I think that holds internationally, but the USA eats a massive amount of meat and less beans comparatively.

This is one study. Both the author of this article and you should not be so quick to draw strong conclusions.

For instance, the idea that early humanoids took the form of “cavemen” who ate a ton of meat is debated, and largely built on assumptions made from finding hunting tools.

More recent evidence of the oldest known fossilized human feces has shown very amounts of dietary fiber - much more than our modern diet. The amount of meat eaten in the USA today is not historically common.

I find it fascinating how it’s called methane in this context, but natural gas when oil companies sell their fracking bi-product to heat homes and run water heaters.

Relevant meme :P https://slrpnk.net/post/12165327

This one seems pretty cool though.

Yep! Only about twice in several years though. Sometimes it’s the same company that started up or bough another company and gave your email without telling you.

No, it’s because you mentioned ancap. Capitalism is inherently hierarchical and unmitigated capitalism does not result in freedom.

Here is one resource to learn more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Cnxky5ZjQM&t=22

With a side of mental trauma from doing cannibalism! We all love that now, don’t we?

I consider this an absolute win.

There’s more people complaining about those protesting the climate than doing literally anything about it. Be the change you want to see and don’t poo poo others who go about the same goal in a different way.

Say it with me: we need a diversity of tactics.

Our prisons are designed for revenge and punishment not just to those going to prison, but to have a terrifying affect on others.

So ironically, the use of 5 years prison time is the real terrorism, in the literal sense of trying to make people terrified of protesting and of putting someone in a cage for 5 years.

Elon is also supporting right wing authoritarians who want to dismantle climate protections and promote coal, oil, and gas.

This was a great, succinct article. Here are a few key points that I noticed:

The important result here is that the efficiency of your air conditioner decreases as ∆T increases — e.g., as the outside temperature goes up.

the work required to keep your house at a fixed temperature Tc increases with the square of the temperature difference between inside and outside temperature, ΔT².

Let’s use the same numbers from the previous example: you want to keep your house at 75F. If climate change has increased the outside temperature from 96F to 100F, the energy your air conditioner consumes increases by (100-75)2/(96-75)2 = 252/212 — this is an increase in energy consumption of 42%!

Averaged over an entire day, the increase will be less than this because ∆T is smaller for much of the day (e.g., at night) But the result is robust: climate change is driving exponentially increasing energy demand for cooling.

People with financial means, who work in air-conditioned offices and live in climate-controlled homes, can handle rising temperatures by simply paying for more electricity.

However, a significant portion of the global population lives the hot life. These people live in homes without air conditioning, work outdoors or in warehouses or kitchens with no climate control.

In my opinion, there are greater influences than voter turnout on climate policy. The corporate lobbying, aggressive PR, and disinformation has influenced the state more than any vote. There have historically been no candidates to even vote for that cared about global warming.

And the oil and gas corporations themselves have influenced voters in the same way. Embedding oil into masculinity, lack of global warming discussion in the monopolized media outlets, etc… Attempts to keep information and awareness from the average voter and make us doubt global warming and even defend oil companies.

IMO, the American state’s impulse to protect capital and monopoly is the primary reason the climate response has been so poor.

There is no one universally right way to do activism. We need a diversity of tactics.

It’s not yet on Sci-Hub.

I can’t wait until more YouTube creators move to Peertube + donation platforms like Liberapay!

This is great news

Don’t feed the trolls.

We need a diversity of tactics.