The scene where Picard needs a heart transplant around season 2 of TNG was pretty bad. You can’t just make up words for a procedure we already have. My girlfriend still isn’t over it.

When everything’s a logic block, nothing will be

Reject tradition

Embrace scratch

Void star labs/Zach Freedman moment

However, cost is currently a prohibitive issue to widespread use, the researchers said. While petroleum is readily available to siphon from the ground, widespread infrastructure for algae farming will be needed for plastics made of the bio-based polymer to become used en masse, Burkart said.

However, the process the researchers devised can also be applied to other plant-based material, Burkart said.

The researchers hope their new process can eventually be implemented widely for food packaging, Pomeroy said.

“But if you’re going to ask me, ‘Could we do this with anything?’ I’m pretty sure we could do this with most anything,” he said.

Sounds like an economy of scales problem, and the scale isn’t there. Fixable, but not great.

My first PR at my current job was about 130 files for the front-end, and about 70 for the backend. This hits close to home.

So I interpreted this as you saying you wouldn’t install AC in his shoes, but also don’t appear to have an alternative course of action in order to not overheat and die due to not having AC, therefore you’d be the first to die.

And that’s not what I said.

That’s not even close to what I was saying.

https://www.newsweek.com/newsweek-rewind-debunking-global-cooling-252326

That’s already been addressed.

So do you have a better citation?

Citation?

It’s normal to use AC for billions of people already, so it is a solution to our reality as it is.

A solution would end the problem. AC does not do that. In fact it is the opposite since heavier AC use leads to higher energy use which ultimately means more greenhouse gasses.

It’s a band aid. It allievates the symptoms, and only for those who can afford it.

The solution is to end our production of greenhouse gasses.

If your grid is overloaded, get some solar panels and make your own power off-grid. If your air conditioner breaks, buy another one or keep a spare one on hand. That’s what the fuck I’m gonna do, because AC is great and I love having it.

Not everybody can afford that.

That’s all well and good until your AC breaks, hits its heat transfer limit, you lose the ability to afford it run the AC, or your electricity goes out because the grid is overloaded because everyone else is also running their AC.

AC is a band aid, not a solution.

Yes so we need to understand it.

Sure. I never said we shouldn’t understand it.

Understanding != continued existence.

But with that said, capitalism has proven itself to be unsustainable and in need of replacement. The longer we take to replace it the worse things are going to be.

Feudalism was once a part of building blocks upon which we all stood.

“Thing could be worse” is not a valid argument against improving things.

All of the examples you mentioned are hypotheticals and not real or part of this context.

The first 3 are, the last one is not.

https://policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/carbon-billionaires-the-investment-emissions-of-the-worlds-richest-people-621446/

In addition to the above, there is also the fact that roughly 8 million people a year are dying from climate change. Climate change that is heavily driven by billionaires. What about the self defense of those 8 million that die every year?

Additionally, if it is publicly known, it is also within the rules of society

This statement has some very “Let them eat cake” energy.

You are no better than the rural folks around Salem distrusting the rich witches in the town who controlled their distribution, unironically.

I haven’t murdered anyone. Nor have I based any of my argument on something false. So this is not true.

Murder is wrong except in self defense.

What counts as self defense then?

When somebody has a knife at your throat? What about people planning to put a knife to your throat? What about people creating plans to dump toxic waste into your neighborhood?

At some point a line must be drawn. So why shouldn’t that line include the rich who dump astronomical loads of emissions, poisoning our air and water, and otherwise killing the planet?

There isn’t calls to eat the rich simply because of a difference in political opinion. There is a lot more to it than that.

The building manager, Oscar, was recently put in charge of the whole department/building because things weren’t working out well. Well it got worse under Oscar. First he made a push to end working from home, and then he got into so many arguments and fights with my boss Theo. It didn’t take long for Theo to say fuck it and leave, which is when things got worse.

For a 2 month period or so, our entire team of like 13 people were in limbo with no direction. Oscar temporarily took control of our team until he found a replacement. And in that time he constantly was grilling us for answers about what our team did and how it worked. Not fun. A little bit later he fired two people off our team.

We then got a replacement manager, David. He’s not the best manager, but he’s not the worst. He struggles to comprehend what our team does, but he trusts that we know enough to get by with a little bit of direction on what project we should be working on. Another 2 people left over the course of a few months on their own.

Then in March, Oscar fired about 30 people across the department for “budget” reasons. From what I heard, the company lost a shit load of money due to all the project delays. Those delays have only gotten worse now that morale is in the garbage. Nobody wants to work hard at a place they fear they will be fired from at any moment while constantly being interrogated by Oscar. Some more people left on their own over the following months.

Cut to today, and there are 5 people left on the team I’m in. And I put my two weeks notice in because I got a better job. I don’t know what kind of shit show it’s gonna turn into, or what’s gonna happen when there is nobody left on my team. But on my team at least, every member has been looking for the door, and it’s been a race to not be the last person still working there.

So yeah, if your a manager, maybe don’t interrogate people and make people fear for their livelihoods.

Yup. And it’s been growing worse.

It’s to the point where I’ve had serious thoughts about whether I will be safe living here. My girlfriend is from a different country, so if things get bad I’m going to go with her back to her home.

While both are bad, fascism is the current problem.

It’s kinda like being in the middle of a forest fire and saying “it’s natural disaster you should really be afraid of. When there is a disaster, does it really matter if it is a forest fire or an earthquake?”

Saying that when the current problem is a forest fire kind of misses the point.