Way to let me down! :( ANY answer but "she's wearing pants" would have been far more fun and make me like her more!

This sentence reads as if the company negotiates with hackers and facilitates cryptocurrency payments and that they fired an employee for doing their job because they started to get investigated for doing what the company purpose says they do. WTF, Slashdot? Do better.

Then you're breathing tire particulate. We took care of a good chunk of the car exhaust but air quality didn't really go up as much as you would think.

So that got boffins looking into why and they finally solved the problem of, where do your tires go when they wear down?

Think about it do we have to clean the roads of tire gunk? Do we have to wash tire Gunk off buildings all the time?

The stuff has to be going somewhere and the answer turned out to be it's so tiny as a particulate it gets into the air and you breathe it.

This is why electric cars won't solve or even help air quality. We already have plenty of zero emissions gas cars but that doesn't do anything about the tires. If anything electrics make the tire particulate problem worse because they are much heavier and they have tires that wear quicker so that they don't use as much of the battery range.

There really isn't a solution for every single person in the country to have their own personal 2000+ lb transportation machine. But dang gummit we grew up with cars and we will be damned if we even consider any other viable solution to getting around town. Otherwise the Communists win.

And there is nothing more terrifying than fully automated luxurious gay space communism.

Let me put it to you in simple terms. Trump is only helping the wealthy. You are not wealthy. Trump will therefore not help you.

originally I gave you the benefit of the doubt that you would have logic in the way you vote. Now I can see that I gave you too much credit.

Eventually things will get bad enough that we have widespread wars and we start to see drafts again.

And the wars will cause a population drop and a subsequent slowing of GHG emissions. Republicans have a funny way of saving the planet!

Once we wipe out enough of the species that it begins to show up on quarterly reports as loss of profit, maybe we'll consider doing something about it.

Interesting you should say that. I just heard this morning that as more immigrants get sent out of the country we may experience a net loss to the population for the first time in decades. In addtion, because of all these people no longer in the country, GDP will decrease because they aren't buying goods and services nor helping to produce goods and services.

We know this is already affecting industries such as housing where one MAGA voter whined it will take him years to replace the immigrants taken from him. Of course, in Florida, they're already aware of what happens when you go after immigrants. Food rots in the field and businesses can't fully operate.

Perhaps these extended droughts will accelerate these issues.

The article was not written by people on slashdot. It wasn't even about Elon Musk.

From the article:

I think you could make the case we are losing ground to countries with other approaches.

On the contrary, the decision has already been made. Planet-wide, we, as a species, have decided that continued corporate profits must be protected at all costs, and that there are no consequences severe enough to justify impacting those profits even in a marginal manner. Human lives don't rank in the face of corporate profits. Hells, even the possibility of making the entire planet uninhabitable doesn't really register to those with the power to make a big enough difference to matter, because profits are the be-all, end-all of existence to those that could begin to enforce the changes necessary to stop, or even slow, the environmental damage we're causing.

Once we wipe out enough of the species that it begins to show up on quarterly reports as loss of profit, maybe we'll consider doing something about it. Until then? Full speed ahead.

Plus, a music CD will hold maybe 7 or 8 songs, but most CD players can play mp3s, and a 600 MB CD will hold a hundred or more of those.

And stop greenfield development. No more building things on virgin land, from now on you have to infill on vacant lots or tear down an existing building to build a new one.

Which is what's causing the droughts.

Eventually things will get bad enough that we have widespread wars and we start to see drafts again. If nothing else the American empire like all failing empires is going to have to start trying to expand its borders in order to loot other countries.

That's why Trump has been putting out the idea of taking over Canada and Greenland. It's a classic tactic of right-wing extremists to introduce an idea and then back off and then keep introducing it until the public gets numb to it.

I don't think people realize just how big a fuck up letting Trump get a second term is. This isn't going to be like a regular Republican term where they just crashed the economy and we all take a 20% pay cut.

People are going to keep calling me Chicken Little right up until the shit hits the fan. It's all scheduled to blow up right after the midterm elections when the big beautiful bill goes in. And that's of course no accident.

No, its an adult observation of human behavior.

To sum it up:

Everyone convicted of crimes that you like was convicted on false evidence.

Everyone not convicted that you dislike was guilty and no evidence is necessary.

Got it.

So the question is how many more emissions were actually cut because they met in person. Compared to the emissions that weren't cut because of the example they set. Frankly, the argument this was necessary is pure rationalization. This is all part of the notion that we can limit climate change while continuing to do business as usual.

You don't want to move to the PRC and avail yourself of their great automobile industry?

Well, your personal choice.