Aesthesiaphilia

The carbon tax is supposed to (partially) go towards credits for EVs

All the IPCC models assume massive amounts of sequestration, I believe

It’s a necessity at this point, even if all fossil fuel use stops globally tomorrow

If the overall goal is to increase the human population, it actually makes total sense

If the goal is to prevent murders, then no, it doesn’t make sense

There’s plenty of EVs with 300+ miles of range now. Shouldn’t be an issue.

carbon sequestration is not ever going to work

I don’t know what you’re talking about, it’s a thing that is currently being done. Not some future hypothetical tech.

But yes it is too expensive for now. Costs are coming down hopefully that continues to be the case.

And yes, the best, cheapest, most efficient way to reduce ghg is to eliminate fossil fuels.

Instead of offsets, companies should be pursuing direct carbon sequestration like with https://climeworks.com/

No estimates, no accounting magic. Just a direct measure of physical, measurable tons of carbon directly removed from the atmosphere.

Surveillance state.

For California at least, residential use is about 10% of all water usage iirc. So if data centers are dwarfed by that…not a big concern in the big picture.

The issue I guess is when data center usage sucks up all the local supply. State and region wide they don’t use much but they do use a lot in one small area.

Water is extremely important in most large scale cooling systems, whether it be swamp coolers (aka evaporative cooling) or traditional HVAC (aka chillers).

Not to mention a much higher carbon footprint.

The reason evaporative coolers are cheap is because they use a fraction of the electricity that chillers do.

And note that the majority of data center water usage is indirect via power generation, so using less water on site but more indirectly by consuming more power is both more expensive and less efficient.

Unfortunately, evaporative coolers are the best way to go, for now.

Screw data centers, I want to see desalination combined with nuclear power plants. They literally generate power by boiling water, it’s a match made in heaven.

We just need a few more advances in technology to remove impurities from brine and we’d also corner the table salt market.

Sure, from a European perspective, but one is center-right and the other is far-right (farther right than any of your parties).

Funny thing is, kbin shadow bans almost all nsfw content.

I don’t know about you, but I only notice when it’s a wildly different pic, usually nsfw. Probably just bias, I bet it happens all the time with pics that seem somewhat related or it’s a topic (and picture) you don’t care about.

Literally every opinion I hold is morally right, and I have the right to gather other like minded people and oppress anyone who says otherwise. I am never wrong.

• ASK_ME_ABOUT_LOOM, 2023

[transcribed from lip reading via telescope, as he was too high on his horse for the rest of us to hear]

It’s just the one but he’s all over the place

Dude has a serious fixation on calling everyone a groomer

I am now intensely curious about the series of “deleted_by_moderator” comments that led the conversation to this

I normally agree with xkcd, but this is a huge straw man.

It’s not the government oppressing you, but you are being oppressed. It’s not the government restricting your speech, but your speech is being restricted.

People complaining about their speech getting restricted aren’t saying “…by the government” and it’s a cop out to pretend that’s what they’re talking about in the first place. That’s not the conversation when it comes to canceling and deplatforming. That’s not what people are complaining about. When people say “the right to free speech” in this context, they aren’t talking about a specific legal, constitutional doctrine. They’re talking about the social contract. They’re saying, “hey, we generally believe in freedom as a concept, why are other people shushing me for voicing my opinion?”

Note I’m not a “free speech absolutist”, I don’t think we should give everyone a megaphone and tell em to have fun. Sometimes canceling is the appropriate response. There’s a lot of social media assholes out there stirring up shit and they should get muzzled.

But this particular argument is bullshit.

The argument we should be making is this: what you are saying is itself so heinous and dangerous that it is a violation of the social contract. The government is not silencing you, but we will.

And we should also keep in mind that just because the government isn’t silencing someone, that doesn’t mean it’s perfectly fine that we do. Mob mentality is a thing and sometimes we (the mob) can go too far. We should be measured about canceling and deplatforming.

I’m still seeing no ads

You use thousands of products. A majority of them probably have some heinous shit behind their executives.