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still no hyperloop after all this time? what a surprise! these people risk their lives to build a tunnel for cars, maybe someone should have told all knowing all powerful elon that tunnels for cars have existed for over 100 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd_Street_Tunnel
it's all this guy: https://heng.lu/
who is very outspoken against IPv6 adoption because he wants to capitalize on his v4 holdings. THE END.
I don't know if I've heard a sentence from him that isn't a threat of legal action for something
most ycombinator folks can't seem to distinguish things outside the software realm. Maybe if all these super ultra mega smart engineers and developers could focus on utilizing existing hardware more efficient we wouldn't need to constantly build these energy sinks.
also, it has been known for quite some time how damaging the near total reliance on cars and the associated infrastructure at that scale is. If you do absolutely nothing about climate change when you have the most resources to do so, then I cannot feel sorry about anything that's happening.
I feel like being forced to spend 40+ hours at any/every job has to create more work to justify that amount of time (an "agreement" that people died for when they were working in factories, not that its based on anything realistic or 'scientific'), and that's not very inspiring and takes SO MUCH ENERGY, at least for me.
On top of that you then are faced with this constant increase in "tech" that is supposed to do so much amazing stuff / make everyone more efficient, so now you are forced to do even more work in those 40 hours or get squeezed by wealth inequality? The new AIM chatbots coming out now can do so much! wowee! now I can be in 4 meetings at once?
Then on top of THAT you also have to wake up each morning facing global climate change where there is no real effort to change the course (you can say all you want about renewables, but as long as these graphs keep going up we're all going down https://www.climate.gov/).
People do get value and meaning from their work, whatever it is, it just feels like this mindset and social structure of the industrial age doesn't match up with any of the challenges we face nor does it feel like it fits with all the knowledge and technology that has been developed. What's the point if what we're doing on a day to day basis takes so much of our energy and then just gets us closer to human caused environmental destruction no matter what it is?
not everyone wants to work every waking moment of their life, and that's ok.
the extreme excess and total neglect of the end of the lifecycle / negative externalities that every god damn company on earth likes to push onto people and the environment is the problem. Nobody said plastics aren't useful, why is that so hard to understand?
nice
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related to slide 4...
how much does netflix donate to the FreeBSD foundation relative to their profits?
it's interesting seeing our intentional or subconscious goal of "dominating" nature disconnect us further from the planetary systems that we are a part of. The economy and money was invented by us. Putting the economy's well-being in front of the human's or the earth's was very plainly a mistake.
what a surprise, cars continue to sacrifice everything for individual convenience
I remember his religion and morality coming up in more than one occasion in his videos, only to then learn that he worked for a weapons manufacturer. It was really jarring and made so much come off as disingenuous that I just can't watch his content anymore, not that promoting weapons on his channel was good on its own anyway.
the drop in emissions we need to not pass 1.5C of warming is not within the time frame of construction/operation of full nuclear power (for the entire world, not just the US).
Electric cars exist to (temporarily?) save the auto industry. The decrease we get in purely tailpipe emissions does not offset the supporting infrastructure, their construction, and the sprawl that they demand.
Even Exxon is not putting 1.5C targets (where even then a lot of real people die) in their "sustainability" reports anymore. Everything needs to stop at 2030 at the latest, and I personally have no hope that that is possible.
Prop 13 needs to be repealed
I don't think any American city or police department knows what vision zero is. They frequently include the words "vision zero" in their plans or posts, but then car crash deaths continue as normal or even increase.
Using Los Angeles as an example:
https://ladotlivablestreets.org/programs/vision-zero
https://laist.com/news/transportation/2020-traffic-deaths-lo... for the graphic "Traffic violence in Los Angeles" showing the increase since Vision Zero was adopted.
Then you have enforcement issues like jaywalking laws, the wording and culture around collisions and referring to them as "accidents", etc.
The entire country was REbuilt (US cities were not always like this) around the car. Until that changes, no city will reach Vision Zero.
though the amount of single use plastics encasing so much of the food (like at AH) seems to be a problem as well...
Same, first day was black friday. Changed any views I had of buying things in general
ah gotcha, thanks!
I feel like these should also include production/manufacturing emissions per vehicle. The rare-earth metals and lithium for batteries (for example) don't just appear out of thin air. Private cars have a many many externalities, not only the energy used to move the vehicle.
Germany is smaller than Montana. The sheer size of the US means that people live in wildly different environments and climates, and operate very different local governments/civic infrastructure state by state. Like the parent says, if you make a generic statement it's very likely that there is a place where that applies, but it certainly cannot cover the entire continent.