grue 1y ago • 68%
Like in a housing shortage you’re hoarding property and profiting off it.
Housing shortages are caused by bad government policy: namely, low-density zoning. Direct your anger towards the entity that deserves it, and make them fix their fuck-up.
(Note: I'm not making some kind of Libertarian "all government is bad" argument here. I'm saying that in this specific case, the laws need to be changed.)
grue 1y ago • 50%
By the same argument, replacing the coal fired power plant with wind and solar wouldn't pose a challenge either.
The point is, you've got to compare apples to apples: either coal power vs. desalinization powered by coal, or renewables vs. desalinization powered by renewables. In every case, the pollution produced by the desalinization process (i.e., the brine etc.) is simply added to the pollution produced by whatever means was used to generate the power for it, which means @soEZ's attempt to compare desalinization to power generation doesn't make much sense.
grue 1y ago • 83%
US, mid thirties, and I not only drive a manual transmission, I go out of my way to insist upon it. For example, I own a truck and an SUV made in the '90s because it's difficult to find newer ones without an automatic.
grue 1y ago • 33%
It does not really generate toxic waste like coal fired power plants
It generates all the waste associated with the electricity it uses, which is often from coal fired power plants...
grue 1y ago • 92%
...says the guy who clearly doesn't understand the geologic water cycle.
grue 1y ago • 50%
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grue 1y ago • 83%
The problem isn’t about building houses. Everyone wants to live within 30 miles of the border. All our farm land and natural green space is in the same location. So what would you do? Which would you have us do? Bulldoze farm land, or bulldoze protected green space that is already threatened? If it was as easy as “build houses” we could have done that.
Then build fucking apartments instead, damn it!
grue 1y ago • 83%
instead of bending over for unreasonable shitheads in your party.
Why do you think he'd be inclined to do anything other than bend over for himself?
grue 1y ago • 96%
Huh, that's the kind of thing that would just make me start visualizing how many I could fit in there.
grue 1y ago • 66%
They can build fire removedant systems...
Is the company that makes them headquartered in Scunthorpe?
grue 1y ago • 50%
Not for long if Lennart has anything to say about it, I'm sure.
grue 1y ago • 100%
I agree with you even though I'm only guessing at the episode you're talking about and I have no idea which of the two Vortas he was.
(It's the Ferengi hostage exchange episode, right?)
grue 1y ago • 100%
Sure, regulations such as carbon taxes are necessary to contain negative externalities, but if there’s a demand for cheap products there will be a lowest bidder that will take all market share.
If the taxes are accounting for the externalities well enough, even the lowest bidder will be sustainable.
grue 1y ago • 33%
The European Union is a confederation, just like the United States under the Articles of Confederation was.
grue 1y ago • 83%
While DRM is the bane of everybody there are cases where trust and integrity is important and it’s an intriguing look into how hard it is to manage.
Nah, when the user wants to ensure trust and integrity in his own system, it works just fine. The problem comes when the user who needs to be able to access the data is simultaneously the adversary who needs to be stopped from accessing the data.
In other words, it's one of those situations where the fact that it's hard to manage is a gigantic clue that it's wrongheaded to try to do so in the first place.
grue 1y ago • 100%
According to the Open Source Initiative (the folks who control whether things can be officially certified as "open source"), it basically is the same thing as Free Software. In fact, their definition was copied and pasted from the Debian Free Software guidelines.
grue 1y ago • 100%
he also gave $5MM to Sea Shepherds
Enough to get an entire ship named after him!
grue 1y ago • 28%
People in North America identified with their colony/state first, and the United States second back in the 1700s. Give it time...
grue 1y ago • 50%
I get that they’re different countries, but different states here might as well be.
^ This guy Articles of Confederation.
(Seriously, the European Union basically has the same kind of structure now as the United States did between 1776 and 1789.)
grue 1y ago • 100%
Your kids' school is a "public charter school," not a "semi private school."
The purpose of those vouchers is to undermine schools like the one your kids are attending.