good. the sooner they go, the better

so i was just walking to the nearest supermarket when the supermarket radio (they usually play music) calmly announced “for the next week, we expect a warm 35°C” … wtf

you are an economist. eliminating zoning laws and HOAs would make construction of houses cheaper, saving lots of people lots of money, but the construction companies would be less profitable. do you argue in favor of unnecessarily complex building codes sothat the company stays profitable at the expense of the population?

literally cooking there

but it’s true. what do we care about other people’s decisions as long as they don’t affect us

you posted this article twice. delete this one and keep the other one.

eh, money is supposed to represent resources, and saying that money = hours, is to say that there is no other resource besides human labor. there is land usage, plant growth, mineralic reservoirs, etc.

ah shit i have the perfect meme for this but i can’t find it.

it’s a boot (microsoft, apple, etc.) and the snake exclaims “at least it isn’t the goberment”

how do you know that the books aren’t mind-washing by the CIA?

you can stop in many models by letting the hot air out (partially)

yeah but what if it isn’t called “hours”?

yeah it was outright visible that the documentary was especially well-done because a potential IPO

is already included, heating as energy (electricity and whatever fuel or gas you use to drive and heat) and internet access as IT (maybe should have called it IT and telecommunication services)

thanks for the nuanced response, i will take it to heart.

i’ll include:

• water, food and healthcare
• housing
• transport
• energy
• and IT and education

all at the communal level, responsible to the citizens

The amount of systemic change that needs to happen in the political and economic landscape realistically cannot happen in under four years from start to finish. It will require long-term investments in infrastructure projects that take years to build, which means at some point voters are gonna have to be patient and stop flipping sides whenever conditions don’t materially improve overnight.

In other words, we’re fucked…

yeah the US really needs to learn (possibly the hard way) that there needs to be a political plan for the industry. in the 20th century apparently it could do fine without that, but that just doesn’t work anymore. you can’t have efficient industry without a long-term plan.

yeah, IIRC, in 2000, renewable oil from rape seed was still cheaper than fossil oil. however renewable oil was banned politically sothat there’s no food vs fuel debate tearing society apart. the question really is more complicated than simply the cost.

that being said, solar panels can be put anywhere, including near big cities, and transporting electricity over distances has also gotten easier in the last 200 years, so that’s not an argument for coal anymore.

ehh, the actual technology where liquid oil / fuels are required are like 3% of all total energy consumption. the rest 97% can be electrified, and actually, using electricity is in many cases even simpler than using coal. for example in steel production. it’s easier to do with electricity than coal because coal contains sulfur and that introduces impurities into your chemical process. meanwhile electrolysis is simple and clean.

Tons of people have kids, tons of people want kids. The idea of ‘you’re a child’ being the worst insult is baffling, honestly.

yeah tbf i’ve never set foot in the US; i get this notion from social media, movies, books, etc.

wait let me record a 10 second sequence of a movie.

https://files.catbox.moe/3ouv81.mp4

(the video should have audio, in case it doesn’t play, a download should do it)

anyways the woman says “have you ever considered that you’re wrong? hah, of course not! you’re a child.” upon which the other person freaks out. which i have seen sooo many times in pieces of media (especially from the US)

anyways, meanwhile, children can actually be really reflective and understand a lot, also when they’ve made mistakes or hurt someone. so saying that somebody is a “child” when they can’t reflect on themselves, in my opinion, is inaccurate.