chakalakasp

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chakalakasp276 karma

Terrorphile? Pedorist?

chakalakasp34 karma

Sure, but had he been sober he likely would have known not to let her on the bike. A bit like a drunk pilot getting onto a plane with a drunk co-pilot, and then blaming the drunk co-pilot for crashing the plane when the co-pilot drunkenly grabs the wheel and steers the plane into the ground. Yeah, both of them were idiots, but in the end the pilot is the one who makes the go/no-go decision, and is the one who accepts responsibility for what happens to the plane.

chakalakasp14 karma

The problem is that rocket mass heaters are like taking a leak in the ocean. Yes, you did something, but only you can tell because the ocean does not look or function any differently.

If you made a real list of things that would actually make a difference and got it to the masses, they would ignore it, because acting on it would be so disruptive both on an individual and society wide economic level that it would have no chance of adoption.

But in case you doubt me, feel free to forward this very pared down list to the masses and see how it goes:

  1. Stop producing and eating all meat. This directive lasts forever.
  2. Ban all coal and petroleum fired energy generation. Replace it with primarily nuclear power generation, with a side of wind and solar.
  3. Ban all concrete production.
  4. Forbid more than one child per family until the population is decreased by 75%.

Those would get humanity an appreciable way there, although it still probably would not be enough to prevent massive climate change. In order to do that, we would need to massively implement geoengineering technologies that do not exist and may not even be physically possible. A significant amount of the official planning going forward to reduce climate change relies on this magic technology that presumably one day we will invent because the math does not work out without it.

chakalakasp7 karma

Also -- and this is a really big one -- NEVER co-sleep with a baby if you have had alcohol or are under the influence of any drugs, including things as simple as allergy drugs that warn about drowsiness as a side-effect.