Could you elaborate on this comment?

I happened across this video yesterday about this entrepreneur. Seems like a good hearted person.

Shyster menu options include:

• $10 - the only choice and drink, mustard and sauerkraut
• $11 - hot dog with the wrong toppings and drink, four toppings a la carte
• $1 dog treats
• $1,000 shirt off my back

Some choice text from the display boards:

• “The Only Honest Ripoff in DC”
• All prices include tax, and there is no tip screen. I hate that garbage.
• Want a hot dog with no drink? You aren’t saving money.
• Briefly recite the historical significance of MoonPies and/or RC Cola for a five cent discount on your whole order.

If I were local, I’d be buying some dogs.

Chiming in here with no degrees or STEM training to say that I exist, but it’s unlikely there will be any record of me in a couple thousand years. Though I haven’t given the whole water to wine thing a go so don’t count me out just yet.

It might have been the sixth closure of the day that person was involved in.

Fortunately, I wasn’t.

You’d have to be in a tight spot to be fired and replaced to accept being rehired even at the same salary, never mind a smaller salary. I feel bad for these people. Hopefully they work a bit slower in proportion to the reduced pay.

Farmers are also dependant on soil quality, temperature, sunshine, equipment that largely relies on fuel, and distribution for the crops they grow.

Not being an oracle myself, I’ll take an educated guess that when the temperature keeps climbing, the conditions that allow for outdoor food production will also change. Likely, the hardiness zones will shift to places with no farmland, and the current hardiness zones will be subject to flooding or drought or both.

Might be tricky business if the best farmland is suddenly on the side of K2.

Surely the definition of ‘recession’ would just be changed again. Easier to move goal posts than to admit you lead the horse to a mirage.

Tell that to Captain America.

urban people

Funny how I don’t remember the last hospital I saw in the middle of a corn field.

Sorry, all life? Even the mosquitoes? Damn.

Gail Berman is to blame. She cancelled Firefly and doomed humanity in the process.

If the politicians would have refused bribes,

the standards wouldn’t have come into fruition that allowed the auto industry to decouple vehicle size and weight from energy efficiency;

the trams systems wouldn’t have been bought up, shut down, and rails ripped from the ground to make room for more lanes;

the energy sector wouldn’t have septupled down on an invisible gas that’s 20x worse than burning coal;

the healthcare companies would be run by medical experts finding the best treatment instead of by money men denying care by default;

the technology we developed wouldn’t be tracking every time we blink to create advertising opportunities;

the houses we build wouldn’t sit vacant waiting for a tenant to pay half their income for the privilege of having no equity…

Greed is the problem.

It’s understandable within capitalism why corporations would push boundaries to make money, but our politicians are supposed to be the force of opposition. Instead they look the other way while pocketing another cheque or airline ticket or deed to a brownstone.

I’m as pro active transportation as anyone I have ever met, but it’s delusional to blame people for buying a large, expensive vehicle when the manufacturers keep discontinuing small, cheap cars because the return on investment isn’t as high. The politicians could require them to make two compact cars for every pickup or SUV, but they don’t because they’re greedy just like the corporations.

There are no checks and balances anymore, and the politicians are to blame. Some blame in certain places should also land on the electorate, to be sure. But with every city, neighbourhood, and street gerrymandered to look like a hand drawn map by Michael J. Fox, it’s mostly the politicians on the hook for all this.

If everyone got together and came to the decision to fix the planet, it would probably still be possible, even though it’ll likely get to a point where going outside is a complication. Generations, to be sure.

Though of course, we’re never all going to agree on how to go about it, so you might be right.

China has the highest emissions in the world!

Only right now though. And only in annual volume. And in large part because they make just about everything for just about every other country.

China has four times the population of the United States. Despite this and being the world’s factory, their CO2 emissions per capita are only 10.1 tons. Which sounds like a lot - and it is - but the United States emissions are 17.6 tons per capita.

But who cares about all that mumbo jumbo. Don’t go looking at how America got here, to this pedestal so high above the rest. There’s nothing to see in the past, just some work ethic and a good pair bootstraps. Don’t worry about it.

When you have the memory of a goldfish, there’s no such thing as lying. Every statement is true, and therefore every expense is valid and all those children are illegal criminals.

The party that spent decades eliminating critical thinking skills in their supporters now thrives because of that undertaking. It would be impressive if it weren’t so disastrous.

I’m going to call bullshit on the underlying assertion that Signal is using Amazon services for the sake of lining Jeff’s pocket instead of considering the “several” alternatives. As if they don’t have staff to consider such a thing and just hit buy now on the Amazon smile.

In any monopoly, there are going to be smaller, less versatile, less reliable options. Fine and dandy for Mr Joe Technology to hop on the niche wagon and save a few bucks, but that’s not going to work for anyone casting a net encompassing the world.

I’ll echo food banks. $10,000 isn’t much money for a municipality of more than 100 people, but a food bank might be where that money goes the furthest.

Knowing from my local outfit, while they would of course accept a donation of actual food bought with that money, they can do much more with the money than the food it buys in the grocery shops.

They do that by reaching out to vendors themselves and getting discounts that would put Costco out of business. I once heard that monetary donations being stretched 5x is typical, oftentimes going 10x or more.

Good on you for attempting to parse different meanings out of what was said. Too few people attempt to do so and instead jump all over a misinterpretation.

I share this study as regularly as it seems reasonable in spaces outside the realm of car free living. While I’ve had some nice exchanges with people that hadn’t given it thought, it does seem to be met with aggravation more often than not.

Primarily individuals making multiple trips a week more than a hundred kilometres and they don’t want to have to recharge every day. I’ve pointed out they would typically charge at home overnight, but then more edge cases chime in of course. If a person refueled their current car after every trip they made, it would be a quick resolve in opinion to the benefit of this study. That’s exactly what I did once upon a time and I downsized as soon as I could.

Perhaps understandably, it’s difficult to envision a different way of living for someone that has been unknowingly entrenched in anything, let alone something as dominating as cars are.