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Young climate activist tells Greenpeace to drop ‘old-fashioned’ anti-nuclear stance
  • Are you going to buy me a new heat pump?

    Also why doesn't anyone make a hyper efficient central system? I've only seen those hyper efficient units as mini splits.

    Are you going to replace my 2016 Sonata I spent $13k on buying in 2018 with a $55k EV with car to grid for me?

    What happens if it's dark and cold for multiple days? I just can't drive because my car emptied out running my minisplits?

  • Young climate activist tells Greenpeace to drop ‘old-fashioned’ anti-nuclear stance
  • I live in a 1000 square foot two bedroom condo. When it gets below 20° f, which does a lot during the winter, I have to use the auxiliary heat on my heat pump unit.

    That's 7.5 kW.

    So just to stay warm during the night, when solar stops working, I would need 3-5 Power Walls?

  • [meme] Trains -- not driverless cars -- are the future of transportation
  • The problem is most people don't live in 15 minute cities and it's impossible to turn the suburbs into 15 minute cities as most things are just physically too far apart.

    If you live in a gigantic McMansion neighborhood that takes 5 minutes to get out of by car and then your job is an additional 20 miles away there is no bus or train solution - you'll have to have a car.

    Funny you should mention living in your car. I used to have a 40 mi commute from my suburban town, each way, to work. I lived slightly north of Baltimore and commuted to just outside of DC. I would spend an hour minimum each way driving. When traffic was bad easy 2 hours. I did this for 4 years and it was soul destroying, but it was an extremely lucrative job.

    Then I found a job in my little suburb that pays about the same amount of money and it's close enough I can ride my bike to, which I do sometimes when it's not hot, by car it's only about 5 minutes. The extra time I've gotten back has been amazing and looking back I would have taken 20% pay cut to not have to do that horrible commute.

    That is not a solution for everyone as there aren't enough jobs in the suburbs to support the population. They're called bedroom communities for a reason.

    I'm really not pro or anti car. I just think you have to be realistic. The realistic part is the suburbs are just too spaced out and too far from jobs to have a functioning mass transit system.

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    Anon lives on the margins.
  • Why would anyone blame Obamacare and not their employer for not offering health insurance?

    How about blaming our horrible system of employer sponsored health insurance?

    If you're part-time and making $15 an hour don't you qualify for an Obamacare subsidy? That would limit the cost to 10% of your income.

  • [meme] Trains -- not driverless cars -- are the future of transportation
  • 10 or 20 years from now when you're taking a nap or jerking off or eating fried chicken or playing Call of Duty while a self-driving car (you can call it an "automated transportation pod" if the word "car" triggers you) takes your extremely drunk self right to your front door you'll think it's fine.

  • Enjoy it while it lasts.
  • You can't have this both ways.

    When a magat in the Senate brings in a snowball and says that global warming isn't happening because it's snowing...

    "That's weather not climate!"

    When there's a wildfire somewhere...

    "That's global warming!"

    We can definitively say that this year is the hottest year on record, but we can't attribute individual forest fires or tornadoes or hurricanes to climate change.

  • Enjoy it while it lasts.
  • If we're going to electrify everything we need nuclear power plants.

    The federal government should be dumping tens of billions of dollars into modular nuclear plants that can be built in a factory and then shipped places.

  • [meme] Trains -- not driverless cars -- are the future of transportation
  • The suburbs are inherently compatible with trains and really any public transportation. They were quite literally designed around the car and the expectation that everyone would have a car.

    Unless you plan to bulldoze the suburbs and then force everyone to move into higher density areas your anti-car dreams are never going to happen.

    Although there are many American cities that could get much more anti-car and public transport would work. LA could theoretically not be such a car city with the appropriate infrastructure built in.

    Why are the anti-car people anti-self-driving car? With self-driving cars we could mostly eliminate private car ownership.

  • Enjoy it while it lasts.
  • Spoiler alert: The civilization disrupting aspects of climate change are still decades out and the rich countries will probably be fine.

    They'll be fine because they can afford the infrastructure projects and increased costs of energy and food.

    Now Africa, South America, the poorer Asian countries, tiny Pacific Island nations... Oh boy. I would not want to be a citizen there in 20 or 30 years.

    Eventually sea level rise will become a really big fucking problem, like for every single coastal city in the world, even the rich ones. Luckily none of us will be around to see that unless some sort of miraculous life extension technology becomes available.

    On the one hand I don't like mentioning this because it gives the right wing ammunition to ignore climate change. But on the other hand some people have such existential dread about it that it's damaging their mental health, they are really overestimating how damaging it will be in their lifetime in their rich country they live in.

  • Is anyone else having trouble giving up Reddit due to content?
  • The main subs or sublemmies or whatever they're called on here have enough users that it's a perfect alternative to Reddit.

    Little niche subreddits, like my favorite gaybros and askgaybros, just a few dozen users and I'm going back to Reddit for that.

  • Hell freezes over as Apple supports right-to-repair bill
  • Are they supporting it so that they can gimp it?

    We support the right to repair! Starting now all keycaps will be replaceable. Anything on the motherboard is off limits though or the display or the battery or the ports or the camera.

  • There is a drop in monthly active Lemmy users (from 65k to 57k)
  • The problem is that Lemmy never hit that critical threshold of users where I can just stop using Reddit.

    Like one of my favorite subreddits - gaybros and askgaybros - zero activity on the fediverse, so I'm going back to Reddit for that.

  • I’ve found it! The pinnacle of 1970s “chic”
  • Is there anything more disgusting than carpeted areas around a tub or toilet?

    Like what the fuck were they thinking?

    All of the other 70s and '80s trends - like the really dark wood paneling, ugly orange colors, that's just aesthetics. Maybe we'll go back to liking wood paneling at some point.

    Carpet in a bathroom is not aesthetics or fashion It is fucking disgusting and unsanitary.

  • Why isn't there an end-to-end encryption standard for email so that we can get rid of fax machines?

    That's the reason we have to still use fax machines right?

    I know there are ways to do encryption like PGP on your message directly or I think email sent over TLS? But that isn't the default right and that's why I can't send a picture of my license to the insurance company directly over email?

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    Should I just pay for it?

    I'm a hairy, small dick, morbidly obese, semi-virgin 35 year old guy.

    Between my crippling social anxiety, zero self esteem, and OCD-ish fear that if I am near cum I'll get AIDS and die... I've only had a single sexual partner my entire life.

    When I was 25 I was a 100% never been kissed virgin. I lost 75 lbs (315 to 240, currently 355), felt way better about myself, and sort of had a casual thing with a coworker where with lots of jerking and sucking, but no butt stuff because I was a scaredy cat. Then that guy moved away. I thought that he was the jumping off point to being normal, but I went back into my shell (and gained all my weight back).

    I'm 35 now, certainly not getting any younger.

    I finally have a real deal big boy job making adequate money.

    I was thinking... Why don't I get my HPV vaccine, Hep A/C vaccine, PreP, and some Bluechew and just hire a prostitute so that I can get fucked by a human instead of a piece of plastic I sometimes stick up my butt while masturbating? I won't care what he thinks about my body because I'm literally paying him.

    Then I thought - where do you even find a prostitute? There are escort sites, but they all seem to be in the city (I live in the suburbs about 25 miles away). What if I get caught and it's like the police? Do I need to rent a hotel room or have them come over my house? Can I just find a local, muscular, hot, college boy on Grindr and offer him like $500?

    Maybe I should just lower my physical expectations and try to go on an actual date with someone in my age and league? How will I hide how incredibly anxious and awkward and inexperienced I am? I literally wouldn't fuck me.

    Maybe I should just go to the 50+ year old guy on Grindr that's like 3000 ft away that has a bio that says he'll suck anybody. I wonder what kinds of STDs you can get from sucking dozens or hundreds of dicks?

    Maybe I should get on Ozempic?

    All that I know for sure is I want to do something.

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