It was over about 1974 when American cars weren't allowed to be quintessentially American anymore. :(
That show was annoying because it was about Southern California, and a bunch of the crap they talked about has nothing to do with many other places.
"Save water!" If you're in the everglades or on the shores of Lake Michigan, there's no such thing as saving water. You're taking water out of the environment, using it briefly, then returning it to the environment. It's a renewable resource.
"Save power!" If you're living somewhere that's entirely fed by renewables like hydroelectric, there's no real need to save power. You're not burning coal to keep that light on, you're relying on some water flowing through a dam.
"Stop smog!" If you're not in a valley where pollution is kept in one spot, smog isn't really a thing. This is an L.A. problem, maybe a couple other cities, but it isn't a global problem.
"Don't cut down trees!" If you're in an area that mandates that trees be replaced after they're cut, then wood is a renewable resource. It's not a big deal cutting down new growth forest then replanting new trees, and in fact under some circumstances that could mean a negative carbon footprint (for people who care about that sort of thing) since you take wood and semi-permanently put it somewhere it's not going to degrade, and then start growing a new forest pulling new carbon out of the air in the same location. Not everywhere is old growth amazon rainforest.
Environmentalism need to be a local thing, because most environmental issues are local, not global.
anyway, that's my rant. Welcome to my TED talk.
"Save water!" If you're in the everglades or on the shores of Lake Michigan, there's no such thing as saving water. You're taking water out of the environment, using it briefly, then returning it to the environment. It's a renewable resource.
"Save power!" If you're living somewhere that's entirely fed by renewables like hydroelectric, there's no real need to save power. You're not burning coal to keep that light on, you're relying on some water flowing through a dam.
"Stop smog!" If you're not in a valley where pollution is kept in one spot, smog isn't really a thing. This is an L.A. problem, maybe a couple other cities, but it isn't a global problem.
"Don't cut down trees!" If you're in an area that mandates that trees be replaced after they're cut, then wood is a renewable resource. It's not a big deal cutting down new growth forest then replanting new trees, and in fact under some circumstances that could mean a negative carbon footprint (for people who care about that sort of thing) since you take wood and semi-permanently put it somewhere it's not going to degrade, and then start growing a new forest pulling new carbon out of the air in the same location. Not everywhere is old growth amazon rainforest.
Environmentalism need to be a local thing, because most environmental issues are local, not global.
anyway, that's my rant. Welcome to my TED talk.
History says what it says. More people ultimately means life becomes cheap. Just like it is right now.
It seems inevitable that we're going to see a massively depopulated world in just a few generations.
Some people see that as bad, but a depopulated world historically has been the sort of era that provides booms in human rights and worker's rights and wages.
The black death and the period after WWII were both eras where the normal guy on the street was better off than the era before the mass death, because suddenly there's a lot less people and still lots of work to be done.
The line won't go up, so the mega-rich won't see their lot improve as much, but most people aren't mega-rich.
Some people see that as bad, but a depopulated world historically has been the sort of era that provides booms in human rights and worker's rights and wages.
The black death and the period after WWII were both eras where the normal guy on the street was better off than the era before the mass death, because suddenly there's a lot less people and still lots of work to be done.
The line won't go up, so the mega-rich won't see their lot improve as much, but most people aren't mega-rich.
These people are stupid.
If you want to have more affordable housing, keep increasing central bank interest rates.
If you want to have more affordable housing, keep increasing central bank interest rates.
LifeProTip: Water is a renewable resource. When you shower in many places, the water is removed from the lake, goes over your body, is processed at the sewage treatment plant, then is returned to the same lake it came out of.
I run several fediverse websites and I don't have a Facebook.
Sports stadiums were never really in my future.
Sports stadiums were never really in my future.
One reason I sincerely wish lotide was a bit more advanced is it seems like the easiest of everything in the space to deploy by an order of magnitude.
I, for one, am happy to see people who couldn't keep a houseplant alive telling farmers what to grow and how.
The only people who are allowed to riot are their allies.
I mean, don't riot, rioting is stupid. But if you do riot, remember that only the establishment's shills are allowed to riot, so you're going to get the book thrown at you because you're only allowed to burn down cities for half a year in pursuit of establishment causes.
I mean, don't riot, rioting is stupid. But if you do riot, remember that only the establishment's shills are allowed to riot, so you're going to get the book thrown at you because you're only allowed to burn down cities for half a year in pursuit of establishment causes.
Lol "noooo you don't understand reddit admins were only supposed to be assholes to literal Nazis like people who don't vote exactly how I want them to!"
I'm making fun of the far left's propensity to pretend that all the disparate groups they pretend to stand behind are a unified bloc who all believe the same thing.
Same as when they pretend blacks as a group fully support LGBT, when by the numbers they're one of the group that support it the least.
Same as when they pretend blacks as a group fully support LGBT, when by the numbers they're one of the group that support it the least.
And for really trash software.
I paid for premiere, it was crashy garbage. Big mistake.
I paid for premiere, it was crashy garbage. Big mistake.
I'm promising I won't moderate you for anything else willingly. If you fedpost so hard the RCMP gives me a call we'll cross that bridge when we cross it.