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Of course it won't fix climate change in one go, but doing so would remove a major fossil fuel dependency for your average Joe and make them much more likely to vote against fossil fuels.

Put another way, how many people driving gas cars would vote in favor of heavy taxes on fossil fuel use?

Now, how many would vote that way if they personally didn't have any dependencies on fossil fuels?

Also, highway vehicles account for 1.5 billion tons of GHGs being emitted each year, that's 11% of the global yearly GHG emissions, so yeah, it definetely would "move the needle". In the US specifically it's as much as 20% of our nations emissions.

And yeah I already know the next argument "bUt YoUr JuSt UsInG fOsSiL fUeLs To ChArGe It" - except you're not necessarily, in my area (part of CA), you can choose to have 100% of your electricity provided by renewable sources for a small monthly premium ($18/month). Additionally in CA, all new homes are being built with solar power, which further increases your ability to charge without fossil fuels.

And in the areas that isn't true, it's at least getting groundwork laid down to make it true. An electric car can be powered by renewable energy, a fossil fuel car must be powered by fossil fuels.

There are a lot of steps to solving climate change beyond "buy an electric car", and you're right that industrial and commercial pollution accounts for the majority, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be pushing on all fronts.

We've already waited way too long to act, we can't afford as a species to say "well, I'm not going to change my car until the industrial polluters get their shit together", we have to push in Every possible direction, all at the same time to make progress, and electric cars overtaking fossil fuel cars is a big part of that.

There's a lot of work to be done globally until electric cars are 100% green, both in terms of power infrastructure and the processes to create them, but there's no way forward with gas cars, so we need to start moving over as a society now, phasing out the production of gas cars with electric

Practically everyone who uses the internet recognizes her work - As a legacy, that's pretty fucking good if you ask me

Given how half-assed the new mobs always feel, I really think they don't do much more than modeling work until the vote is done, then just rush the rest of the work in

Kind of like Nvidia GeForce Now - except that you get a full windows PC environment to play in, so theoretically you can play any game that runs on Windows.

I used it for a while, it's pretty good, but the cost has risen a lot faster than the Hardware quality lately and now in order to have a "top spec" gaming pc it's like $50/month.

Not a bad deal if you don't game much, but want to check out a specific game for a month or two - or if you travel a lot but want the power of a full desktop. But if you just want a gaming PC, you're probably better off building your own

I use audibookbay to download, and AudiobookShelf to listen. It's an awesome combination for DRM free audiobooks

Remember kids, if you're not solving climate change entirely in one single step, there's no point in trying.

Seriously, what a brain dead argument lol

100%

• alphabetical order = chronological order
• unambiguous regardless of locale
• easy to read/parse by either machine or human

I could swear I remember a similar story at some big tech company where a guy was hired on at like 5x the intended salary due to a fat finger on the input field, and it took them years to realize

• ability to make decisions based on arbitrary gut feelings, then blame everyone under you when things go wrong
• ability to take 1 sentence of meaningful info and turn it into a full press release filled with nonsense and buzz words
• general inability to actually produce anything with consistent quality without requiring high levels of supervision
• costs hundreds of millions of dollars per year

As far as I can tell, the only one of those that chatGPT doesn't already do is the last point, and I guess you could just light the money on fire (or if you wanna get really crazy, use it to increase worker pay)

They definetely have the resources to monitor for that and report it - whether or not YouTube acts on the reports is always an open question though

I don't disagree, but I doubt either side would agree. Certainly the Israels wouldn't. They've got the most international support, the superior military, and (most importantly) this war let's them do what they've wanted to do for almost a century now, wipe them out and claim all their land for themselves. They've got everything to gain and really not all that much to lose except their humanity - and countries rarely optimize their wartime strategies for that.

Do adults need to intervene to quell the infants?

I just want to point out that bigger stronger countries stepping in to "soothe the conflict" between two smaller countries has worked basically 0 times throughout all of history in the long run.