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Marcus Aurelius ' meditations
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Aug 9, 2022 01:19
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Hubbert posted:if anyone has any good contemporary book recommendations please let me know, thank you Idk if it's good since I haven't gotten around to it yet but I put this on my reading list bc it looked interesting Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid
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Aug 9, 2022 02:35
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Vox Nihili posted:You asked, Congress delivered. The new EV tax credits are now extra means-tested! I can't tell if this is a joke or not because means testing the tax credit that exists as a mArKeT bAsEd solution to EV adoption/building an EV industry is extremely on brand
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Aug 9, 2022 03:07
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https://www.smh.com.au/national/revealed-car-industry-s-secret-emissions-plan-would-slow-electric-vehicle-uptake-20220805-p5b7pe.htmlquote:The car industry has launched a wide-ranging secret campaign that would delay Australia’s transition to electric vehicles and hamper a key part of the nation’s climate change plan, confidential documents show. It is just absolutely wild how even the most modest moves against climate change - things that would actually achieve next to nothing - are still relentlessly opposed. Lol and, if I may be allowed a followup, Lmao
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Aug 9, 2022 05:30
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Torpor posted:I thought we were trying to keep it under 1.5C now it’s 3? What are we even currently at? Because things already don't seem great
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Aug 9, 2022 05:40
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Parts of Jersey is already at +2
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Aug 9, 2022 05:45
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CODChimera posted:What are we even currently at? Because things already don't seem great We're somewhere between 1 and 1.5
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Aug 9, 2022 05:50
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TeenageArchipelago posted:I can't tell if this is a joke or not because means testing the tax credit that exists as a mArKeT bAsEd solution to EV adoption/building an EV industry is extremely on brand The long and short is that the new car EV tax credit is only available if you make under $150k, and the used EV tax credit is only available if you make under $75,000. So if you make between $75k and $150k you have to buy new if you want to use the credit!
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Aug 9, 2022 06:22
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Mayor Dave posted:We're somewhere between 1 and 1.5 Not great not terrible Hold on... I'm being told... I can now inform you it actually is terrible.
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Aug 9, 2022 08:00
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I feel like it's way too confusing keeping track of it. Is it +1 over 1900, is it +1.5 over pre-industrial average, no one can keep track of this poo poo. I propose we set a clean boundary of the year 2000. It's a nice round number everyone can get their heads around, and it was within most people's lifetimes so it gives the numbers real world relevance so we can all better understand what's going on. Looks like we're +0.3 or something like that. Seems fine, I don't care, that's like a rounding error. Who wants burgers?
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Aug 9, 2022 11:20
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It's 1.5C over pre-industrial, minimally, and 1.2C over 1950-1981 baseline, also minimally.
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Aug 9, 2022 11:25
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Hubbert posted:if anyone has any good contemporary book recommendations please let me know, thank you all these books are out of date the second they're published, but Lynas seems to get that, since that book is his second edition of a book published in 2007; he felt the need to update it since things changed so quickly after publication i've read a lot of climate change books. this was a doozie
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Aug 9, 2022 14:10
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Vox Nihili posted:The long and short is that the new car EV tax credit is only available if you make under $150k, and the used EV tax credit is only available if you make under $75,000. So if you make between $75k and $150k you have to buy new if you want to use the credit! a used ev seems like a good way to get stuck with a dead or degraded battery
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Aug 9, 2022 14:39
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even used EVs are like 20k and I don’t think it’s a good idea to spend a quarter of your yearly income on a car, but that’s just me. also it’s just gonna make used EVs more expensive up front.
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Aug 9, 2022 15:00
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Vox Nihili posted:The long and short is that the new car EV tax credit is only available if you make under $150k, and the used EV tax credit is only available if you make under $75,000. So if you make between $75k and $150k you have to buy new if you want to use the credit! Lmao I don't have to say in this thread that EVs will do nothing to solve climate change but lmao that the Dems, who theoretically believe that EVs are the answer to climate change, are so ideologically opposed to giving money to people that they can't even subsidize industries anymore. The US economy is planned through these types of market based incentives. Huge subsidies are given to the oil industry, to aerospace, to pharmaceuticals, to automotive, and other poo poo like that. This has been done for decades now as a way of reinforcing American dominance on certain industries. The Dems are so ideologically opposed to giving out money to anyone who isn't a billionaire that anything that they can't even accomplish that lovely goal anymore
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Aug 9, 2022 15:04
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apparently also the ev needs to contain no parts sourced from china, which china is the main manufacturer of things like ev batteries
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Aug 9, 2022 15:24
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^yup https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/most-electric-vehicles-wont-qualify-for-federal-tax-credit/ar-AA10tyLS?ocid=mailsignout&li=BBnb7Kz quote:Most electric vehicles won't qualify for federal tax credit
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Aug 9, 2022 15:28
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I think its neat how A Christmas Carol depicts London as a frozen over and snowy place, how whimsical
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Aug 9, 2022 15:32
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all western conceptions of a 'white christmas' come from a ~200 year period of cooler weather that led to regular snow in southern england, which overlapped with the victorian era and their ideas about children and youth as something other than "cheap labor" and "thing that might die"
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Aug 9, 2022 15:43
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https://twitter.com/euronewsgreen/status/1556960625384890374 https://twitter.com/euronewsgreen/status/1556962150849060868
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Aug 9, 2022 16:09
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time to go seek out glacial melt for my cold brew coffee i guess
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Aug 9, 2022 16:11
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the teflon in the water means that the microplastics will just slide right off my cells and not cause any damage
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Aug 9, 2022 16:12
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Fozzy The Bear posted:https://twitter.com/euronewsgreen/status/1556960625384890374 lmao rainwater barrels are supposed to be safe
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Aug 9, 2022 16:13
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:time to go seek out glacial melt for my cold brew coffee i guess https://www.livescience.com/hundreds-of-new-microbes-found-in-melting-glaciers 
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Aug 9, 2022 16:21
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Glacial melt is fine if you cut it with that black coffin mummy juice
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Aug 9, 2022 16:39
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i use a Brita™ I'm sure I'm fine
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Aug 9, 2022 17:11
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:time to go seek out glacial melt for my cold brew coffee i guess Me with a blowtorch 200ft down a DIY borehole in Greenland "mmm now that's a good cup o' joe"
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Aug 9, 2022 17:17
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Simply capture the water, evaporate it, and capture it again. Easy
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Aug 9, 2022 17:52
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Perry Mason Jar posted:Simply capture the water, evaporate it, and capture it again. Easy
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Aug 9, 2022 17:54
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this thread is way too loving anti-nautilus
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Aug 9, 2022 17:57
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anyone remember the good old days of 2021 when it was only the great lakes region that rained PFAS? look how far we've come
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Aug 9, 2022 17:57
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:what is rain baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more
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Aug 9, 2022 17:58
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Lol these are the same chemicals that caused mystery GI and pancreatic issues in the people that live around there Dupont plants in WV. Hope your grandkids like variant pancreas diseases!
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Aug 9, 2022 18:08
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Great lakes still has a leg up on everyone else in using fracking cum to salt our roads
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Aug 9, 2022 18:08
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Mike the TV posted:Lol these are the same chemicals that caused mystery GI and pancreatic issues in the people that live around there Dupont plants in WV. Hope your grandkids like variant pancreas diseases! Don't forget about the 700 military bases that sprayed this stuff everywhere 
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Aug 9, 2022 18:29
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and that's why i only drink Fiji™ water
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Aug 9, 2022 18:33
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Good news!! https://www.statnews.com/2022/08/08/study-connects-climate-hazards-to-infectious-diseases/ Study connects climate hazards to 58% of infectious diseases quote:Climate hazards such as flooding, heat waves, and drought have worsened more than half of the hundreds of known infectious diseases in people, including malaria, hantavirus, cholera, and anthrax, a study says. Sorry i meant bad news. Bad news is what i meant to type there. But there is some good news: quote:In addition to looking at infectious diseases, the researchers expanded their search to look at all type of human illnesses, including non-infectious sicknesses such as asthma, allergies, and even animal bites to see how many maladies they could connect to climate hazards in some way, including infectious diseases. They found a total of 286 unique sicknesses and of those 223 of them seemed to be worsened by climate hazards, nine were diminished by climate hazards and 54 had cases of both aggravated and minimized, the study found. Sorry, my bad, that was more bad news there 
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Aug 9, 2022 18:33
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Erghh posted:That's mainly because of the bill's requirement that, to qualify for the credit, an electric vehicle must contain a battery built in North America with minerals mined or recycled on the continent. Saving the environment by creating more mines
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Aug 9, 2022 18:35
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Dog Case posted:Saving the environment by creating more mines you mean humanities future home
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Aug 9, 2022 18:35
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Shima Honnou posted:apparently also the ev needs to contain no parts sourced from china, which china is the main manufacturer of things like ev batteries Holy poo poo that is loving stupid
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Aug 9, 2022 18:39
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