The thing that really gets my goat is that there was no way the MTG bill/amendment defunding the Iron Dome was gonna pass. If AOC was truly cynical she would have voted for it, instead her politics explicitly lead her to vote against it.
If Dr Pepper introduced a mascot and she was a woman in a labcoat with a stethoscope that would cause a not-insignificant portion of the population's heads to explode. I fully support this.
I had that accessory and I definitely wasn't rich. I remember not using it much because it made the Gameboy really unwieldy, I can't imagine young me trying to cope with a Switch or a Steam Deck.
I've started making map pins in google for all the bathrooms around where I drive for uber/lyft, mostly door codes so I don't have to keep asking the employees every time but some of the notes are like "always open 10/10" and "the lock doesn't work just jiggle it" and I feel like I'm collating forbidden knowledge
Dishes
I pretty much don't do dishes until I need something currently dirty and in the sink. If I had a dishwasher I could rinse and stack them right away but I gotta hand wash everything which is ugh.
This guy is right but for completely the wrong reasons. This article is an anti-green energy hit piece.
The West is de-industrialising itself in the quest for Net Zero.
government-forced energy transition race to net zero.
Germany, where a rapid deindustrialisation in the pursuit of net zero has been underway for several years now
What fucking planet is this man living on where Western governments are taking climate change so seriously that they're sabotaging their economies over it?
No buddy, I don't think the drive to net zero is responsible for any of these closures, even if the company in question happened to be talking about some greenwashing initiative when the closure occurred.
So, where will the steel-making capacity be made up? Why, in China, of course. The furnaces there won’t be fired by clean, green electricity or hydrogen, but by coal. Because, well, coal is the most energy-efficient, cheapest way to fire the blast furnaces needed to make the steel. Physics still matters.
The implication here is that China doesn't care about green energy and that that gives them an advantage. This despite the fact that China has been investing more into a green energy transition than every other country combined - yes they still use coal, but it's part of a centrally planned, carefully carried out transition that they have been executing for over a decade now, a plan that has been so successful that in that time they went from having some of the worst air quality in the world to some of the best, and that now sees them making the overwhelming majority of all green-energy related tech from panels to windmills to batteries.
Another recent headline out of the UK reads, “United Kingdom closes its last coal-fired power plant.” That September 30 header came from CBS News, and again is descriptive of the story itself: The last coal power plant in the UK was shuttered at the end of September, bringing an end to an era as the UK government strives to meet its carbon reduction goals.
Or it could be that large scale solar and wind generation have gotten cheaper per MWh than coal. Hell, they're currently cheaper in Europe than coal was ten years ago. While the changes are rolling out too late/slowly to stop the worst of what climate change will bring, we have objectively reached the point where the green energy transition (at least for grid power) is inevitable due to market forces.
The magic sauce here isn't disregarding the atmosphere as the writer wants it to be, it's centralized, thorough and long term planning in a society where Capital is under the thumb of the dictatorship of the proletariat. This man imagines that if only the Western governments would deny climate change more and become even more destructive towards their environments, that they would become competitive with a socialist economic system - but he doesn't see the simple and obvious truth that that would only further accelerate our self-destruction.
"...and when you take into account the scalpers, that's gonna be $2500 for the switch 2, and $500 for mario kart."
-Dunkassandra
I can't believe that they jacked up the Switch 2's price by $150. Somewhere between 300 and 450 is my limit for a console I suppose, because I bought a switch 1 and was pretty satisfied with it (although I haven't used it in a couple of years because emulation is just better) but a switch 2 seems like a complete non starter to me.
I believe, if we don't kill ourselves, we will be able to simulate the dead and bring everyone back.
Hell yeah I love this premise. I've always imagined it in a sci fi far future context, like humanity solves the economy and spreads out to the solar system and somebody gets the idea to do this as the ultimate utopian project, running back the entire history of the Earth as a simulation in order to pluck out people's consciousnesses right before their death and resurrect them to live in the immortal space future.
Like a year ago he did a small niche PC part manufacturer dirty by royally screwing up the review of their product, which sparked a big controversy because the people who like LTT are also the people who like small niche PC part manufacturers. This opened the floodgates for further criticism - apparently everyone at LTT was being worked to the bone, every video was being rushed out the door to the point that there was no more time for fact checking or verification, female staffers were being mistreated, Linus was misusing company funds and going on his podcast to lie about what was happening, and probably some more stuff that I don't remember.
But then it kinda... fizzled out. My hypothesis is that LTT has reached the point where they are "too big to fail", and by that I mean that they have a large enough audience of people who don't read Reddit threads to just ride out the wave until the people who were angry lost interest.
Carl
joined 6 months ago
No it fucking wasn't, that was ten minutes ago and I've been in my yard all day. Nobody attempted shit for fuck.