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Comment Re:Time to address the real problem (Score 1) 227

The only way? Nah.

Each and every individual can simply stop using fossil fuels, especially individuals in somewhat richer countries. Stop flying, get an EV, replace you heating. Stop eating meat. It's not that hard (but it might hurt).

Those corporations you mention, indirectly all demand for their stuff can be traced back to such individuals. Also, they operate within the boundaries set by governments. If they still harm the climate, the government has not done its job. And in a democracy you know who's to blame...

Let's definitely keep "hitting primary contributors" but let's not make the ridiculous mistake of thinking that we need them to fix this.

Comment The sahara use to have water (Score 0) 78

Now it is a desert. The climate changes. In the 90's during the Algore era of global warming, when the ice was melting, it uncovered an abandoned settlement somewhere up north, iceland, norway or somewhere up that way. Scientist were all giddy with the discovery. It was dated to the 12-1300's. NOT ONCE did anyone ask, hey! how was it warmer 7-800 years ago, to have a bunch of people living in a community, without "man made" global warming? Too much burning of whale blubber??

Comment Geothermal will save Iceland (Score 1) 78

Even if their island becomes 100% hostile to all life, the Icelanders can always power artificial life with the free energy they're blessed with: the uninterrupted source of heat coming from the bowels of the Earth.

They're in a quasi-unique position of not really having to worry about climate change, if worse comes to worst.

Comment The American work culture (Score 4, Interesting) 61

has been utter shit for decades. It glorifies overtime over everything else - including over metrics that could be improved with less overtime, such as quality and efficiency.

AI is just more of the same: turbocharged shit.

I'm saying this as an American expat living in Europe and actually having a quality of life and work/life balance I never had stateside.

Comment Propaganda / BBC Bullshit (Score -1, Flamebait) 44

"We had sex in a chinese hotel" ......
Anti-China Propaganda - like chinese hotels are the only place this is happening ...
Like BBC has broadcast one iota of truth regarding the Epstien revelations that might shed more light on the actions of the royal nonce, ex prime ministers or
high ranking british pedophiles... Weird i think isnt it that they dont have any airtime for to tell the truth on the biggest trafficking / pedophile ring ever. Maybe thats because BBC is also an organisation that enabled and paid nonces
like
Rolf Harris ,
Billy Idol ,
Jimmy Saville,
Stuart Hall,
Huw Edwards,
Chris Denning,
Johnathan King,
Chris Langham
All bankrolled by the nations LEAST trusted nonce enabling broadcaster.

I smell a dead cat story, and the reason i do not watch , not fund british nonce-enabling broadcast television via the TV License.
I highly recommend people boycott it. In fact if you ARE paying and watching BBC programmes - why do you fund this - what does this say about you?

Comment It's happened before (Score 0) 70

In the USA, there was Zenith, GE, RCA, Motorola, Admiral that had the lions share of television sales. Then, the Japan came along and the USA television makers disappeared. This happened about the time of the switchover from tubes (valves) to solid state televisions. With the solid state boxes, you'd turn on the tv and didn't have to wait for it to "warm up". Labor costs also figured into this shift to the Japanese sets. American workers wanted more and more money after WW2 and labor costs increased. In Japan, reeling from WW2 was CHEAPER. As Japan modernized and their population expanded, the labor costs in Japan increased as well. Now the shift to CHINA where labor costs are LOW and for the most part, will REMAIN low as long as the CCP controls everything. Not like the workers can demand much of anything. There has been some push back to the labor problems in China, which has made some companies pull out and move to India. And the trend of corporations to seeks out more profit and cheaper labor continues. Once AI/robots improve human labor will be replaced with robots anyway.

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