They just named it like that so it’s easier to remember where pengins live.

At least since the original penguins had been hunted to extinction.

Leaving in the hat is a nice touch.

Cash is traceable (at least bills). All bills have serial numbers and any time cash enters a bank it’s tracked who took it into or out of the bank.

So if I withdraw cash, hand it to you and you put it in the bank, the bank knows we are somewhat connected.

Any car with an automatic emergency stop feature is safer than an “average human driver”.

That’s a big problem with all these self-driving car statistics: Self driving cars are usually very new and outfitted with top-of-the-line features, while the “human driver” they are compared to drives a much older and cheaper car, often without many of the security features that new cars are required to have and often not even maintained properly. Doesn’t really say much about the driving capabilities of a self-driving car.

Sadly, actually comparable statistics are impossible to find, since accident statistics aren’t usually collected on a per-car-type-and-age basis.

OpenAI is more efficient. Give a man a blanket and he will be warm for a winter. Give the world CO2 and there will be no winter.

If we completely stop having children right now, worldwide, the population will not meaningfully decrease for the next 50 years.

The major amount of climate damage will be done within the next 20 years.

The only option to use population control to reduce climate damage would be to kill roughly half of the world’s population within the next 2-3 years.

So if that’s your solution, you are either advocating for the greatest genocide the world has ever seen or are argueing in bad faith because you know that your solution is nonsense.

Well, if this idea is so glorious, why is none of the large array of water harvesting devices that pop up multiple times a year ever deployed at scale?

Easy answer: because they are all marketing bullshit that doesn’t solve the actual problem and instead only exists to part investors from their cash.

But when it’s really humid, there’s usually much better ways of getting water.

It’s the “I’m scared of brackets” crowd again.

population reduction

Yep, sure, genocide is of a problem the less drastic option.

You are a clown.

Sure. The survival of the species can never be an excuse to reduce personal comfort even a little bit.

You can give up all you want.

The biggest issue with your argumentation is that it takes one extreme (“farmers need to live in rural areas”) and use that as a justification for everyone who is not covered by that rule.

For example, all of suburbia can go. Close to nobody living there is a farmer and people only live in the suburbs because they can use a car to get to city center quickly.

But also in more rural areas there are a lot of people who commute to their office job in the next city.

That is not a totally valid life choice by far. If you want to work in the city, move to the city.

Yeah, there’s a bit of a conflict here: People want to live in rural areas with large plots of land and nature everywhere but want to have the comforts and amenities of living in a city center.

Before the car this was a choice that people had to make: move to the city where everything is available or to the countryside where countryside is available and hardly anything else.

The car allowed to bridge this gap to the detriment of the climate and the sustainability of life on this planet.

And now we have another conflict: luxurity for people in rural areas vs survival of the human race.

Yeah, sure. Anger rarely is rational.

It’s because driving a car is the most dangerous thing a regular person is doing on a daily basis. Behind the wheel you are just one wrong motion away from killing yourself and others. All while risking your single most valueable mobile possession.

Even if you compartmentalize that away and try to ignore it, it is a still a constant stressor.

That makes people get angry.

No, Elon looks like Jabba.

At least he didn’t promise that the ride brings you to a better place.

They also have very few cars. There’s like 10 or so of these robotaxis. If you grab 10 human taxi drivers and follow them around for a few months, you’d also expect them to have on average 0 accidents.

No, the / has nothing to do with xml. It’s a fake IRC command.

They were all in the style of /commandname.

You know, people tend to use sarcasm more in chats than in XML documents.

Lies!