mriguy

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[–] mriguy@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Now they’ll just change arguments - “China has reduced their emissions so much that now there’s less urgency for us to lower ours”. Heads I win, tails you lose.

[–] mriguy@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

No worries. Still interesting!

[–] mriguy@lemmy.world 73 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

A system of checks and money orders. And cash.

[–] mriguy@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I’m pretty sure the demographic that talks about “my bitch ex-wife” is mostly in the tank for Trump already.

[–] mriguy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

On the off chance you aren’t joking, no, it’s innocent until proven guilty.

[–] mriguy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I think you’re right.

[–] mriguy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Ok. Have a nice day.

[–] mriguy@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

I have no idea what you are trying to say. Batteries have an environmental impact, but so does fracking for natural gas. You have the impact up front making a battery, but charging it with renewables does not have continued environmental impact. But if you use gas, you’re going to have to use an awful lot of it over that time period to offset the clean power you’re able to use when you have a battery. And that gas has a very high environmental impact, continually, over that entire time period.

I didn’t say batteries have NO impact, but they have less impact than continually mining and burning fossil fuels.

[–] mriguy@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (21 children)

You make the batteries once, and the pollution due to production is spread over the 10-15 year lifetime of the battery. During that time gigawatt hours of clean power sloshes in and out of them. This in contrast to having to produce enough gas to make all of those gigawatt hours once, then throw the gas away as co2 and get more, along with the attendant pollution.

[–] mriguy@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Trump has repeatedly demonstrated that he can and will do whatever the fuck he wants, consequences be damned.

There are never any consequences. Until there are, his whole circus will continue and get worse.

[–] mriguy@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago

She has political standing because the right wing media finds her constant insane shrieking useful, so they continue to platform her. It draws attention away from things they don’t want you talking about, like income inequality, looming fascism, environmental distraction… basically everything they are working so hard to achieve.

Any mental effort they can get people to waste responding to her is effort not being put towards making the world a better place for someone other than billionaires.

[–] mriguy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

And they do have to replace the ones they killed with COVID…

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