antisinguIarity

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by antisinguIarity 4y ago
Here's my original comment: >It's funny how people don't associate the endless stream of shiny gadgets they own, that are stuffed full with the latest and greatest in rare minerals, with the destruction of the ecosystem. Y
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by antisinguIarity 4y ago
>How many hundreds of smartphones do you think it takes to make up the resources consumed by one car? Interesting question. According to this source[1], a car, weighing 20,000 times more than a mobile phone, takes 400 times the energy to
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by antisinguIarity 4y ago
>If you did, you would know that embodied energy of all you electronics in a couple 1000 megajoules. A very quick Google will tell you that a laptop alone is 4500MJ, or about 4 tanks of petrol (although I'm not too sure about that s
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by antisinguIarity 4y ago
Then don't live in London if you are concerned about feeding your child.
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by antisinguIarity 4y ago
Ah so I'm a shill for the fossil fuel industry, because I believe in the power of individual choices? Fantastic. FWIW I had made no mention of emissions - I was talking purely about destruction of the ecosystem (which was the phrase us
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by antisinguIarity 4y ago
Well, here we've just picked a different set of winners and losers. Can you imagine the outcry if here we changed our benefits system to something like that Germany? "I've been out of work for years, and now this schmuck gets
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by antisinguIarity 4y ago
>given what I pay in income tax and NI That's how socialised safety nets work - those who earn more, pay for those who don't. Otherwise, it would just be a savings account ;) Who exactly should be paying for you to get 3k a mon
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by antisinguIarity 4y ago
>Jobseeker’s Allowance is one forth of the average rent in London Tricky issue. I do know that where I live (Wales), there are huge numbers of people living relatively comfortably on a benefit-funded lifestyle. There's also a whole
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by antisinguIarity 4y ago
Of course they didn't suffer during the Covid lockdowns. Only those who obsessively consumed news and social media suffered.
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by antisinguIarity 4y ago
I don't disagree at all with you pointing out the plight of families and children less privileged than OP (where I am, there is now a steady stream of truly awful stories about what happened to young children during lockdown when the m
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by antisinguIarity 4y ago
It's funny how people don't associate the endless stream of shiny gadgets they own, that are stuffed full with the latest and greatest in rare minerals, with the destruction of the ecosystem. Just to pick a recent-ish story at ran
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by antisinguIarity 4y ago
The article you linked makes my point: "an average ICE vehicle will emit around 69 metric tonnes in its lifetime. But an EV, in a state like Wyoming which is almost completely powered by coal, will only produce 66 metric tonnes if the
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by antisinguIarity 4y ago
If you're doing ~30 EV miles per week, sounds like a bicycle would be a fantastic addition to your personal transportation plan.
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by antisinguIarity 4y ago
>Hybrid batteries which minuscule compared to EVs, put out 25kw+ instantaneous power. Which is exactly the problem with hybrid batteries - the peak power demanded from them is about the same as a pure EV, but each cell is put under much
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by antisinguIarity 4y ago
Doesn't save much space or weight - the car will still be larger and heavier.
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by antisinguIarity 4y ago
>This is a good thing. Why?
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by antisinguIarity 4y ago
>An EV is already cleaner burning coal than a petrol vehicle That is a patently ridiculous claim. The most efficient coal power stations approach 50% thermal efficiency. Near 15% of that is lost in power line transmission, and another 15
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by antisinguIarity 4y ago
How does that make any sense? What those people need is a cheap EV with 50km range, and then rent a lnog-range vehicle for those few annual long trips. Why load your EV with several 100kg of ICE gear?
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by antisinguIarity 4y ago
Hybrids have a much smaller battery, which will make them cheaper.
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by antisinguIarity 4y ago
Yes. The EURO emissions regulations will make it essentially impossible to sell a new, purely ICE-powered car in the near future (in Europe). Every new car will be a bloated hybrid, designed entirely to scrape through the emissions and effi
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by antisinguIarity 4y ago
Possibly. History may remember our response to Covid as the last great and destructive folly of a dying civilisation.
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by antisinguIarity 4y ago
Which studies? >All that being strongly dependent on picking a mask that has decent filtration though Like I said, masks rated for the job will do the job (of filtering the air you are breathing into your lungs).
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by antisinguIarity 4y ago
I see a lot of comments conflating the mask types, and exactly who is being protected. Just to put us all on a common footing, here is a reminder of what the public messaging (at least, here in the UK) has been for two years: Any mask is es
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by antisinguIarity 4y ago
At least where I live (UK), seems to me that we all sat confined under house arrest while all of the vulnerable old people were discharged from hospitals (presumably, to make space for the tide of sick people that never happened) and gave e
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by antisinguIarity 4y ago
>Omicron and Delta were both more deadly Just goes to show the difference in public messaging. Where I live, all the headlines said that Omicron and Delta were less deadly (but more contagious). Then again, Delta arrived here just as the
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by antisinguIarity 4y ago
You personally know many young people who died, gasping for breath? I'm so sorry. However - you can't argue that "we need to lockdown to stop Covid until it mutates". In fact, until recently, the argument I was commonly
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by antisinguIarity 4y ago
Which part of the US do you live in, where you had a wonderfully short 2 week lockdown?
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by antisinguIarity 4y ago
Our response to Covid will be recorded as one of the largest outbreaks of mass hysteria in history.
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by antisinguIarity 4y ago
Drug dealers are equally strict about their employees getting high off the supply. Why are you so desperate to use your phone?
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by antisinguIarity 4y ago
>Many of the original mathematical ideas that originated outside the west were simply discarded till somebody in the west came up with the same idea later (sometimes, centuries later) and are credited with the discovery. Could you name s

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