WoodScientist @ WoodScientist @sh.itjust.works Posts 0Comments 343Joined 1 mo. ago
Exactly. Politics is people debating and discussing their competing visions for how the world should be. Beyond close family connections, social media is for connecting large numbers of people. Most of the questions that are relevant to large numbers of people are political in nature.
If you wanted to use an old printer, why buy an HP one? Even buying a used one indirectly supports HP. If there's a secondhand market for HP printers, then they'll have more value when sold as new. New cars wouldn't sell so well if their value, rather than only taking a big hit, literally went to zero as soon as you drove them off the lot.
Simply having an HP printer, even a used one, also serves as an advertisement for them. Every time someone visits you and sees your printer, they'll be reminded of the brand's existence. Having and using one, even an old one, is a constant minor free advertising for HP.
If you already have an old HP printer that's working well for you, I wouldn't recommend trashing it and buying a new one just for the reasons above. There's environmental concerns to consider. But if you're looking to buy a used printer, why buy an HP? There's plenty of other good brands out there that don't engage is such evil.
If this were a movie, it would end with the evil cabal of Silicon Valley billionaires being defeated when a loose nuke is detonated right in the heart of Silicon Valley.
There are also antisemitic supporters of Israel. The Christian Nationalists want somewhere to banish the US's Jewish population to.
Every nation needs a maximum wealth cap. Set it at 1000x the median household income. Anything beyond that is taxed 100%.
More directly, the guy who took a shot at Trump should get a posthumous pardon. If all it takes for something to be legal is for you to think you're saving the country, then trying to kill the president isn't a crime.
That is not how you trace woodgrains. That is not how you trace woodgrains at all!
Commit crimes for the greater good.
All cats are babs.
Nothing. You're just asking trees to do something they're not meant to do. Absorbing a single year of carbon emissions would require half the planet's land area of trees. And that's just while the trees are growing and absorbing a lot of carbon. Trees just aren't efficient enough on a per acre basis to make a dent in carbon emissions, let alone capturing the carbon already in the atmosphere.
Exactly. They want to run the government as a business? Guess we should treat it like one.
If I'm one of these workers....
"Well, guess the government really needs me. And if Musk wants to run the government like a business, so be it. I'm willing to come back as a contractor for 5x my old rate."
Because stationary energy generation is the easiest thing to decarbonize, while other sources are much more difficult. Also some carbon sources are so disperse to practically track down. You going to hunt down every person using a diesel generator in Subsaharan Africa, go to their rural villages, and take their generator from them? Maybe, or it might be easier to just set up one big nuclear powered DACC plant. Then you don't have to deal with the practical and political nightmare of hunting down millions of low intensity carbon sources among the poorest people on the planet. Just let the poor village keep its diesel generator til they're ready to switch to solar. You don't have to go in and start taking stuff from poor people. There are lots of examples of this, low intensity sources that add up in aggregate but would be a political nightmare to try and stop. DACC shines for this.
Unfortunately, this is one area human imagination and intuition fail. Trees are great, but the math shows they simply aren't remotely viable as a means of bulk carbon sequestration.
Who says you power that thing with fossil fuels? The real way to do that is via giant nuclear reactors or reactor complexes.
Fission power can be made cheaper per MW by just making the reactors bigger. Economies of scale, the square cube law and all that. The problem with doing this in the commercial power sector is that line losses kill you on distribution. There just aren't enough customers within a reasonable distance to make monster 10 GW or 100 GW reactors viable, regardless of how cheap they might make energy.
But DACC is one of the few applications this might not be a problem for. Just build your monster reactors right next door to your monster DACC plants.
A witch put a hex on you.
I prefer a Writ of Outlawry instead.
Your reply is nothing more than, "na uh, he did it!"
Ok. Then you just transfer the chain back one level. Who did he buy it from? Think about the logistics of buying one of those. Imagine you wanted to buy a ghost gun. How would you actually go about doing that? Yes, organized crime rings and gangs may make these things, but they don't just sell them to any random kid who walks up wanting to buy one. They'll obtain them for their own trusted members. But if a random white kid shows up looking to buy a gun, the thought of most people would be that this guy is planning a school shooting. And no gang wants that type of heat.
It's only the extremely wealthy that can kill with impunity in our legal system. If someone shoots a relative of mine, I don't need to go hunt them down and take care of them myself. For that type of crime, the justice system will try to hold them to account. It is only the crimes of the wealthy and powerful that are not punished by the law. Kill one person with a knife? Life in prison. Kill tens thousand with a pen? You're a job creator.
I am not worried about a mass campaign of bloody violence unleashed upon the entire population. The kinds of grievances ordinary people have against one another can already be handled in the criminal and civil courts. It is only the crimes of murderers like Thompson that go unpunished. They are the only ones at risk in such a campaign.