UnderpantsWeevil @ UnderpantsWeevil @lemmy.world

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The societal shift to a plant-based diet.

That's a consequence of economy-wide, industrial-scale change. Greater cultivation and distribution of fresh greens, gords, beans, etc. Fewer subsidies and natural resources diverted to feedstock and livestock. When a major component of our greenhouse gas emissions comes from alfalfa exported to feed Saudi livestock on the other side of the planet, you need hundreds of Californians to turn vegan in order to net the benefit of one Saudi aristocrat.

A lot of people say “don’t do anything better because the rich ride private jets!”

I'm not saying "Don't do anything". I'm saying "Don't be the sin-eater for other people's crimes".

If you want to shift the planet away from meat, you can't just settle on opening up a can of beans. You need to petition to stop dumping half your state's water reserve into growing macadamia nuts for Mark Zuckerberg's Texas cattle ranching hobby.

If all 8 billion people on the planet would do little things like recycle properly, things like the Pacific garbage patch wouldn’t exist.

2.6M pounds of Houston recyclables tossed in landfill: Records reveal city broke its own recycling rules hundreds of times.

Of the estimated 2.6 million pounds of recyclables dumped where they didn’t belong, 1.1 million pounds—or 41 percent—were dumped after March 1, when the city’s new, state-of-the-art recycling center started processing recyclables.

shrug

If a tens of thousands of people do the right thing at the individual level and then a dozen people do the wrong thing out of expediency and profit, and there's no mechanism for firing and replacing the irresponsible managers, then the efforts of the many are squandered to the profit of the few.

Nazi 👏 Germany👏 Has 👏 A 👏 Right 👏 To👏 Exist!

Your woke leftism would have them bombing the innocent people of Dresden! And for what?!

I bet you're going to say we should nuke Japan, next, you monster!

Taxing gun suppressors as a means of gun control was dumb. Eliminating the tax was dumb. People's fascination with mid-20th century military technology and their self-obsessive "I'm the PC in a video game" mentality is sicko shit. The whole American experiment in lobbyist-guided gun control legislation is such a fucking joke.

Just reading about it never fails to blackpill me.

The actual solution is going to be an accumulation of thousands of small “meaningless” actions.

The "actual solution" is several large economy-wide industry-scale structural changes to manufacturing and transportation. That's what we've seen in every country that successfully reduced their carbon emissions.

The very fact that you came in with "thousands" rather than "tens of millions" illustrates that you simply do not want to accept the scale at hand. The average global citizen produces 4 tonnes of carbon/year. The average American produces 16. The Bezos wedding put (conservatively estimated) 1,000 tonnes into the atmosphere, over the span of a long weekend.

You're asking people to piss out the World Trade Center fire and getting angry when anyone suggests that maybe we need a large professional fire department to handle this kind of job.

I wish someone would look up what "3rd World" means and stop conflating the unaligned movement with poverty.

Part of the problem with a for-profit energy grid. Base load is always someone else's problem. The spread between production cost and retail sale is all I really care about.

Too bad AI is gonna set us back years in the transition.

We're going to have these enormous commitments to new energy infrastructure and then someone on Wall Street sneezes, equity prices crash, and now you've got mountains of surplus hardware to clean up.

Zuckerberg wants a data center as big as Manhattan Island just a few years after he sank billions in his failed Metaverse experiment.

But hey! Remember to separate your recyclables! We need to do something to help the planet.

It’s Denmark, they have a pretty robust welfare system that’s actually likely paying for this sort of program

I mean, if they're befitting from that support, I'd say it counts.

The neoliberal’s control of the DNC is over

The Year is 2008

Howard Dean has been elected DNC Chairman

The era of corporate control over the party is dead. Clintonism is in full retreat. Dems are doing a 50 State Strategy, because they want to be a party for All Americans

Demographics is Destiny! The Long Arc of History Bends Towards Progress! There's no way the empire will ever strike back!

And thats all we need from the party, the rest is on the voters.

A voter is smart. The Voters are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it.

Looks like AI generated slop

It's a shakedown when the indie developer does it to the mega-corp

It's sensible shareholder-first business best practices when the mega-corp does it to the indie developer.

Trump ping-ponging between hot button issues is a distraction from Trump's very limited attention span and the ease with which his cabinet drags him around by the nose.

A lot more people than just astronauts, as the NOAA cuts to Texas weather forecasting proved.

Bills are also a thing.

I find it a little silly to try to use shipping as an example of a non bespoke system.

That's fine. Good luck with your bespoke-solution-to-everything. It does have the benefit of locking in clients and being very lucrative in the long run.

These are his people. He is their guy.

This is a guy who went on a Reality TV Show to audition for the attention of right-wingers. He's not any more "their guy" than con-artists like Andrew Tate or Bari Weiss. They're carnival barkers and you're out in the crowd waving your wallet.

Finding funding for those indies is another matter.

Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the show?

I will say, I know a guy with a ton of extra cash who could probably practice what he preaches.

But finding the next digital unicorn in a sea of mid-to-shit titles is no mean feat. For every Warcraft or Marathon there's a thousand flops.

That is, I think, what makes the AAA studios look worse than they have a right to be. They're Frankenstein companies, cobbled together from the bits of a dozen early stars. But that doesn't guarantee hits, it just guarantees brand recognition. The latest Blizzard title isn't going to have the secret sauce of StarCraft because they already made that game once. Merging with Activision doesn't mean making a game that's better than CoD and StarCraft combined.

At some point people need to abandon this idea that all needs and wants must align exactly so that we can have only one standard.

That's what we have extensions for.

But I don't think we're anywhere near your hypothetical state. On the contrary, my time in business has been dominated by designing and updating bespoke interfaces between bespoke systems. Everything is bespoke, at the industry level. Measurement tools are bespoke. Relational databases are bespoke. Transmission protocols are bespoke. Everything's a daisy chain of staging tables and APIs, as you get what is functionally interchangeable data from half a dozen different systems to tie out into the final accounting ledger.

Hell, we can't even get aligned to the metric system. Assholes are still running around talking about feet and gallons, until they cross a border and have to kick over to meters and liters.

I understand the pull for it, but it’s not realistic.

One of the most revolutionary ideas of the modern logistics system was the uniform shipping container. You had a pre-defined box size with well-established uniform characteristics that you could load up with whatever you pleased. Then you could load up a container in a factory, put it on a truck, take it to a train, move it onto a ship, sail it across the sea, unload it onto a train, that puts it on a truck, that takes it to a warehouse. And because everyone agreed to adhere to a single shipping container standard, the entire system of transit could be built to accommodate units of that size.

Not only is the idea realistic, it is essential to a modern efficient interoperable system.

I mean, I hope they're getting paid.

Congratulations, you just sold two bottles of wine. Do I need to use a referral code?

Damn. Should have considered negotiating that in advance.

One of the best wines I’ve ever tasted is called TALEiA, by Castell d’Encus out of Spain.

Turnabout is fair play. I suppose I should order a bottle or two myself.