And then falling out over it anyway.

Do something you love as a job, and you’ll have one less thing that you love.

I fucking hate those sites. As far as I’m concerned if you can’t even browse without making an account, it shouldn’t show up in search engines.

Are you racist? Are you misogynistic? If not can you pretend to be?

If so, modern social media would like to promote you. Apply now!

Texas is America’s America.

On an individual level I can’t unalive a child.

Well, with latest in Israeli technology…

I fear that the likes of Trump in charge will only reverse any progress we’ve made in the West.

The developing world is going to use more and fossil fuels unless we basically pay them to use something else. And foreign aid seems to be a thing of the past too. I can’t really blame the rest of the world. The west has grown fat and rich off the last 150 years of using it, and now we’ve got the gall to turn to them and tell them not to.

The consumption data is quite interesting. Takes into account the fact that we put most of our emissions in China, and shows what we actually consume per person. And indeed the UK and US have gone down, and India and especially China, have gone up. But that World figure seems pretty flat overall. And we all live on the same ball of slowly heating rock, and none of us are anywhere close to being net zero.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/consumption-co2-per-capita?tab=chart&country=OWID_WRL~GBR~IND~CHN~USA&mapSelect=~USA

OK, if society achieves net zero, you can have as many children as you like.

But given that it’s been going up since the industrial revolution, and it’s still going up, it seems rather fanciful to suggest that it’s within our grasp.

A number of countries have reduced emissions massively, but realistically that mostly means “we’ve moved all our emissions to China”. I could buy green energy from my supplier, but for me that was still coming from a big coal power station a few miles up the road until last year when they finally closed it.

And frankly, if corporations can count the carbon a tree will capture over 30 years and somehow “offset” that against a dirty great factory when they hurl a few pennies at a third world farmer, then we can count the carbon our descendents will emit over that time as well.

Starve the beast.

I’ve got an LED bulb so efficient it glows slightly even when it’s not plugged in.

Yeah, that’s one that doesn’t take a lot of lifestyle change either.

Although it’ll vary based on how much you drive. My wife drives a tiny car and did under 3000 miles last year, so wouldn’t actually make a lot of difference for us. Might as well run it until it keels over, by which time electrics will be even better than they are now. Or enshittified beyond belief. One of the two.

Although if you regularly eat a kilo of red meat a day, you should probably talk to your doctor about those blood spots when you wipe your arse.

That’s almost certainly the biggest dietary change you can make.

But for overall impact, there’s one winner and it’s bigger than everything else put together.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/12/want-to-fight-climate-change-have-fewer-children

Capitalism hates this one weird trick.

Deshittify, technically.

I’m on VPN so my highest is like 6.

I’m got a 100Mbps upload but nobody wants it through a VPN. 😢

Mate, this isn’t a new church roof.

Your fundraisers are going to want that money back and then some. Forever.

Going to be quite a bit heavier than that if you run it on a different CPU architecture though. And even if you’re not running on mobile, Apple still opened that can of worms a few years back. Linux too, I guess.

Honestly, I don’t mind HTML for a UI. It resizes nicely to fit a large number of devices. It looks pretty much the same no matter what you’re running it on. But it should just be that, a UI layer. Otherwise the solution you were looking for was a website, and not a dozen 500MB chunks of Chrome installed around my PC.

Twice, I’d imagine.

It’s weird that all the tier 1 ISPs have no such worries though.