Or you just say excuse me and squeeze past the people at check-out. Why would I explain myself to a cashier?

If they think I did something wrong it's up to them to talk to me and prove it. In the US it may be different... You lot realky adopted guilty until you prove yoir innocence but I don't live like that.

Eh, fair- but it should have been obvious what I meant from the context of the paragraph- non-Residential-private-citizen-usage.

No, because it's the producer that's engaging in the level of inefficiency- not the consumer.
You can argue that the consumer is vaguely aware that buying shit from China is terrible for the environment, but if you're trying to argue that CO2 isn't an externality, this is going to get amusing.

So, if I get this right, Americans are responsible for Chinese fueling their factories with coal. Is that correct?

I'm not blaming China for anything- I'm pointing out the complexity of the situation.
I said you can't simply say, "per-capita", because the picture is insanely more complicated than that.
Chinese per-capita usage is going to explode (it's already exploding) as more and more of their 85 year old pig farmers die and are replaced by people who actually use their electrical grid. You can't compare the Chinese population's personal energy usage with any first world country.
The average for all of China is just a little over 1.1kW constant load for each person.
Think about that.
While all Chinese people may be connected to the grid (or so I read), many are obviously not using power at all.

And still twice as bad as the Netherlands, and the EU on average? 5x worse than the Netherlands!

Why do you guys suck so bad?

Well, I said victim of violent crime, not murder ;)

Speaking of which, you're almost twice as likely to be murdered in London than to be killed by a car. You people have funny priorities.

The part you don't fucking get about any of this, is the cultures are different.
You have a safety culture. Every fucking square inch of your country is covered in CCTV cameras that the police can access without warrant.
That's not the culture we have.
If we wanted that culture- we'd have it.
Our culture is probably not for you, and your culture is very definitely not for us.
I thought this was settled back in 1781 when Cornwallis surrendered to Washington, but who knows.

Your generalizations are stupid. The most dangerous state in the US for pedestrians is fucking New Mexico. It's not because of stroads.
Are stroads a good idea, or bad? Who knows- who's to say. There's arguments in either direction, but no strong evidence. But you call it objective. You need to pull your head out of your own ass, you limey fuck.

> but how much does it really happen?

A lot. Like, a LOT a lot.

Maybe you would like some other videos if that's your preferred media?

Roblox Situation is Worse Than You Think
Roblox: How to Destroy Your $83,000,000,000 Company Overnight - A Deep Dive
Roblox, Take a Seat (ft: Chris Hansen)

Roblox has had problems with child exploitation too, for years now; Investigation: How Roblox Is Exploiting Young Game Developers and their follow-up, Roblox Pressured Us to Delete Our Video. So We Dug Deeper.
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You are discussing - ranting about, really - what should be.

The rest of us are discussing what is.

The original claim is that people aren't buying the F-150 Lightning because (paraphrasing) people want mid-size trucks and not fill-size trucks. That claim is refuted by pointing out that mid-size trucks already exist, they do not sell very well, and in fact full-size trucks are overwhelmingly popular.

Now you come in with your righteous indignation that because, in your view, people don't actually make full use of full-size trucks, they should not be buying full-size trucks. Notwithstanding that the majority of these trucks actually ARE used as trucks - because the cultural bubble that exists entirely up your ass along with your head is not representative of the entire world - the very real popularity of these vehicles is not dependent on what people actually do with them.

I'll say it again just to be crystal clear: It does not matter if you think they should not be popular, the fact is they are popular. Reality does not give a shit what your opinion is.
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Incorrect.

No. Land owners that owned their mineral rights were able to lease them.

You're a fucking moron.

Educate yourself.
"Mineral rights can be severed from surface rights, meaning one party may own the land above, while another owns the resources below. This separation is common in oil- and gas-rich states like Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and North Dakota."

You fucking political ideologues are astonishingly ignorant of the things you have strong opinions on.

The environment doesn't care, of course.
Humans care. And that was made obvious in my example.

Per-capita is important to gauge- but people are not the majority of CO2 emissions. Industry is.
If you want to subtract all industrial CO2 emission, and then do a per-capita on what's left, then we can meaningfully compare "A Chinese Person's CO2" and "An American Person's CO2"
But once we do that, we also need to look at the value of the industry, because CO2 is universal, and we have a right to know what we're getting for that cost.
An MRI machine, or some GI Joe toys ironically made in China?
Pretending like the environment doesn't care about industry, but does care what polity some arbitrary division belongs to is laughably stupid.

You don't care about facts here- you a predecided belief, and you won't suffer it challenged.

I see- your arbitrary line is better than my arbitrary line.

Let's just look at it this way- you're more likely to be a victim of a violent crime walking in London than you are be killed by a car in the US as a pedestrian.
Your violent crime rate is downright impressive. Talk about murder streets.

Whether or not people use the vehicles for their supposed purpose or to the full capabilities is completely irrelevant to the sales numbers.

I'm sorry that the world does not conform to what you imagine it should be. The reality is full size pickup trucks are the best selling vehicle type in the US by a wide margin. Feel free to masturbate your is-ought sophistry until you go blind though...
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That's probably because the "Typical millionaire in the US" is likely a farmer or rancher.

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Please do not work in OpSec.

No, I'm saying that all things being relative, the UK has murder roads compared to several countries in the EU as well. How can you not get it?
Your complaint about our roads is that we have 1.5 pedestrian fatalities per 100k population, which is 300% that of the UK.
Well, the UK is 200% that of the Netherlands. Why are you exempt from having murder roads, or have you drawn a magical line in the sand where roads are murdery? Where's the line in the sand for Poland's roads, or do they get a pass?

Your labeling is laughably inconsistent.

The 2x was for you and the Netherlands:
UK: 5.3
Netherlands: 2.3
2.3x if we're being exact.

I said that the US is ~3x that of the UK.
It turns you are right- and that is wrong.
I got it from the CDC, but it appears I didn't see what the date on it was:
"Between 2013 and 2022, U.S. pedestrian death rates increased 50% (from 1.55 to 2.33 per 100,000 population),"
So we'll have to revise that to 4.3x that of the UK.

Why did you leave Romania out of your list at 24.7 per million?
Ukraine at 23 per million?

I have already pointed out that you selectively chose Western Europe, which is simply safer in spite of sharing EU regulations with the likes of Romania.

We were comparing death rates without regard for miles driven. If you add miles driven, you only dilute your argument and move it in our favor since our accidents are spread over far more miles than yours. This is basic math. Sure- our "more miles driven" aren't enough to offset our high fatality rate, but still, it only served to dilute your argument.

No, it's an opinion held by a group of people. I think you perhaps need to look up the word objective and evaluate its proper usage.
Stroads with very low fatality rates exist.
And no, while most stroads exist in the US, most of the US is not stroads in the slightest.
Further, stroad density doesn't track pedestrian fatality rate per capita in the slightest.
To a rational person, that would disprove your argument- but I bet you'll beat that drum until your arms go numb.

I think that just about confirms the ethnocentrism.

Of course I cherry picked!
You made a gross claim, all I needed to do was provide a counterexample to prove you were full of shit, and I did. I'm glad you wasted so much breath demonstrating that fact.
I will allow you to revise your argument, though.

There's more of that ethnocentrism. You made an argument that was wrong.
It was an inappropriate generalization used to come up with some poorly-reasoned arguments. You have no fucking clue how I feel about the US, and are trying to stereotype.

Seriously, you are ethnocentric trash. Nothing more.
Rest well knowing that the US has the traffic system that the US populace wants, and votes for, and at the end of the day- at least we're not British ;)

If this was "normal" in US, fracking boom wouldn't have happened, for largely same reasons it didn't happen across EU. Popular resistance from land owners. No one wanted to deal with problems of fracking on their land, without getting well compensated for it.

In US, land owners got compensated, so they pushed for it. US federalism does allow for people to run their states like pants on the head retarded communists (which is actually rare for communists, most tend to be of at least average intelligence and significant plurality are highly intelligent, see Chinese Communists where 130IQ is estimated to be on the lower end needed to get into party leadership role).

But your name suggests you're an Oregonian, and Oregon is indeed one of those rare exceptions that proves the rule. Utter far left insanity in leadership, and not even the intelligent kind unlike for example Chinese.

You could start with the fact that he secured by far the most investments out of all AI companies for his company.

You could then go on to note them being top attractors of relevant talent in the field, and having stayed that way for many years at this point.

Then you can proceed to noting that he has become the de facto public face of current AI push. Most people have no idea who leads Anthropic. Meanwhile pretty much everyone who follows AI even remotely knows who Altman is.

So best investment acquisition, best hiring capability, best PR just to name a few critical fields for a CEO. To argue with those results is to argue with reality. You can hate man all you want (frankly, it's easy to do, dude is a shifty asshole with physiognomy of a used car salesman). But results speak for themselves.

Delusion of Divinity of Man rather than accepting that human is an evolved animal is a pretty common reason for having problems dealing with reality nowadays.

Notably human leaders generally don't kill infants of previous leaders, because our tribal structures evolved to be different from lions. We had our evolutionary divergence from them a very long time ago.