Regulated capitalism may actually work if we regulated it fairly and didn’t have megacorps writing the laws.
Here’s the thing…that’s true for literally every form of governance/economic planning you can conceive.
The problem with socialism will always be “the ones with all the de facto power”.
Fossil fuel emissions are also a human construct.
Huh what?
It’s a human activity, not a human construct.
What it essentially is, is sequestered carbon from millions of years ago, now being burned off and released into the atmosphere. Lion King’s Circle of Life is essentially the Carbon Cycle, and lots of blades of grass don’t get eaten. Carbon that returned to the earth in large quantities and under the right conditions became oil/coal, and now we are digging that back up and burning it for funsies.
But that’s besides the point. The point is that each individual emits an amount of carbon per year, much of which was formerly sequestered. Some countries, each individual is using less than others.
The problem is that you won’t be able to pull out a number that makes America/the west/Capitalism look good, because such a thing doesn’t exist…so instead you just try to brush it off as “oh well our country is better because of this number”.
It’s xenophobia and nationalism. Not science. Not even statistics.
This is a bad faith argument. You are arguing the efficiency of a country based upon its CO2 per GDP. That’s kind of a shit argument because GDP is a human construct. Global warming doesn’t give a shit about GDP.
How much “value” a country produces based upon…what, exactly? How much it extracts from the ground? How much value other humans assign to those goods?
Capitalism got us into this fucking mess and you’re still using it as the goddamn ruler.
If you want to compare states, fine, I guess that works as a proxy for cultural differences, but if you are going to compare the efficiency of the people within the state, you measure per capita.
Using GDP is just a shit excuse to be able to defend capitalism while simultaneously dismissing the fact that China supports more people with fewer per-capita emissions.
That’s quite a lot of bread. You must’ve been beating them off with both hands!
Stapling it to trees?
I don’t think he knows about second gun, Pip.
Oh man let me see if I can remember this…
Does it go “Baaah ba-baa badada dadaaaa”?
You see what happens, Larry?
You see what happens?
This is what happens, Larry. This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps. This is what happens when you feed a stoner scrambled eggs.
Alright this is the first bean meme I’ve actually had to share with my wife, a normie.
She says “I’m uncomfortable”.
Nobody poked him in the eye?
Idk man comparing my two kids, both on opposite ends of ADHD (one hyperactive/compulsive, one inattentive)…the hyperactive one is quite ODD and the inattentive one, aside from the ADHD-I tendencies, is probably one of the best behaved kids in the world.
Though I may be a bit biased.
I don’t think it’s nurture. I think ODD has a direct correlation to compulsive behaviors in ADHD-H/C kids. It’s probably something they eventually (hopefully, god willing) grow out of…but also something that would probably turn into other dangerous/compulsive behaviors I’d have to keep an eye out for (like hypersexuality or addiction).
That kid just turned seven and I’m already having nightmares of being a granddad in less than 10 years.
Oppositional Defiant Disorder, I think, is very different with Justice Sensitivity.
Still very often correlated with ADHD. So are a bunch of other neurodivergencies. Autism, a plethora of eating disorders, nymphomania/satyriasis (of course, anxiety and depression are also common, and SSRI’s take care of that…), and addiction probably the most common.
See, I’m generally against calling the correct public authorities for shit like that, because in this day and age it’ll probably end with the asshole getting deported or shot.
And as much as I hate people who park in dangerous spots, I don’t think that’s deserved.
There was this giant box truck that used to always park in a no-parking spot (on the shoulder of the street) right next to the exit from my kids daycare. As a result it was a leap of faith pulling out, every single day, because you couldn’t see shit around it.
This was right around the corner from the police station, so I must assume they’ve seen it and it’s probably one of theirs.
Man the world sucks but you really shouldn’t see me on Rhode Island highways.
Nah everybody who can read has always at least able to see the headlines as they walked by.
Everything old is new again.
Found the medic station at Anthrocon, eh?
Blows my mind that Trump was raising a stink over the smoke when it was pouring into NYC and New England.
All things considered, I’d expect him to fan the flames much, much more literally.
Despite all his rage, it’s a hot dog Nicholas Cage.
Stores should be grateful when people steal condoms.