Ah no, you don't understand how this works.

This is why all the politicans have decided that homeless is *now* a problem that needs to be dealt with, using billions of taxpayer money, to buy up (or rent) vacant offices.. just why didn't we think of this earlier!

I'm certain this "solution" is not one of fixing homelessness, but of subsidising tech giants.

which, of course, means no end-to-end encryption because your comms are first sent to the tech giant's approval centre first.

The government also quietly adds a clause saying "child porn, and other government-requested data for specified users" and thus the surveillance state is created as the government checks up on anything anyone might send whenever they like, and perhaps even with clauses that say the tech companie scannot inform anyone that they are even checking your comms.

Meanwhile, the real child porn purveyors are using their own encyption and bypassing this privacy invasion. But then the gov never really cared about that, or they'd do something with the Epstein client list.

seriously?

the libs of tiktok, for all your hatred, was pointing this out with the simplest of simple tweets of someone's hypocrisy. Without any comment either. It was the pure light of truth shone in their face.

And they didn't like it, just like you don't like it being a thing. Imagine powerful political and media creatures being accountable for their own words. Imagine.

you know nothing then. The report in the 60s showed that common perceptions are wrong.

Kids don't have to get richer, they just have to get a job and see their tax bill. And they will, because we cannot have 100% of the population on benefits. Its not about wealth, its that tax bill.

And maybe its not even that, it'll be that they see the closed shops and crime and will move to a red state, and there they'll be exposed to people outside their old groups and will recover from the "woke mind virus".

Nevertheless, the UK manufactured a massive amount of stuff - you'd probably be surprised, we used to manufacture locomotives for the Indian railways that are still being used. Imagine the shipping of those!

Sure China makes more junk now because there's more demand for cheap Chinese junk. But still, they do it very inefficiently compared to the old days.

I want the challenge to be based on reality, and not some SJWs wet dream of destroying the west. These demanding the west bankrupt themselves also don't give a fuck about Indian emissions. Crazy world.

They seem made up statistics, 20% efficiency for an ICE car, hmm. Forgetting about biodiesel for a moment (which would be the truly 100% renewable fuel, and no cobalt, lithium or nickel used too) you can work out the efficiency for a diesel car that gets 70 mpg, Toyota claims 38% efficiency for its diesel, petrol ones get 20% easily, some over 30%. People buy cars that are fiuel efficient these days, so you should not use the worst figures to help your case.

The coal power station may be efficient, but its still burning coal and emitting lots of the worst type of carbon and other pollutants.

I worked out the numbers based on energy from gov figures for the UK. If everyone changed from ICE to EVs, the grid would have to expand by 11 GW. That's a big deal given we consume less than 50GW during peak time.

Solar cells, nice idea, but you'll use the power during the day for other things and there will be none left to charge your EV. And then most charge it overnight - zero solar then.

I remember a report that said because young people typically vote for leftwing parties and are generally more left wing in outlook, as the demographic ages the political landscape will become increasingly left wing to the point where right wing parties will cease to exist.

You'd think this was obviouse. Except the report was written in the 1960s.

Damn kids, keep growing up and seeing their first tax bill.

What's even more interesting about this is the left-wing commentators who have been shown (by Libs of TikTok back in the day) to be dead against the Trump vaccine, only to change their minds and demand everyone be forced to take the vaccines once Biden had replaced him.

Hilarious how the partisanship of politics is so extreme these days, and how the screeching harpies can't see their own idiocy, and how the establishment hates when anyone brings the recipts to highlight the hypocrisy.

The vaccine itself has nothing to do with Trump or Biden, made by the pharma companies and pushed out by their spokesmen and PR teams and the medical authorities. Trump and Biden were just mouthpieces for them, told what to say by various reports telling them "bad things out there, say have good fix" and they just communicate this in their own special ways.

except that its still a pointless value.

eg India emits a lot of CO2, and is increasing at a massive rate,

Look at the population demographics of India and you'll see a vast number of those people use almost no power, the rural poor are still practically agrarian-age peasants.

So the idea per-capita is about fairness is stupid, the rich elites and business consumes it all. eg you can have a hypothetical country comprised of 1 king in his hunger-games capital and a million peasants shivering in the cold, but per-capital says that country is perfectly fair usage.

so if India is emitting all this CO2 and the peasants aren't participating in it, that means the country is not fair and the energy use is very inefficient.

(you can see this looking at UK v China - back in the days when the UK had a large manufacturing base in the 60s and 70s, our emissions were still a fraction of what China emits today even though the narrative is that China emits more because we sent our manufacturing industry there)

Its not, the trends of Thai emissions are rising whilst that of the UK is falling. You're very nearly at the cross over inflexion point.

As for historical emissions, its a lot less than you think.

For stuff like lightpoles, you'll find you need a lot of solar panels to make it work for the duration required. Even with LEDs. You have a trade off and unless your pole is running something like a sign that can be turned off when not needed (eg a speed trap) then the solar power will be insufficient. Its crazy how much power we use and take for granted, and how people assume a solar panel will magically fix things. There's a reason China is building coal powerplants even though it has miles and miles of solar installations.

Thailand, for example, genertaes is power : 63% gas, 21% coal. "other renewables" (probably biomass) is 9%.

solar makes up 3% of your power mix. As the number of EVs increases, so will be demands on the grid, and more power will have to be built. From experience elsewhere, that will end up being gas or coal.

not at all.

Remember, the summary says "Samsung allowed chatGPT to be used after deciding this wasn't an issue"

So the employees used chatGPT as they were allowed by higher ups.

the higher ups then decidied that this was an issue so punished the employees for doing what they had been told was OK.

Its not stupid, its ignorance. Not everyone knows that ChatGPT keeps your prompts as part of its database, privacy and datamining are things and we expect websites (which chatgpt is effectively) to not steal your private data and use it as if it belongs to them. Expect more lawsuits over this.

Its the same companies buying them though, unlike miners it won't be joe scumbag buying them, ti'll be Amazon and Microsoft. So if Nvidia tries selling its gfx as AI processors, all Intel needs to do is come along with 10x performance Tensor processors and Nvidia will be begging us to buy its overpriced cards.

Of course, its always someone else's fault and they have to pay so you can enjoy your free electricity that ... oh wait

Thailandâ(TM)s Carbon Dioxide Emissions Have Significantly Increased Over the Past 10 Years

Thailan's emissions are just under the United Kingdom's (0.8% compared to 0.9% of global emissions), but I imagine you'd still think the western country is responsible for all ills. Give it a couple of years though, and you'll be emitting more, the trends are very clear.

what has "per capita" got to do with anything? The planet, if it is being destroyed by carbon emissions, doesn't care if you have 100 people putting out 1m tonnes or 1m people putting out 1m tonnes. The result on the planet is the same: 1m tonnes.

The 'per capita' argument only serves 1 purpose: to highlight how disingenuous the climate change scam is, as it shows that you don't care about carbon emissions, only punishing western countries.