I didn’t even mention child labor in my comment, although that is a problem (and a growing one in the US).

My question is if there’s gross exploitation by international corporations is it capitalism or if the flag is red does it just become sparkling exploitation?

Someone should really tell those sweatshop workers doing 16hr shifts to make Nikes that they’re living in a communist country where the workers have control over the means of production.

I know a lot of wonderful individuals who deserve the dignity of not having that slur used in common parlance and also not having their disabilities being compared to .ml users. The .ml guys are almost universally bad people and they are not.

Just to be clear, you think the Ukrainians flew drones all the way to Moscow, navigated them around air defenses, and blew them up at refineries. But instead of filling the warhead with something that would damage the refinery they filled it with Hollywood pyrotechnics because they wanted to look like they damaged the refinery?

I just want to be really clear about what you believe.

I agree, but I don’t think the article is really about the Atlantic’s commitment to creating meaningful change. I think it hits on something important though, which is that those who were most ardently combatting climate change have now pivoted to other political topics or backslid on their commitments.

Climate change is as important as ever but a lot of people on the ground and those in power can’t seem to give a shit.

This article isnt sayjng “renewables are bad”. Its saying “EPR is good”. We need those frameworks in place preferably before we get more panels ending up in landfills, because that’s simply wasteful.

size and weight of a car

blocks of ice measuring 4 ft × 4 ft × 2 ft.

This you?

Because 32 cubic ft is about the volume of most residential AC units.

Is it?

92kWh/m^3 of energy is a lot of cooling. It’d be hard to not be effective.

I think youre misunderstanding one thing, which is that the ice is a replacement for batteries. While the system had a small battery for running a small pump and fan, its a small cheap one that doesn’t store much and the water has substantially more energy, equivalent to something like a large lithium battery.

The thermal battery is also far smaller, cheaper, and more robust than a lithium battery and it won’t deteriorate with repeated cycling. The obvious trade off is that in this case it can only be used for refrigeration and only down to 0C. So while its very niche, it is quite effective for home air conditioning.

These maps never include Alaska or Hawaii despite the myriad risks in those places.

I actually find the fact that becoming a more militarized wartime state has induced similar instances of violence in Russia to be really interesting. Up until this point, most other countries assumed there was something unique about US culture that resulted in school shootings, but showing some sort of hypothetical link between wartime mobilization and mass violence is interesting and the US interventionism has only been increasing along with their mass shootings.

I’ll just remove the post. Everyone has to wade through slop now adays and everyone is gonna fall for it at some point.

Nothing is going to solve all our problems, but triage is important and if you can get your weird cousin to vaccinate their kids, you’ve done measurable good for society.

I just pulled the title from the headline, but I’ve made the change because you’re right. It shouldn’t be normalized.