I think AI could have a good tool for specific purposes and also a very lucrative business if only they had not thrown all that money at it.

The extreme investments forced them to roll it out prematurely over a much larger market that it could ever supply in a meaningful way.

They’re trying to force a camel through the eye of a needle.

Can you afford to stay?

I think fertilizer production is one of those things where we already have a solution that works on renewable energy, but it’s more expensive than the conventional methods.

It basically boils down (pun intended) to pressure cooking organic materials. This requires a lot of energy. In my opinion it would make sense to decentralize the production and make it smaller and closer to the also decentralized sources of renewable energy.

About 50% of the price of conventional fertilizer comes from the transportation anyway, so it would make a lot of sense to make it closer to where it’s needed. This is not economically feasible with the conventional production though.

I wonder how long it would take to rebuild society without oil, if we were to cut it from one day to the next.

I don’t think it would be long. Lots of solutions already exist but are infeasible only because oil is cheaper.

Peace is coming.

-en, -a, -et

We don’t send draftees to war. It’s only basic training.

The first ten times I read a headline like this, I thought it was just Americans being American, but then it started happening elsewhere too.

I do believe it has to do with the development of suburbs, which has to do with prioritizing car infrastructure over anything else.

I live in a small town, less than 20k people, and even here, the developers of the most recent suburbs have chosen not to have pedestrian sidewalks at all. They’d rather sell those square meters as building lots. It makes sense. Nobody is requesting a sidewalk to upkeep just so they can walk to their neighbor who they don’t socialize with anyway. The kids from these places never even get to learn how to walk a street safely, because their parents insist on driving them everywhere for their safety.

The older suburbs were made in a different time when politicians had expectations of cities growing and developing over time to have their own centres and shops and what not, which would require facilitating traffic passing through and local accessibility. The modern ones do not. They know now that modern suburbs are dead end appendix streets that never develop because people drive to the strip malls instead of walking to a local store, so there’s no reason for the municipality to require silly things like pavements, bike paths and playgrounds and such.

I do notice that more young people are currently choosing not to buy houses in those areas, but it is going to be difficult to fix the layout once it has already been made, because there really isn’t room for improvement between the lots.

Car Brain

• coming soon to a location near you.

Doubt it. Even Putin knows not to check for electricity by pissing on the fuse box.

Why wait? You can go to Las Vegas today.

Try to zoom in more. The (3) near London is actually three different places far from London.

There’s obviously also many other dark places. This map only shows the designated dark places.

Find a dark place near you:

https://darksky.org/what-we-do/international-dark-sky-places/all-places/

I just talked to a coworker who has friends out there who spent 7 days to get home being flown ping pong all over the region. It’s quite the chaos with lots of price gauging.

In a city of billionaires, 10 days of food is about enough for 1 days of food for one of them.

I know. I just find it hard to believe.

The largest and most expensive military on Earth shouldn’t be that incompetent.

Doesn’t change much does it?

Whenever I park my car, I usually check if there’s a bunch of innocent schools girls in the way first.

I’d like to think that bombs are thrown around a little more carefully than how I park my car.

Is there anything the rest of the world can do to help you with your orange fascist problem?

Because it seems to be in the way of solving a lot of the other issues.

This right here:

The effectiveness of boycotts relies on a mass demonstration of refusal, and that massive movement doesn’t currently exist."

This is the problem.

If one dumb ass CEO decides to destroy the environment, it requires millions of people to know about it and act upon it, just to make a dent in the quarterly income statement that might make the one CEO consider other options.

We don’t actually have a choice as consumers.

We can vote for more regulation of companies, but politics only work locally, while pollution works globally. We’ll basically need a world wide political concesus just to stop one single idiot from destroying the globe.

The guillotine might be a brutal and unpleasant vigilant idea, but it sure as hell is faster, cheaper and causes fewer casualties than any other way.

Who’s volunteering for that role?