https://xcancel.com/nytopinion/status/1829879853165765055
https://archive.ph/lxKBc
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/31/opinion/heat-wave-air-conditioning-climate-change.html

  • Assian_Candor [comrade/them]
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    2 months ago

    I'm with you on this. "Stop using AC, adapt to climate change!"

    Meanwhile the US air force is flying 10000 planes a day for no fucking reason.

    • blight [any]
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      2 months ago

      no fucking reason

      they need to prove that their pilots are ready and willing, to ensure their threats have weight

        • blight [any]
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          2 months ago

          I mean, in the end, sure. But in a very concrete way, those threats are what keep the colonies pacified.

    • quarrk [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      Meanwhile air travel is the only practical way to travel in this country. A mode of travel which is unlikely to ever be electrified on any meaningful scale — not to mention the amount of battery waste that would require.

      China’s basically solved this problem already with high-speed rail. It doesn’t need batteries because the power is delivered to the track. Far more sustainable.

      • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        High speed rail would make sense in the US, too. Like everything between Montana, Texas, and Kentucky is flat. You could build rail lines that are perfectly straight with nothing in the way you'd have to make a turn to go around (causing you to slow down). Such a line could probably hit 300 mph. If the line was fron LA to NYC, it could make that trip in about 9 hours (probably not because eventually you have to go around the Rockies, Appalachia, and Sierra Nevada).

        But no. Let's continue using shitty tubes passengers get crammed into where we limit how much stuff they can bring and can't leave their seat except to go to the bathroom.

      • Assian_Candor [comrade/them]
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        2 months ago

        They're gonna clown on us with nationwide hsr, massive EV adoption and infrastructure and fusion

        The enlightened west is about to look like the old west

    • EelBolshevikism [none/use name]
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      2 months ago

      Oh damn it's almost like using the AC IS me adapting to climate change. It's so weird that I keep needing to leave the AC low even though it's Fall now. Hmmmm