It ain’t the emissions, it’s the land use. About 40% of the USA’s land is used for animal agriculture. Another 8% is for literally all the other crops. Stop eating meat, and we could return about a third of the land in the US to nature, or other uses. That’s a lot of carbon capture / solar power plants etc.
Alright, everyone post your opinions.
I think Base 12 is superior to Base 10 for human use.
We could get most of the way to stopping climate change by just not eating meat.
Also, I liked Mass Effect 3 more than 1 or 2.
Oh no! This dastardly Europeans wanted to come here and work! How dare they! Deport them!
This country was cooked a long time ago.
Thanks, I hate it.
Well shit, I’m dumb.
China limits social media because they repress free speech and political association. TikTok and other social media was a huge part of why there was such an outcry over the invasion of Ukraine and the genocide in Gaza. They doubly limit what kids can see because students are often hugely influential in political activism - especially in China, where students were an integral part of both the revolution(s) and Tiananmen Square. China’s gov is pants-shittingly terrified of another student-led revolution/crisis/etc and keep a very close watch on what the kids are saying and seeing.
Stupid. Kids are more informed and hooked into current events than ever before, specifically because of phones and the Internet. Hell, half of most peoples’ jobs are looking up reference material online. You want kids to succeed, hand them a big list of the best places to look for the answers and let them use their phones on the test.
‘Conservative rapper’
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Not wrong. But I will point out that this will funnel a lot more money to China, which has been investing much more heavily in greentech than the US has. So overall it could actually be a plus - for climate change at least.
I mean, that is one glaring point of fridge logic. If you’ve seen how many people can cram onto a bus in developing countries, Immortan Joe’s guys should have been like 15 to a car. Also, if gas is precious, why not use a train? They’re substantially more efficient.
Yah. The fact that we’re turning edible food into worse gas, and thereby driving up food prices worldwide for no reason, is nothing short of inhumane. It’s not even a reduction in greenhouse gas; it requires so much processing that it’s about the same as just pumping crude out of the ground.
Hmmm, interesting. Looks like there’s some fuel stabilizers that can preserve it for a few years (most of what I can find are for 1-3 years). I’m guessing the 5-year blend has a shorter shelf life once opened? The really interesting part seems to be that some of these stabilizers can be added to old gasoline to make it usable again. So as long as an organization had an utterly gigantic supply of stabilizer, they could potentially keep using gas for quite a while.
These stabilizers are definitely not in regular gasoline, though, so everyone except the extremely paranoid would be SOL.
Wouldn’t even be a year. Gasoline has a shelf life of six months. Three months if it’s an ethanol blend.
After that, you’re down to homemade diesel, electric vehicles, and bicycles.
Whole lotta minerals that will get a lot easier to exploite as the planet warms.
Martial law generally has legal mechanisms in place to provide some limitations to duration etc.
In other words, it would be an improvement over what is currently happening.
…where do you live that people DON’T have a dishwasher? Everyone house I’ve ever seen in MN has one.
Just pointing out that your ‘handling your own response’ sure seems to include getting a lot of money from the feds.
I’ll be honest, Russia invading Israel would be a real, “Let them fight” moment.
So you actually count by segments of the finger, using your thumb as a tapper. Crook your index finger and look at it - three segments, right? (At least for most people) The segment nearest your hand is 1, middle is 2, end is 3. Middle finger is 4, 5, 6, etc. So you can count up to 12 on four fingers.
Then you use your non-dominant hand to mark dozens. Count to 12 on your main hand, raise on finger on your second hand, repeat. So you can actually count to 60 just on your hands.