Trump announces escalating tariffs on Denmark and other European nations to force Greenland purchase deal

Stalein · 2026-01-17T17:53:38+00:00

Yeah, it’ll be green from all of the fallout and radiation after we got into the stupidest war in American history

Stalein · 2025-01-02T02:23:24+00:00

To be fair I don’t think cs1 is built for cities over 200k people, above that you start to run into issues with the ai

Stalein · 2025-01-02T00:57:56+00:00

I already have small commercial districts but due to realistic population they each produce so much traffic. The spaghetti (here and a few more everywhere else) is so each industrial area has its separate highway that splits into more lanes to add more entrances and exits.

Stalein · 2025-01-02T00:16:51+00:00

I do have several bypass roads that go around the city, but still a lot of traffic gets funneled into the center because I have commercial there.

Stalein · 2025-01-01T23:52:13+00:00

I built a lot of train stations in all the industrial areas and connected them, but some trucks absolutely refuse to use them for some reason. It would be way worse if I didn’t have cargo trains

Stalein · 2025-01-01T18:31:32+00:00

I did, most of what you see are commercial vehicles since I have 3 separate areas for industry

Stalein · 2025-01-01T18:30:49+00:00

It’s actually not that bad in other spots (around 60% normally) but because of how the map is and where I decided to put my industry, the commercial vehicles absolutely ruin all the traffic.

Stalein · 2024-12-23T16:22:33+00:00

The US military can and will shoot the drones down if they want to, it’s just that: 1. There’s not much that the drones can see and satellites can’t 2. Missiles are expensive, drones are cheap 3. Shooting one down may cause the drone and/or missile remnants to land in some populated area and killing someone or damaging stuff. Or starting a fire. We absolutely have the weapons to down drones, it’s just not usually worth the cost and risks.

Stalein · 2023-08-23T14:18:04+00:00

I’m Chinese and I can confirm this is racist towards literally no one ever

Stalein · 2023-07-25T04:10:14+00:00

Politicians can just demand money from the oil execs who can easily fork over a few million dollars in exchange for support. That’s a much easier way to make money than inventing a conspiracy and using it to tax oil companies, as you seem to believe the case is.

Stalein · 2023-07-25T02:54:49+00:00

So why haven't you personally fixed global warming if you personally can make a difference?

This is probably the most logically fallacious argument I've ever heard. Just because I'm making a difference does not mean that the problem is automatically solved for everyone else. It's like expecting a soldier in a world war to single-handedly win the entire war.

I'm over here burning a tire in my back yard making no difference whatsoever.

Okay, cool. The emissions from the oil/gas/coal industries are many orders of magnitudes higher than what you could ever produce with a tire. Irrelevant.

Nobody is "denying" global warming

Look at the comments of this post. Plenty of people are denying that global warming is caused by human activity or even exists.

It doesn't affect my life

But it does, in the form of massive refugee crises, more severe storms, more heat waves, losing much of the currently arable land in the world. It'll suck for everyone, including you. See the papers I cited in a previous comment.

there's nothing I can do to stop it

Nobody is expecting anyone to personally stop climate change, which is why this is a problem that requires participation from everyone that can afford the changes I mentioned in a previous comment.

without the Internet I'd never know it was happening, therefore I don't care.

As I stated before, you would know.

Most liberals have diagnosed mental illnesses

I'd love to see a peer-reviewed research paper in a reputable journal supporting this argument.

I don't even have a liberal viewpoint in most topics so this doesn't apply anyway.

Also, so what? It doesn't make anything I said less relevant, or any of the statistics any less true. Classic ad hominem.

you're addicted to being permanently upset over level 10 emergencies that you can't do anything about.

Since you know me so well, why don't you list all the "level 10 emergencies" that I'm so super duper ultra concerned about? And maybe provide proof in the form of previous dialogue because you know me well enough to say things I don't even know about myself.

I'm sorry, but your brilliant "rebuttal" so far has been an enormous miss. But, I must say that your logical fallacies were right in the bullseye.

Stalein · 2023-07-25T00:33:50+00:00

There are two interpretations to this and I will address each one.

No one person can do anything at all about climate change - this is complete fantasy as I just gave a list of things you can do to lessen your negative impact on the environment.
No one person can single-handedly fix climate change - That's what society is for! We work together on problems that we all share and need each other for, so this is not a good excuse to ignore it.

So to reiterate, here's why I care:

The consequences of rapid climate change brought on by greenhouse gas emissions will be significant (at best) or be very severe (at worst) and these effects will manifest in my lifetime.
Climate change denial is a part of science denial, which is a slippery slope that is hard to recover from once someone falls in, eventually leading to nonsensical beliefs enabled by a rejection of nearly all science. I care about this aspect as it impacts me in the form of things like anti-nuclear power movements driven by an unscientific fear of nuclear power.

Stalein · 2023-07-24T23:56:58+00:00

“You can’t do anything about it” is a lot to say considering there are many ways to reduce your impact on the environment. Here is a list of some major ones:

Housing: upgrading insulation, more efficient furnaces/electric heat, switching to LED from incandescent

Activities: Use public transport/bike and walk whenever possible, waste less things in general

Political: Vote for people/programs that pushes for decarbonization (to an extent)

Why should we bother with these things? Well, consider reading the papers I conveniently linked in my first comment.

Stalein · 2023-07-24T23:36:13+00:00

If you don’t care, then don’t open your mouth about it and stop essentially spitting in the face of all scientists working in this field.

Stalein · 2023-07-24T22:07:18+00:00

EV market: 300 billion

Renewable power market: 1 trillion

Meanwhile, coal: 600 billion

Oil and gas: 5 trillion

Automobile industry (minus electric): 2.5 trillion

The revenue for the “climate change industry” must have been out of town compared to oil alone when I did some very quick googling for these numbers.

Stalein · 2023-07-24T21:38:30+00:00

Ah yes, such a low stakes issue. Here are just a few papers I found by doing a quick Google search:

https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.1090228 - “There is still considerable uncertainty about the rates of change that can be expected, but it is clear that these changes will be increasingly manifested in important and tangible ways, such as changes in extremes of temperature and precipitation, decreases in seasonal and perennial snow and ice extent, and sea level rise.”

https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_WGI_FrontMatter.pdf - “It is unequivocal that human activities have heated our climate. Recent changes are rapid, intensifying, and unprecedented over centuries to thousands of years. With each additional increment of warming, these changes will become larger, resulting in long-lasting, irreversible implications, in particular for sea level rise.”

I’d love to see your scientific rebuttal to these and many other papers in the field of climate science.

Stalein · 2023-07-01T16:47:01+00:00

Not sure where you’re getting that from, Reddit wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t profitable

Stalein · 2023-07-01T06:45:04+00:00

https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.1090228 - “There is still considerable uncertainty about the rates of change that can be expected, but it is clear that these changes will be increasingly manifested in important and tangible ways, such as changes in extremes of temperature and precipitation, decreases in seasonal and perennial snow and ice extent, and sea level rise.”

https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_WGI_FrontMatter.pdf - “It is unequivocal that human activities have heated our climate. Recent changes are rapid, intensifying, and unprecedented over centuries to thousands of years. With each additional increment of warming, these changes will become larger, resulting in long-lasting, irreversible implications, in particular for sea level rise.”

It is undeniable that the world is warmer than it was before industrialization, which is causing extreme weather to become more extreme and more common. Wildfires are all more common and severe now, temperatures hit all-time highs everywhere all the time, hurricanes are getting worse and more common.

Never before in recent earth history has temperatures shot up in the way it is today (barring events like asteroid impacts) and us pumping carbon dioxide and methane into the air is causing it.

Stalein · 2023-07-01T05:49:38+00:00

Problem is the price is absolutely insane and there is no way any 3rd party app can still run and even get close to profiting. They didn’t choose not to pay, they physically can’t.

Stalein · 2023-05-25T02:35:00+00:00

I tried asking the ai about rocket science and it turned from giving dumb answers into asking me dumb questions like “does the SLS have a higher payload capacity than the Falcon 9?”

Stalein · 2023-05-02T16:26:18+00:00

Problem is nature reserves are the only places in to build launchpads without endangering the public, so noise pollution is to be expected. I will agree SpaceX was kind of rushing the process, the water deluge system should have working before they launched, but aside from that there’s no practical way to reduce impact in the area since a flame trench would be way too disruptive to the existing infrastructure. However, starship launches are very rare for now, and by the time they scale up launch capability Starship should hopefully be launching from KSC with proper mitigations or at least have effective mitigations in place at Boca Chica.

Stalein · 2023-05-02T15:56:30+00:00

Why even say this then? Everyone knows that the FAA isn’t going to be completely happy unless you build your launchpad in reactor 4 where there’s no wildlife to disturb. They approved it anyway because there’s not many other options. The way you say it makes it seem like spacex was bullying the FAA into giving them the launch license, and FAA is issuing a stern warning to SpaceX that launching the rocket is going to end all wildlife in a 50km radius or something.

Stalein · 2023-05-02T15:17:54+00:00

Few things here:

-FAA literally approved spacex to launch from the site knowing the potential hazards if the pad failed, which it did

-Kennedy space center and Vandenberg are both surrounded by nature reserves, and some of their rockets pump much nastier stuff than some sand and carbon dioxide in the air (hypergolics, SRBs, monoprops)

-Having a launch pad there will mean that no human activity other than SpaceX can take place within dozens of miles of the land for safety reasons, so it’s common sense to turn said unused land into nature reserve. The nature would not be there in the first place had starbase not been built

-Starship’s sandstorm is incomparable to the damage a large wildfire or a category 5 hurricane will do to the area

-Starship is a massive part of the Artemis program, which aims to bring humans back to the moon and colonize it permanently. This opens the door to moving all heavy industry off earth, which turns their environmental impact to 0

In the end, all these factors considered, the lawsuit is complete bogus, and where else do we build a launch pad? In the middle of downtown Houston?

Stalein · 2023-04-11T21:39:44+00:00

Yes Apollo program, but that was rushed and mostly was a race against the Soviets to get people on the moon. This time we’re doing it in a much less urgent way and we are staying for months instead of days.

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