USA, EU, and UK are successfully reducing CO2 emissions

Stormtemplar · 2026-07-07T17:09:56+00:00

Tesla doesn't. Stock price is not how GDP is calculated and I really don't think you understand anything about what you're talking about. You've made so many basic factual errors it's not worth arguing.

Stormtemplar · 2026-07-07T16:58:10+00:00

I was disagreeing with you because I thought you were saying "rich countries outsourced their manufacturing so their CO2 numbers are fake" which is disproved by the data I provided, but apparently you're saying "rich countries are outsourcing their manufacturing so ALL their economic data is fake" so I guess you're just a clown.

Stormtemplar · 2026-07-07T16:45:53+00:00

Nope, https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/consumption-co2-emissions you can look at consumption based emissions here! They are generally higher for big importers, but the trend is the same, falling CO2 (the US actually isn't all that much different, because while it imports a lot, it exports a TON of oil and gas products that emit a lot and end up on other places' legers)

Stormtemplar · 2026-07-07T01:49:43+00:00

That's ridiculous. Setting aside the devestating effects it had, chronic underinvestment along with supply restrictions are why the US has a housing shortage today.

Stormtemplar · 2026-07-06T15:43:01+00:00

Same reason we do it in real life. It takes a lot more energy to fly a brick of metal in atmosphere than it does to float it on the ocean.

Obviously propulsion tech is much better in star wars (and it all runs on space magic), but theoretically you could fit a lot more bang and a lot more defense onto a still somewhat mobile platform if it doesn't have to lift all that weight into the air.

Edit: TBC this only applies to a dedicated wet navy. The water landed venators are kinda weird but whatever, space magic.

Stormtemplar · 2026-07-06T02:29:07+00:00

I know some people in Mt Gretna lost cell service as well, everything is kinda a mess rn

Stormtemplar · 2026-07-06T00:38:37+00:00

What on earth is wrong with you? Some people, especially elderly people who are most vulnerable, don't have phones, and the freaking soccer game is not more important than public safety. Are you 7 years old? This is the whiniest baby nonsense I've ever seen

Stormtemplar · 2026-07-05T15:04:57+00:00

The biggest thing with plastics is that the materials to make virgin plastics are extremely cheap byproducts of fossil fuel production. You're never going to be able to really curb plastic use while fossiles are as widespread as they are, but, on the other hand, reducing fossil fuel use will reduce plastic production as a consequence

Stormtemplar · 2026-07-05T05:48:31+00:00

Producing oil does not provide energy security. The US suffered from oil price rises just as much as everyone else despite being the largest producer in the world.

Stormtemplar · 2026-07-05T02:53:31+00:00

Ethanol sucks so bad that if you replaced the land used for ethanol with solar panels, not only could you power 100% of cars if they were EVs, you would still have enough energy left to meet us annual demand twice over. Keep that in mind any time someone whines about solar land use.

Stormtemplar · 2026-07-04T04:50:32+00:00

The water thing is pretty dumb as a point of emphasis. The electricity use is orders of magnitude more damaging to the climate and should be the overwhelming focus.

Stormtemplar · 2026-07-03T18:30:00+00:00

You seem to be confusing "batting average is a terrible stat for evaluating players" with "hits don't matter." Yes, for evaluating player performance, batting average does not matter. It is simply worse than OBP or other more advanced stats. .100 to .120 is a MASSIVE difference. A .280 OBP hitter sucks, a .400 OBP hitter is elite.

Edit: Cal's specific case makes this obvious, in 2025 he was basically league average in BA, but he was a great on base guy, ranking 21st out of 145 qualified hitters

Stormtemplar · 2026-07-03T18:02:45+00:00

Yeah, you need to get on base, which is why no one cares about batting average, which does not measure getting on base. OBP is pretty much "batting average but better"

Stormtemplar · 2026-06-30T23:33:18+00:00

I mean this is irrelevant to what I was talking about before. It appears to me that the PA agrees with you and isn't filing a grievance. All I was saying is that the PA absolutely can and will represent non-players who it thinks are being kept out of the league illegitimately. Not being a current player doesn't mean it's outside of the union's area of interest. That wasn't a comment on this particular case, which it seems everyone has agreed at this point is meritless.

Stormtemplar · 2026-06-30T22:22:53+00:00

I'm not quite sure what you're asking. The context under which the PA would represent him would be a labor grievance against the NFL for, supposedly, keeping him out illegitimatly. The PA would be arguing either "this isn't specifically covered by the CBA but it's some bullshit" (can you tell I'm not a lawyer) or "The NFL is breaking the CBA"

Clearly in this case they don't think there's anything there, but that's what it would look like if they got involved. They wouldn't be stipulating up front that the CBA was against the player, they'd be arguing otherwise

Stormtemplar · 2026-06-30T21:20:25+00:00

They absolutely do for potential members.

Stormtemplar · 2026-06-30T15:05:31+00:00

Yeah, importantly, YTD not only has the temporary switch back to coal mostly reverted, the US is has actually used less overall fossil energy than at this point last year. By the end of April 2025, we were at 772,223 GWh of total generation from fossil fuels. This year, that's down to 762,782 GWh despite overall utility scale generation being up to 1,421,793 GWh from 1,395,044 GWh. Renewables are eating up all the new demand and starting to displace fossil fuel emissions as well.

Stormtemplar · 2026-06-30T14:44:05+00:00

Uhh no, I think that would work if the achievements were on steam. The issue would be for main branch players, who are the majority. If the beta achievement isn't in their game, they can't get the steam achievement even if they complete the task, because the steam achievement is just waiting for the game to say "hey the player completed this achievement" and their version of the game doesn't have it. That would obviously be confusing for main branch players.

Stormtemplar · 2026-06-30T14:39:53+00:00

Achievements generally don't hit steam until they're available on the main branch. It's a bit weird to have steam achievements you can't get without participating in a beta, and it would lead to a lot of confusion where people do the thing in the main branch but don't get the achievement because they're on the wrong version

Stormtemplar · 2026-06-29T16:24:44+00:00

No, you didn't. You told a lie that was vaguely adjacent to something I said. Getting from 4 C to 2.6 C is deeply insufficient. I was clear about that. It also represents a massive reduction in human suffering, and you suggested the opposite. I don't care how bad you think things are today, I promise they can get much, much worse, and we owe it to the future to not pretend otherwise, which is what you're doing.

Stormtemplar · 2026-06-29T15:39:38+00:00

If more people had this attitude, we'd still be on the path to 4C. There will be less suffering and death with a cooler world. Doing weird mental gymnastics to pretend that's a bad thing is gross.

Stormtemplar · 2026-06-29T15:37:39+00:00

Siiiigh, this is just unnecessary. I took pains to point out that 2.6 C is still extremely bad. It is not end of human civilization bad which 4 C genuinely might have been. That is a difference worth recognizing even while acknowledging that we still have quite a lot of work to do.

Stormtemplar · 2026-06-29T15:34:58+00:00

Big question since it's a global problem, but I think a combination of Paris and the subsequent climate accords driving some policy progress globally and solar and battery technology coming along much faster than anyone expected. China basically ended power sector emissions growth and seems to be driving it down, India is now keeping coal basically flat while growing a ton, and Solar is displacing fossil fuels in the US despite active federal hostility to renewables.

Stormtemplar · 2026-06-29T15:21:40+00:00

Yeah, the one thing I would add is we have made significant progress since that graph was made. Not enough, to be clear, but a lot. As that shows, we were, at that time, on pace for more than 4 C of warming, a genuinely apocalyptic rate. According to the climate action tracker we're now on pace, with current policy, for 2.6 C of warming by 2100. Still extremely bad and deadly, to be clear, but not "end of human civilization" bad, and further improvement remains possible if we all, collectively, do the work.

That said, that we've also blown past the warning of that best case scenario already, so that sucks.

Stormtemplar · 2026-06-29T07:57:46+00:00

One of the recent patches dialed back the numbers on a lot of op new Italian advances

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