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But in the U.S. and Canada, it's infinitely more convenient to own one than not to.
It’s more convenient to own a car everywhere. Even in anti-car cities like NYC, London, and Paris, it’s still faster to drive to majority of places, they’ve just priced the majority of the population out of using a car. You won’t see the rich on the train in those cities as they’re all in chauffeured SUVs.

American cities are orders of magnitude more convenient than other countries’. It’s amazing that we can go from anywhere in the country to anywhere else in the country without doing anything more than typing an address into a computer. No schedules, no connections, privacy, and comfort.

Giving that up because of “muh carbon” or a childish desire to live atop a shopping mall is dumb.

Also, transit is far more expensive than owning a car, it’s just that someone else is paying most of the bill for you. Road infrastructure is orders of magnitude cheaper than transit infrastructure and is mostly funded by its users.
 
in the U.S. and Canada
You're probably right, but you're also probably Canadian, because no one in the US fucking cares. Anyway, no, I'm not super keen to talk environmentalism with you, so let me make it quick.

If we detonated every nuclear weapon on earth in a big pile, it would be a couple orders of magnitude short of the Tambora eruption; this eruption caused a "year without a summer" due to the clouds of ash. In terms of geological history, the planet undergoes climate shifts greater than worst estimates of anthropogenic climate change. This is all dwarfed by things like meteor impacts which can cause mass extinction.

The point here is that the obvious answer to any kind of climate change is only ever to increase our own industrial capacity so that we can mitigate it to ensure human flourishing, and potentially intervene to preserve ecosystems we favor. The idea that it is our capability itself which causes our downfall is a bizarre doomsday cult.

Also warming is good because the places that are already hot and will become uninhabitable are full of browns (I will have the courtesy to anticipate your response about migrants, please anticipate my rebuttal), and we can just annex your gay country once it starts thawing; I really hope we don't let you guys vote but even if we do, Canada pop~=California pop.
 
Found this looking for the Planeteer Alert.
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⭕️Israeli settlers are burning down the Christian town of Taybeh in the West Bank

The village is known for its uniquely all-Christian population.

Cars, lands and home all attacked in a series of violent pogroms aimed at uprooting Palestinian communities.

Incidentally, "Judeo-Christian" strikes me as a contradictory term. As a Christian I have no desire to take part in any Jewish feasts or practices; I personally would not want to be a part of a people my Lord and my God called "synagogue of Satan" twice. I wonder what would happen in your average church in America if someone played these videos. People have post-ww2 brain and give Jews a "pass", but if you've got a Bible handy, you have a historical record of Jews messing up for literal thousands of years.
 
Is it weird to say I never understood why child labor is a thing? Like the aveegre child is weaker that the avenge adult man and you want them to run a factory that would require a good bit of strength? That doesn't make sense to me the only reason why you would hire children is if you could pay them less(which is the reason why they did that) its even stranger now that there are some people (you know exactly which ones I'm talking about) want to bring child labor back like why? Why repeat the same mistakes again just so you could make 0.5% more money.
Children are of marginal value as laborers when heavy lifting is required, but they require less food, are easier to cow into submission, can fit into smaller places and their smaller hands can often be more suited to detailed work. Once the Industrial Revolution got started they were the perfect mill workers.

Of course this meant that child workers were confined and forced to work long hours around industrial equipment, so there were some quality of life issues, which is why people are so touchy about child labor these days, despite it being perfectly normal before the Industrial Revolution.
 
Children are of marginal value as laborers when heavy lifting is required, but they require less food, are easier to cow into submission, can fit into smaller places and their smaller hands can often be more suited to detailed work. Once the Industrial Revolution got started they were the perfect mill workers.

Of course this meant that child workers were confined and forced to work long hours around industrial equipment, so there were some quality of life issues, which is why people are so touchy about child labor these days, despite it being perfectly normal before the Industrial Revolution.
There's also a severe difference between "helping out ma and pa on the farm" and the "slavery with extra steps" industrial revolution shit.
 
You’re beating a dead horse here. Nuclear is as good as dead and gone in the West, thanks to carbon worshipping environmentalists and a never ending black hole of red tape and regulations.
This is why I mentioned thorium, it's safer so the environmentalist dipshits who don't understand nuclear physics are less likely to sperg out about it (they probably will when they hear about it using plutonium though). It also produces more energy than uranium does by a lot when the process is conducted correctly.
What’s special about it? You can take some plutonium from nukes or from a regular reactor, and use it as fuel, thereby getting rid of all the plutonium waste that’s one of the big problems of nuclear power.
I'm saying this more so for whenever countries that the US (and by extension the west) doesn't trust gain access to materials like plutonium in enough abudance, but you could just keep the IAEA on there asses to make sure they're using the plutonium for energy purposes.
 
If the world's richest man is upset about something wouldn't that logically mean it's probably going to be good for me?
The legislation probably effects Musk's businesses (for example, Tesla Energy which was mentioned earlier in the thread is the clean energy division of Tesla). Furthermore. most solar panels are produced in China.
 
And anyone with a car has an easier time getting around than anyone without one in most places. The opposite of what you said is true. Over the last century, the automobile industry has gutted public transit. Major cities are better off than other places, but even there, it's a shadow of what it could be. The use of public transit isn't incentivized, it's ruthlessly stigmatized. The average person would have more power if public transit were more accessible. North America is owned & operated by the petroleum and automobile industries, who knew as early as the 1910s that their project would result in global warming and began aggressively misinforming the public about climate change as early as the 1970s. It will take years of public awareness campaigning to reverse the damage they've done.
I’ve lived in blue cities. I’d use public transport more often if it didn’t smell like shit and I didn’t have to be concerned about my kids getting stabbed by some meth head. I associate urbanists with misplaced funds and generally making my life harder. Or the cyclist that acts like a vehicle or a pedestrian, whatever is more convenient at that time.

A walkable city would be tolerable, and possible, if we could throw all the hobos over the border via trebuchet.
 
I’ve lived in blue cities. I’d use public transport more often if it didn’t smell like shit and I didn’t have to be concerned about my kids getting stabbed by some meth head. I associate urbanists with misplaced funds and generally making my life harder. Or the cyclist that acts like a vehicle or a pedestrian, whatever is more convenient at that time.

A walkable city would be tolerable, and possible, if we could throw all the hobos over the border via trebuchet.
It's rather amazing that some of the biggest public transit "advocates" in the United States are also the same politicians who often do little about the homeless and crime problem associated with them.
 
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