houseofleft 33m ago • 100%
By the power invested in me by, well, nobody whatsoever, can I just take a minute to say, let's all cool down a little in the comments!
There's a lot of arguing against:
- The idea that acknowledging the tragic reality of climate change makes you defeatist
- The idea that because we have had some great advantages in green tech we can sit back and let climate change fix itself
I don't see anyone making those arguments here though! Just lots of people concerned about climate change with different skews of how positive/negative we should feel.
Personally, I swing between powerful optimism and waking in terror at 3:00am for the future we're hurtling towards. I'm sure other people are the same, so let's just be friendly to the fact that other people are in different vibes to us.
There are some people working together very well right now to dismantle the climate, so let's all remember that when we're talking with each other.
Peace and love!
houseofleft 19h ago • 100%
A lot of the comments here are, pretty fairly, sceptical of whether this is a viable idea.
My question is, what's the advantage meant to be over just having an electrical railway and seperately some solar panels plugged into the grid? Especially since the article mentions the solar railway would be grid connected?
houseofleft 5d ago • 100%
Does anyone have link to some more information on the science of why this is happening?
The article references a bunch of causes, like deforestation, ocean poisening affecting the ocean carbon pump, extreme heat etc. Are there any studies/data that try to break down where the impact comes from?
houseofleft 5d ago • 100%
Gonna skirt right round the serious discussion about oil company based misinformation here and point out that his suit is an extreme act of terror on the seeing.
houseofleft 6d ago • 93%
It doesn't split, but I'd guess 99.9% of those online meets are dating apps (rather than other ways of meeting online).
That's kind of sad, not because there's any one way people should meet, but because meeting people is now mostly mediated through for profit companies.
houseofleft 6d ago • 100%
How much CO2 does AI use compared to other industries? I know it's a horrific use compared to all other software, but have no idea how it factors in global carbon emmissions?
Also, just to be clear, I'm genuinely curious and not defending burning huge amounts of carbon for profit if the AI sector is comparatively small. That kind of backwards "but it just a small amount of everything else" logic would be a great way to accelerate our already too fast death spiral.
houseofleft 6d ago • 100%
Yeah, hopefully this is some genuinely good news, but it's hard not to see it as an unbelievably positive spin on the fact that this year we'll emit more CO2 than any year in record.
houseofleft 6d ago • 100%
I don't know specifics on this battery farm, but almost all are essentially fleets of shipping containers filled with smaller batteries, rather than some super-cool-mega-battery, so it's probably a safe assumption that this is a landmark project in scale, rather than in technology specifics.
houseofleft 7d ago • 100%
Yes, for sure!! I hope my call for policitcal action didn't come across as "don't do anything and wait for politicians to sort it out!".
I was trying to get at the need for collective discussion and action, over the idea of a climate change fix that's based on people's feeling superior for their individual actions, especially because without political change, a lot of even the individual changes we need to make (more heatpumps, EVs over ICEs, etc) are only accessible to those with sufficient wealth.
houseofleft 7d ago • 100%
Oh boy, have fun! CTEs have pretty wide support, so you might be in luck (well at least in that respect, in all other cases you're still using saleforce amd my commiserations are with you)
houseofleft 7d ago • 80%
Honestly moral superiority needs to get taken out of climate change as a whole. It's a global issue that needs political solutions. Nobody's individual actions are gonna change their nation's heating systems from gas, grids energy make up to solar, or billionaires to climate activists.
houseofleft 7d ago • 100%
I have advice that you didn't ask for at all!
SQL's declarative ordering annoys me too. In most languages you order things based on when you want them to happen, SQL doesn't work like that- you need to order query dyntax based on where that bit goes according to the rules of SQL. It's meant to aid readability, some people like it a lot,but for me it's just a bunch of extra rules to remember.
Anyway, for nested expressions, I think CTEs make stuff a lot easier, and SQL query optimisers mean you probably shouldn't have to worry about performance.
I.e. instead of:
SELECT
one.col_a,
two.col_b
FROM one
LEFT JOIN
(SELECT * FROM somewhere WHERE something) as two
ON one.x = two.x
you can do this:
WITH two as (
SELECT * FROM somewhere
WHERE something
)
SELECT
one.col_a,
two.col_b
FROM one
LEFT JOIN two
ON one.x = two.x
Especially when things are a little gnarly with lots of nested CTEs, this style makes stuff a tonne easier to reason with.
houseofleft 1w ago • 100%
I find meat eaters ask me "would you eat grown meat?" a lot, but my response is always just "I guess maybe? I honestly don't miss meat that much". I haven't come across any vegetarians/vegans who are particularly psyched about it either.
This is all speculation, but I'm not particularly convinced there's much of a market for lab grown meat over soy based products given how much more expensive they need to be.
houseofleft 1w ago • 100%
I know your comment is satirical so I don't really want to take it in bad faith, but all the same. . . .
Lots of people are working reeaaally hard at changing society for the better, and reducing environmental catastrophe, the studies from the 80s sparked soneof the biggest environmental groups we have today (the likes of Green Peace and Friends of the Earth).
Lots of other people, often with money, are cynically blocking the protection of the human race for their own gain. And the majority of people are caught between these groups, often feeling despondent.
My point is, don't get despondent, get involved! You can join the first groups efforts today, and it you do, you'll be concretely helping the survival of our planet and society.
If you're interested in specifics, both Green Peace and Just Stop Oil hold regular monthly/weekly welcome to all sessions (if you know about others, post them here!)
houseofleft 1w ago • 100%
What about a cap and trade market for battery fires?
houseofleft 1w ago • 100%
I sorta have three not entirely coherent and increasingly cynical feelings about this.
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That's neat! If redesigning bottles helps a little with emmissions then that's cool!
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Even though it might reduce emmisions, sometimes I worry that people think this is what ecological stewardship looks like. "Keep on burning fossil fuels and running an economy based on the exploitation of the earth, just change the shape of your wine bottles and we'll be ok!". We're not ok and this isn't enough, small actions like this don't cut it and we need to hold fossil fuel companies to account for the destruction they cause because it's too late.
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Wait, it's plastic!?!? Are we gonna pretend like CO2 is the only issue and killing millions of fish with plastic a year is something to ignore? Also, doesn't that effect the global carbon heat pump? Seriously, why is it plastic!?!? My only thought here now is that this is some cynical greenwash of a decision that was made to maximise profits and reduce costs.
houseofleft 1w ago • 100%
This is really beautiful! I think it's pretty common if you're switched on to the damage we're doing to our world to feel very anxious and negative, but it's important to remember that reducing climate change is not just about avoiding disaster, but building a utopia too. Thanks @NafiTheBear@pawb.social !
houseofleft 2w ago • 100%
- Am driving into a wall
- Turning or breaking in time sounds tricky
- Might as well accelerate, maybe car will take off and fly over wall?
- Woops, I died!
houseofleft 2w ago • 100%
Thanks for such a well reasoned response 😁 My knee jerk "public transport good" response did miss a lot of the subtlety you've captured here!
houseofleft 2w ago • 95%
AI: "Have you tried funding public transport and regulating the carbon industry?"
Ok, now we need to make a new AI so that AI can solve global warming but without using an existing solution that might marginally inconvenience the mega rich.
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13881784 > Hy (a lisp built on top of Python similar to how Clojure is built on top of Java) released v1 recently. I couldn't resist playing with it and found it worked sooo nicely. Thanks all the maintainers for creating a great language!
Hy (a lisp built on top of Python similar to how Clojure is built on top of Java) released v1 recently. I couldn't resist playing with it and found it worked sooo nicely. Thanks all the maintainers for creating a great language!
Hey folks, appologies if this has been asked before (although surprisingly I couldn't find a similar post) - what solarpunk book, film, game, tv, etc recommendations does every have? I'm only just discovering the genre, looking for some good starting points!