br3d 5 hours ago • 100%
This is greenwashing. Global aviation uses almost 100 billion gallons of fuel per year. If we even began to address a fraction of that with magic new fuels (which won't happen) it would require incredible amounts of growing, and if we had that sort of amount of agricultural capacity available on this planet, capable of producing crops at a price the aviation industry is prepared to pay, we wouldn't have any hunger on the world.
Don't fall for this. There isn't such a thing as green aviation. I'm not saying there should be no flying, but we can't carry on as we are and magic away the consequences. In particular, don't fall for the snake oil salesmen trying to distract you with appealing non-solutions
br3d 2 days ago • 66%
Hard to get too excited when Norway funds all this by selling fossil fuels
br3d 2 days ago • 85%
It would have a massive effect. Transport (car) emissions are one of the larger - and growing - sources of emissions.
And we can't hide behind "But the corporations..." because ultimately what they produce gets used by us.
So to answer your question: riding a bike when Global Capital wants you to keep buying cars and pumping oil into them is one of the best acts of defiance you can make
br3d 4 days ago • 100%
If it's a tiny bit of comfort, you probably don't need a new derailleur, just a new cassette with the right spacing. The mech itself will likely work with different cable-pull, as long as you're not drastically changing the number of sprockets on the cassette
br3d 1 week ago • 77%
If people are driving with appropriate skill and care, the number driving into large, well-lit buildings should be approximately zero per year. It sounds like you're willing to excuse a lot of bad driving
br3d 1 week ago • 100%
There's a substantial body of research on how mythbusting lies can be counterproductive because as part of doing so, you repeat the lie and this helps people remember it.
Also, and this is more speculative, but surely there's probably some survivor bias here? There are probably many thousands of populists neither of us has ever heard of because they haven't had their voices amplified.
br3d 1 week ago • 100%
Don't give these people publicity
br3d 1 week ago • 100%
Plumbers don't carry massive heavy plant. But I know you were just picking a concrete example of a business there so let's not dwell on that particular case. The real point is that if a business causes damage to the roads that has to be repaired, it should contribute an appropriate amount. If that makes the cost of doing business more expensive, that just has to get passed on to the customer - who, ultimately, is the one having the heavy stuff transported
br3d 2 weeks ago • 100%
Here in the UK, I've seen bloody sushi restaurants and hairdressers drive branded pickup trucks FFS. No tax exemptions for businesses. As another poster noted, the damage is being done and needs to be paid for - it doesn't magically not matter because it was done in the course of somebody using the road for their business
br3d 2 weeks ago • 90%
Please, people, don't buy cheap ebikes from Amazon's, AliExpress, etc. Buy from a reputable brand and dealer.
br3d 2 weeks ago • 100%
Apparently the surge pricing reflected what touts would have charged. Makes you want to grab somebody and shout HOW IS THAT A JUSTIFICATION?! Yeah, and if somebody steals a car they'll sell it to me cheaper than the dealer - so it feels like TM logic means the dealer should sell it to me cheaper too because that's what the black market is priced at?
br3d 2 weeks ago • 98%
2 and 3 are massive. I'm on Mastodon, but am having a much better time on Bluesky. Mastodon is full of gatekeeping and policing and people complaining - Bluesky is just fun and interesting, like Twitter 12 years ago
br3d 4 weeks ago • 77%
That shouldn't affect GDP - after all, America is much further away and has a bigger GDP than any of these. Indeed, GDP being what it is (a rough measure of total economic activity) I suspect being far away from the hub, like Greece, would likely boost it: think of all the economic activity for your shipping and logistics businesses
br3d 1 month ago • 100%
Also meanwhile...
br3d 1 month ago • 100%
Meanwhile...
br3d 1 month ago • 87%
The thing is, they're now just using platforms owned by Meta and Microsoft, both arguably awful corporations in their own way. Choosing Zuckerberg over Musk is out of the frying pan and into the fire in my opinion. They really should go to Mastodon, I guess?
br3d 2 months ago • 100%
Points at bees "Why can't you be more like your cousin?"
br3d 2 months ago • 100%
No, Northern Ireland is part of the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". So it's in the UK but not GB, which I think is what spurred OP's question
br3d 2 months ago • 100%
If they're like the originals, let's hope nobody ever needs to control them with the slightest bit of moisture on their hands.
br3d 2 months ago • 92%
Most motorists are speeding at any given moment. Interesting how the same rules don't apply there, isn't it?
br3d 2 months ago • 100%
It suits oil companies to pretend allowing them to drill is apolitical. In reality very few things are apolitical, and oil extraction certainly isn't
br3d 2 months ago • 100%
I totally understand why you say this. But at the same time:
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Be a politician
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Do the right thing and invest billions in an amazing public transport system knowing it won't be used properly until much later
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Lose your job for wasting billions on a system nobody uses. Ensure that every other politician in the world cannot henceforth invest in public transport because "Look what happened when that other guy tried it".
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There is no Step 4
br3d 2 months ago • 100%
I suspect the serious answer is that we produce mucus and sneezing as a natural response to microbes, and that's the environment within which microbes have evolved to take advantage of the mucus and sneezing
br3d 2 months ago • 100%
Makes total sense: who's working for whom? Is wheat making an effort to till the soil and find fertiliser to help us grow, or is it the other way round?
br3d 2 months ago • 75%
People are in engrained car habits. That's why alternatives to driving are important, but people are unlikely to switch unless we ALSO make driving less appealing
br3d 3 months ago • 25%
How surprising - an artificially subsidised industry wants more subsidy
br3d 3 months ago • 100%
"can be" is doing some heavy lifting here. I confidently predict the amount actually recycled is a fraction of one percent
br3d 3 months ago • 100%
It would make a lot more sense if humans could just lay some sort of egg sac which we could keep in the garage for 9 months until it hatches. I honestly don't know why biologists and geneticists haven't dealt with this by now
br3d 3 months ago • 71%
You keep seeing them but they aren't visible?
br3d 3 months ago • 100%
3 dB is a doubling/having of sound pressure, so 3.5 is not nothing
br3d 3 months ago • 100%
Wow, tough guy here
br3d 3 months ago • 90%
These things only become meaningful when you look at emissions per capita AND remember that China manufactures large amounts of the world's stuff. All your iPhone emissions count as China's because it was manufactured there, but they really belong to your country. Same for loads of other stuff. Careful you don't fall for the tenor of this article, because it's probably intended to distract you ("Why should I bother when China is really bad?") and keep you consuming
br3d 3 months ago • 98%
Important to know that real-world testing shows that PHEVs are rarely plugged in and just burn oil much of the time
br3d 3 months ago • 83%
Except people don't plug in their hybrids and run them on fossil fuels. Hybrids are yet another way the FF industry keeps itself going while pretending things are being fixed
br3d 3 months ago • 89%
People need to hire vehicles occasionally rather than buy more polluting vehicles against some rare edge case
br3d 3 months ago • 100%
Didn't want to walk more than the absolute minimum distance, I suspect. And/or didn't want their precious PCP baby out of their eyesight
br3d 3 months ago • 100%
It also feels like a way to funnel bribes to politicians in plain sight, by paying them massive sums to rant at a camera with barely anyone watching
br3d 3 months ago • 100%
Woodlice
br3d 3 months ago • 100%
m'=m-45. Fixed it for you
I turned on the workout recommendations on my Fenix 6 Pro months ago. I've been hunting through settings on my watch and in the app, but can I find the option again? Could anybody put me out of my misery and remind me where the setting is?
It seems that this score is asking me to play the same B with both hands here. I think I've spotted another piece that does this too. How should I approach this? Do I kind of acknowledge that it's indicating a continuation of the left-hand pattern but ignore that B in the left hand at this spot and play it with the right? Thanks in advance
I noticed today I was having to use fingerprint unlock every time I wanted to access my 6a, even though normally I use Smart Lock to keep my phone unlocked when it's near my Bluetooth watch. I just checked through the settings and Smart Lock has disappeared, as has on-body detection. Has this happened to anybody else?
Ideally for absolute beginners?