Continue to move production out of China. It will cripple their economy.

All over the city when they hear a boom, or see a flash of light in the sky, driving over there, then they are gone. Plus the drone can pinpoint with GPS where it is.

in modern history

Well, your buying power would be crippled.

How about the US, period?

If these "green energy" things are suppose to be THAT good, let them stand on their own without the tax credits. It's called the free market!

Did you understand anything in that marketdroid BS? I didn't.

All this screams to me is: avoid - avoid - avoid.

Sure, itâ(TM)s quite possible for two people to exchange offhand remarks about the local weather apropos of nothing, with no broader point in mind. It happens all the time, even, I suppose, right in the middle of a discussion of the impact of climate change on the very parameters they were discussing.

I remember when the "paperwork reduction act" came along in the 90's. People told me I better find another line of work since copiers wouldn't be around much longer. (tech, not sales). Every time a new government rule/law comes along, it "required" more paperwork. Now, all the machines are pretty much multifunction devices. Print, copy, scan, fax, email. Mechanically, they are pretty stable, but it's the SOFTWARE that can drive you nuts. The part that ticks me off about this industry is the RIPOFF of toner/ink. Black toner/ink is one price, but the color is 3-4-5 times more expensive. IT'S THE SAME! Just the pigment is different. When I'm teaching new techs in class, just to screw with them I will switch around say magenta & yellow when they are on a break. When they come back, and make a color copy, the look on their faces is priceless! In troubleshooting, it's common to swap components from one color to another to see if the problem follows the color or stays. If the toner wasn't the same, it wouldn't work. Also, if it were different, the DRUMS would be different for each color. Same with the carrier/developer. If you are 100 miles from the office, on a Friday and the customer really really needs the machine, you need one color of carrier/developer but only have a different color, You install it, run enough copies to run out the wrong color in the carrier (carrier is the "super tiny iron pellets that the toner sticks to) and then supply the correct toner, recalibrate and you are good to go. Yeah, it's a ripoff, but it is what it is.

The thing to understand is we're talking about sixth tenths of a degree warming since 1990, when averaged over *the entire globe* for the *entire year*. If the change were actually distributed that way -- evenly everywhere over the whole year -- nobody would notice any change whatsoever; there would be no natural system disruption. The temperature rise would be nearly impossible to detect against the natural background variation.

That's the thinking of people who point out that the weather outside their doors is unusually cool despite global warming. And if that was what climate change models actually predicted, they'd be right. But that's not what the models predict. They predict a patchwork of some places experiencing unusual heat while others experience unusual coolness, a patchwork that is constantly shifting over time. Only when you do the massive statistical work of averaging *everywhere, all the time* out over the course of the year does it manifest unambiguously as "warming".

In the short term -- over the course of the coming decade for example, -- it's less misleading to think of the troposphere becoming more *energetic*. When you consider six tenths of a degree increase across the roughly 10^18 kg of the troposphere, that is as vast, almost unthinkable amount of energy increase. Note that this also accompanied by a *cooling* of the stratosphere. Together these produce a a series of extreme weather events, both extreme heat *and* extreme cold, that aggregated into an average increase that's meaningless as a predictor of what any location experiences at any point in time.

and summer is ultra-messed-up too here. We've had 2 days at 64 degrees this year, but otherwise it barely goes above 50. It's really rare here to have such a long, sustained bout of cold weather around midsummer.

AI and robotics are able to replace "90% of what a beekeeper would do in the field"

AKA - Keep Calm and Carry on Polluting.

#KnowThis
There is only a 5% chance we are going to switch trajectory from complete collapse to buying ourselves a couple more decades.
These types of #Greenwash projects which seek to continue business as usual - that which we know is killing us. A lifeless planet is just that.

I am constantly bemused by the idiocy of humans who fawn over mythincal shiny new technologies having blind faith in the so called scientists who think its possible to ignore the laws of nature.

Were fucked.

Without cash, the GOVERNMENT can turn your money on or off with the flick of a switch. Prevent you from purchasing something, if your "health report" shows your BMI is too high after your last government provided "free healthcare" checkup, social media post. Don't think so? Just think about the POWER government would have, if EVERY transaction you make, can be traced!

The tech world isn't the "intellectual" class. It's the crass profit-at-all-costs business class. That's why they market AI: they know perfectly well AI is shit and nobody but corporate bean counters want it, but corporate bean counters is where the money is.

It's becoming a selling point.

Hell, I even watched a video leaked from some OnlyFans account that had the preamble "This content creator prides herself in making her own content herself entirely: no AI bullshit involved!" If the porn industry rejects it, you know it's bad for business.