Yeah, I jumped ship from T-Mobile to Mint Mobile several months ago. Same network: coverage & performance are indistinguishable. Cost went from $60/month to $15/month (prepaid annually).

Congratulations to Blue Origin and the people who surely worked their asses off to make this happen!

Technology has a history of eating jobs from the bottom, are you new here?

Another place for people to curate their warm, soft bubbles of bias reinforcement.

So ... stack ranking, gotcha.

Nice dodge on Hemingway.

Are you trying to say there's a difficult type of, say, linear algebra and an easier type?

Perhaps there is a harder version of Hemingway they could be teaching?

Given how competitive the kids are who made it through the insane contemporary university admissions derby, it's no surprise to see them continuing to run on the hamster wheel of credentialism like their lives depended on it.

It is tiresome to have so many virgins explain sex to us.

This study?

Farm living: effects on childhood asthma and allergy

Conversely, nobody has to buy from them and their systems depend on mass production. Go read early 20th century writings on the topic, they were scared to death of production getting too cheap. Henry Ford famously and astutely paid his employees enough to buy the product they made. He didn't care about them, but he did understand he couldn't sell to broke people.

We're going to have to tax robots or the intellectual equivalent and redistribute the money as UBI or whatever. Nobody will be able to afford the products made in the lights-out factories (Western executives who visit China are coming back terrified) or their software equivalents otherwise, and the whole system will implode.

A hundred years ago, "overproduction" was a big topic of discussion and Aldous Huxley wrote a book in response to these concerns. Maybe you've read it; if not, you really should. If you have read it, definitely go read his essay Brave New World Revisited. If you've read both, you're already one of the converted.

Kiwix + the ~105GB downloadable version of Wikipedia is fast & always available and doesn't produce a footprint on the interwebs.

Pretty much this, yes.

We actually did see a decline in total consumption of coal from 2014-2020, which of course is negative growth--which more than refutes your claim about slowing growth never happening. The IEA global forecasts are fairly flat for coal. (source).

The Chinese government is all-in on renewables, but they have stopgap coal projects to tide them over as consumption rises even faster. As seen in the USA, that won't go on forever if trends hold: we've already passed Peak Oil and electricity consumption has plateaued, TFA notwithstanding.

With regard to McKinsey, fuck those lampreys.

Lots of flashy pilot programs for decades, right, and nothing to show for it.

To repeat: greenwashing