Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@social.cleverlibre.org

@TimWardCam @corbin At least in the UK you have the option of taking trains; at something like one-fourth of the carbon impact of flying. Most places in the US it's not really practical or even possible. I did have business in the San Francisco Bay area a few months ago and was able to go by rail. Sleeper car for COVID reasons, so not exactly cheap.

@TimWardCam @corbin Yeah, I overstated it quite a bit myself. Last new car I bought was in 2012. I put 9K miles on it over the next _three_ years. I ended up trading it back to the dealer for a 7 year old used model that was of more practical use for a homeowner. Actually got cash back. I'm not putting more than a couple of thousand miles a year on that either. I bicycle and I take light rail. (And ride a motorcycle, but mostly for fun.)

@TimWardCam @corbin

Yep. Driving fewer than 8K miles per year, I'm not going to buy an electric car anytime soon: the carbon debt of its manufacture wouldn't be paid off before it was substantially obsolete again.

Frankly I'm hoping never to buy a car again. The 20th century was fun, but it's over.

@corbin My old 27" iMac was the last (secretly) user-upgradeable one they made. The CPU was socketed so I swapped the i5 for an i7, put in RAM twice the size of the maximum documented spec, and replaced the HDD with dual SSDs in RAID0 mode. The next year they started soldering the CPU down and eliminated the extra internal SATA port. It's actually still a very performant machine. It's almost 12 years old. I'll be bummed when i have to replace it.

@johnshirley2024@wandering.shop

Neon signs saying "Live Nude BEMs"?

@Ruth_Mottram

Seems like it's a somewhat contested subject -- at best, a major improvement on present agricultural practices; important given that 8 billion people expect to go on eating while we fix things; at worst, a kind of "clean coal" switcheroo, with entrenched interests using it as a pretext to pretend we don't need to rewild and reduce our agricultural footprint.

Disclaimer: I am a fallible observer with no expertise; this is just how the conversation looks from here. It might be worth following the disputations between Allan Savory on the one hand and George Monbiot on the other, though at times they seem to generate a high ratio of heat to light.

@rdfranke

https://twitter.com/WalterIsaacson/status/1700522506363248665

@rdfranke It doesn't add to one's confidence that he's already saying he got that detail wrong. Imagine how many things that *haven't* caused widespread outrage on the intarwebs he also got wrong... or would now willing to say so if that happened.

@ottocrat To Cheese Eating Suspender Monkeys?

#Ukraine isn't just defending itself. It's defending everyone else.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-intelligence-shows-russias-targeting-of-a-cargo-ship

I wonder if telemarketers ever call in sick. I mean, you know the management response has got to be be, "look, if you can make this call you can make any call. Get to work."

@Syulang @mastodonmigration "Move fast and break things" is well-evoked here: it's shockingly on point when it comes to Musk, Starlink, and the Kessler Syndrome.

@AnnemarieBridy

What I don't understand is why? Who is rewarding these contrarians? Why are the right wing fighting so diligently against healthcare, vaccination, climate change remediation...

I mean, you name it, they've somehow made a career of opposing it. Who's footing the bill?

@ErikJonker These nuclear war hysterics are basically the go-to rationalization of tankies. Russian oligarchs don't want nuclear war: where would they spend their loot?

There's no point in being rich in Russia -- the point is to get rich _from_ Russia, and then live well in the West. Nuclear war is to say the least counterproductive to that.

And Putin is nothing more or less than the apex kleptocrat.

@jern TMI

@openculture I've developed a convincing simulacrum of fake meat by killing animals and cutting pieces off them. Please fund my kickstarter

@wikkit As opposed to endorgenous, which means "native to the same planet as Wookies and Ewoks."

@johnshirley2024@wandering.shop So proud they hide their faces...