Oh well ok I will get right on raising taxes. So simple I should have done it sooner.
FairTax is regressive and does nothing to stop a trillionaire from launching dick rockets to nowhere. Each rocket and launch using more resources than a poor person will their entire life.
There has been a lot of debate over AC use. Everyone chiming in only discusses runtime energy use.
The biggest issue is mining and manufacturing, and the moving of all the materials, parts, and such.
Every AC has sheathed wires and circuit boards.
Every airplane, car, phone, network router, refrigerator... same expansive mess creation.
Gamers complaining about disc less games despite that problem pipeline and waste.
Complaining about RAM prices despite the problem pipeline.
No one is focused on the lag effects, externalities, of billions using up an endless supply of technologies and dumping airplane smog in the atmosphere. Etc, etc, etc
Thermodynamics makes it pretty clear that energy is not gone just hanging out in the atmosphere.
Thermodynamics means we may be fucked even if we slow down; that energy in the atmosphere can only go from atmosphere into oceans, glaciers, and permafrost. There's a lot of potential energy in the Earth to release as it absorbs the heat already in the atmosphere
We don't "think" in language. We think in the spatial relationships of stuff.
Note language on the page is visual spatial relationships and spoken language fosters triggers activity between structures in the brain.
We merely use language to communicate. And yeah but thanks, at my age having worked in EE, software dev and trained under various experts (friends and family who are chefs, doctors, aeronautics engineers) in their disciplines... at some point no one is saying anything interesting
Same old appeals to social conservatism of some form; not save the Constitution style but their job despite tech obsoleting jobs forever now. Their culture, despite history being littered with the detritus of dead cultures.
Just a bunch of parroting. Little thinking "oh shit every generation ever has had to deal with this."
Imo if we offloaded to much thinking to tech it was a long time ago; we started to stare at the web and stopped thinking not in language but about the evolving spatial relationships of the physical world