“People are arseholes. They’re just always gonna be that way.”
The U.S. already witnessed the damage and chaos of a Trumpster Fire presidency.
After 4 years of progress under Biden, it voted for more damage and chaos.
Americans are humans, and humans are all too often short-termist, irrational, and destructive.
If that is what they meant, then that is what they should have said.
But it isn’t what they said, and therefore presumably isn’t what they meant.
Having studied formal logic, I’m well aware of what a tautology is. It is a statement logically equivalent to A = A.
Relevance here: a bad outcome is a bad outcome (regardless whether it happens now or later).
Some old people are the ones who pioneered climate research, renewable energy, de-growth, and environmental activism!
Without them, no-one would understand what exactly has gone wrong or what can be done about it.
Learn to distinguish people based on their individual actions (for which they are responsible), not their involuntary characteristics (such as age).
sometimes change needs to happen for better or worse
No, change for worse is never a good thing.
Arguing otherwise is arguing against a tautology.
“Have an evil megacorp’s gaslighting robot invade your safe space instead!”
The article does not mention mountains. Mountains are often more suited to trains than planes, cf. Switzerland.
The article does quote Anna Hughes of Flight Free UK, who echoes my sentiments: “The reality of decarbonising travel will inevitably be travelling a lot less, investing heavily in rail, and only then electrifying the flights that remain.”
France’s short-haul flight ban is excellent and more countries should adopt it.
As for “counterpoint”, no-one here disagrees with decarbonising island routes rail can’t serve. Still, I’d favour sail or electric fast ferries over aircraft where possible.
I’m all in favour of decarbonisation.
Still, the physics mean aviation will never be as energy-efficient as high-speed rail.
Governments and others should overwhelmingly invest in the latter. It has higher RoI.
I think they should grant asylum to people with legitimate asylum claims.
Some “non-spy Russians” have legitimate asylum claims. Some do not.
For a beautiful moment after reading the headline, I thought this must be an uplifting piece about European weather systems.
Then reality set in 🫠
What are your main issues with Matrix?
Kdenlive is the top-ranked FOSS video editor on AlternativeTo.
I agree with that ranking, having also tried 5 or 6 of the other entries on the list.
Progress report 1
systemd, pick FIDO2:
systemd, so “future-proof”.Thank you for this! That thread is helpful in itself, and also links to other relevant resources - including by Lennart Poettering (controversial guy, but the canonical source on systemd).
ChromeOS uses a Linux kernel, so one could say desktop Linux usage is >12%.
A young 'un! Macintosh, surely.
You may enjoy unsound conclusions, but don’t project that inadequacy onto the rest of us.