Actually, not one of those men personally gave birth out of wedlock!

/s, although it’s technically true.

Scare quotes, probably. This is a very particular sense of “getting”. Like, otherwise, you could read this as a synonym for “receiving”.

“All people against my side are exactly the same and interchangeable”

TBF, there’s a left-wing version of that too.

Just like you’d be shocked what the Bible says about mega-rich pastors. Or what Judaism says about the magic wire around that segment of New York.

For anyone that was never in a religion, basically, people earnestly follow it, but in order for that to be possible, whatever “it” is tends to be flexible. The scriptures, or oral traditions, are reinterpreted however works for the cool, powerful people.

Eh. They aren’t blocking Saudi ports, and are intercepting things on the Saudi’s behalf.

Unless you mean that as a prediction for the near future, or something.

Could this be the Russians, as well?

You really should include more expensive as a consumer inconvenience. Given the same budget, that means something gets cut out. (If you don’t like money, that all works in terms of raw resources or labour, too)

Unnecessary single-use packaging is a point that could be improved for the same (overall) price, and policies about that are gradually coming in where I live. The thing is that reusable packaging tends to be a lot more emission producing, and many people don’t actually reuse it properly. It solves waste footprint, more than carbon footprint.

There are other things that would solve the problem for a similar or smaller price, and that hopefully will happen, but they amount to a significant change of lifestyle. Mass transit instead of cars, denser cities, plant-centric diets, long-lasting, repairable, but fewer and less impulse-buyable household goods and clothes. You end up with people living a lifestyle that, while still fine, is a bit more like they would have in the past, or in middle-income countries.

Ah, right, the drying. Green wood is, like, mostly water. You can season wood outdoors, but it takes many months, so then you have the cost of the space as well. Usually they just use a drying kiln for lumber, in modern practice.

I think about this stuff fairly often, so I was pretty sure about the chemistry. I wasn’t trying to argue, or undermine you, there. Sorry if it came across that way.

Without sacrificing consumer convenience? Well, that seems pretty ambitious. The typical Western lifestyle is just carbon-intensive.

But yes, everyone trying to solve it on their own isn’t really fair. Policy would be needed. Unfortunately, that seems to be hard to set up, as well. (There just isn’t much uplifting to say here, unfortunately)

Okay, so how do you meaningfully do that IRL?

It sounds great, but you get one inch towards the practical end of things, and all the sudden there seems to be not a lot on offer.

It’s also not quite right. If you’re burning wood thoroughly for power you get pure ash, which is just carbon neutral. You get charcoal in campfires because they’re inefficient, and even then it’s mostly ash. Carbon neutral is still better than fossil fuels, though!

I think the most discouraging about this for me is that even though I’ve seen countless headlines about climate change, I’ve never really bothered to be curious about it until now. Now I wish I knew how to tell this to other people without sounding like alarmist.

FWIW, it makes me feel better that there’s people like you out there, who just didn’t know the whole story yet, and who could still change and improve. Way too many people don’t want to know inconvenient things.

It’s also energy intensive to make; you need a heat source that’s not going to produce CO2, ideally, and cut into the benefit that you’d get by sequestering carbon in the first place

Wait, isn’t charcoalisation an exothermic process? Am I remembering that wrong?

OP’s figure would include their share all the industry that exists to make them things.

Biochar is a totally valid way to fix carbon, yeah. There’s not enough trees in cities to make a dent, but if you think bigger, there’s potential.

However, nobody wants to personally pay for that, so there’s no way to employ people doing it. It’s kind of the same answer to every climate change inaction question.

It’s not even a money problem. In whatever non-market economy, there still wouldn’t be the will to divert resources to it, because 90% of people just don’t care that much.

I’m sure Japan would prefer that. Of course, we have priorities besides satisfying Japan.

Good luck with that. It’s enough of a struggle to get people to stop putting actual kids in porn, and the entire concept of stepsiblings is ruined.

They say only death and taxes are certain, but everything getting sexualised has to be up there.

To be fair, there might still be human math not as we’ve known it. The first people documented as being replaced were hand-weavers. When the mechanical loom came along, they became the original Luddites. People still do work in textile production, though, even if the job of a mechanical loom operator is totally different.

At the very least, someone has to be able to verify the proof assistants are correct, in order to be able to verify that the proofs they verify are also correct. There’s also the task of training people in mathematical understanding for reasons other than proving theorems, which might include reverse engineering the goofy AI proofs back into something comprehensible.

Some hay has been made out of the fact the AIs which solved the Clay problem were fed a human mathematician’s approach, so I guess there’s prompt engineering, as well.

Interesting.

It sounds like Russian trolls in general are still getting online, like you’d expect, being spooks with government resources. But maybe Yandex was (tangentially?) involved in whatever astroturfing Musk was using.

Except access got turned back on for Ukraine and not Russia for a while, using a white list. It’s the same story unfolding again separately.

Ah yes, the FBI, always asking for casual conversation about anything with random members of the public.

Not pushing obvious political buttons, which always goes into I-wanna-revolution places on Lemmy. Or something that would filter out the 0.1% that aren’t total armchair revolutionaries, which is what they actually spend their hours on.