These men come to me with tears in their eyes telling me they are more straight than anyone else, maybe ever.

Women have a significant issue with losing muscle mass in older age, increasing the chance they will be frail and have limited mobility. Lifting weights throughout life is protective of that (and for men too, but to a lesser extent since they tend to have greater muscle mass).

The main issue is that while a subset of the West are giving up meat, the consumption of meat is increasing in developing countries which is a typical trend as countries get richer. Also, there is a subset of Westerners increasing their meat consumption massively because of idiotic social media trends, but hopefully that is temporary.

I’m hoping that plant-based meat and/or cell-based meat eventually match or exceed meat in quality and price, but we are not quite there yet. Not that I’d eat anything that smells or tastes like meat personally, but people seem to be addicted to it.

People online are actually “real” people as well (assuming they are not bots) so yeah, at least some subset care. Do I care personally? Not in the slightest.

Better get going on those taxes Neddy!

That’s a funny name. I’da called them chazwazzers.

the averge person spends most of their time during daytime away from home, so its far less practical to have solar at home.

Only because of hostility to work-from-home policies; plenty of people spent their days at home during the pandemic, and there’s also carers and the elderly that are home most of the time.

But this is definitely a “why not both” scenario as both will have benefits and aid in greater decentralisation of the grid, reducing the risk of down time (whether intentional or otherwise).

idle their cars beneath my window and exhaust fills my apartment

I don’t fucking get this, like why do people do this? Even during the oil crisis people still do this shit for no reason I can tell. I’d understand if it was super hot or cold where I am right now but it just isn’t.

It’d also complex, expensive, and takes many years to build.

And the younger MAGA men would also support it, as long as it was guaranteed to be other young men and not them specifically.

And then “it was our fault, and you deserve it”.

I think it’s interesting that the terms are predominately slur form too, which you’d expect to be more common amongst conservatives.

See what happened to Xiaomi bootloader unlocking for an example of this in action.

Usually these sort of studies include embodied emissions including all of the inputs that go into building the car. This article here: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/when-do-electric-vehicles-become-cleaner-than-gasoline-cars-2021-06-29/

focuses on new-to-new comparisons, but if you subtract the embodied emissions of around 8M tonnes of CO2 for the model 3, it looks like the break even point using the US electricity supply in 2021 is around 4.5 years. And that is probably a bit conservative given that:

• The energy supply has gotten cleaner since then
• It is compared to a Toyota Corolla which is a quite efficient petrol car (although bulkier SUV EVs etc would come out worse too so it depends)

Of course, it also depends on how much the car is used. If you use a used ICE car extremely infrequently the crossover point will be later.

Here’s a research article I have gotten around to reading yet but you may find interesting: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S095965262300269X

You might have to go to annas-archive and the like to get the content however.

Emissions from building a EV is from memory less than the emissions from continuing to run an ICE car after only a few years. And rapid adoption would encourage more renewables into the grid and in homes further increasing the EV advantage.

I think all of these have sdcard mods now (and the 360 had long had HDD mods from memory).

Flashbacks to 2020 and trying to buy a videocard.

I consider pet ownership to be too widespread in general because it causes a massive drain on resources (and on local wildlife) while we are in a climate crisis. An even in richer countries, pets are often neglected by their owners causing widespread suffering to the pets themselves.

And I say this as someone that likes and gets on with cats and dogs; I just think there are too many of them.

They’ll just shrug and say it was worth it. Like that kid that died from measles whose parents considered death to be a better outcome than getting the vaccine.

I think country TLDs don’t have WHOIS privacy protection if you care about that.