https://nypost.com/2023/01/18/spacex-employees-enjoy-calm-as-elon-musk-distracted-by-twitter/

Sartre would disagree, but then Sartre was a professional philosopher.

Dont forget that other favorite “No you can’t have more hardware, these were fine in 2006 and they’re fine now! Just delete some old stuff like you IT people always do”

And therefor a witch

worker: Gets new job

Employer: Shockedpikachu.jpg

Error-correction for dropped packets is also pretty shit.

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes flashdrives hurtling down the highway.

Well, China, if you want a few chip-makers, i know a few slightly-used ones that used to belong to an old lady and have only ever been used for shopping trips.

you should place a solar pannels on your roof and make some money while also reducing your footprint far beyond what you see on the graph?

The average household of 2.1 people here (the Netherlands) produces 0.8 tons of CO2e from electricity per year, at the current power mix. So, reducing that to zero places you somewhere between colder washes and getting a hybrid (0.4 tons). Not nothing, but also not even past the left half of the chart.

Also, realistically, net-zero isn’t actually zero at all, you need to massively overproduce to truly offset your consumption.

Too lazy to photoshop, but the average dutch household produces 2.2 tons of CO2e for heating and 0.8 tons in electricity. The average household is 2.1 people, so call it 1 ton for heating, and .4 tons for electricity.

• So going completely off-grid (VERY hard) will place somewhere around equal to the “Buying green energy” bar (duh…).
• Just solar panels will rank around “Replace car with electric”.
• Switching to a heatpump is roughly similar.

Looking at a couple of sites shows a vegetarian diet produces something like 4-4.5 tons of Co2e a year, and vegan 3-3.5 tons. A “normal” diet ranges between 7 and 10 tons, probably depending on your definition of normal. Other sites list 1.5, 1.7 and 3.5 tons for vegan/vegetarian/regular.

The big gain seems to be dropping meat, with everything else* adding another 10% or so savings. But 1 tons of CO2 is roughly equivalent to driving your mid-sized (european mid-sized, that is) car for 5000km.

*These numbers are purely diet. I can’t seem to find anything for a whole lifestyle.

eventual grandchildren aren’t your choice.

Not having children is a pretty certain method of not having grandchildren though. You can compared the local/national/worldwide average reproduction odds against the certainty of not having (great)grandchildren.

Well, the most likely natural disaster here will involve my immediate local area being under about 5 meter of water, so either I’m elsewhere and in need of a map, or… well, not in need of a map.

Wow the SAS survival handbook has built in GPS and a map of my local area? Damn, books have gotten fancy lately.

If I sold newspapers, and I heard the radio spreading the news as well, you bet your ass I’m going to slander the shit out of it.

Which is why lots of people believe the storiea abour “War of the Worlds”. Because of newspaper lies.

I see no downsides here

And they’ve been gone for quite a while now.

123k for the Motorola, over 400k folds for the Samsung.

But the later included underwater folding, dust, and using it as cake batter.

Sicfi publisher Bean Books did this. They published free ebooks for all the older material, but kept the last/newest in a series paid.

So yeah, I bought those new books, since id gotten hooked.

It’d be great if that were true. Code only ever does one thing, but the US constitution doesn’t really DO anything. It’s just some vague concepts that were supposed to be revised later on, but now people just twist that vagueness into supporting their own goals.

Just rewrite the damn this instead of treating it like a holy book meant to be interpreted by the clergy.