Aesthesiaphilia

The carbon tax is supposed to (partially) go towards credits for EVs

If the overall goal is to increase the human population, it actually makes total sense

If the goal is to prevent murders, then no, it doesn’t make sense

There’s plenty of EVs with 300+ miles of range now. Shouldn’t be an issue.

carbon sequestration is not ever going to work

I don’t know what you’re talking about, it’s a thing that is currently being done. Not some future hypothetical tech.

But yes it is too expensive for now. Costs are coming down hopefully that continues to be the case.

And yes, the best, cheapest, most efficient way to reduce ghg is to eliminate fossil fuels.

Instead of offsets, companies should be pursuing direct carbon sequestration like with https://climeworks.com/

No estimates, no accounting magic. Just a direct measure of physical, measurable tons of carbon directly removed from the atmosphere.

Surveillance state.

Screw data centers, I want to see desalination combined with nuclear power plants. They literally generate power by boiling water, it’s a match made in heaven.

We just need a few more advances in technology to remove impurities from brine and we’d also corner the table salt market.

I hate the fact that those dna samples will 100% end up in a government database of bioanalytics used to further spy on citizens.

Article does not explain why it’s called the Enchilada Trap. My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

I was so busy imagining Cher trying to lick her own pussy that I almost didn’t see the tiny waist part

No, I suspect the real change is performative anti gun bullshit.

It’s a legit problem when you look at the sum effect of all these local activists trying to “fix” local problems that should be waaaaaay down on the priority list. It pretty much paralyzed all grassroots activist groups for a good decade or so and let Trump run rampant most of his first term.

https://theintercept.com/2022/06/13/progressive-organizing-infighting-callout-culture/

Man, I can’t belive I’m rooting for the giant corporation here. Crazy world.

Sometimes the boot of capitalism treads on fascists, and that my friends is an interesting time.

Don’t mess with the Mouse

The Mouse always wins

What a strange and beautiful land

Literally every opinion I hold is morally right, and I have the right to gather other like minded people and oppress anyone who says otherwise. I am never wrong.

• ASK_ME_ABOUT_LOOM, 2023

[transcribed from lip reading via telescope, as he was too high on his horse for the rest of us to hear]

Almost as if they never gave a shit about Jesus’s teachings in the first place and only cherry picked a couple of things that fit their existing desires.

Now they’re just going mask off.

Honestly I don’t care if it’s solar, wind, geothermal, biofuel, or nuclear, as long as it displaces fossil fuels. And it’s feasible on a very near time scale.

If Sweden did an honest investigation and found that renewables would be more costly and take longer, let em get nuclear.

We need an “all of the above” approach. This fight between nuclear and renewables is just stirred up by fossil fuel interests. Either is good. Both is good.

I normally agree with xkcd, but this is a huge straw man.

It’s not the government oppressing you, but you are being oppressed. It’s not the government restricting your speech, but your speech is being restricted.

People complaining about their speech getting restricted aren’t saying “…by the government” and it’s a cop out to pretend that’s what they’re talking about in the first place. That’s not the conversation when it comes to canceling and deplatforming. That’s not what people are complaining about. When people say “the right to free speech” in this context, they aren’t talking about a specific legal, constitutional doctrine. They’re talking about the social contract. They’re saying, “hey, we generally believe in freedom as a concept, why are other people shushing me for voicing my opinion?”

Note I’m not a “free speech absolutist”, I don’t think we should give everyone a megaphone and tell em to have fun. Sometimes canceling is the appropriate response. There’s a lot of social media assholes out there stirring up shit and they should get muzzled.

But this particular argument is bullshit.

The argument we should be making is this: what you are saying is itself so heinous and dangerous that it is a violation of the social contract. The government is not silencing you, but we will.

And we should also keep in mind that just because the government isn’t silencing someone, that doesn’t mean it’s perfectly fine that we do. Mob mentality is a thing and sometimes we (the mob) can go too far. We should be measured about canceling and deplatforming.

Such a brave article

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