Actually, the US has cut emissions already.

Only via dodgy accounting, Defence arent counted, international flights, international shipping etc aren’t counted at all. Then there is the entire issue that outsourced emsision are ignored, they will go up again if onshoring occurs. Outsourced emissons are worse becase of shipping which isn’t counted at all.

The dodgy accounting is deliberate as Deiter Helm explains.

https://e360.yale.edu/features/forget_kyoto_putting_a_tax_on_carbon_consumption

We’re doing noting to reduce emissions except LARPing. This isnt a tech problem, it’s a behavioural one. Closing aiports, banning private cars, banning cruise ships, cutting the military in 1/2 are solutions ebwryhibg eise is just posturing.

Bit I’ve had this debate with you a decade ago on Reddit and since then the Keeling curve keeps rising an rising.

We’re not idiots.

Hnmm, I’d argue we are.

No, we let then in, they’ve already won, they even have war bases here that Australian federal politcans are not allowed to visit.

Personally I’d rather China took over, at least we’d get decent railways.

Have you seen the Governembt NZ elected and what they’re doing to the Treaty ?

While as an Aussie who mostly agrees Australia is a conservative ass backwards shit hole, it would appear NZ is now aspirationaly Australia.

Heliboard, sourced from F Droid with the clipboard enabled.

I used to use Openbaord fom F Droid

If a bank has $100, they can write a loan for $1,000; effectively putting $900 more into circulation. When that is spent, it gets deposited into a bank, which can then loan it out amplified again.

Since there is not infinite money, there must be a gap in my understanding somewhere.

While this is true, the only “new money” created in that loan is the interest becase the capital is paid back , albeit over decades.

Absolutely, as a Linux uswr if only 18 months it was a complete balls up me trying to install Signal from tje shitty instructions. Their website, a seasoned Linux user in the forum said how he could see how I was confused becase the command lines on the Singnal website to do the install all ran together, since then it’s been fine but just Flatpak FFS.

Yeah but in my LMDE, Flameshot wont save files and is buggy as shit. It has an option to selext what App to open the screen shot in and that does’t work, share with another app and that doesn’t work, save the file and the files not there. Now, highly possible it works for others and just not for me

Hell, my Logitech kb can’t even use the screenshot button to take a screenshot.

I just use work arounds but still annoying.

As an Australian social media isn’t the problem, like the internet isnt the problem, its commersialisation thats the problem. The need to grow the custoner base sees outrageous behaviours from corporations like Meta, Google, Apple etal but that’s what they’re incentivised to do, so that’s what happens.

This legilisation won’t solve shit. The government and the polotical class forcing citizens to use Facebook or Twitter to get information, they could start there.

One if a purely intellectual practice, the other is connected to our souls and will damage us inside.

True enough, selling your soul to Google to pay the bills might make.you reasses your life and becone a sex worker.

My snark aside, your assertion is the most ridlcious ludicrous thing I’ve read this year and theres not much left to the year. Its that weird perspective that makes it different to what ? fisting a cow as a vetenerian or jacking off a horse to collect it’s semen ?

A contra view that I think is a more sensible and sane look at this is … no, nothing can, see here

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2024/07/metastatic-modernity-launch/

You think non-tech people are gonna understand that?

Yes becase they’re not looking to understand the protocol behind federarion anymore then you dowbt understand the protocol behind email, so they will grok better then you how it works bybusibg the email allegory, sending from gmail to outlook works for them.

I also use the phone network as another allegory if their eyes do glaze over, i can be with one phone company and phone somone on another companies plan. They have little idead of the prorogation of radiowaves etc that makes that all work.

Indeed, I’d like to see my country, Australia, join the EU and trade the pacific peso in for the Euro. What a grand experiment!

Same same here in much of Australia, painted lines are not bike lanes :(

True enough, as is the visit it before it’s gone. Yes, the Great Barrier Reef is dying from emissions and the resultant rising temp but fuck it, fly across the planet.

Get away from assholes ?

I’d like the age raised fron 16 to 75, I’m 58.

Interesting to read the comments, I was unaware anyone gave mich if a shit about posts, let alone how others might vote on them. I mean I don’t actually know anyone here.

I do hit the upvote occasioanly if a post was helpfu/usefull… to me. Conditioning is the only real explanation I have for that behaviour though.

Wealth effect ? Sigh… More and more debt.

A dwelling-house, as such, contributes nothing to the revenue of its inhabitants". - Adam Smith - The Wealth of Nations

But It is, the only thing it’s not above is the constituion and our constitution is particulalry weak on any rights of citizens.

The shittiest one is the back dated legislation we introduce when it found they breached the law, happens way to often.