Tiresia

Trans rights, and any minority rights, can turn on a dime if rich people decide to assign them as public scapegoat.

If inherent commonality of experiences was enough, then a bunch of WASP cishet male gamers studying physics should have a very easy time making friends.

Laws suck at catching cheaters. That’s why they are incomprehensibly complex now while cheaters still keep exploiting loopholes.

Practically no honest person obeys the law. They don’t have time to consider all the legal intricacies, and even if they did people would rightfully call them assholes for following some legal duty to rat someone out for failing to do something unjust that is an unintended consequence of how multiple laws interact. Good people find just loopholes, break unjust laws where they can, and find social ways to hold harmful law-obeyers accountable. That’s the anarchic reality known as “common decency”.

Even the practical mechanism by which the current system tries to catch cheaters - by having a judge or jury of their peers judge whether they did anything wrong and treating that judgment as the truth for everyone to be enforced with cops and prisons - does not require laws.

Laws exist to project the opinions of a central authority without that central authority’s need to understand the situation. They are a successor to people having to see the king to settle a dispute because a king who lets his subjects settle a dispute without him is barely a king at all.

Billions of people have existed without laws. If we want to stop living in a world where all law enforcement are bastards, we’ve got to get rid of the laws. Judgment on morality doesn’t take fine print.

Isn’t metal fully recyclable already? Much more so than wood?

Speaking from experience, EU government green innovation grants are often wasted on ill-considered “solutions”. There’s a whole ecosystem of corporations specializing in convincing bureaucrats with no scientific education to give them grant money rather than trying to build stuff that makes sense.

Wooden wind turbine blades are exactly the sort of thing that makes an EU green tech bureaucrat salivate. Visible but inoffensive, cute but grand, natural but industrial, a rustic solarpunk-aesthetic without actually requiring any sort of social restructuring.

Billions of people live in climates where they regularly get more sun and heat than this heat wave.

Look into tropical fashions. Maybe a kurta would work for you.

They slow down the flow of water a bit but for areas that are somewhat steep that is probably more of a benefit than a drawback.

Slowing a river down raises the water level, which can risk flooding. Every section of river has to let through a certain amount of water per second, and slowing the water down means you need a bigger cross-sectional area to get the same throughput so the water level rises. This can create a feedback spiral because a higher water level slows the river down further because there is less height difference with further upstream and thus less force driving the water downstream against the friction of the riverbanks.

Luckily it seems these turbines can be removed quickly, so unless the engineers fuck up they shouldn’t increase flood risk.

And what does “valuable” mean, in this context?

They are a corporation in capitalism. Please stop being facetious.

If they don’t get enough money from an advertising deal to be able to afford a short background check, they shouldn’t do the advertising deal.

It’s up to Proton to make a public apology and change their policies so they don’t give money to fascists. Until then, they are a company that gives money to fascists.

Why the fuck would you want a parking lot at a hospital? Imagine surrounding a place where every second matters and where tons of people have physical disabilities with a massive field of useless metallic obstacles that everyone has to move around and can get murdered by. Can you imagine someone who needs to be driven having to walk all the way across a parking lot because the spots closer by are all full. Can you imagine being blind or old or anything else that makes you unsuitable for driving but perfectly capable of taking public transit and having to ask someone for help and cross a fucking parking lot to get medical care?

Or… Imagine instead if the default way of going to a hospital was to take the subway, with a level boarding station right beneath the hospital with elevators that can take you immediately to the right department. And in the rare cases that someone needs to be driven to a hospital, the taxi or ambulance doesn’t need to dodge the hundreds of people who were perfectly capable of walking or the giant metal boxes they leave behind.

They also don’t factor in the greenwashing of using solar panels to cover wasteful cars, when it would be much better for the environment to not have a parking lot to put solar panels over.

It sucks that for the past 50-100 years, places have been built somewhere on the scale between favoring cars to outright hostile to any other form of transportation. On the plus side, most of these places are so shoddily built that it is cheaper to tear them down than to maintain them. So destroying suburbia and replacing it with walkable neighborhoods is actually quite profitable for everyone except the car industry, not to mention beneficial for everyone living there.

On the plus side, this isn’t a problem with AI, this is a problem with AI companies having more investment money than they know what to do with. The moment the hype fades and they don’t want to hemmorage money scraping every wiki on the internet thousands of times per day, this traffic will go back to a far more sane amount.

“Ridgid” is a brand!?

Oof ouch owie my orthography

In that case, check out this list of repair cafes and other DIY stuff around Europe. It’s far from complete, but there are repair cafes in the Netherlands, England, France, Italy, Portugal, and Poland.