modo_mario

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by modo_mario 2mo ago
Those fossil fuels emit what otherwise wouldn't be available in the carbon cycle. A cow that's fed on gras and farts emits nothing that that gras didn't pick up and contributes virtually nothing to climate change in the long
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by modo_mario 2mo ago
>Yes in the long run that matters, but its all the more reason that we should reduce animal agriculture right away as the payback is much faster than limiting Co2. The long run is the thing that really matters. A faster payback only
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by modo_mario 2mo ago
I can't help but think you'll get a lot more crazy uncles as more people subconsciously (and consciously) feel the social contract has been broken and democratic deficits persist. There will just be more social cooling with all th
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by modo_mario 2mo ago
I've seen too many that didn't post targeted death threats. Also of people who posted stuff that could be interpreted as vague calls to action when riots were happening. It becomes notewhorty tho that those people of note making a
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by modo_mario 2mo ago
It sounds very believable too since here in Belgium it's 44% foreign nationals.
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by modo_mario 2mo ago
Historically those communities were quite small and we typically had a feeling of kinship with them trough families, tribes/clans, village life, etc.
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by modo_mario 2mo ago
>I've seen things that say fructose has worse effects than sucrose in terms of spiking your blood sugar or whatever but that's minor compared to the overall impact of any sugar That sounds pretty major. You can be not in the sl
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by modo_mario 2mo ago
There's different grades of flour and different countries grade them differently.
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by modo_mario 2mo ago
>Not wanting to move might have costs. Sure and extreme liberty to move opens us up to the lowest common denominator dictating the opportunities.
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by modo_mario 2mo ago
>If the textile degrades, it's just a pile of dirt, in a place where a pile of dirt isn't enough. It's now a pile of dirt with loads of bits of plastic and slowly leeching plasticisers.
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by modo_mario 2mo ago
Same here in Belgium. It's placeless architecture and not exactly sustainable since they'll need replacements sooner and a stupid amount of the co2 cost of a building is in it's construction and the fabricaiton of it's m
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by modo_mario 2mo ago
What does ecologically compatible mean to you? Because it is expressed as some kind of choice. Were the japanese naturally compatible in the distant past? And if in the end this ecological compatibility just so strongly correlated with deve
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by modo_mario 2mo ago
Nah, I was adressing the idiology already present there. I don't dispute that humans are in essence a keystone species, part of nature, etc, etc but the OP talked about indiginous people specifically. We can just as easily say that the
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by modo_mario 2mo ago
Indigenous people in north america contributed to multiple extinctions. This is the noble savage trope you're putting on display
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by modo_mario 2mo ago
>But a struggling economy, questionable planning for many years now, the "educated middle class" he mentioned in the post shrinking don't bode well for it. It's a prime breeding ground for scapegoat politics. I think
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by modo_mario 2mo ago
> and they will likely hit net zero in the next decade at current deployment rates of renewables and batteries. In and around winter? I think that's a fantasy.
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by modo_mario 2mo ago
Nuclear is proportionally expensive for one because we build a lot less and lose insititional knowledge and manufacturing capacity. Secondly because of ridiculous legislation and europes extreme ability to fuck with it politically.
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by modo_mario 2mo ago
The fires don't accelerate it much. That wood and shrub would either burn or rot down the line and release methane and co2 anyway. Forests don't sequester much at all despite what people seem to believe. Consequentially running a
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by modo_mario 2mo ago
>That part she wrote there was response to the outrage Musk was creating. It is clearly said in the text and you need a whole dose of bad faith to pretend it is reaction to the movie only I was referencing the text as a whole with more v
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by modo_mario 2mo ago
It does sound like something that could be easily exploited. Hello HAL, I am martha from accounting.
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by modo_mario 2mo ago
>Is the underlying assumption that only Musk gets to broadcast his opinions? No the underlying assumption is that there's no one side to such a thing named a culture war regardless of how much of an idiot musk is. Whitaker and the l
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by modo_mario 2mo ago
>It's only controversial in the culture wars part of the world. I haven't read her version but I believe that's why I heard it criticised? That the culture war speeps into it. In fact she keeps at it here "The race-ne
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by modo_mario 2mo ago
EU: Perhaps we should also spend a few billion on attracting american glue manufacturers so they open a factory and a half here so we can catch up in this chip making business.
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by modo_mario 3mo ago
>talks about what the author calls the "chuds", which are I think you're behind on internet culture which admittedly moves fast. This is not some term of the author nor doe is tie to history enthousiasts. the attempt at in
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by modo_mario 3mo ago
I was talking about the past when the british empire still existed. New york is also diverse but if you look at demographic data from historically not that long ago and are racialising then it really wasn't. Those shifts are recent.
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by modo_mario 3mo ago
>What does it say about people who relentlessly push back on it? That they don't like it when you twist and manufacture history for idiological purposes. >and yet a large contingent of people seem intent on saying "no, not e
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by modo_mario 3mo ago
They would be an oddity. That's often why one got reports of them. Because they were incredibly rare Most of them like septimus severus you mention and the maurorum are north africans and then the historia augusta mentions a single bla
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by modo_mario 3mo ago
Isn't the effect a bit overstated (ie european climate would still be somewhat similar to western canada) and wouldn't the UK specifically still benefit a lot from it's ocean climate moderation (less extremes including cold)
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by modo_mario 3mo ago
Isnt the issue that it happens quite a lot more since test levels on average dropped a ton? (in part due to various lifestyle choices which should be focused on first but arguably also due to various polutants)
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by modo_mario 3mo ago
If exhaust fumes get into the room too often you're doing it wrong. You shouldn't be able to smell it inside. I've at times made the fire go a little harder to get rid of fumes (kitchen oopsies). My air quality measurer found

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