IndignantIguana

Slugworth talked with all the children. You can see Slugworth behind each one whispering in their ear after they won a golden ticket. Tevee even asked his mother what secrets they could sell to Slugworth. They all had the opportunity to be honest, but only Charlie did. Even Grampa Joe wanted to sell the gobstopper to Slugworth, but Charlie refused. That's why he won in the end.

tempting. Does anybody here have a subscription to kagi? Is it worth it?

Even this article, despite repeating over and over how we have already crossed the "it's too late" thresholds, ends with a call to action, as if we can still do something about it.

And as long as we go with their mendacious flow, hundreds of millions, and then billions will die well before “Net Zero by 2050” or “our great grandkids’ future” arrive. Because we are out of time. And we need to get to work immediately. There are a million things to do.

What is there to do? Let's say we shut down fossil fuel infrastructure. What goes with it? Fertilizer production, farm equipment, transportation, refrigeration, all the requirements to sustain the lives we worry will be lost due to climate change. Let's replace it with renewables, then. The cost in energy, production, and resources to replace the current world-wide farming, transportation, and energy infrastructure with renewables is somewhere in the high trillions of dollars and who knows how many years (decades) of time to make it happen. Of course we should still try to do it. But it's not going to save us. The damage is already done. The patient is fatally poisoned. We could maybe stop the flow of poison, but they'll still die. The hard pill to swallow here is there is no solution. We've painted ourselves into a corner and we're going to die here. You can blame the oligarch class. They deserve it. But remember how hard it was to do even a partial shutdown during covid? The level of shutdown required to stop poisoning our planet is way more severe than that. It's not going to happen, not willingly. Not until there is literally no way to deny what's happening. And by then it will be far too late.

can you make a 3d printed battery that never needs replacing? or are you counting on planned obsolescence?

I think I read that the problems with the Osprey weren't engineering, they were things like since the rotors are so much smaller than a helicopter they have to move a smaller volume of air much faster to provide the same lift, and that can shred landing pads from the force of it, and because the air column moves so fast they put so much dust and debris in the air it can cause visibility issues around the landing site. How will this be any different?

I love this. It's really practical for a city. Though I'm wondering about the sail idea now on more rural roads. Roads turn this way and that, and the wind shifts. You'd need someone sitting in the thing orienting the sail. I wonder if you made it a little larger with a largish sail and you had a driver on roller blades and a sailor sitting in it catching the wind how fast could you get it going? Depends on the wind, I guess, but a boat probably has more friction in the water and sailboats go pretty fast.

Ooh, maybe you could add an outrigger, a pole that slides left and right with a wheel on either side, to keep it from tipping.

"not professional", bah. Beat them at their own game. Tell them it's evident they have much to learn, so we will be spending the next three weeks on sex education.

I could see a chocolate bar with mint and hot peppers, or maybe hot chocolate?

Of course it's a lie. Everything he says is a lie. But this wasn't because he couldn't find help. This was because the credible Iranian threat of bombing every oil field in the middle east was enough to get someone (the US oligarchs?) to tell him to back off. They know that if the oil stops flowing everything will collapse and they will loose billions. It's always about money in the US. The reaction of the stock markets is what seems to matter most. And honestly I don't care why he's turning around. If he pulled out entirely and said it's because God told him to I'd be delighted. Just stop the madness, please.

Then again, it is also possible this is just the well-worn US/Israeli tactic of "can we have a cease fire to restock our weapon supplies?"

And to my original point, there are countless reasons he's unfit for the job, and a sickening waste of a human being, but any sign of backing away from this disaster is a good thing, not something to criticize.

Really? Chickened out? Are you hoping for the collapse of the entire global economy? Food shortages? Is that what having conviction looks like? This is the first even slightly hopeful sign I've seen in this whole shit show. A better title would be 'Trump finally tries to pull back from armageddon'

CO2 has never been a bottleneck for plant growth. It's always been bioavailable nitrogen. This has nothing to do with climate science. If you got this wrong it's because you're a gullible fool.

If I were Tom Bombadil I wouldn't need bolt cutters to make the nature killing psychopaths pay.