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1) have people drive less

2) ship fewer things overseas

3) have people eat less meat

I think the plan is well under way.

The mask mandates didn’t age so well.

It’s one thing to implore others based on the best understanding at the time.

It’s another to use authority to force then and be dead wrong about it.

I’m glad the mandates are retreating.

We’ve been vilifying oil companies with the moral high ground for 50 years.

Rather than calling them evil, it’s time to recognize how important and valuable fossil fuels are, and promote good stewardship (including promoting alternatives and reducing consumption).

I think the India and Russia have historically had good relations.

If Russia’s relationship with the free market world tanks they’re probably just going to nationalize the important companies.

Also if Russia fails as a state, what would happen to the outer provinces?

I’d take an alternate approach and suggest that tech’s cult of transferring tons of user data and draining battery life/bandwidth in the process should taper off.

Lower energy consumption would be better for battery capacity requirements, privacy and thinness.

Until Wall Street starts hiring people with research backgrounds, they probably shouldn’t be setting quarterly targets for technology venture companies.

Incremental progress often doesn’t reflect itself in financial statements in the short term.

I think you’re accurate about both.

The cost of housing combined with manufacturing outsourcing has basically crippled the American working/middle class since the early 2000s. Then add inflation.

When Ivy League business school grads are having to save until their 40s to buy homes, what does that imply for the rest of the country?

Did you know that there’s over $8 billion of funding for building out regional clean hydrogen hubs?

Also, the vast majority of hydrogen will likely come from fossil fuel production.

It looks like the reason this is being done is to localize fossil fuel consumption and prevent it from being burned near population centers.

Gender role != gender

Author explicitly states ‘third’, suggesting there’s male, female, and wakashu, which is not the case. It’s male and female, with wakashu as a subset of male.

I’m convinced the author is just trying to get attention and be provocative/make a political statement.

I found this read pretty disappointing, mainly because the author fails to define hedonism. Instead, he uses it as a crutch and catch all for pleasure and calls it bad.

A fair assumption is that he defines hedonism as heavy indulgence in sex,drugs, and rock n roll.

If this is the case, the article is basically a ‘don’t do drugs kids’ type of article, with a Viktor Frankl reference to add depth.

That said, as cliche as the article is, it is a nice reminder/PSA that doing hedonistic things isn’t always as fun as it seems, especially not for long.

Thank you!

So a bar/bat mitzvah is a title or a state of being, and not a party/ritual?

That’s not really a gender role being defined in the paper, it’s a role within the male gender. I’d call it a phase, which was formally denoted in society.

I would liken the title to males before their bar mitzvah being considered a third gender, a definition which very few people would ascribe.

I lived in Scandinavia and saw the social situation frequently and personally. Sweden’s refugee acceptance rate was much higher than Norway’s for example.

You have groups of people from different war zones bringing their own intra group conflicts to a new country, compounded with those groups interacting and having to deal with each other, with both coexistence and conflict.

Regarding why they’re segregated, I don’t know for sure. But I suspect it’s a combination of people wanting to fulfill their social ideals with minimal upset to their existing standard of living. I’m also pretty certain there is some political division, as refugees are likely to vote for one party over another.

The short, not so politically correct but accurate answer is unbridled mass immigration. Refugees from highly unstable regions have a tough time integrating into mainstream society for a host of reasons and many literally live on their fringes in effective segregation from the main cities. They generally have good social services but their prospects, while much better than their home regions, are dim, and they often don’t get along with people from other regions. Sweden in particular is pretty messy

> What does that even mean?

It’s provocative (s/o Blades of Glory/Jay Z and Kanye)

But in all seriousness, the audience of a forum is basically limited to the forum, because there are hurdles to sharing beyond most standard forums.

Most social media platforms however, encourage sharing and the networks are connected, so posts there have larger potential audiences and fewer barriers to go viral.

In one word, distribution.

Unlike forums, social media has an unlimited audience.

I think you’re right.

Most likely nuclear or get ready to jog to work and be excited about Christmas sweaters.

I’m optimistic but fewer fossil fuels is a lifestyle change

I talked to the guys at GHGSat and led an investment effort into them.

The sources of methane release are pretty varied, for example damming rivers can be a line source, as it increases the water level upstream from the dam, submerging trees/brush which partially break down into methane.

It’s a fascinating space really. Earth observation from satellites is going to reveal a lot of insight about the world.

I wonder what portion of the reading population recognizes that all roads for ‘clean firm’ power lead to nuclear.

Hydrogen production is largely a hydrocarbon byproduct (made from gas or biomass, which is burning organic matter).

Geothermal resources are not particularly plentiful, although there is certainly greater potential than our existing use.

After 15+ years of study, I’m convinced that nuclear is the only option for carbon emissions reduction at the scale that leadership hopes to achieve.

Google has committed to net zero emissions by 2030 I believe. Some one from Google can elaborate here.

I haven’t seen much from the others.

It’d take a ton of energy but I suppose it’s theoretically possible.

The article basically says that moon rock/dust are oxides which have oxygen to extract—we can easily figure out the Gibbs free energy required to break apart silicates (for example) into oxygen, but I can almost guarantee we won’t like the answer.

I estimate it will be on the order of thousands of square meters+ of solar panels to sustain a human, which doesn’t seem sustainable at all. That doesn’t include what to do with the leftover base materials or catalysts.

Bringing photosynthesizing plants into the ecosystem in such a way that they could survive it makes much more sense based on first principles.

Interestingly enough, Zhang was a close follower of the previous CCP leader. CCP leaders usually switch every 8 years between north and south, but the last time it was supposed to switch, it didn’t. I don’t know why.

It's like the consolation prize/participation ribbon of major operation.

Congrats, your kidney's been replaced and you'll have to be on immunosuppressants for the rest of your life, but at least you won't get dementia.

Update: Effective immediately, all whales are banned from Red Lobster's all you can eat buffet.

While it’s certainly not an exclusive parameter for success, I believe there’s something to this.

Phil Knight for example used to go for a 6 mile run every time he had a big decision to make, and anecdotally, I know a disproportionate number of endurance athletes who are also very successful in their careers.

Unfortunately it’s a politically sensitive topic, people will call it fat shaming, even though it’s really just good health and quality of life practice.

Funnily enough, I got an ad for Grubhub while browsing the site.

Weird relic companies like ElSevier and incentives exist to keep barriers up unfortunately.

That said I do love/agree with open sourcing much of the stored knowledge funded by govt.