Oh they’re great at lots of it. AI call centers? Completely unnavigable. If you wanted help, instead of customer support you should tweet at the company and hope it goes viral

AI doctors? They can deny insurance coverages at light speed. Same day rejection is the kind of “innovation” healthcare needs

AI investment advisors? They’ll help you talk yourself into betting on whatever notion you think might be profitable, and tell you that’s it’s the smartest most clever investment idea they’ve ever heard

You think they won’t?

Fuck that, let them scurry off into the shadows. That’s one more special election for a progressive to snatch out of nowhere

Ridicule definitely helps against the far right, they don’t have a real ideology. Make their leader look weak and they’ll quiet down

Chains of hydrogen and carbon.

Yes, hydrogen, the smaller possible molecule, and carbon, which is smaller and lighter then oxygen

Hydrocsrbon chains are the most efficient way to store carbon, aside from something like graphite.

Who cares what it becomes when you burn it? CO2 is obviously not the optimal carbon sink, even before you start considering things like long term stability

So your saying it’s a very plump pinata?

I get what you’re saying, it sounds very reasonable conceptually. But the problem is that this is a chain so riddled with weak links it’s infeasible

You’re right about biofuel… Except that biofuel is already refined biomass. The water is already removed, usually to become as close to pure hydrocarbons as possible. That’s a far more efficient CO2 sink than pure CO2, because the oxygen component is in the atmosphere

It’s insane to burn biofuels to lower atmospheric CO2.

And as far as the process being non-destructive… This technology was developed to use pressured CO2 to break smaller pockets in the rock, it’s like using a pressure chamber to deflate foam. Except the rocks aren’t plastic until your get a whole lot deeper, and the amount of pressure means the whole well is being pressurized beyond a level it was ever at naturally

Can a big cavity in the Earth store gasses? Sure. Can an oil well? Maybe… But so far, the answer is it leaks

As for your last point… If you instead ask if we should cram biofuels in the ground? That’s a way better idea, there’s something to it. It’s not a solution, it doesn’t scale to the levels where we can keep using fossil fuels everywhere, but it would sequester C02 very effectively. Kind of like it was before we dug it up and burned it

The biofuel thing is just further nonsense.

If you’re pulling CO2 out of the air, why in the world would you turn around and burn it???

That makes zero sense. For one, biofuels require processing, which means they might even be carbon positive before you burn it, and again, the scale needed to produce it in meaningful quantities is totally impractical.

And again, you can’t just pump CO2 in the well and put an acme sized plug on it. The structure of the rock is destroyed by the process, it’ll just leak out. We’d need an entirely new method to store it, which was never the plan here

This whole scheme is a fever dream designed to continue burning fossil fuels while siphoning away money from actual green movements

Ok… Come on now, I know you’ve been propagandized, and propaganda works, but let’s think this through

If you capture CO2 out of smokestacks, what have you done? You’ve slightly reduced emissions by going after the lowest hanging fruit possible

Are we going to do that to every power plant? Is every containment effort going to work? Does that actually fix the problem?

It’s because we don’t feel better, we feel tired. It’s an exhausting process, and we don’t get to feel reward chemicals from abstract tasks like that

Uh…by definition, they already are here

Lmao, you gotta love watching MAGA fall apart

Which makes zero sense when you think about it for half a second…

We don’t deport criminals until we have our pound of flesh. The police handle criminals, obviously

You don’t understand… We already know it doesn’t work. They’ve been doing this for decades, they’ve recently started green washing this fracking technique

And in case you didn’t know, there’s dozens of oil wells leaking right now. Some is oil in the ocean, some natural gas, some of it is burning underground… And there’s just no known way to stop it. You can’t just seal them back up when you’re done, the structure of the rock is damaged

And all of the aside, this doesn’t math even if it worked. It takes too much energy to pull CO2 out of the air, and to even make a dent we’d have to put up CO2 condensers on a percentage of earths surface… It’s a dead end tech.

A distraction from the truth… We just have to reduce emissions. It’s that simple, we have to do it before the systems that keep Earth stable flip and accelerate warming

I don’t think she could get the Senate seat… If she could she wouldn’t have resigned from the house

She’s distancing herself and doing the talk show circuit. If she wanted the Senate seat, she’d be lying low and doing things locally… And 100% she’s been picked up by a group of consultants

It’s so insane that it’s legal to use AI to deny claims just as a black box. We’re so cooked

Yeah, I’m sure it’ll work this time. It definitely won’t hold just long enough for attention to go elsewhere…

Oil companies are really great at keeping things in oil wells, especially at sea. Just a fantastic track record

Towing is a very predatory and sketchy industry when you let it off the leash, that’s not the answer

The answer is to centralize parking around highways at the edge of areas, then make it as inconvenient as possible to drive on the surface streets. Very low speed limits, people crossing whenever they want, and only disabled people can park on the street for more than 90 minutes

Then just pour on the buses. Go very heavy with enforcement initially, and things will normalize.

You have to make driving the inconvenient option

It’s so hard to decide…I mean that flag would have a lot of collector value, but the plant is alive

I refuse your defeatist nonsense. There’s 3 years left, progressives are making huge inroads into both local governments and the party machinery, and the old guard is being changed out

Even if I were wrong about it, that’s still the only way out. Obama-like means nothing changes, Biden was Obama-like - we didn’t recover from Trump I, Biden just stabilized the new normal and insisted it’s fine now.

We have to demand better, starting now. While we have the time

Because sometimes you feel like doing a little trolling, and it’s better to ethically source your trolling