France sticks out like a sore thumb in a sea of natural gas burning neighbours. We could all be running on nuclear like them. Nuclear is safer, better for the environment and has the nice side effect that it frees us from relying on despots like Putin and the Saudi ilk to keep the lights on. Instead here we are. At the bitter end of 30 years of shit government.
An emergency fund is for paying your mortgage if you lose your job, or settling a large car repair bill. No one here is seriously asking how to protect their investments while fleeing on foot from a genocidal regime in total war.
I’m not sure I understand why we would want to put things back into the carbon cycle? Isn’t the problem that we have to much gaseous carbon out there at the moment? Wouldn’t it be better to sequester the excess carbon in some way?
I’d like to offer the opposite perspective to many of the responses here. I regularly have 2 coffees a day, and I’ve taken month long breaks from it in the past. I’ve never experienced any of the severe withdrawal symptoms people often describe, with the exception of feeling a little sluggish on the first day. I did, however, miss the routine of preparing and drinking a warm aromatic beverage in the morning. I find it a pleasant way to start the day. Also, at times where I can feel myself flagging and I need continued focus, I find a good coffee does really help. So I personally see limited downside to caffeine consumption and some nice upsides.
Does anyone else approach these "teen invents x" or "wiz kid middle schooler discovers y" articles with extreme skepticism? About half the time the invention turns out to be bogus or trivial, and in the other half it comes to light the parents were behind it.
Meanwhile the police are solving the lowest number of crimes on record: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/burglars-go-unpunished-wi... Less than 5% of burglaries are being solved, and some places less than 1 in 30 crimes reach court. Perhaps policing mean tweets is not the best use of our limited law enforcement resources?
> Why is it hard for you to understand that a free society doesn't put the onus on others to keep you or anyone else healthy
Eh? We restrict activities that have negative externalities on the people around you all the time. To name a few: anything that creates pollution, smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, even having ridiculously bright headlights in your car.
Im typing this from an airport so im not sure what you mean about not being able to handle going out, or who my ilk is (people haven’t had Covid yet?). The selfish part of his statement is this - because he is no longer personally at risk, he no longer supports any measures to protect those who still are. How hard is that to understand?
I’m not sure what there is to accept? I never said it wasn’t worth it, just that there are financial and environmental costs to consider. Where I live heating a building is expensive and many people can not afford to do it adequately at the best of times.
Good ventilation is easy to do in the summer months, but it is winter in the northern hemisphere at the moment, and fuel prices are at all time highs. That means adequate ventilation is likely an expensive thing to achieve. Not to mention the environmental consequences of extra energy consumption, along with the plastic pollution from littered masks and lateral flow tests - they’re absolutely everywhere.
The thing is, as touched on in the article, microwaves and ultrasound are trivially easy to detect. So if it was either of those I expect it would have been measured pretty quickly by even the most cursory investigation. Which I think means the most likely explanation is that it’s a solved phenomenon, but the information just hasn’t been made public.
I’ve heard stories of people being advised not to install cat protector shields on their car, as often the thief will smash the windows and slash the tyres as payback for inconveniencing them. The leaps in mental logic that must take is astonishing.
The worst part of this that it’s not uncommon for the thieves to total the car in the process of stealing the cat. They can warp the chassis by jacking the car up in the wrong spot, or simply by dropping the car off the jack once they’re done to make a quick getaway.