I find it contradictory to first praise the imprecision of language but then go on to identify terms who’s imprecise use results in unproductive discussion and arguments. The author’s biases were on display and their definitions were fairly imprecise to boot imo.

I really don’t understand why you’re nitpicking someone who is trying to drastically reduce their impact. What would you recommend they do?

Okay, anyway, maybe someday they’ll increase the gas tax.

Civ6 has districts. Instead of having all of a city’s buildings existing in the city center tile, the city builds specialty districts that occupy a hex near the city. For example, a science district placed near some mountains will house the city’s library, university, and research lab.

I think the districts are a fun addition because it exposes a civ’s infrastructure to attack. You can pilliage an opponent’s districts to temporarily cripple them and you get some decent loot in the form of gold, science, culture, or faith.

That lifted diesel super duty getting 12mpg will get the state $0.47 in tax per gallon of diesel. If I did the math correctly that’s $391.67 per 10,000 miles. That’s about a years worth of driving for most people.

If anything, such an event would create more demand for government actions that mitigate climate change.

About 6 montha ago I wanted to replace my S21 battery and checked with Samsung, who redirected me to iFixit. The only genuine Samsung S21 battery they had was only sold with the screen, which cost ~$130 or something. I didn’t need the screen…

Last month I checked again and saw they had a third party replacement battery for ~$30, same capacity. I bought it and popped it in. It’s been working fine.

Was it Samsung’s requirement that the battery only be sold with the screen? At the time, I would have rather had the genuine Samsung battery and would have paid a bit extra for it, but not $100 extra.

Why are you doing this?

No? Water can’t carry anything across the membrane.

We don’t know what molecular mechanism creates the pressure.

No one really knows how osmosis works.

Evolution and natural selection never stops, we’ve only changed what the selective pressures are.

They show how particularly northern Europe from Britain to Scandinavia would suffer devastating impacts, such as a cooling of winter temperatures by between 10 °C and 30 °C occurring within a century, leading to a completely different climate within a decade or two, in line with paleoclimatic evidence about abrupt ocean circulation changes. In addition they show major shifts in tropical rainfall belts. These (and many more) impacts of an AMOC collapse have been known for a long time but thus far have not been shown in a climate model of such high quality.

Anybody know any further details about what to expect if it collapses?

They definitely act like it

This lack of action, is this a human characteristic, a capitalist characteristic, or a Western characteristic? I ask because through most of recent history and especially today, it feels like the general population of each country has little to zero real control over what happens within their borders, be it at the local or national level. Would we still end up where we are today if a different socioeconomic system(s) dominated the world? I have this nagging feeling we wouldn’t be in this mess if people had real control over their government’s actions.

Like, if you could give anyone an objective viewpoint and ask them, hey, if we keep doing this there’s a high chance we’ll damage our children’s or grandchildren’s ability to produce and procure food and the weather will get really fucky in a bad way, they’re going to say we need to change where we get energy asap. I don’t believe they’ll say anything else unless they think “we need to beat this other nation for reasons that don’t benefit me,” or “I need to keep doing what I’m doing because that’s how I make money and there’s no easy alternative.”

It just feels like regular people haven’t been in control since forever, we’re not in control today, and we have no real legal means of seizing control. We either simply don’t have control, or we technically do, but are manipulated so thoroughly by those with the means that we have no real control.

I can think of bottle stoppers and shoe soles, where else can cork be used instead of plastic?

Thanks!

Is the modeling the problem? I thought we just had one particularly hot year but we still haven’t passed 1.5°C when the average is considered.

Why have a target at all instead of just saying we gotta do this asap? Is there a psychological reason? I feel like having a target and missing it may be worse than not having a target. I’m probably wrong, someone correct me please

Sir this is a Wendy’s