Photonic
@Photonic@lemmy.world
- Comment on Yeah that was a weird time. But the socks were comfy. 1 day ago:
Maybe you should have looked for it at noche
- Comment on On Copilot, the logo for Analyst looks like anal beads. 3 days ago:
I don’t even know what to do with all the previous “agent” crap and they’re already making new ones. So much slop.
- Comment on Happy Birthday guys, gals, and other pals! 4 days ago:
Wow straight to the Godwin huh?
- Comment on Happy Birthday guys, gals, and other pals! 4 days ago:
Well, I’m not the one to ask, they’re not in my country. But they are not even close to having 50% of votes, nor have they ever provided a chancellor in Germany
- Comment on Happy Birthday guys, gals, and other pals! 5 days ago:
Somehow I doubt that…
- Comment on Happy Birthday guys, gals, and other pals! 5 days ago:
Calling other people’s opinions stupid is rich coming from the country that elected Donald Trump…
Twice…
- Comment on Neil the Seal 5 days ago:
“That’s Neil in the corner…
That’s Neil in the spot … light … molesting my whole region”
- Comment on Gaming industry right now 1 week ago:
No no you see, that is not how that works. It’s called capitalism. Where you transfer your capital to corporations, you dummy
- Comment on As long as I get benefits I guess 1 week ago:
Hormesis
- Comment on "influencers" are setting us back 1 week ago:
Yes but the percentage would be much lower.
Also, an MD isn’t necessarily a virologist or vaccine expert. I mean, you really shouldn’t ask an ortho bro about anything but bones and joints. So I doubt MD necessarily means “elite”.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Insert Bart & Homer Simpson meme*
Bart (as Europe): this is the hottest day of my life! Homer (as time traveler): the hottest day so far!
- Comment on We have brownouts in the summer and Kevin O'Leary wants a Data Center built here. 2 weeks ago:
It’s a tag team match with the oil companies, carmakers and the AI companies on one side and consumers on the other.
- Comment on For your eyes only, baby, see you soon 2 weeks ago:
You have been sending selfies over the internet by posting them in random communities for 40+ years? Man… talk about early adopters
- Comment on Buckle up, we're learning the hard way. 2 weeks ago:
I feel like a lot of people are fucking around but too stupid or indoctrinated to actually find out. As in, the effects are upon them but they fail to notice it’s the result of their fucking around.
- Comment on A True Prince Andrew Story 2 weeks ago:
Whew, this is hard to read. I hope you find the help you need. Please talk to your doctor about these thoughts.
- Comment on Why does it seem when people quit smoking years later they get lung cancer or some sorts of cancer? Like alcoholic's quit drinking and usually die of something they'd die of while drinking? 2 weeks ago:
Because the risk doesn’t stop immediately after you quit smoking or drinking. A lot of the DNA damage that causes lung cancer is already done. Premalignant cells may have already formed and can still become malignant even after one quits smoking, or the tumor may have already formed but be slow-growing and asymptomatic.
The lung cancer risk does go down slowly year after year for smokers who quit. So people who keep smoking are still much more at risk.
And then of course there is a baseline risk of cancer and even people who never smoked can get lung cancer, especially those who live in cities with a lot of smog.
- Comment on I'm doing my part 2 weeks ago:
You’ve answered the opposite of the question that I asked. Which underscores my point – the consumer change drives the producer change, not the other way around.
Nope. There are more ways to make a company change their operations. Think of the EU making USB-C the standard charging port. And of course you can make companies pay for the carbon they dig out of the earth.
And it is often counter-productive, even fatal. Uh… no it’s not. Do you know what’s going on inside your own body? Do you know how many viruses and bacteria are fought off through inflammatory reactions that you hardly even notice?
And I’m just getting that response from you. Otherwise I got a bunch of upvotes for the comment.
The inaction of useless discussion.
Like this one? The point is that propaganda works. This was propaganda and I called it out. Most people reacted positively to that. And that will never be useless.
It wouldn’t. That’s my point. The list doesn’t matter.
These things do not follow each other logically. Let me try to explain this to you: let’s say you’re on a tight budget and you can cut your costs by 15% by not buying anymore Dubai chocolate crap… or you can save 1% on buying fewer tomatoes, another 0.5% on buying less canned beans, another 2% by switching to a different brand of dairy products etc… where would you start your cost-cutting?
Of course, but what about the people who do? What will you encourage them to do?
What on earth are you talking about? It’s not like I go around telling people to take as many flights as they can. Of course you try to get people to do stuff on a smaller scale as well. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try to reduce the emissions of the megacorporations as well.
We’ve already agreed that what needs to happen is carbon taxes, so let’s work toward that.
The point is who is going to be paying them? The companies who knowingly lied to the consumers and hid the facts or the consumers who were systematically made more reliant on the product these companies sold?
- Comment on I'm doing my part 2 weeks ago:
deter the next corporate coverup, not resolve the ones in the past.
Nobody can fix the emissions of the past, and deterring the next coverup is the only thing we can do. But I do think some reparations are in order, especially to poorer nations who are more vulnerable to the effects of climate change.
how to get them to change is vastly different than a multinational.
Obviously, the change will have to come from the country’s government. But we can still sanction the countries and the oil companies.
how is focusing on some of the companies that pump oil out of the ground going to change power generation or transportation?
Simple, if they realise their products aren’t as profitable anymore they will invest more into green energy that is not taxed as heavily.
vague inflammatory language
Inflammation is a normal bodily response to a parasite.
Rather it provides an easy scapegoat and excuse for inaction.
What inaction? It will cost us all a lot of effort to move away from fossil fuels. You’re just protecting the worst offenders who have made the consumers the scapegoat for decades.
Would that only be on the 57 largest entities?
Why would it have to be? I already said start at the top and work your way down.
Or does it encourage people to self-righteously finger-wag and ignore any personal and community responsibility?
A lot of people simply don’t care about their own personal responsibility, finger-wagging or hand-waving. They don’t care. It’s more effective to direct your efforts towards the root of the problem than go a snip off every twig individually. I mean, that conservative uncle of yours will never get no god damn ee-vee now will he?
- Comment on I'm doing my part 2 weeks ago:
And the root lies with keeping the oil inside the earth’s crust. Not with Taylor Swift performing through MS Teams.
- Comment on I'm doing my part 2 weeks ago:
Just a different way of interpretation. Of course the user and producer share some of the blame, but now it’s the other way around, now Taylor Swift gets the full blame.
And the point is that the oil companies have actively lied to their customers about the effects of greenhouse gas emissions, even though they knew about it since the ‘50s.
So if I sell you a box, and I tell you it’s completely safe, but the box explodes and kills a bunch of people, who, in your mind, is responsible?
- Comment on I'm doing my part 2 weeks ago:
Obviously you can’t do anything about the former Soviet Union –although Ukraine is doing a pretty good job– and China is doing a good job moving away from coal.
It doesn’t matter whether the results are surprising or not, we need to move away from the narrative created by oil companies that the end user is at fault. And you’re not helping either in that sense. Oil companies have been doing whatever they can do hide the truth about emissions, lie to the public through propaganda and sow doubt about climate research.
Of course end users need to change something too, but that’s far less easy than it sounds. Especially the USA people seem to have absolutely no idea what they’re doing driving around everywhere in big trucks, even for short distances.
- Comment on I'm doing my part 2 weeks ago:
So, holding companies responsible for the product they make and try to downplay the effects of isn’t right because there are more steps after them to create the emissions? While they knowingly have misinformed the end users about the impacts of their products? Yeah that’s absolutely nonsense.
- Why? State companies are just as accountable. They’ve known about this since the 1960s. The goal is to substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Time is of the essence, so we need to put our efforts where it matters the most.
- To all stop existing? No, as of yet they are still necessary for some chemical processes and back-up power generators for vital infrastructure like hospitals. But we can completely stop using fossil fuels for power generation and travel over land. So they will need to drastically change their operations away from oil and gas. They can go into green hydrogen production or focus on EV charging stations. And yes, it helps to hit them where it makes a difference. Put emission taxes on every molecule of carbon they pump out of the earth. Because the only way it doesn’t end up in the air is to leave it there.
Your reductio ad absurdum is ridiculous. Who ever said we should just have a stern conversation with them? The EU for example can impose restrictions, rules and taxes. Countries can accelerate the transition to green energy through their state-owned energy companies. We can sanction countries who don’t do their part.
- Comment on I'm doing my part 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t say that. But we have to be pragmatic and focus our energy on the worst offenders, because that’s where the most gain comes from.
- Comment on I'm doing my part 2 weeks ago:
Definitely not nonsense. Perhaps you can try to read what is said if you make such a strong statement.
- It’s state-owned companies, not the entirety of the government. Why would they need to be treated differently?
- First: not all of them. For example, the vast majority of Chinese coal is also burned in China. And why not put the emissions created by the production of these oil giants on them? It’s their product causing the emissions after all. On top of that, they have been actively trying to obfuscate and manipulate the data on greenhouse gas emissions for the better part of a century now.
I never said you don’t need to look at your own emissions, but the difference can only really be made by taking on these major corps. Ignoring or trying to downplay that is what’s ridiculous.
And I agree with carbon taxes, but let’s make sure they hit corporations much much harder than individuals just trying to get by.
- Comment on I'm doing my part 2 weeks ago:
I said moderate leftist, but you may have your own opinion about her
- Comment on I'm doing my part 2 weeks ago:
Didn’t make one, but I found this one: !meme corporate emissions
- Comment on I'm doing my part 2 weeks ago:
This image looks like right wing corpo propaganda to me. It not only does it divert the attention away from the handful of megacorporations emitting 80% of all green house gases, it is attacking a moderate leftist – who admittedly causes a relatively large amount of greenhouse gases.
But Taylor Swift is not making most of those flights on a personal basis. It’s to provide a service to fans. So in that sense we can regard the emissions as those of Taylor Swift the company. And in that sense they are much lower than many other companies who we often give a free pass.
So, yes hold the big emitters responsible, but let’s start with the 57 on the list and work our way down to Taylor Swift.
- Comment on Troof 2 weeks ago:
Liv’s mom has got it goin’ on! 🎵
- Comment on The moment you join the workforce 3 weeks ago:
Ahh yes, the grind
- Comment on Lifeguards 3 weeks ago:
“And they were known by no other name as The Deathguard. Whenever The Deathguard roamed the shores the mood of the bathing crowds instantly changed, as if a sudden thunderstorm had come rolling in. Mothers started looking for their children in fear, people hastily packed their belongings. Such was the fear that The Deathguard would bring forth.
