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It's weird... I'm a real lazy person. I do the dishes immediately because of this reason, it's faster and easier. I absolutely hate doing crusty dishes. So, I'm just confused in general why people wait. Its straight up less effort to do it sooner than later.

Looks like we found the Canadian!

All jokes aside, yea... I mean... that's normally beaten into you as a child even if you grew up white trash. I would know.

Suddenly I feel very lonely for the fact I do actually clean the kitchen during and right after cooking...

There's also no such thing as an ethical person. Somewhere on the economic scale, in any country, a person's happiness is derived from another's suffering. Africa's cocoa farming. Sugar cane farming and production. Foxconn treatment of workers on cellphones and other goods. Clothing and shoe worker treatment in China and Vietnam. Slave labor use in cobalt mining.

But yea. I mean, let's gang up on cow farmers instead.

You beat me to this.

There's a lot here that doesn't make sense. Supposed 5mil entrepreneurs used it. I assume that's paying customers because why count looky-loos that don't buy a logo as a customer? $20 is the cheapest logo plan. That's $100mil. They're having trouble because? Plus I mean, their "AI" technology is supposed to eliminate the need of employees anyways... so... what's the problem?

Unless... gasp... they're full of shit and it's not AI, just a randomly generated template system with a large library of symbols that are keyworded extensively since the entire process requires you to actually pick within narrow parameters?

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills sometimes.

Yea grid roads are unique to only utah... seriously?

Continously flow intersections and diverging continuous intersections. You end up driving on the left hand side and drive all wonky. Its terrifying to encounter the first time and makes no logical sense. They brought it to colorado springs and it's so amazingly pointless.

I'm going to push away the dubiousness due to the LDS issue and I'm going to assume that the SLT is a good newspaper in the following comment. To be forthright in my bias, my general views on Utah are not that great though... stemming from their stupid fucking criss-crossing streets and over usage of concrete barriers in the middle of the road all the fucking time.

Cough, excuse me.

I'm really curious about the repercussions of this. If this works out decently for them, I'm pretty sure other news outlets of all shapes and sizes will follow in the next few years. Maybe this is good. There's a potential here to revitalize the news system in general. They won't be so dependent on pandering to a select few corporations and bullshit advertising methods. Maybe this will bring some more unbiased... wait, no probably not. Not being funny, that just made me realize the folly. If donations are going to be a big play, the only way to really get good donations is to appease a certain viewpoint. I don't know... maybe there's a way to mitigate that? It does say no more political endorsements... eh... I doubt that'll happen. I was hoping to have a good, happy train of thought on this one. Then I remembered that all humans are assholes.

Fucking hate driving in Godless wasteland of a state.

Really, nothing special in the whole thing or to write about. First off, to be clear, I'm no saint. I figured I'd align both making money and doing my part to lower CO2. I told my business partner to be on the look out for a cement/concrete manufacturing opportunity, year later we found one (who you know situation). I'm learning the industry first hand and researching how to lower emissions (really no good solutions out there for very good reasons). I never went to school to begin with. I don't feel like sucking up to academics for permission to do anything in my life. It's another business, so there's no real transition for me. Except I get to be outside more often and get dirty. I grew up poor and did a lot manual labor as a kid. So, it's nice not being glued to a computer or chair anymore. Way easier to stay in shape now.

I'm not saying it's right.

I'm saying it's effective.

If you say the right thing but people still do the wrong thing... who cares?

If you say the wrong thing, but people do the right thing, is that bad?

I know stereotypes are fun. Us yankee-pollocks are consistently drunk and shooting off guns, all the time.

Also... humans... if there's a will, there's a way. Just because today is not true, does not mean tomorrow is not. That's been human history. If the food starts to not come in from other countries, I highly doubt Canadians, in all their kindness, won't result to scorching the earth and planting potatoes. Hopefully they don't use them to make vodka. But that's still plenty of land in the west that if the population goes hungry, they're going to figure it out... let's see, in America we have invading to spread freedom... oh! Canadians! "Looks like you all need some kindness!"

That and when it comes to Russia, you anglo-saxon-frenchie descendants have an extremely bad habit of underestimating that bear. If the Russians have the ability to adequately utilize that hell hole called Siberia, they will. Right now, there's nothing to be gained from a 2 month growing season. If temps rise enough to about a 4-6 month season. They will force farmers out there. As working farmers or as ground up fertilizer. Because they've done it in the past.

No.

Montreal Protocol of 1987 forced a ban on the production and use of ozone depleting chemicals without alternatives. This was a way bigger problem than just refrigerants and aerosols. Asthma inhalers contain ozone depleting chemicals, but those are allowed due to no good alternatives (at the time). Those same companies "found" the alternatives and made them work because of it. By found, a multi-national decade long study through the UN found them before the protocol was signed. Those companies continuously fought the need to ban the old chemicals well into the 90s. No one cared or listened because of the environmental repercussions. Consumers didn't suffer from this in the least bit.

The idea it was some anti-consumer endeavor is just as silly as going green is anti-consumer because the consumer has to then pay more for oil down the road.

"The house is burning! The house is burning!" A child laughs.

Parents take the child out of the house quickly in fear. After a moment a plane crashes into the house, obliterating it.

While yes, the child was full of shit. It still led to something marginally good. Maybe the parents should have left him in the house because he's a little shit. That might make the situation better. But that's an ethics question I don't feel like exploring.

Peak oil might have been a false flag scare, true. I'm not going to argue with you on that. Fuck it, I'm going to agree with you. It was a total bullshit scare! But it was a scare that led to a big push in getting away from fossil fuels. So still, it was a good thing. Ends justify the means.

As a capitalist, I want to own all the lithium mining rights in the world. I dictate the price and flow when I seem fit. Like De Beers in blood diamonds... cough, sorry, "ethically sourced diamonds".

As a consumer, I want many, many capitalists owning different lithium mining rights in the world. They fight each other to lower the price and be competitive. Then find cheaper and cheaper ways to obtain lithium or even figure out better alternatives.

I am a capitalist. But I'm also not a total fucking monster. Oil companies don't play massive competitive games. They like working together. So no. I don't want them to have a hand in the future.

By the way, research lithium mining. A lot of big media have reported on it. It's fucked up and pretty much a modern day humanitarian/slave crisis.

Like... do inflamed Canadians hold the door open for you but not tell you to have a good day...ah?

Jokes aside, Canada actually stands to profit well from global warming. With thousands of years of resting, fertile top soil, lands not suitable for agriculture due to short growing seasons... well, you'll have better growing seasons. Plus still be cool enough to not be a scorching wasteland. Just being realistic. Many countries used for agriculture will dwindle in the average increase of temperature. Canada will actually increase. Same with Russia, most of Siberia is fantastic top soil, just really, really shitting growing seasons... well, lack there of.

I can't remember where I saw the numbers and I'm pretty sure I'm off a bit. But I think only half of all crude oil gets distilled into "fuel". The rest ends up as plastics and other chemicals, as you mention. I just remember it's a very significant of non-fuel oil use is out there. A quick google search, I can't find the chart I saw. Maybe someone can chime in better on that?

Edit: Listen to Retric's comment below, not me on my stats

You want my honest answer? No fucking clue. I'm focused on cement. I've given up on tech, IT and programming and went into the cement industry to work towards a smaller CO2 footprint in cement production. It's the second largest CO2 producer on the planet behind fossil fuels. I found making apps and backend software to be a waste of time in my own desires. There's a shit ton of science in cement and infrastructure to keep me interested.

Maybe I did give a partial answer? And I'll paraphrase Neil deGrasse Tyson on this one, "You can't save the world with an app." Get INTO the industry you want to fix and fucking fix it. Enough people do it, someone is bound to figure it out.

Look, I'm just about a complete package when it comes to being an asshole. My history on HN is more than enough to prove that.

But, I don't' think humans are that useless to where they're going to fail in fixing this. This can be reversed and we're in the beginning stages. The hole in the ozone layer was deemed doomed and without repair. NASA has it in track on being fully recovered in around 2060 since we stopped using shit aerosols in the 90s.

I think Musk is a complete and utter cunt, but I also recognize the good he's done for electronic cars. Now, all the big players are releasing real electric cars. Hell, VW is doing so to fix their PR image after the diesel scandal. This is good. Still will take time, but you can't have a critical mass breaking point without a slow beginning. A point will be reached (when, I'm not smart enough to answer) and fossil fuel cars will look like a home phone compared to cell phones. If you're old enough, you'll remember that cell phones were "secondary" phones. Then, in a flash, people realized "Oh, we all stopped paying for landlines". And few people have landlines anymore.

The moment Dodge/Ford/GM come out with an EV that has the same feel and balls as a muscle car, that's my personal breaking point. Right now it's all focused on the luxury, feather, Italian aesthetics feel. Fuck that dumbass nonsense. Give me a mean and angry electric vehicle. Or an ultra long range EV Jeep. That'd be cool.

To be fair, I think the "peak oil scare" was good. That's when we all started to focus and take renewables seriously. I find it funny that OPEC never learned from its mistake from the 70s when there was the oil shortage and fuel efficiency became a thing. To be aware, fuel efficiency before then was never worth mentioning in a car sale. Yes, it never became too big because the shortage ended, but it at least got started.

Without the peak oil scare, we wouldn't be "this" far, I think. Humans need a burning fire under their ass to actually do something.

Promise you this though. Don't think big oil will be down and out. They're going to collect all the cold hard cash they can this next few years. Then, they're going to strangle the commodities needed for renewables. They'll start buying rare earth mining rights, processing plants, manufacturing companies and all. Making sure they make the biggest dollar from the beginning of the energy food chain to the consumer's doorstep. If they can't make money from oil, both God and I as their witness, they'll make their money from lithium and battery manufacturing. To think they're a bunch of mustache twirling dummies is the biggest folly people have.

I have a hard time taking this article too seriously.

>not coming from the usual producers, but from Brazil, Canada, Norway and Guyana — countries that are either not known for oil or whose production has been lackluster in recent years.

Canada ranks 5 in oil exports, Norway 13, Brazil 21. Sure, Guyana belongs in that sentence. But... uh, okay? Rank 5 is "not usual"?

Next part, wtf do you expect? Oil companies are going to bull rush to increase their cash supply in the coming years due to gas car bans coming in the next decades along with the push for renewable energy. Did people actually think these multi billion dollar companies are going to just say, "Oh well, we had a good run. We should take ourselves out to pasture now"?

>Years of moderate gasoline prices have already increased the popularity of bigger cars and sports utility vehicles in the United States

I'm pretty sure that "demand" is a drop in the bucket to the past decade of Chinese demand that's been increasing.

Fun point I really, really like: "The added production in Norway comes despite the country’s embrace of the 2016 Paris climate agreement, which committed nations to cut greenhouse-gas emissions."

Hmmm, so Norway taxes the shit out of oil(which they should, don't pretend I'm for oil). What does that mean? Oh, let's see, 2018 oil tax rev was NOK 155 billion (17b USD), 2019 is estimated NOK 176 billion (19b USD). I have a truly difficult time believing that the government will go, "No, we don't want that money! Away with thee!" Especially in a country of 5.3million. That splits to services among their citizens pretty well. Enough that if oil disappeared, there are public services that are going to get cut back pretty badly.

Uh huh. At a 1.2 trillion NOK operating budget (131b USD), it'll hurt to lose, what is that... oil taxes makes 12% of the gov's income? I'm trying to figure out when the memo came out where we all started to believe political rhetoric.

Don't think for a second I'm "for oil". But I'm a realist. A lot more needs to happen to end oil's stranglehold. Not drum circles, UN circle jerks climate summits with teenagers crying nor bullshit "plant trees" PR stunts(past tree planting stunts have real piss poor success rates of the trees surviving after a year. Single digit percentages. And no one tries to learn from the past ones.)

Looks like an aluminum welder on a robotic arm.

Not discounting it, because I think the simplicity of doing it that way is brilliant for plenty of parts. Plus, I bet there was plenty of trial and error to get the timing and gas settings right for something like this. Got to give them credit there. Aluminum welding is a bitch (I suck at it). So, I'm not trying to rain on their parade... but a quick google search is showing they're not alone. To be fair, I think they might be doing it better though... especially when it comes to scale. A few minutes in, I don't see anything near to their scale, which is cool.

Right?

Didn't Twitter and other social media platforms lay claim to "helping" voice and organize the people to protest and revolt during the Arab Spring? I remember them being pretty proud of that.

Progress before people.

While the Industrial Revolution is the accepted era as the real beginning of progress before people, I feel the new age of technology will make the Industrial Revolution look like an humanitarian endeavor without a PR team, in comparison. In 2 or 3 decades, we'll look back and at the Industrial Revolution as good old times, even with all its utter failures.

I'm sad to see that people don't see beyond modern PR. Even with the recent Silicon Valley scandals and failures... people say they don't believe in religion... but they traded one religion for another. They all pray and tithe to the silicon valley titans and think that's okay.

Years ago, I'd think "Yay! Go science!"

Nowadays... don't worry, antivaxxers are going to bring it back.

carbon 12 and carbon 13 in CO2

If I can find the paper I'll link it later. I stumbled across it by accident while researching something else. But I read about it a week or so before this video came out briefly mentioning it: https://youtu.be/myxVsYI4WZk?t=531

This is not the article I read, but doing a quick "carbon 13 plant absorbing" search pulled this up as a top place: http://www.plantphysiol.org/content/plantphysiol/36/2/133.fu... Under controlled conditions, plants favor c12 to c13. But it's an old study(61) and there's been more recent work. Plus on different photosynthesis types. This paper doesn't seem to go through the different types. But yea, should give you a start.

I swear I'm looking for a paper done by Michigan State. But I can't find it. I'll update if I find it.

A. Seems like this is just a really weak discussion rip from the http://terraton.org/ competition that put up money for practical ideas for accomplishing what they're talking about. This article is just hand-waving BS that doesn't even discuss practical approaches being studied today that benefits both farm and environment.

B. India and Ethiopia already did the "plant a record breaking hundreds of millions of trees...yada yada". Here's the problem with that. Said trees are planted as really small saplings. Because that's cheap. If Kenya does this, they need to keep up with watering and barricading against critters that actively feast on saplings. A small percentage (independent estimates are single digits) of the trees through the PR stunts actually survived after a year. Since a lot are planted in drier, non-agriculturally viable areas not conducive to thriving plant/tree growth on their own. That's assuming the numbers were legit to begin with as there's a lot of controversy to that as well.

B2. Did some math. "Kenya, for example plans to plant 2 billion trees on 500,000 hectares(1,235,526 acres)". That's about 1,600 trees per acre. An overcrowded forest, with short trees, high fire risk and high beetle/pest infestation spread is 500 trees per acre. Forests are thinned down from that number to mitigate pest and fire by forestry programs. Plus, less than 250 trees per acre produce far taller trees (more carbon sucking) due to less resource competition.

C. They really provide nothing but finger pointing and "shame on you" in this article.

D. New research is already showing that trees don't capture anywhere near as much of the world's carbon as we thought. Last I saw was about 25%. I think pound for pound algae does a far better job than planting trees. Along with time scale. It takes your average oak/pine/maple about 10 years to actually start pulling the 40 pound a year carbon amount which is the rough rule of thumb needed.

D2. Oh and I just started learning about this the past few weeks. The CO2 we generate from fossil are not the same we breathe out. Trees don't absorb fossil fuel CO2 as well as what we breathe out. Evolutionary speaking, that makes sense to me since that's what a majority of plants are originally use to, animals breathing out.

E. All that being said, I've already read a few of the scientists they talk about in the article in the past. They're smart cats and this article bastardizes the absolute fuck out of their research. Skipping a lot of the interesting work they actually do. But hey, it's Time magazine. Can't expect much from them.

Reversing our shitting on the planet is important to me. Giving attention to stupid ideas that won't work or pointless discussion points doesn't help. This useless finger pointing politics and idealism in fighting climate change needs to end and more attention needs to be given to practical solution finding instead.

I'm curious what happens then if you ever have to plan a funeral. Which, yea I'm being morbid... but it would be pretty messed up to continue getting funeral related ads over time.

Already checked that a while ago when I complained to a friend who asked the same. I still get plenty of ads for stuff like CNC machines, mechanic classes and other stuff. I'm okay with some random stuff that feels like the marketer was going out on a limb. But some are just... selling paintings to Stevie Wonder.

Oh there was a LegalEagle episode on Kim Kardashian studying to pass the bar. He goes over the history and process of taking the bar without going to law school. But the title of the video has her name.

Reality TV recommendations... Jersey shore... celebrity gossip...everywhere...it took 2 weeks to disappear. Strep throat is cured in less time than contracting celeb gossip videos.

I somewhat do agree with the ad engine... but it's a crappy one.

I'm a guy in my 30s. Nothing in my view history ever says, "Hey, this guy is progressive enough to wear makeup." At that, I watch english, polish, and french videos. Ads I get, Spanish. I dont know spanish. I'd accept general language learning ads. But tostitos and I think one was health or house insurance... in spanish. It's like the ad bot is some redneck that thinks there are two languages, American and not-American.

The recommendation bot and ad bot are just terrible. The moment theres a half way decent competitor to youtube, my ass is jumping ship.