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by acdha 8mo ago
Not many pay “a lot more”—your plumber is not taking home what she charges you—and that often comes with unpleasant working conditions, overtime, or extended time away from home. That’s like talking about tech salaries as if most people are
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by acdha 8mo ago
It’s super expensive and it takes forever to build—so much so that fossil fuel companies fund “libertarian” voices to use it as an attack on environmentalists because nuclear means decades of unabated fossil fuel sales. If you commit to sol
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by acdha 8mo ago
I think it’s because it’s ignoring the impact of concentration and the range of affected jobs. When, say, people switched from animals as the primary source of motive power for shipping, relatively few people immediately lost their liveliho
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by acdha 8mo ago
That’s a different question. The person you’re replying to was referring to historical totals and they were right: https://ourworldindata.org/contributed-most-global-co2 > the United States has emitted more CO2 than any
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by acdha 8mo ago
Yes, that’s definitely a risk when there’s a huge industry pumping out agitprop saying we don’t need to act. I think the original proposal was wise to structure it as an income tax refund so people would see a regular positive benefit.
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by acdha 8mo ago
Which was part of a slow down which recently hit the crossover point: https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-co2-emissions-ha... This isn’t a video game where you buy “clean factories IV” and everything stops polluting
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by acdha 8mo ago
It’s a common fossil fuel industry talking point, which hopes that the listener doesn’t realize that the climate changes in the past which weren’t deadly happened on much slower time scales. We have a much larger human population now so if
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by acdha 8mo ago
Let China continue to cancel fossil fuel plants as they roll out renewables and electrify at rapid scale? It’s not 1980, China is leading a lot of key technologies and they’re looking like they value long-term planning a lot more than we do
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by acdha 8mo ago
It’s complicated: https://news.mit.edu/2025/decarbonizing-steel-tough-as-steel... This is one of the stronger arguments for a carbon tax: if you can’t ignore externalities, people have strong incentives to use less (e.
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by acdha 8mo ago
> It had more margin and manufacturer squeezed it to keep prices. If you want to see real prices look at cheapest cars. Those are no-margin. And that is why their prices are up. At $25k total it had less margin than most of the domestic
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by acdha 8mo ago
This is not only wrong but you are bending over backwards to maintain the state of ignorance which makes it possible to say that. Most of the carbon in the atmosphere did not come from developing countries, and every reduction buys more tim
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by acdha 8mo ago
This is a function of your personal media diet: when you spend time consuming rationalizations funded by the fossil fuel industry, it’s easy to deride people who were right as “screamers” and the longer you do so the easier it is to project
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by acdha 8mo ago
That’s part of it but most of it is the push to huge vehicles loaded with luxury features. The Subaru Outback we bought twenty years ago barely changed price despite gaining all of those safety features until they made it bigger and moved p
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by acdha 8mo ago
Yes, I agree that he used his experience well for many things (and had competent staff he could trust to get things done) but I will say he made a huge mistake continuing to back Israel's actions in Gaza to an extent which I don't
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by acdha 8mo ago
That’s true, but it’s not always good—Americans have stark examples of the risks of octogenarian leaders whose experience leads them astray by discounting how much the world has changed since they were young. I think of mental faculties and
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by acdha 8mo ago
The left would never support that lawlessness: opposition to AI is based on things like ethics, environmental impact, etc. which are predicated on concepts like the rule of law. People are calling for regulation or UBI, mor killings. The ri
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by acdha 8mo ago
Here’s the first hit on Google: https://www.justice.gov/usao-nm/pr/us-attorneys-office-secur...
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by acdha 8mo ago
There are people in jail for this right now who presumably don’t find it funny, and in this scenario the volume would be high enough that prosecutors would definitely be interested.
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by acdha 8mo ago
Okay, can you express the “legal and cooperation loopholes Apple has put behind those” clearly enough for me to understand what you mean? Are you alleging that iCloud E2EE is compromised? Are you saying that Apple promised RCS would do some
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by acdha 8mo ago
It’s not hard to mark things as defective, liquidated, etc. so those eBay sellers can face fraud charges. We shouldn’t be sending stuff to landfills just to save a few pennies in permanent marker.
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by acdha 8mo ago
That’s my impression, too. Not hardcore MAGA so much as falling into the addiction of thinking he was smarter than “the establishment” about everything and taking contrarian stances to show they couldn’t boss him around. Twitter’s algorithm
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by acdha 8mo ago
Uh, that’s how he likes to style himself but that’s more of an ideological stance than you’re complaining about. A true focus on truth and defense of the public would have included questions like “are the Russians totally unbiased in feedin
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by acdha 8mo ago
Those aren’t loopholes and are widely known? I mean, they have an entire E2EE iCloud feature giving customers a choice between security and convenience: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/108756 RCS has never offered that
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by acdha 8mo ago
Very much so: “everyone does it” means that the leader can destroy anyone who doesn’t toe the line while seeming to be following a reasonable law.
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by acdha 8mo ago
What’s been dismantled? The major impact of his recent work was helping elect Trump twice and get tech companies to drop anti-disinformation campaigns. The military-industrial complex not only isn’t dismantled, it’s growing!
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by acdha 8mo ago
Do you have any details about those loopholes? It seems like a potentially big story.
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by acdha 8mo ago
He became well known for exposing surveillance but that instinct to portray himself as exposing government hypocrisy lead him to parrot Russian intelligence/Trump campaign attacks on Clinton and Biden long after he should have realized
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by acdha 8mo ago
That doesn’t have any details supporting the belief that this traffic was malicious or a sign of compromise. I’d easily believe that it’s picking up developer telemetry or ad networks but without some hard evidence this sounds like misinter
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by acdha 8mo ago
Perhaps–it’s hard to tell from a single sentence–but I would recommend reading more than the first comment of that thread. The person at the top exaggerated how much it’s not talking about the service or competing options, and the people ta
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by acdha 8mo ago
Like the good old days where most markets had multiple papers which had to keep readers subscribing, when broadcasters had to follow the Fairness Doctrine and had a push to more moderation because they couldn’t pick and choose their audienc

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