I honestly can't for the life of me understand what you're trying to say here.
The poster said "They're more carbon neutral than dino diesel."
I was simply stating that not only was I not arguing otherwise (if we're assuming "more carbon neutral" means better for the environment), but also clarifying what the term means (the binary state of being carbon neutral).
I think your statement was unfunny because I did not personally find it funny, nor do I expect others to. Not for any other nefarious reason.
I was clarifying in case the author of the comment was unsure what "carbon neutral" means. It's not a comparative term, so it confuses the discussion to use it as such, just as unfunny comments derail discussion.
You either are or you aren't, you can't be "more" carbon neutral. And anyway, I'm not asking if it's better for the environment than fossil fuels, I'm asking if the claim that it is carbon neutral is true or not.
Sure the initial carbon dumped into the atmosphere to plow the fields is a short term increase, but then you're also deforesting lands to grow them, which permanently adds more carbon into the atmosphere.
Notice that this is in the Opinion column. None of what's said here is even close to true.
Plenty of people shop at their local Goodwill or Salvation Army, where clothes are vastly cheaper than buying them new. Not only are they cheaper, but the clothes are often better quality.
Saying used clothes cost as much as new clothes and then citing an Indian blanket mill competing with Chinese manufacturers as evidence of this is disingenuous.
If a man has a hundred children and lives many years but cannot enjoy his prosperity, a licensed therapist and possibly medication to deal with depression would be much preferable to being stillborn.
Firstly, Japanese manhole cover t-shirts already exist, I found a bunch on Amazon. Why are these different? Why does this need a kickstarter?
The authors of the kickstarter say they are working closely with city officials to use their art, however there is no mention of artist attribution or whether cities will get a portion of the proceeds from selling their art. Is any of that happening at all?
Lastly, the HN poster created an account an hour ago specifically to advertise this Kickstarter project and nothing else. The same Reddit user has been spamming that platform with the project (https://www.reddit.com/user/aquintar).
To me, it just looks like two white guys are stealing Japanese art and putting it on t-shirts. Good for them, but leave HN out of it.
The self balancing technology in the Segway, revolutionary at the time, paved the way for hoverboards. The forms are changed but the underlying technology is the same.
In the same way, Eth and Monero are further iterations of Bitcoin.