They’re welcome to say that, as long as their ruler doesn’t enter the political or policy arena and have the moral depravity to act despite a conflict of interest. As long as corporations don’t have undue influence on politics from lobbying or donations.

We don’t have to listen.

Our representatives should be representing us. …… alright alright you can stop laughing now

I grew up near Binghamton. Back then we had several IBM complexes with thousands of well paying jobs. I don’t think any were in Binghamton itself but it lifted the economy of the entire region. Then IBM left. The jobs were gone and nothing ever replaced them. Young adults moved away to places with better economies. My younger brother was the last one left, talking about flipping properties with a credit card. Those towns directly affected may never come back.

But Binghamton was more diversified, the center of economy moved to different towns, the university has been doing great and incubating local business. It does have some culture, some sports, some nightlife. Property values have gone back up. The new local economic centers have new construction and new infrastructure, even if the older sections are still fading

I wouldn’t want to move back to the town I grew up in, but I can see moving to the area.

Yet more cool tech from NASA, a great example of international cooperation with the fast rising India space Industry, to track information action vital to modern life on earth. A real contribution to humanity

Yeah, waiting for it to be shut down as “woke”

While I agree on the basic economics and even taco can’t hold back time…

• he can and has slowed down EV adoption
• he can and has slowed down buildout of renewables, costing thousands of jobs
• his lack of enforcement certainly means some polluter will pollute more
• if he succeeds in permanently neutering EPA, we’ll all suffer for a generation
• he can and has blocked renewables, battery, EV manufacturing in the US
• he can and has invented automakers to backtrack to yesterdays technology, leaving them with a precarious future unable to compete that will potentially cost hundreds of thousands of jobs and a regional economic base

Depending on what you mean by upstate ny or Maine, some of these areas are short on jobs so make sure you have enough opportunity. If you’re looking for small cities, Albany is great. I think Binghamton is coming back but I don’t know about Syracuse or Rochester. If you’re talking really upstate …. I haven’t been back in years and really miss that l. I don’t know as much about Maine but they’re more tourist oriented, which is a problem this year

It really seems like we get a lot less snow than when I was a kid in upstate ny. It makes not be as much a change as people are claiming

Now I live near Boston, close enough for weather to moderate, and we only get a couple snowstorms a year. We never get accumulation lasting through the winter anymore. This summer I had my AC in non-stop for the heatwaves and humidity, so I very much see the desire to head north

Not Taylor Swift but my older kid is really into retro music devices. He has a Walkman, a separate tape recorder, a record player and a boom box, and buys vinyl and cassettes

Yes 5% is still big but we needed it a decade ago. We’re running late and need to make up for lost opportunity

…… and I live in a country that seems determined to reclaim our place as the top polluter, and to throw away any hope of building for the future

That graph has a really optimistic looking downturn on fossil fuels as a percentage of energy production … until you look at the labels on the y axis. Dropping most of the way would be a damn huge improvement. Dropping from 80 to 75 is a nice improvement but too little too late unless we speed it up.

I’m calling lying by statistics

As a jet of energy, assuming you haven’t actually crossed the event horizon

There’s also the difficulty of a identifying any originator, since “mythology” usually means many versions known by many people, and is typically an oral tradition before being printed

Yeah, but now it’s tiny compared to Antarctica

I always wondered if the overtime is part of the problem. A lot of it is pretty sketchy, so it’s training cops to be sketchy

In my state, police unions have been pretty aggressive about requiring construction sites to pay for police details. I have no idea whether it has the safety benefits they claim but

• city is happy because someone else is paying their cops
• cops are happy with opportunity to make bank

But we all pay a little more, cops have a conflict of interest acting as an authority figure for a private company, and the requirements are sketchy on both sides for something other than what they were hired for

That’s the one thing i got from working food service: i so much prefer dealing with the stink and mess of dish room than having to deal with people …. Although tipping made the pay disparity pretty significant

I once interviewed at a bulk email (spam) company because i was desperate for a job. They realized how uncomfortable i was so didn’t offer it, but i like to think I would have declined, regardless how much i needed the job.

Something needed to happen here, we’ll see if even Torvalds has the power to kick massive telecom and consumer electronics conglomerates in the butt. It’s been too long.

• My fiber provider started an early rollout of IPv6 like a decade abgo, and it’s been stalled out ever since.
• I’m still seeing new consumer electronics being sold even though they’re IPv4 only.

Take my love, take my land

Take me where I cannot stand

I don’t care, I’m still free

You can’t take the sky from me

Take me out to the black

Tell them I ain’t comin’ back

Burn the land and boil the sea

You can’t take the sky from me

There’s no place I can be

Since I’ve found Serenity

And you can’t take the sky from me

Add data from this year.

From several sources, they passed peak carbon last year, and expect coal to peak this year or next and start declining.

Also consider during the time in those charts they went from a developing country to mostly developed with much higher standard of living. They achieved a century of economic progress in a couple decades while simultaneously rolling out renewable energy faster than anyone else

Usually it’s killing us slower though. I don’t know if that’s progress