malaph

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[–] malaph@infosec.pub 2 points 2 years ago

Why is industry creating carbon? They're building the things we need and generating our power. Probably 100% of industrial CO2 emissions are conducted for us. This is just our emissions upstream from the things we consume directly.

Also if you cut 100% of your emissions you'd be dead. Breathing emits CO2.

[–] malaph@infosec.pub 3 points 2 years ago

I like trains too. Unfortunately they rarely go anywhere I need to go where I live. In Toronto they also sadly win out in the homeless urine category over my car.

[–] malaph@infosec.pub 3 points 2 years ago (6 children)

https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector

All aviation is 1.9% .. Private would be a vanishingly small amount of that.

[–] malaph@infosec.pub 0 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Everything is profitable if you raise prices. In a way you're just offsetting a certain segment of the populations transportation costs to everyone else under that system. Maybe you could privatize the roads too and use the tolls to fund more buses which operate at a profit. Its fun think of insane libertarian free marker solutions to such problems :) Cars might be less appealing if people had to pay the associated infrastructure costs on a per km basis.

[–] malaph@infosec.pub -1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

If you really want to you can structure your life in a way where food is close to home.. did that through college. Paid for cabs for groceries .. Walked and used transit or my bike. Was pretty miserable in Canadian winters and not very convienent. Plus pretty expensive.. You can do it. Or just admit you like cars :) as long as most people secretly actually like cars and use them then society will be structured in a way to accommodate that. The world's a big place and in order to have most of the things you need really close isn't really entirely realistic.

[–] malaph@infosec.pub -2 points 2 years ago (11 children)

You can agree with some principles of a work and reject others. What parts of her philosophy do you find to be lunacy?

[–] malaph@infosec.pub -2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It speaks against a system where political favour dictates your success as a producer over your ability to compete. If you feel land owners and intellectual property owners are gate keepers in a society where your can have your own ideas and buy your own property I don't know what to say.

[–] malaph@infosec.pub 0 points 2 years ago

Well two of probably a dozen or more requirements a week right? Your solution is "pay someone else with a vehicle" and after a certain number of times that makes less sense than just having a vehicle. Also imagine being a single mom who works with like 5 kids.. Trying to manage that with paying for cabs or trying to use a bus..

For non urban people like me you unfortunely need a vehicle to get everything. I vastly prefer public transport if I'm going into a major city because parking is a major inconvience and expense.

Public transport in areas with low population density is unprofitable and poor service .. Too few vehicles so long waits between pickups. My town has literally a single cab .. Better be the first person to call if you need a ride to work ..

[–] malaph@infosec.pub 3 points 2 years ago

I never had a noticeable case of it either. I think I probably had an asymptomatic case

[–] malaph@infosec.pub 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

At this point probably everyone has had omicron or one of the later less harmful variants. The trend of becoming more transmissible and less harmful is normal for corona viruses. Im with most people in being apprehensive about getting additional boosters. Why do you feel there's a real danger?

[–] malaph@infosec.pub -1 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Yeah if you want to fix zoning to increase density that's a local government issue. I personally like having a car and large house outside of the city. I'm absolutely in support of government fixing multi residential zoning .. Would have loved better options when I was younger. I'm sure a lot of developers would gladly respond to those market forces if given the option .. Do you think it's nimbys preventing that or capitalists?

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