humans are selfish, and most of us are not willing to make major sacrifices to avert disaster
I am sick and tired of this cynical bullshit argument. It's wrong in two ways (and neither are the way you think):
It assumes that we have to reduce our standard of living in order to reduce our fossil fuels consumption, instead of innovating
It presumes that the lifestyle changes that we do have to make (e.g. higher density zoning and walkablity) represent some kind of deprivation, rather than the improvement they would actually be.
I dont know if this has been asked before or if this may be a little goofy of a question but I didn't see anything relating to it and I'm kinda curious what the culture of Lemmy is like and what sort of common things people see....
I was planning to leave with the mass-migration a year ago anyway, but Reddit conveniently suspended my account for "mod abuse" because the snowflake r/conservative mods were butthurt that I was reporting the misinformation they were trying to spread.
(In other words, it proved to me that Reddit is run by fascists.)
The key is that both adding car lanes and adding alternatives like transit are subject to induced demand, but the consequences of it are different for transit than for cars. Not only is the limit of the added capacity much, much higher for a train than it is for a car lane, adding more traffic to the lane up to that limit makes the performance worse and worse (increasing congestion), while adding more transit ridership up to its limit makes the performance better and better (increasing train frequency and therefore reducing wait times).
Similarly, induced demand for walking and biking is a good thing because more people doing those things improves public health, doesn't pollute like cars do, and takes up much less space.
So it's not that induced demand is bad, it's that inducing demand for cars, specifically is bad.
That's part of the issue, but the even bigger problem is that people fallaciously think they have to give up much to fix it when the reality is a combination of (a) they don't, and (b) the changes that they do have to make actually represent an improvement in lifestyle, not a deprivation.
For example, Americans who've been brainwashed for decades by GM propaganda about the "open road" and car-dependent suburban "American dream" and whatnot have to be dragged kicking and screaming into higher zoning density and walkabilty, but once people have it they realize they're happier, healthier, have more free time, etc.
But the truth is, most people don’t want to lose their comfortable lifestyle.
The real truth is, the notion that a lower-carbon lifestyle is somehow inferior to our current car-dependent bullshit is 100000% fallacious bullshit brainwashed into us by the automobile industry. Walkability is just better in every way (environmentally, economically, sociologically) and people whose lifestyle doesn't depend on cars are, statistically, happier and healthier than people who do.
I don't mean to diminish your point about the utility of nuclear, but (a) it's subject to the same ramping up/scaling issues as anything else*, and (b) you'd be surprised how quickly we could ramp up manufacturing of renewables if The Powers That Be actually wanted to.
(* Or worse: in particular, the absolute debacle that was Plant Vogtle 3 and 4 -- delivered years late and billions overbudget, while bankrupting Westinghouse in the process -- shows that we definitely did not maintain our nuclear expertise over the past several decades of building exactly fuck-all new plants.)
Mass extinction events have a cause. The Permian/Triassic one I mentioned, is generally agreed to be from unusual movement of earth’s crust, creating severe volcanic activity.
I think you'd get your point across even better with less understatement.
We have barely existed on earth, but are throwing it off balance like never before. (With the exception of the meteor that killed the dinosaurs, but that’s a whole other tangent)
I think we may very well be on par with the meteor, TBH. Especially in the worst-case emission scenario.
(Speaking of the K-Pg meteor, another large igneous province, similar to but smaller than the one at the P-T boundary, was basically the "exit wound" of that meteor impact. It could very well be that the P-T extinction was caused the same way, but all evidence of the crator would have been obliterated by subduction over the past 250 MY because the antipode of Siberia back then would've been somewhere in the middle of the Panthalassic Ocean. Edit: I take that back; turns out there is some evidence for it that managed to survive, so that's neat.)
Why do you persist in assuming that all those shitty circumstances would continue to exist when they are exactly the things I'm saying we should be fixing? The whole idea is to have lots of nearby employers, good train and bus connections, grocery stores within walking distance (and with little to no parking), etc.
The #1 priority for reducing climate change (and fixing almost all our problems, from housing affordability to obesity) is zoning reform.
Net neutrality is just Common Carrier rules as applied to the Internet. It's frankly a no-brainer.
Your proposal should definitely also have been done -- allowing telecoms to also produce content at all is a massive conflict of interest and should never have been allowed in the first place -- but it doesn't obviate the need to also regulate the pure telecoms even after the breakup.
A heat pump is just a normal HVAC with a reversing valve (and maybe without the furnace part, if you're not worried about backup emergency heat). How hard could it be??
I mean, I guess I get it if you're installing it up North in a building that previously only had heat without AC, because it means you have to do all the load calculations and stuff. Plus, you may need to retrofit ductwork because your heat was hydronic with radiators. That, I admit, is a big job.
But where I am in the South, it seems like it'd be simpler, if anything, because it means you can just cap off the natural gas line and not have to deal with it. Otherwise, (unless you're doing insulation improvements at the same time or something) it's a like-for-like replacement of the AC that any building around here definitely already has, and which any normal HVAC technician ought to be able to do.
All of them used to be, yes, but with advancements in technology that allow the heat pump to work at colder temperatures while keeping a reasonable coefficient of performance, it's becoming less and less necessary for folks in hot climates (and by that I mean places as far north as Chicago, at least according to the Technology Connections guy (@techconnectify)).
Gaming consoles just mean you've already bought into their walled garden. They don't need to use the same tactics the mobile games use; you're already trapped. Hell, you're probably already paying a monthly subscription for online play, and then there's still nothing stopping individual game publishers from further enshittifying on top of that!
No, what you should really be doing is gaming on PC (Linux), ideally with games bought DRM-free (e.g. from GoG) or even by only playing Free Software games. I personally compromise enough to accept Steam, but that really is at the absolute limits of acceptability (and only then because of factoring goodwill from all their work on Linux compatibility for games).
Surveillance apologists like to make the argument that "in public you have no expectation of privacy." But what they don't seem to understand is that having centralized networks of cameras (and especially ones hooked up to things like facial recognition databases) creates a whole new third level that goes beyond merely "in public" and instead becomes a panopticon.
"In public" a person might remember seeing you at a certain time and location, but that doesn't mean they can trace back your whole location history along with that of everyone who was ever near you at some point along it and feed it into a computer looking for suspicious patterns. When somebody tries to follow you closely enough to do that, we call it "stalking" and it's a crime.
But somehow once thing "X" becomes "X, but with a computer" lawmakers think it's magic or some shit and previously-criminal stuff suddenly becomes A-OK! So now everybody is being criminally stalked by Ring (i.e. Amazon), Nest (i.e. Google), etc., and too many people are too computer-illiterate to even begin to grasp what a massive problem that is.
That's a popular misconception. The philosophy behind conservatism is to perpetuate hierarchy. The ideology was developed by literal monarchists, and when the "divine right" excuse became untenable they moved on to others like racism and capitalism, but the goal remained the same. It only seems like they want to maintain the status quo because the historical status quo was hierarchical, but rest assured: if society were magically egalitarian instead, conservatives would vigorously try to make sweeping, wholesale changes to create a hierarchy from scratch.
Especially since they love Russia now (because it's fascist), but the distinction between the communist USSR and the fascist Russian Federation confuses a lot of their base.
Otherwise, I made the connection like OC that conservatism = no change, whether good or bad.
That's exactly what they want you to think. It's one of the more prominent ways in which they launder their ideology to make it seem appealing to more people than just sociopaths. (Or at least, used to, until they went full mask-off under Trump.)
SEO is only feasible in the first place because we have one dominant search engine instead of a bunch of equally-prominent ones with different algorithms that would need to be optimized for differently (and maybe even mutually-exclusively).
I wish I'd paid attention to that show when I was a kid. Weird west + Bruce Campbell sounds pretty cool. I just never gave it a shot because I was distracted by the stupid name (who names a person "county‽").
But yes, I agree: weird west sounds like the perfect setting for this.
As a kid I imagined the future as being able to hold a TV in your pocket, and flying skateboards. For the latter I guess electric scooters will have to do
Absolutely! (Same as playing a regular game on a Game Gear.)
I had both an AC adapter and a 12VDC car adapter for mine. Without those (considering the sorry state of rechargeables back then), the cost of batteries would've made actually using the damn thing untenable.
Since it's an AI making the music you can be sure it holds no opinions.
That is a very popular, but also very dangerous misconception. AI has all the same biases and opinions as the dataset it was trained on (and thus also those of the engineer who picked said dataset). Even if you just YOLO it by training it on "everything" and hoping it'll average out, whatever biases society itself as a whole has, the AI will happily perpetuate.
For example, folks wanted to reduce judge bias in criminal sentencing, so they created an AI... and then trained it on historical sentences. Guess what happened?
In reality, if you want to create an unbiased AI, you've got to go out of your way to carefully curate the dataset to deliberately remove bias, and almost nobody is doing that.
I know Lemmy isn't normally the best place to search for this, but are there any high-quality right-wing explainers, or modern books, or media outlets?...
And they also try to prove why the totalitarianism of the Soviet Union and every lesser species of it undermines liberty.
Proving totalitarianism undermines liberty seems pretty trivial to me. An attempt to prove that communism must necessarily be totalitarian would be much more interesting.
If I recall from the Alt-Right Playbook's Origins of Conservatism video, some of the early founders of conservative thought you might want to read include:
The guy holding the owl in the photo is the rescuer, not the "depositer!" He says he's running into too many people not reading the article and think he did it....
(I'm speaking generally, not criticizing you personally.)
It's amazing the great effort to which people will go to try to compensate for Microsoft's abusive behavior, often while simultaneously claiming that switching OSs is too much effort.
Projects like Tiny11 are the computer equivalent of "oh, this black eye? I got it falling down the stairs and definitely not because my partner hit me."
Folks get mad about Linux evangelism, but it's really no different than friends saying "leave his ass; you're too good for him!"
I went to some palestine protests a while back, and was talking to my brother about the organizing, when revealed something I found pretty shocking, we (the protesters) had acquired a permit to hold the protest. Apparently this is standard policy across the US....
You know like the kind that go on a window or bathroom mirror or on the wall or in the shower. They need the atmosphere pushing down on them to work, right?
Am I supposed to ask stupid questions here, or *not* ask stupid questions?
It’s kinda how you read the name, innit?
E-Bikes Should Not Require Pedaling, Proposes U.K. Government, Diverging From E.U. ( www.forbes.com )
E-bikes could get faster, more powerful and not require pedaling, in a move announced today by UKGOV. Cycling organizations are opposed to the plans.
‘I am starting to panic about my child’s future’: climate scientists wary of starting families ( www.theguardian.com )
A fifth of female climate scientists who responded to Guardian survey said they had opted to have no or fewer children...
Conservative author Ann Coulter heaps praise on GOP rising star Vivek Ramaswamy - then tells him she wouldn't vote for him because he's Indian ( www.dailymail.co.uk )
who is on Lemmy (the sociology of Lemmy)
I dont know if this has been asked before or if this may be a little goofy of a question but I didn't see anything relating to it and I'm kinda curious what the culture of Lemmy is like and what sort of common things people see....
Just one more lane ( sh.itjust.works )
c/unixsocks for more ( lemmy.ml )
'Pretty remarkable': UBC study finds e-bike rebates led to decreased car use ( bc.ctvnews.ca )
77% of Top Climate Scientists Think 2.5°C of Warming Is Coming—And They're Horrified ( www.commondreams.org )
"I expect a semi-dystopian future with substantial pain and suffering for the people of the Global South," one expert said.
FCC explicitly prohibits fast lanes, closing possible net neutrality loophole ( arstechnica.com )
Chemicals in car interiors may cause cancer — and they’re required by US law: ( thehill.com )
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Rubén Baler, neuroscientist: ‘We are guinea pigs. Our attention has become a profitable commodity’ ( english.elpais.com )
Dashcam footage clears man of felony charge after showing constable injuring himself ( youtu.be )
Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption ( www.theverge.com )
Google Kneecaps Loads Of Very Big Websites After SEO Change ( aftermath.site )
New adventuring party just dropped ( media.kbin.social )
Because of smartphones, pocket TVs were never a thing.
As a kid I imagined the future as being able to hold a TV in your pocket, and flying skateboards. For the latter I guess electric scooters will have to do
There’s always someone who takes things literally ( goblin.camp )
What is your favorite 100% non political "just nice music" music artist?
I'll start. System of a Down....
Ron DeSantis bans 'global elite' lab-grown meat ( www.bbc.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14977351...
[Serious] Any high-quality right-wing media, books, explainers?
I know Lemmy isn't normally the best place to search for this, but are there any high-quality right-wing explainers, or modern books, or media outlets?...
Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app ( arstechnica.com )
Rabbit R1 AI box is actually an Android app in a limited $200 box, running on AOSP without Google Play....
Man walks into bank with live barn owl as a deposit ( lemmy.world )
The guy holding the owl in the photo is the rescuer, not the "depositer!" He says he's running into too many people not reading the article and think he did it....
Windows 11 just isn't enticing Windows 10 users to upgrade, and its market share is actually falling ( www.pcgamer.com )
The Internet Archive's last-ditch effort to save itself ( lunduke.locals.com )
Doesn't the need for a permit fundamentally contradict the US's ideals of free speech?
I went to some palestine protests a while back, and was talking to my brother about the organizing, when revealed something I found pretty shocking, we (the protesters) had acquired a permit to hold the protest. Apparently this is standard policy across the US....
Would suction cups work in space?
You know like the kind that go on a window or bathroom mirror or on the wall or in the shower. They need the atmosphere pushing down on them to work, right?
Raw ( lemmy.sdf.org )