How would you stop climate change if you were a Stalin-like figure in modern America? That's the question that we attempt to answer in this episode, despite the fact that none of us are climate scientists.
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How would you stop climate change if you were a Stalin-like figure in modern America?
I wouldn't have to because it would'nt've have happened because we didn't prioritize profits, easy, gg, owned, you bozos.
Best of luck with the podcast. Just saw you did get around to the bicycle stuff y'all once invited me to, gonna have to listen to that
EDIT: I just realized it's prudent to point out there was never a cars and coffee + xBicycles because I chickened out over doxxing concerns, they were nothing but lovely about it actually
For this scenario we were thinking about modern day America. If a revolution happened here in 1917 the conversation would be different.
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If I was the dictator of a small to medium sized city, I'd probably ban drive-throughs.
They're fundamentally stupid. If two people ahead of you order hard-to-make stuff, then you get bogged down even if you just want fries or a a coffee or something that takes 5 seconds to serve you.
Plus everyone's idling waiting for food. Idk if parking lots next to restaurants is more efficient space-wise than a line of cars, but overall serving people faster is probably better.
Could probably be analyzed in a computer experiment where every customer has a randomly select time to order vs time to be served, and you test the two queueing methods against each other.
Drive throughs are so bad I think they were invented by the car lobby probably
Ever have a sleeping baby and a toddler in the car? Like many things, it’s not the technology (meaning the restaurant with a couple holes in the side) that is inherently bad, it is the systems around it. I can imagine good drive throughs. (Dropping into Obama voice mayo pete style) A drive through where no one would have to pull up and wait for an employee to run across the parking lot. A drive though where technology could bring many people their food at once, without having to make teenagers roller skate it to you like some kind of 1950s Amish. A drive through where the food wasn’t laxative.
How would you stop climate change if you were a Stalin-like figure in modern America?
I would make the Great Purge seem like kiddie shit, and that would just be the start
Seems like it's a pretty good time for y'all to read some Malm - in Corona, Climate and Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the 21st Century he outlines his model for eco-Leninism.
The second one, unless you're planning to podcast more about this topic
An American Stalin would use his comically large spoon to scoop up all the fossil fuels
I thought about making the thumbnail image Stalin scooping up a gas stove with his comically large spoon