lol it'd be a short trial.
"You are hereby accused of gluing yourself to the road. How do you plea?"
"Not guilty"
"The road is literally still attached to your hand from where they had to cut you off of it."
"You are hereby accused of gluing yourself to the road. How do you plea?"
"Not guilty"
"The road is literally still attached to your hand from where they had to cut you off of it."
Just leave 'em there. After a few days they'll appreciate the benefits of fossil fuels.
Unfortunately it's as you say, it's all about trade-offs. The thing is, the amount of environmental damage that will be caused by enough solar infrastructure to provide a gigawatt of electricity at night in the middle of winter would dwarf the impact of one river being dammed.
In many provinces in canada, the entire population is having their electrical energy provided almost exclusively by hydroelectricity.
The effect of using hydroelectricity is that electricity rates become so low many people can use electric heat in winter, which as I've said many times is a core problem that would need to be solved if solar was to be used at scale.
By contrast, Ontario invested heavily in wind and solar (among other missteps), and rates skyrocketed so many people moved to fossil fuels for heat because if you don't then your electricity bill starts to look like a mortgage payment in January. You might imagine that such consequences disproportionately hurt the poor who can't just install a new oil or natural gas furnace.
In many provinces in canada, the entire population is having their electrical energy provided almost exclusively by hydroelectricity.
The effect of using hydroelectricity is that electricity rates become so low many people can use electric heat in winter, which as I've said many times is a core problem that would need to be solved if solar was to be used at scale.
By contrast, Ontario invested heavily in wind and solar (among other missteps), and rates skyrocketed so many people moved to fossil fuels for heat because if you don't then your electricity bill starts to look like a mortgage payment in January. You might imagine that such consequences disproportionately hurt the poor who can't just install a new oil or natural gas furnace.
I'm a strong proponent of hydro anywhere it's available because it's a known good technology that bypasses many of the problems with other green tech.
Greenland's benefit is resources. Lots of metals and probably oil and gas that would all be exploited a lot more as an American holding than it is as a danish holding.
If I'm remembering right...
If I'm remembering right...
Whatifalthist talks in this video a bit about how men tend to use physical violence to dominate, and women tend to use Gossiping, Shaming, and Rallying (or GSR as he terms it).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuuDjqNyxyw
In the end, if push literally comes to shove, GSR can't do anything if violence actually comes around. That's one reason why we're seeing places that are very left wing like Chicago and Southern California getting so dangerous and violent, because they're run as if GSR can be effective when it isn't if the person isn't willing to play that game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuuDjqNyxyw
In the end, if push literally comes to shove, GSR can't do anything if violence actually comes around. That's one reason why we're seeing places that are very left wing like Chicago and Southern California getting so dangerous and violent, because they're run as if GSR can be effective when it isn't if the person isn't willing to play that game.
Oddly enough, in a discussion earlier today I referenced Aristophanes' play “Ekklesiazousai” where women got in charge and it's shocking how much it matches with our current state of affairs.
> Praxagora: I want all to have a share of everything and all property to be in common; there will no longer be either rich or poor; […] I shall begin by making land, money, everything that is private property, common to all. […]
> Blepyrus: But who will till the soil?
> Praxagora: The slaves.
> Praxagora: I want all to have a share of everything and all property to be in common; there will no longer be either rich or poor; […] I shall begin by making land, money, everything that is private property, common to all. […]
> Blepyrus: But who will till the soil?
> Praxagora: The slaves.
You know the weird trope in a lot of RPGs where an ancient artifact is this strangely advanced thing? If you think about it, that's happened before. After the fall of the Roman empire, Western Europe was in a dark age. People were living in the ruins of buildings they couldn't figure out how to build, and often those ancient artifacts were better than anything that could be produced by current technology. Imagine something like some of the Greek clockwork showing up in some dark age village.
That's not the first time that happened, either. The early classical Greeks were often living in the ruins of Mycenaean Greek castles, and after the bronze age collapse some of the societies in the region didn't even maintain writing as a technology, so there were artefacts that were impossible for the people of the time to reproduce with current technology.
We also saw the collapse of the Indus valley civilization that had things as advanced as plumbing and sewage systems, where those technologies were lost to the indian subcontinent until much later.
There are ruins in Zimbabwe which are incredible of castles made of stone, completely inconsistent with what we imagine when we hear the word "Africa" as well. It seems that the high level of technology represented by Great Zimbabwe was not comparable to later civilizations until relatively recently.
The Terracotta army created after the death of the first emperor of the Qin dynasty in China was on such a level of magnitude and precision that the following periods of the Han dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period simply couldn't have reproduced it.
The Moche civilization in ancient Peru was known for its elaborate irrigation systems, advanced ceramic arts, and complex social organization, but the civilization collapsed and with the end of that civilization much of their technologies were lost.
Many societies before us didn't see history as a straight line, but a cycle. If it's true that civilization existed for in some form for 100,000 years before recorded history began which is suggested by some things like the story of the 7 Pleiades sisters where one sister left to describe a 6 star constellation where 100,000 years ago there may have been 7 stars showing then it could be that such a worldview is mor consistent with reality than our modern one.
While our postmodern view of societies says that civilizations fail because things aren't progressing enough, the dark age Christians believed that their predecessors collapsed because of a lack of moral virtue. The Bronze Age civilizations blamed "Sea People". The Mesopotamians told stories about a great flood sent by the gods as punishment for hubris. Two American civilizations claim that our current world is either the 4th or 6th one to exist and the rest were destroyed in cataclysms.
That's not the first time that happened, either. The early classical Greeks were often living in the ruins of Mycenaean Greek castles, and after the bronze age collapse some of the societies in the region didn't even maintain writing as a technology, so there were artefacts that were impossible for the people of the time to reproduce with current technology.
We also saw the collapse of the Indus valley civilization that had things as advanced as plumbing and sewage systems, where those technologies were lost to the indian subcontinent until much later.
There are ruins in Zimbabwe which are incredible of castles made of stone, completely inconsistent with what we imagine when we hear the word "Africa" as well. It seems that the high level of technology represented by Great Zimbabwe was not comparable to later civilizations until relatively recently.
The Terracotta army created after the death of the first emperor of the Qin dynasty in China was on such a level of magnitude and precision that the following periods of the Han dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period simply couldn't have reproduced it.
The Moche civilization in ancient Peru was known for its elaborate irrigation systems, advanced ceramic arts, and complex social organization, but the civilization collapsed and with the end of that civilization much of their technologies were lost.
Many societies before us didn't see history as a straight line, but a cycle. If it's true that civilization existed for in some form for 100,000 years before recorded history began which is suggested by some things like the story of the 7 Pleiades sisters where one sister left to describe a 6 star constellation where 100,000 years ago there may have been 7 stars showing then it could be that such a worldview is mor consistent with reality than our modern one.
While our postmodern view of societies says that civilizations fail because things aren't progressing enough, the dark age Christians believed that their predecessors collapsed because of a lack of moral virtue. The Bronze Age civilizations blamed "Sea People". The Mesopotamians told stories about a great flood sent by the gods as punishment for hubris. Two American civilizations claim that our current world is either the 4th or 6th one to exist and the rest were destroyed in cataclysms.
I seen a film like that before. It wasn't my thing but I guess some people really really like cars...
https://deadline.com/2023/07/actors-equity-sag-aftra-strike-avoid-breaking-kate-shindle-1235438177/
Equity President Says “The Other Side Will Try To Pit Us Against Each Other”
The job of an "equity president" is literally putting people against each other. It's right there in the name. *oh, bob is better at acting that's so unfair!* *Oh Jane has a PhD in filmography but why does she make more money than me?*
Equity President Says “The Other Side Will Try To Pit Us Against Each Other”
The job of an "equity president" is literally putting people against each other. It's right there in the name. *oh, bob is better at acting that's so unfair!* *Oh Jane has a PhD in filmography but why does she make more money than me?*
