But they’re gonna continue to consoom and drive their individual giant SUVs everywhere. Don’t worry they will be electric so buy buy buy.

Anyway, AI running in datacenters powered by fossil fuel will surely find a technological solution to our consumption problems.

Surely we can’t just stop consooming.

And don’t forget to recycle!

This reminds me of a Republican politician interviewed on TV being told that crime rates were down, and him replying “but I don’t FEEL safe”.

Reality doesn’t matter.

Sometimes people forget what’s possible by laying in their comforting bubble.

I am car free and was looking for a place in the Carribean to go cycling a bit during my vacation. I looked online for a place that had public transit and ended up with Guadeloupe and the island of Marie-Galante for cycling.

Just to be sure I double checked online and every forum and comment I found was saying that visiting Guadeloupe without a car was impossible; that a car was a necessity. Yet, I knew there was public transit, I had the map and schedules in front of me. So I mentally prepared to have to use a taxi to go everywhere (like in St-Martin, ugh).

But I arrived at the airport, went outside, saw the panels and arrows to public transit, waited for a bus, and got to the hotel. The next day I took another bus to the ferry terminal then went to Marie-Galante. I rented a bike, cycled around the island, spent a few days there, then came back in reverse using public transit too.

Apparently what was impossible to visit without a car, can be visited without a car, when we just try a bit.

I get the same thing when cycling or walking more than a few km. People are like “you walked here?” Why yes, you put one foot in front of another and next thing you know, you’re in a different place.

My nation has been under occupation by the English since 1760 and I have no special love for the actual country that was forced on us. The patriots tried to fight against the English; they were captured, and hung. One capitalist master over another, I’m not fighting for that.

We survived for 260 years in a country that was stolen and in a union that was forced on us. We will endure the Unitedstaters if they take over, as we endured the English.

Plus, an escalation and more spending on the military is exactly what the orange turd wanted in the first place. You are being played over FUD.

The world will be such a better place when the poor will fight one another for a line on a map while the rich pockets the money from military equipment sale. But at least everyone is employed and has a job!

What a wonderful way to keep people employed, by pivoting from engines destroying the environment and killing people to, well, exactly the same. It’s certainly a win for them, and us to continue being paid to make death machines. Their union is smart to want to get a piece of the military budget pie.

Just like the US, let’s have common folks earn a living from making military equipment, and depend on those jobs. Great idea. It’s not at all contributing to spending public money on the military instead of useless social programs.

Yes , that’s how Trump and his administration operates. Whether it’s on purpose or just the product of a chaotic idiot, that’s how it works. Every day is a shit show to make people forget the previous shit show. It’s how they can do anything without consequences.

My city does it for raccoons because tourists find them so attractive that they approach and feed them.

In fact the southern regions of Quebec are frequently doing it for raccoons, skunks and foxes, in localized areas.

There’s articles in the news on this subject but most people don’t pay attention to this.

Anything but reduce car usage or invest in public transit. No, the solution to everyone wasting energy to move a personal multi ton vehicle around, and prevent parking lots from worsening climate change, is to install solar panels on top of every parking lot and road.

Cars will one day be made by green energy, powered by green energy, recycled by green energy, and be entirely carbon neutral, of course.

They will still emit tons of microplastic particles but we’ll eventually find a technoloical solution for that, I’m sure. They will still kill billions of animals every year but it’s not related to climate so no biggie. They will still kill one human every 30 seconds but again, not a climate issue. They augment the risk of cardiovascular diseases and make people fat. They are also a source of noise pollution and stress for millions of poor people living near freeways. And they are also an expensive status symbol. But none of this matters because they will be electric, and have solar panels on top of parking lots, thus solving the problem once and for all!

Personally I’d prefer we get rid of parking lots and build housing on top of it but, where will people park their climate friendly cars?!

Anything but to admit cars are an environmental problem.

EDIT: Sorry about the abrasiveness. I did read a study a few months ago about installing solar panels on top of parking lots and they did have a positive impact, but it’s just impossible to do this on every open air parking lot and road because of material and cost. Even if it could have a positive impact on localized areas, it’s never gonna be enough to have an overall impact.

Just to give you an idea of how much parking there is in the world, you can look for those maps where parking lots are highlighted. This is for Flint, MI. This is for Philadelphia. I tried to do it for a town of about 80k people in Québec (Drummondville), and just gave up before being done. And that’s just counting parking lots, not roads. How many solar panels do you think we should produce to cover all this?

Oh yeah. A car shows your social status and you want to impress others. If you drive an expensive car, of course women will want to be your girlfriend.

I wonder what his father drives? Did he also give his mother cookies because he didn’t have the correct car to impress?

Cue the comments from people not subscribed to the community saying “I have nothing against cyclists but they’re in the way!11!”

Same but with the current geopolitical situation.

I was watching an old episode of Columbo and realized how old it was when a lady used a teletype to retrieve information on a employee. I was born in the 80ies and always had old computers in the 90ies so I learned to use BASIC and DOS, but anything that doesn’t have a screen seems like it’s from centuries ago to me.

These are so disappointing nowadays that I don’t bother trying anymore.

Two or three decades ago, the inside was gooey and runny. Eating one of these was a messy but delicious affair. Now every time I buy one, it feels like a dried paste that has nothing in common with what I was eating as a child. For a while I thought they were just old or bad but apparently it’s just how they are now.

It’s been pretty easy because most updates are mainly just new mobs and they spawn on existing terrain. I pruned/trimmed the world only once, maybe about a decade ago, because we wanted better terrain and caves than what was originally generated. It left a big cube of the original map and everything around is relatively new. I haven’t had to do it since. We just go further and further for new chunks now.

For example, I just updated to 1.21.11 and now there’s just nautili in our waters. This world started well before bees, horses, polar bears, turtles and all that, but after updates, they are just there. It makes a somewhat weird mix of old terrain with new mobs, that gets progressively newer the further we go from the spawn point. Like, villages that are close were generated before professions and trading, and are very simple and boring. But as we venture deeper into the world, they start to look like modern villages, with profession blocks and trading now possible.

My nephew wants to play Roblox but we won’t let him. However I have a Minecraft server that we can control and it’s been running for longer than he’s been alive. So with any luck we should be able to keep the map/game for a while longer.

But I also realized what you’re saying when he was watching YouTube videos. When I was a kid I was watching cartoons and kids shows that now I can simply stream/download and rewatch. It’s however going to be much more difficult to do with random videos on YouTube.

Isn’t that the Canadian version, avec l’emballage bilingue?!

Electric cars are mostly there so that the car industry can continue to sell one of the most expensive object of consumption. As far as I am concerned, they are mostly greenwashing.

They are climate friendlier than internal combustion engines but not an easy fix for all the other issues they still pose. For example, parking lots are causing heat islands and their impervious surfaces also contribute to flooding.

It’s just impossible to have every human on the planet to own a multi ton vehicle that spends energy to move that box and the human it contains everywhere they go. Even if electric.

But no, consume. Buy without remorse, it’s climate friendly(er). Hurray for overconsumption.

I understand how this can all be a major issue to deal with, and can even be lethal, but I fail to see how it’s Hydro-Québec’s responsibility to make sure pipes don’t freeze in people’s homes.

Does HQ have any obligation to provide constant service to residential customers?

Technically, computers are running on DC. The PSU is fed by AC but its sole purpose is to convert all the power the computer needs to DC. It’s possible to only use DC to power computers and it’s probably/apparently more efficient.

Being a cynical bastard is great, since my expectations are that things will probably get worse. I’m alive to watch modern society and capitalism eat itself out, and if things are actually getting better it will be a pleasant surprise.

Otherwise pass the popcorn while I watch us go through the great filter.