Interesting. It doesn’t take any energy to produce solar panels, and no part of the process of building one produces any waste. Til!

Seems like a good region for geothermal.

Not saying nothing, but there’s always luanti and voxelibre.

Of issues I have with solar, “we won’t be able to farm” isn’t one of them. The amount of space required for even gigawatt level solar farms is relatively trivial. I think I did the math and it was like 30km square or something, which is enough to convince a lot of greens it’s a bad choice because it’s big and ugly, but on a map isnt really that that much.

Of issues I have with solar, “we won’t be able to farm” isn’t one of them. The amount of space required for even gigawatt level solar farms is relatively trivial. I think I did the math and it was like 30km square or something, which is enough to convince a lot of greens it’s a bad choice because it’s big and ugly, but on a map isnt really that that much.

California is a best case for the worst renewables. I always use Manitoba and Quebec as examples of good renewables done well. Norway as well. Cold places that need heat or you die, and lots of people can afford to heat their homes with carbon neutral hydro power.

Well, one thing to keep in mind is that most people haven’t been buying cars.

My car is starting to get older, and my plan right now is to continue maintaining it because compared to the cost of replacing it the cost of keeping it is so much lower. And I’m not doing that bad. Most households are doing a lot worse than I am, and so they’re probably looking at the astronomical prices of vehicles post covid and making the completely reasonable decision not to get anything.

So it’s easy for 90% of the vehicles sold to be electric because most of the vehicles being sold are luxury items for the rich rather than things that individuals need to live day to day.

Yes actually, it’s almost humorous that they’ve made good changes alongside the stuff that’s just meant to give people who aren’t paying any attention warm fuzzy feelings.

How exactly are you going to progress if you’re just being lied to all the time?

Hey great news, my house is 100% renewable now.

(I didn’t change the damn thing, and oh by the way I just forgot to mention this that I heat my home with natural gas)

Ah, so it’s powered by coal, natural gas, and bullshit & lies.

Oh yah?

Pretty cool running all the heat on solar at night in January.

Non-compliance can incur annual fines of up to €40,000 ($42,160) until resolved

Whelp, guess a lot of car parks won’t have any solar panels then!

Ah, you’re illiterate. I guess it’s easy to think everyone else is stupid if you can’t comprehend the words they say.

It’s an easy thing to just assume people are stupid. It makes the world nice and simple and if only people would stop being stupid and start being smart (smart like you, obviously!) All the problems of the world would be solved.

For a lot of people, reality isn’t so simple. The common man is already struggling. Throughout history, the age people get married and have kids has been indicative of the stress civilizations are under, and many people aren’t having kids before they get too old to have kids because that’s the level of stress the common man is under. Global civilization is facing a demographic bomb as every continent except Africa is facing a massive reduction in population in coming decades because nobody is having kids because life is so hard.

As a study in contrasts, just look at wages vs. rent while I’ve been an adult. Minimum wage went from 11/hr to 15/hr. Meanwhile, my first 2 bedroom apartment was 350/mo, and today you can’t get anything for less than 1200. A few years before I rented, there were decent houses available for $50,000 and today the average house price nationwide is $800,000. (Not the US, obviously)

So when a bunch of the business leaders and politicians who magically seem to get richer every time something is done “for our own good” – politicians who make as much as a senior engineer on paper but all of whom seem to become fabulously wealthy regardless (huh wonder where all those extra millions came from) while the common man has suffered – get together to figure out new ways to squeeze the common man, is it really so stupid to be skeptical? “Don’t worry everyone, we’re going to make your life even harder but it’s all for your own good.”

Having the summit in Dubai is fitting – a city of extreme inequality, paid for with oil money, built by slaves, ruled by kings.

You can try to guilt and shame people into not caring about basic biological drives, but you actually can’t. Entire generations of people have been pushed so far that their family lines will end with them. It’s comfortable enough – like being in a pool of comfortably warm water right up to your neck that you can’t escape from, but when you can see people plotting to add more water to your pool the next step is you drown.

In previous eras, common people being this stressed out led to the fall of the Roman empire, the French reign of terror, the end of the Romanov dynasty in Russia or the rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany. While you call people stupid for not listening to their leaders, historically speaking those same leaders will be lucky to keep their heads on their shoulders.

If you want, try to help such people.

It might surprise you that you can dump unlimited money into certain people and they’ll end up back in the same situation, but they’ll hate you for not giving more because you still have something left.

It’s like trying to help a drowning person, they often will drag you into the water with them.

I haven’t defederated anyone yet, I don’t intend to defederated from Instagrams new failed Twitter clone.

Threads is a failed platform. It isn’t like they’re adding federation to Facebook.

Meta does, but I’m not sure threads does.

I know people on facebook, but I don’t know anyone on threads, even if it is owned by meta.

I expect activitypub to be relatively scalable. As long as meta isn’t doing something stupid like trying to federate everything to everyone, the traffic should be limited to the users that have connected to each other. There are already absolutely gargantuan instances out there with millions of users that federate just fine with tiny instances.

I’d go a step further – there was never a public forum on Big tech for the past 15 years. Big tech was always the illusion of a thing and not the thing itself.

Open protocols are the only way to have a real public forum.

Is it really that tough to make changes on rust? I’m not even a web developer and even I’ve been able to figure out how to fiddle with lotide’s back-end code. I added a feature (I need to add back in) for stuff without a title so it’ll just pull the first line of text for when I’m pulling from friendica communities and the like.