the customer’s fault.

Know what I like about coal? If some falls off the sleigh, it’s just another rock, not an explosion or dish soap advertising campaign.

All those other problems with coal? Still bad, but maybe not as bad as non renewable alternatives. Really annoying we didn’t go full steam ahead on sun and wind the moment they became possible.