It was so obvious neither candidate cares about this issue one bit. They literally ignored the question to squabble about other stupid bullshit. All while the world is burning. Truly one of the worst debates of all time.

Very interesting article. I am very curious about the project they mentioned in Niger, if anyone has more information.

To be honest I didn’t even know studded tires were a thing. I’ve heard of snow tires but never bought any since there is no snow here.

Very interesting! I am curious how modern populations would show up if tested by this method.

This is a classic. Really shows how intellectually bankrupt the “natural cycles” obfuscation is.

Is it practical for vehicle charging though? From what I’ve seen, typically these periods of abundant green energy are only for short periods of the day or year. At other times, additional energy will be generated by gas or other dirty source.

Overall a good summation of most of the facts, however, they did gloss over an important issue with EVs and the grid.

Yes, the grid can handle the additional load with proper development, but adding any new load to the grid at this point will necessarily slow our transition away from fossil electricity, unless you somehow charge only during times of excess renewable energy. Currently, this is not possible.

Also, I think there’s lots of other useful things we might find to do with cheap excess energy that will be available at certain times. I don’t know exactly what but pumping or desalinating water is one possible idea. Sort of an inverse peaker plant—a cheap piece of infrastructure that may sit idle for a time but kicks on when there is more energy than we can use to do some practical work.

Nationalism is a poison in the public consciousness everywhere it takes root.

Insider from OpenAI PR department speaks out!

These people should be tracked and publicly shamed everywhere they go. This will not stop until these people are made as miserable by their own actions as the rest of us are.

I would like to do more research on alternative non-profit governance structures. In my experience, non-profit boards seem to be just another mechanism by which the wealthy control decision-making in society. However, I don’t know what kind of structure would be better.

This is similar to a technique known as spiking, and it has been used but I believe most activists have moved away from it because can be dangerous to loggers who may not be aware of the metal inside.

That said, these trees are massive so rebar probably isn’t strong enough to keep them upright. It just makes it more difficult and dangerous to cut them.

Doubtful. The same speculation occurred during the last speaker crisis. In general you would need a coalition of democrats and republicans willing to vote together to preserve his speakership. Voting with a large bloc of democrats would be politically dangerous for most R’s, and I’m not sure D’s are going to perceive much benefit in supporting McCarthy anyway. It’s not like he’s particularly moderate or left-leaning. And dysfunction in the Republican caucus is probably a political win for them, so they’d have to perceive a benefit bigger than that one as well.

If he was willing to offer some significant concessions then maybe but I don’t see that happening either.

Not much since California uses hardly any coal.

Yeah I figured the original article might have more meat but this one is written in a misleading way…

But I didn’t find that statement in the original paper either. It seems to be all about this more recent grave.

1500 years ago was long after dogs were domesticated…

Probably depends on the intensity and angle of the sun relative to the ground. But I’m not sure. Probably some complicated math you could do to find out.

Magnify? I don’t think so. Some UV can pass through some clouds so you can get burned when it’s cloudy, though it’s not common. Maybe that got telephoned into magnified by people.

Bad River can’t catch a break. A few years ago there was an attempt to build a giant open pit iron mine near the reservation they had to fight as well.

Yes, these changes will pose large challenges in many areas, and it is possible or maybe even likely that some countries may struggle to adapt for various reasons. But collectively I think we already have to tools to tackle them and we will develop more as time goes on. I expect climate migration will look more like an extreme version of today where some governments break down due to various stressors, while others in the same climates and regions continue to thrive.

If we could figure out better and more equitable ways to produce and distribute resources globally it is entirely possible that our future world could be more stable and prosperous than today, but that may be overly optimistic in the face of these challenges and powerful forces that seek to maintain our current exploitative economic system.