Ok. You did that. China is still selling to other countries and polluting all over the place.
Now what?
Somalia is still burning our recycling. What about that?
For every hole you plug, there are 10 more. But sure, we can call agree on this one thing even though the entire history of humanity has basically been "I disagree, let's fight a war over it".
And the odds of any of that actually happening? How exactly are you going to regulate the growth of industries internationally in a way that doesn't just end up offshoring the pollution to poor countries like it already has been for centuries?
Dudes right, we need a dues ex machina to save us. We won't make meaningful changes until it's profitable to do so. So expect to see a lot of companies transition into cooling and environmental control. Because they won't address the core problem, just sell you bandaids for the symptoms. The next advancement won't be "less emissions", it'll be "this new coolant cools 35% better".
Look at heat pumps. Its literally just an AC unit that can swap the hot and cold side with a valve. It's nothing new. But it's the new "miracle cure" to all your heating and cooling needs. Just run your electricity that most likely comes from a coal power plant and smugly think about how you personally aren't using gas to do it!
We won't fix it ourselves without major intervention.
.FLAC would like a word with you. I was only using mp3 as a stand in for "digital file". There are much better file formats than what you find on a CD.
It's more that a CD is just a physical copy of a digital file. Buying a CD and buying a mp3 file are basically the same. People buy records because they have this idea that "analog sounds better"(despite modern record players being digital as well - it's the tubes, not just the record, that made it analog)
Exactly. "Hey, we're gonna let you use our network. But if you do anything illegal or shady on our network, we'd be held liable. So we're gonna track what you do on our network to make sure if you do try something, we can remove you from the network and have proof."
I mean, yeah, they're also gonna collect advertising data, but do you really expect to have an expectation of privacy when using someone else's network? Just like they can film you in the building, they can monitor your network traffic on their network.
If this surprises you, maybe you should do some more research on how a network actually works. And get a VPN. And maybe don't connect to random public networks(you don't even want to know what OTHER PEOPLE can do to you on those networks, nevermind the company).
Also, you pay for your cellphone service, right? Are you paying for the wifi in the store? Nooooooo. They're giving it to you for free. Almost like they're offering you something in return for that data monitoring. Like they're offering you a service with a built in method to recoup costs... A service you voluntarily use and in doing so, agree to their terms.
I think part of the reason it feels like "wtf are you doing?!?" is because we were really saying "Joe needs to step the fuck up or step aside" and then in the last week he's thrown some absolute hard hits at Trump making it look like "holy shit, we got old Joe back!". Then suddenly after appearing to wake up, he goes "nah, I'm good.".
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad he's stepping aside. But it's been a bit of a rollercoaster and not a very consistent message. They kept telling us to shut up and follow Biden and anyone who doesn't is supporting facism and then suddenly, "nah, not Biden, it's cool"? You can't pump a rhetoric machine up and then expect the brakes to stop it instantly.
And in your worldview, it'll just be a race to the bottom.
JB did the right thing. Him and Kyle will be able to come back from this because of the actions of JB. After all, who is the heat on now? It's not Kyle. He looks like a victim now. Jacks taking the heat. Heat he can easily handle. Heat that will fade away in the coming months and be forgotten.
Instead of throwing a massive fight back and blowing the situation up even more out of proportion. Instead of now having to wonder if you've made yourself a target of insane Trumpers.
This was masterful PR and it shows who knows actual PR and who has too much ego to take an L when needed. This pretty much guaranteed that JB AND Kyle are protected. Everyone took just enough dirt to look like they got punished but it's not enough to actually end anyone.
In all of those cases you are now locking away the new features to only be discovered at the ends of the galaxy or after beating the main game and learning about the multiverse. The galactic core would remain entirely unchanged. So everyone new playing would be stuck on v1.0 for hours until they get far enough away from EVERYONE while everyone else is drifting about in v10.4.
Look at Minecraft: if you keep your old world, you have to travel to places that have never been generated yet to see new chunks formed. Eventually you have a massive world where the center is old and buggy and then further out you go suddenly features are available. It's the reason why most people don't keep legacy maps running for years, and when they do, there's massive train/teleport systems in place to get you the fuck out of the og spawn.
Well I guess it's time to RP a major cataclysm coming to your world and having to relocate.
Honestly hate these posts. People want all these changes and updates but never think about what it would require. How else are you gonna revamp planets without changing the hundreds of thousands that have already been discovered? So you either change nothing and have people complain it's boring or apply the fix and have people complain you broke it. There's no winning.
While I agree with what you've said, I've always felt fusion and other such tech is the future of long distance space travel, not Earth based energy use. Wind and hydro are useless in space and solar has issues with power accumulation the further away from a star you go. We will still need some kind of "fuel" based energy source if we're ever to enter deep space and cross the gaps(unless battery tech increases much further to the point that a "battery" lasts a significant portion of the vehicles lifetime). Even then, you'd need recharge stations at each end or to park by a star to refuel in between.
We have fusion/fission now. That kind of battery tech is still a ways off. Feels shortsighted to ignore nuclear now just because it's not perfect in this specific environment. After all, name any vehicle not powered by nuclear that can run for 20-30 years before it needs to refuel/recharge. No battery tech can even come close currently.
For the same reason most people who oppose this do: it will create multiple names for plants and sow confusion. Imagine trying to look up research papers. You won't be just searching for the new name, you'll be searching for the new name and every single name it was ever called to find all relevant research. You'll literally still be dealing with it every time.
It's come up a few times with insects. Name changes and suddenly research papers get missed/ignored because they still used the old name and vice versa.
And frankly, it's a name. It's just a word we attached to something to identify it. If that makes you emotional, maybe don't be in science?
The words have negative meanings because we acknowledge the meaning. Most people don't know "affra" is a slur and never would have even considered it until someone else loudly goes "hey! That sucks!". If you just ignored it, it literally wouldn't exist. It's going out of its way to point out something most people never even consider.
They go on and on about a slur "affra" that I've literally never heard used. But it's supposedly "super common". Like, aren't there literally plants called "removed heads"?
From inaturalist.org:
"Enneapogon nigricans, known by the common names blackheads,[1] bottle washers, pappus grass,[1] purpletop grass,[1] and removedheads,[3] is a perennial Australian grass."
It feels like the article is doing a lot of reaching when more obvious examples are RIGHT THERE.
Instead it's going "well this person was bad so this discovery doesn't count anymore even though it's the standard we applied to everything else".
It's pointless nitpicking and virtue signalling. Naming a plant after something doesn't suddenly make everyone who encounters it racist. It makes you racist if that's your first thought instead of "well that's a stupid name but it's just a name".
Edit: Lemmy edited out the n-word, even when used in a scientific name. Funny that affra stayed...
Your discovery only counts if you're the kind of person we like sounds a hell of a lot like the Whitewashing that is usually agreed upon to be bad. How is this any better? History is full of people who don't live up to modern standards on both sides. We just gonna pretend everything we don't like never existed?
That's your energy right there. Came in here hoping for actual answers and this trash comment is top. Pure speculation from someone on the opposite side.
Remind me again how many local news stations are owned by ClearChannel again? Do you not remember the video showing local morning broadcasts from around the country and them all being the exact same script repeated verbatim?
No, no we don't have a wide swath of sources. We have many disguised as independent, but the sad fact is, few are.
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Ok. You did that. China is still selling to other countries and polluting all over the place.
Now what?
Somalia is still burning our recycling. What about that?
For every hole you plug, there are 10 more. But sure, we can call agree on this one thing even though the entire history of humanity has basically been "I disagree, let's fight a war over it".