so i was just walking to the nearest supermarket when the supermarket radio (they usually play music) calmly announced “for the next week, we expect a warm 35°C” … wtf

you posted this article twice. delete this one and keep the other one.

is already included, heating as energy (electricity and whatever fuel or gas you use to drive and heat) and internet access as IT (maybe should have called it IT and telecommunication services)

i’ll include:

• water, food and healthcare
• housing
• transport
• energy
• and IT and education

all at the communal level, responsible to the citizens

The amount of systemic change that needs to happen in the political and economic landscape realistically cannot happen in under four years from start to finish. It will require long-term investments in infrastructure projects that take years to build, which means at some point voters are gonna have to be patient and stop flipping sides whenever conditions don’t materially improve overnight.

In other words, we’re fucked…

yeah the US really needs to learn (possibly the hard way) that there needs to be a political plan for the industry. in the 20th century apparently it could do fine without that, but that just doesn’t work anymore. you can’t have efficient industry without a long-term plan.

yeah, IIRC, in 2000, renewable oil from rape seed was still cheaper than fossil oil. however renewable oil was banned politically sothat there’s no food vs fuel debate tearing society apart. the question really is more complicated than simply the cost.

that being said, solar panels can be put anywhere, including near big cities, and transporting electricity over distances has also gotten easier in the last 200 years, so that’s not an argument for coal anymore.

ehh, the actual technology where liquid oil / fuels are required are like 3% of all total energy consumption. the rest 97% can be electrified, and actually, using electricity is in many cases even simpler than using coal. for example in steel production. it’s easier to do with electricity than coal because coal contains sulfur and that introduces impurities into your chemical process. meanwhile electrolysis is simple and clean.

NGL is yet another TLA (three letter acronym)

tell us what it means at least once!

space-based fusion technology

or maybe just something blunt like “fresh, renewable coal”. it’s family friendly and 100% jesus-conforming.

coincidence? i think not

well said

that being said, china subsidized solar panel production heavily for 20 years until they became economically self-sustaining. so there was a large amount of ideology involved i’d say.

so this mostly applies to the buyers of solar panels.

would be good to post a short summary in the post body

A five-day-old group ​that channels Gen Z concerns has gone viral in India, overtaking Instagram followers of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, discussing issues like politics, inflation ‌and unemployment - with a touch of humour.

The Cockroach Janta Party has amassed nearly 15 million followers on Instagram in less than a week, compared with fewer than 9 million for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP, which says it is the world’s largest political party.

ouch that hurt but is this really world news? is it relevant to an international audience?

honestly we have no way of knowing anything that happens more than 40 miles away, except if we have trusted friends and acquaintances there that inform us about what they see with their own eyes. all the newspapers could be lying, how do you know they don’t?

also i’m noticing that you post a shit ton of stuff about the ukraine russian war. are you caught up in it? I’m sorry if you are but i’m not gonna take propaganda from neither side.

Actual human worth/value is measured in empathy for one another, which makes the US destitude in what matters.

well said. i had the exact same thought yesterday.

almost as if competition is what capitalism was always supposed to be about

I think they mostly do it to increase the amount they can extract? And also possibly to lower prices below competitor prices.

biological chemistry

fun fact: I have had a years-long interest into biochemistry since i was 12, and i want to study biology because of it, but i can’t; because i don’t have the time/money, because i need to get a job now to earn money, instead of spending another 6 years in school.

I also believe in free education, which includes research facilities.

It is my belief that every society benefits from free healthcare.

You know what recently came to my mind…

Israel is basically a military outpost for the US in the middle east. it’s one large military base that is supposed to pressure arab countries into giving their oil to the US. It’s “either you sell your oil in US dollar (which we can conveniently print at will) or … you know, Israel is your neighbor, and they have a ton of arms”. It’s an extortion scheme.

This is why Israel is threatened by renewable energy. Because if the world is not dependent on oil, then Israel has no reason to exist, as the US won’t give them a lot of weapons anymore to conduct their extortion scheme. And then Israel would collapse.