Which would ironically give even more monopoly over how the web is viewed to Google. Chrome and Firefox are just about the only two players in that space right now.

To be a realtor, you have to be certified by the National Realtor Association. Anyone can be a real estate agent.

How could you not recognize the OG throat GOAT?

I didn’t say you can’t do both. The real danger is the green washing. In fact, it’s not a danger, it’s currently already used to subvert carbon cap and trade regulations. Scams of companies that sell carbon credits for protecting forestry that aren’t endangered to begin with. There is little to no oversight of this and is hurting our progress to fixing the issue.

Well, kind of… Reducing carbon emissions would be far more effective than trying to capture the emissions we currently use.

I didn’t say I don’t like trees, just they aren’t the solution. They’re often used as green washing and delay actually effective things like carbon cap and trade. I don’t know what the solution will be. If it were simple enough for me to solve it, it wouldn’t be a problem we’re facing.

Yep, that was my original point. Trees just can’t cut it. They have such a little impact they’re almost not worth even discussing. Far larger gains can be found elsewhere.

Yeah, like I said, a ridiculous amount of trees according to that calculator. That calculator said I’m in the top 5% and would take just over 200 trees a year. If we make the assumption that all of the top 5% also need 200 trees a year (it’smuch more likely that number sky rockets as the percentage gets lower), that’s 70,000,000,000 trees a year. To put some scale to that it looks like 14m hectares were lost to deforestation in 2010 and from what I see the most generous number is about 900 trees per hectare. That’s 12,600,000,000 trees. Stopping all deforestation won’t even come close to covering 5% of the CO2. Again, trees never will be enough to make up for the CO2 being pumped out of the ground and into the air.

“A bit”. Do you realize the sheer number of trees you would have to plant to offset our carbon? And then, eventually, those trees die and the carbon is reintroduced. Trees never have been and never will be the answer to CO2 that was previously sequestered underground over millenia.

I can see where this trend is heading. I also fully understand the phrase, “Youth is wasted on the young.”

I agree. I finally have the money to do the things I wish I could have done in my 20s. The problem now is that my body isn’t quite what it used to be.

If you did that, good luck in court proving that you had the right to arrest them in the first place while you’re getting sued.

Absolutely, they can. I did it several times as a security person at Walmart. The biggest difference is that a citizen does not have immunity to being sued, and a citizen can not transport. You better be damn sure you’re right, or you’re getting sued into oblivion.

How does that invalidate what was said? No Israeli troops have helped us in the Middle East. Does it matter which excuse is used when the end result is the same?

I don’t drive it, I travel in it.

It’s partly just their sheer size. The internet continues to become a worse place as it gets more and more centralized, and Cloudflare is part of that.

Wasn’t this exactly what the Larry Flint case was about already? Sounds like political grand standing, so they can say they did something even if that something is completely moot anyway.

Those aren’t interesting premises. Those are the same, tired premises in a lot of current media.

Palpatine coming back wasn’t even an interesting premise though.

Rosy? Star Trek said we had to go through a nuclear apocalyptic war before learning to cooperate.