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[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure Canadians would want the 6 million Californians who voted for Trump (more than 38% of the voters in the state); or the 3.5 million New Yorkers who voted for Trump (42.7%). Maybe leave the mostly rural areas of the Dem states for Trumpistan?

Also the included states have a larger population than Canada, so it would be Canada joining the Dem states - which I can't see any sane 1st-world country doing.

Letting the Trump states become a country, and the Dem states (sans rural areas) become a different country, seems like it would make both groups vastly happier; tho it would require allowing at least a few years for people to swap states.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Maybe if enough people stop tipping, workers will go work at places where they're paid enough so they don't need tips to survive? Horrific for the poor until tips-to-survive ends tho.

Voting against parties that make laws propping up an economic system that rewards psychopathy and punishes ethical behavior, would be better.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

1831 eruption matched by ash deposits to Zavaritskii volcano on the island of Simushir, part of the Kuril islands between Hokkaido, Japan and the Kamchatka peninsula, Russia.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

It's not about the burrito.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 55 points 7 months ago (3 children)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/08/16/biden-oil-drilling-production/ :

As he campaigned for president in 2020, Joe Biden made a bold promise at a New Hampshire town hall, adding repetition for emphasis: “No more drilling on federal lands. Period. Period. Period. Period.” […] The Biden administration has now outpaced the Trump administration in approving permits for drilling on public lands, and the United States is producing more oil than any country ever has.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 29 points 7 months ago (20 children)

Why is it called "drink driving" and not "drunk driving"?

"Drink driving" sounds like something a very drunk person would say.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If the options include popular Hitler, popular Stalin, and unpopular Gandhi; but only 1% of voters choose the non-genocidal option, maybe Carlin was right:

"Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, […] you’re going to get selfish, ignorant leaders." – George Carlin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBrbXOmnW70

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So with only 3 remastered books, would it be confusing for someone trying to learn Pathfinder for the 1st time that it has the Bestiaries instead of Monster Core 1, and the non-remastered Character Sheet Pack and modules?

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months ago

Having a child adds approximately 58.6 tonnes CO2e per year.

The maximum average CO2e per person per year to reach the Paris climate agreement goal of a 1.5 °C, is about 3-10 tonnes. We could do this with a 0.01 fertility rate for a few decades, until we're not catastrophically overpopulated anymore.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There is a difference between sustainable, non-sustainable, and catastrophically unsustainable; and it's an important difference. Having a locavore diet is very easy where I live, except for vitamin B12 supplements which are not locally sourced or made. I don't know what you mean by "survive the winter", it's not an issue where I live. I only use salt and turmeric when I prepare food - tho some processed food I buy contains other spices.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

860 miles by car

So about 0.272 tonnes of CO2e per year per https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/how-much-ton-carbon-dioxide ?

Of a total of about "2.1 tonnes per person annual emissions budget necessary by 2050 to meet the 2 °C climate target (Girod et al 2014)" per https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa7541#erlaa7541r22 (Girod 2014 seems to be paywalled).

  • 0 of 58.6 tonnes of CO2e/year because I'm childfree,
  • 0 of 2.4 tonnes since I'm carfree (never bought a car, I don't even have a driver's license),
  • 0 of 1.6 tonnes per flight (tho I did fly once in my life, more than a decade ago),
  • 1.47 for electricity because I don't buy ethical green energy,
  • ? because I'm vegan, so that reduces my footprint a lot, but I'm not sure what to deduct the 0.82 from,
  • ? because of cold washing laundry, but I don't know what to deduct the 0.25 from,
  • 0.272 tonnes for using a computer to access the internet,
  • ? for several other things tho at an order of magnitude lower than the big ticket items.

That total seems below the 2.1 tonnes of CO2e per year sustainable target per person by 2050.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Some things are sustainable, others are not - by orders of magnitude.

Growing a tree, and then cutting it down to boil water is sustainable.

Producing more oil than any country ever has, is absolutely not sustainable.

Accessing the internet using an open source OS on hardware other people threw away, is sustainable, even when following the categorical imperative where the other 8 billion people also do it.

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