Well yeah, they wouldn't want to be a stupid science bitch.
RagingNerdoholic
joined 2 years ago
Currently using Jeroba. Nicer experience overall than using lemmy in a mobile web browser, but still a bit rough around the edges, and I hope they fix the leggy scrolling.
"The API isn't going anywhere, we're just deliberately pricing it out of reach! See? It's different!"
- spez, probably
The thing I can't quite figure out is what they are able to do on their server connection. It seems like they are able to setup their own proxy and impact other traffic on the same network when they should be far more sandboxed, but I can't prove that.
I noticed a while ago that my Asus WRT with a custom hosts file wasn't blocking ads anymore, too. I'm betting your assessment is correct. Shit sucks. Fuck ads.
Ethanol agriculture is really inefficient land use. There isn't enough land on the planet to grow enough crops to supply ethanol for the entire world to use. And spoiler alert: ethanol actually emits more CO2 than fossil fuels when you include production, refinement, and blending. Okay, if everything was running on ethanol, sure, we'd cut CO2 emissions by roughly half, but then we're back to that pesky land issue.
As for EV's, batteries take enormous amounts of energy from the mining and manufacturing. At best, comparing lifetime emissions (resource mining, manufacturing, use, and scrapping), it's basically a wash with a typical ICE vehicle. Add to that the fact that they're about 30% heavier than their ICE equivalents (because batteries are so damn heavy), it means they'll wear down roads faster (causing more emissions to extract resources, construct and maintain roads) and wear tires faster. Oh, and fun fact: tires are actually the biggest polluter in any road vehicle.
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There really are no viable, slipstream alternatives. The only entities with the resources to spin up a massive, centralized social link aggregator and community-based discussion system would be a handful of companies in big tech (Facebook, Twitter, Alphabet/Google, etc.), and none of them have platforms that are appropriately analogous to reddit. Even if they did, three weeks to migrate and onboard millions of users is a tall order.
Lemmy is the closest thing I've found so far in terms of a similar experience and UX, and while it's still pretty rough around the edges (mainly in terms of UX and infrastructure redundancy), the decentralized nature enables it to scale horizontally without requiring resource expansion for a single player. It definitely needs some work to optimize instance implementation and capacity-based promotion, but I believe it has a lot of potential.
You're in for a disappointment
Producers could comply with the new rules in different ways. They could put more ethanol in their gasoline, use more biodiesel or find innovative ways of reducing their refineries' emissions through, for example, carbon capture and storage.
lol
Ethanol is equally as inefficient as fossil fuels. You spend more fossil fuel producing it than you save burning it. Carbon capture is hopium. And 15% in 14 years might as well be pissing in the ocean to raise the sea level.
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Ah, so false advertising. Basically fraud. Cool stuff.
Are they? Because they want to sell you planned obsolescence dogshit, not quality products that last a lifetime.
"Because fuck you, that's why" doesn't seem very complicated to me.
It's Android, yes. I think there's an iOS one called Mlem.