good. the sooner they go, the better

so i was just walking to the nearest supermarket when the supermarket radio (they usually play music) calmly announced “for the next week, we expect a warm 35°C” … wtf

you posted this article twice. delete this one and keep the other one.

yeah, real artists express their emotion, which is depression

this doesn’t really have anything to do with “work”, therefore it’s questionable whether it belongs in the “work reform” community. anyways, it’s a good post, with a good point.

it’s quite clear that we need tax reforms. the current system works for no-one anymore, not even for the rich. the stock market is a bubble only waiting to burst, and everybody’s well aware of it. the economy, the way it is today, is absolutely not sustainable. people are getting poorer, due to not having jobs, or rather the jobs pay like shit (bullshit pay for bullshit jobs) because the jobs aren’t fundamentally important to the economy. there’s a declining labor market because there’s not so many new inventions compared to 1900 when stuff was new and hot. (consider that the electric grid was literally invented around 1900, there’s an interesting chapter of history there, current wars). that’s why the labor market is cooling down.

i advocate for spaceflight partially because it would create jobs. also waging wars would create jobs but deeply unpopular so nobody wants to do that. so jobs will still be lost, and can only be partially replaced. we need a universal basic income or sth similar to give people enough resources to live. we need to start writing policy proposals for that. i propose the following fields should be covered and provided for by state-run services somehow:

• water, food, healthcare
• housing
• transport
• energy
• IT, telecommunication, education

yeah it was outright visible that the documentary was especially well-done because a potential IPO

is already included, heating as energy (electricity and whatever fuel or gas you use to drive and heat) and internet access as IT (maybe should have called it IT and telecommunication services)

thanks for the nuanced response, i will take it to heart.

ok, thanks, i’ll keep it in mind

I think this may have just happened to you OP. That’s not a common way to see children.

i don’t see it that way, but a lot of people in the US seem to, at least from what i can see. see my other comment for explanation.

i’ll include:

• water, food and healthcare
• housing
• transport
• energy
• and IT and education

all at the communal level, responsible to the citizens

The amount of systemic change that needs to happen in the political and economic landscape realistically cannot happen in under four years from start to finish. It will require long-term investments in infrastructure projects that take years to build, which means at some point voters are gonna have to be patient and stop flipping sides whenever conditions don’t materially improve overnight.

In other words, we’re fucked…

yeah the US really needs to learn (possibly the hard way) that there needs to be a political plan for the industry. in the 20th century apparently it could do fine without that, but that just doesn’t work anymore. you can’t have efficient industry without a long-term plan.

yeah, IIRC, in 2000, renewable oil from rape seed was still cheaper than fossil oil. however renewable oil was banned politically sothat there’s no food vs fuel debate tearing society apart. the question really is more complicated than simply the cost.

that being said, solar panels can be put anywhere, including near big cities, and transporting electricity over distances has also gotten easier in the last 200 years, so that’s not an argument for coal anymore.

ehh, the actual technology where liquid oil / fuels are required are like 3% of all total energy consumption. the rest 97% can be electrified, and actually, using electricity is in many cases even simpler than using coal. for example in steel production. it’s easier to do with electricity than coal because coal contains sulfur and that introduces impurities into your chemical process. meanwhile electrolysis is simple and clean.

Tons of people have kids, tons of people want kids. The idea of ‘you’re a child’ being the worst insult is baffling, honestly.

yeah tbf i’ve never set foot in the US; i get this notion from social media, movies, books, etc.

wait let me record a 10 second sequence of a movie.

https://files.catbox.moe/3ouv81.mp4

(the video should have audio, in case it doesn’t play, a download should do it)

anyways the woman says “have you ever considered that you’re wrong? hah, of course not! you’re a child.” upon which the other person freaks out. which i have seen sooo many times in pieces of media (especially from the US)

anyways, meanwhile, children can actually be really reflective and understand a lot, also when they’ve made mistakes or hurt someone. so saying that somebody is a “child” when they can’t reflect on themselves, in my opinion, is inaccurate.

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i’m not a fan of musk at all; however this is in the technology community because it’s a good technological breakthrough.

when you’re using a sailing ship, you’re not actually using wind to drive, instead you’re using the energy within the wind’s movement, that’s what you’re using to push the ship forward. the air does not get consumed in some kind of air-eating machine or sth

it’s similar with electricity. the electrons rarely get consumed (exceptions exist, mostly in electrochemistry)

NGL is yet another TLA (three letter acronym)

tell us what it means at least once!

space-based fusion technology

or maybe just something blunt like “fresh, renewable coal”. it’s family friendly and 100% jesus-conforming.

coincidence? i think not