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- Comment on oops 6 days ago:
Millibeads
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 1 week ago:
Plenty of industries have gone bankrupt over the years. They are not always bailed out, or at least not bailed out successfully. Some examples in the US: the textile industry, the furniture industry, and the slave trade. Coal is headed in the same direction because market forces (the cost of coal and pressure from environmentalists and by extension everyday consumers) are working against it.
Yes, there is no alternative to planes… some of the time. Everybody has a flight they have to catch every once in a while. But some people fly twenty times a year for pleasure, some people maybe only once a year. If you have a wedding or funeral invitation on the other side of the U.S., yeah you pretty much have to take a plane. But if you’re planning a vacation or travel to a couple states over, you absolutely do have the choice to just not fly.
Covid did not indicate a floor to air travel. As I already said, it was a situation where airlines had the choice between saving money in the short term (by stopping flights) or breaking their contracts with airports and losing money in the long term once traffic resumed. If the drop-off in travel had simply been due to permanent reduced demand for flying in general—due to, for example, people taking fewer long-distance flights for vacations due to increased concern over carbon emissions—they would have simply given up on those routes and reduced the number of flights permanently.
I was not talking about freight rail, I was talking about passenger rail. Lots of passenger rail companies went bankrupt - no consolidation, just your company went out of business because nobody wanted to take the train. I do know some sketchy shit went on to drive the nail into the coffin and lead to Amtrak but the long decline before that was due to the market forces of people having cars and wanting to use them.
Finally, yes I agree that there is no true “alternative” to airlines, nor is there a true “alternative” to consuming electricity. But, you can still choose to reduce your consumption of those things.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 1 week ago:
Sure, let me google that for you.
ethicalconsumer.org/…/history-successful-boycotts
In general boycotts are less about driving a company to bankruptcy and more about getting them to change their behavior. Some companies are surprisingly immune to boycotts but many others have walked back their problematic behavior. Notably in recent memory in the US I can think of Barilla, Chick-fil-a and (by conservatives) Budweiser. The Montgomery bus line boycott is the stuff of history.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 1 week ago:
I mean, screw their economic calculus, if people stop flying they will go out of business. If people fly less, there will be fewer (and smaller) planes in the air. It’s not that complicated. I get that in practice most people can’t stop flying entirely but I’m exasperated by the leftist view that consumers are powerless because the global elites are using mind control to force us to fly to the Bahamas on holiday.
There is no “floor” to air travel, the same way there was no “floor” to passenger rail travel. Some of the most powerful and influential men in America fought tooth and nail to protect the railroad industry, but market forces (and, yes, to a lesser extent government policy, but mainly just people buying cars) eventually led to the near-collapse of the industry. Corporations can resist change but that doesn’t mean they are always successful.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 1 week ago:
Idk tree nuts have pretty low c02 impact because they aren’t farmers as intensively I think. Like, trees don’t need as much fertilizer as annual crops. Maybe.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 1 week ago:
Airlines, cruise lined oil companies are not immutable forces of nature. They have grown to their current size to meet the demand of individuals like you and me who want to buy shit and go places.
If everyone stopped flying, passenger airlines would be out of business and no longer flying planes within a year or two. Same with cruise companies. Oil is used in more things but if everyone switched to EVs or stopped driving oil production would go way down- even more if we cut our plastic usage as well.
Don’t fall into the trap of thinking consumers are powerless. In a free market economy they are very powerful- that’s why boycotts can be so effective.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 1 week ago:
By the same logic, couldn’t you say that it doesn’t matter that eating red meat doesn’t matter because ~8 agriculture companies produce 75% of the livestock-related pollution?
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 1 week ago:
That’s a bit of a gimmick related to airlines betting (correctly) that flight demand would rebound after covid ended and wanting to keep their spot in line. If there was a true societal shift and people flew less, airlines wouldn’t keep flying empty planes around for the fun of it. Also, there WERE a lot fewer flights during covid, ghost planes notwithstanding. The narrative of “we are powerless to stop climate change because corporations are evil” is lazy. Corporations aren’t evil they are just amoral-they answer to market demand, whatever that is.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 1 week ago:
Vote with your pocketbook. Buy products that are produced sustainably- or if that isn’t an option, buy less.
Corporations aren’t stupid - they are very good at making money. If company X could produce a product that 10% more expensive than their competitors but sold twice as well because it was more environmentally friendly, they would absolutely do so.
- Comment on Tinder’s mandatory facial recognition check comes to the US 2 weeks ago:
I mean you’re ALREADY giving them your name, photo, address, age, and a bunch of private romantic chats. If you trust Tinder enough for that I don’t see what difference a video of your face makes.
- Comment on xkcd #3109: Dehumidifier 2 weeks ago:
I just installed motorized dampers in my crawl space using Shelly smart relays! Now I have an automatic schedule so I’m not cooling rooms that aren’t in use (like the bedrooms during the day and the lower level of the house at night). Already seen significant power savings!
- Comment on No criminal charges over British woman shot in US 2 weeks ago:
A lot of jumping to conclusions with very little evidence in this thread.
- Comment on Just blocked hexbear 2 weeks ago:
Yeah cause .ml and .hexbear are toootally not propaganda echo chambers.
- Comment on What Every Adult Thinks 3 weeks ago:
Me, waiting for the train that is arriving late that will make me late for an important meeting at work: yeah that’s pretty accurate
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
California king is smaller than a regular king actually! Alaska king is bigger though
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I’ve been in one car accident in my life (my fault) and it shook me up, I remember searching “how long until self driving cars.” But I got over it, next day I was back behind the wheel. As other people have said, it’s a necessary life skill for most people in North America and it does get much easier with experience and time.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I get that in a perfect society you shouldn’t need to learn to drive, but that ignores the fact that if you want to be able to function in society most people in NA need to be able to drive (unless you live in one of the handful of cities with excellent mass transit). It’s a bit like saying nobody should be forced to work for a living and then being homeless.
- Comment on 2025 be vibin' 5 weeks ago:
Can you actually get a degree in rocket science? I feel like the closest would be aerospace engineering.
- Comment on Moonbase Alpha: That time NASA made a meme video game 1 month ago:
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- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Nope, the “No” campaign (keeping ranked choice voting) outspent the campaign to repeal ranked choice voting by 100:1, largely with out of state money.
- Comment on Time Stop 1 month ago:
That’s not what he said? He just said she was careless.
- Comment on The small scale of Lemmy's active user base is never more evident than in the absence of active members in all the sports related communities. 1 month ago:
I think it’s also just tricky because sports fans tend to want to follow discussion of their team, which splits for example the soccer/football community into hundreds of sub-communities. I used to follow r/panthers (I am a long suffering charlotte home team supporter) but such a community doesn’t exist on lemmy. Similarly, you don’t really see active individual video game communities on lemmy even though that is more up the alley of the average lemmy user.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Yeah I found that to be pretty annoying as well when I started. I don’t mind the occasional political post but it’s the same handful of talking points again and again so it gets old fast. I recommend just blocking users and blocking communities; you’d be surprised how quickly that clears them out. Lemmy is small enough that once you block a dozen or two people that post politics nonstop you give the other content room to breathe.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’d just like to comment that 10-15 minutes of penetration is a very normal number, and probably a bit above average actually.
I do have one tip for you as a guy, which is, try to have sex in the morning. I always find that I last longer then. I read once that women’s hormone levels peak earlier in the day than men, so maybe that’s why.
- Comment on The window for a convincing UFO video has closed 2 months ago:
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- Comment on The window for a convincing UFO video has closed 2 months ago:
I thought I left reddit :,(
- Comment on The window for a convincing UFO video has closed 2 months ago:
Well, I mean convincing to the public at large. Yeah I know I guy, otherwise perfectly smart, that is convinced that aliens are real based on the cheesiest, most obviously faked videos from back in the 80s or whatever.
- Comment on The window for a convincing UFO video has closed 2 months ago:
BY GOD
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