I wish I could live in the world where waste isn’t moved around the world for processing. Or if it were, it would be from poorer nations to wealthier ones, not the other way around.

Big Christmas has long perpetuated the jolly nature of the big guy. He’s rather diabolical though, having invented black lung in his workshop to cull the naughties. This is now the truth I choose to believe.

Certainly. I too commented on that. They’re letting profits literally float away. However what those researchers feel is maddening, to the capitalists is justifiable.

Why spend a dollar to retain a kilogram of methane from escaping, when that same dollar could be used to extract ten kilograms of methane? Repairing the infrastructure would be a lower return on investment, and that’s all that matters to them. They serve the bottom line.

If it were more profitable to repair and maintain the infrastructure, the infrastructure would be repaired and maintained. Alas it isn’t, and so the leaks continue.

If they had any incentive, they would test regularly for leaks. They don’t and never have.

I saw last week the Gas Leaks Project published some more data on this subject. The largest leak they found was something like 50-60 times higher than the EPA definition of a ‘super emitter’. Incredible really.

When compared to coal, methane is obviously much more efficient at energy generation. But this is true when we measure only the material burned, not when we look at the supply chain. With methane being 80-90 times more damaging to the atmosphere than the byproducts of burning coal, the end result is very tight once these leaks are accounted for.

So tight that, given the reporting requirements for methane leaks are ‘we trust you to use the honour system’, it’s more likely than not methane is doing more damage per resulting kilowatt than coal ever has. The equivalent ‘leaking’ for the coal supply chain is a lump of it falling off a train car and becoming a rock, to the benefit of only one guy. Rocks don’t tend to destroy the air, only naughty children’s Christmas mornings.

Of course this isn’t to suggest we build more coal infrastructure, just to point out that with these methane leaks being so prevalent, it’s not remotely as useful an energy source as has been believed. Remember a decade ago when ‘bridge fuel’ was mentioned in every conversation about clean energy? Honestly it’s shocking that these companies have deemed it cheaper to not even look for leaks than to keep the product they sell from floating away.

Sorry frongt, but I think you’re wrongt, haha. I don’t think mailing cash is less private than other methods.

If anyone was concerned enough to the point they were sending cash, they might also take precaution to send coins instead of notes, wearing gloves when handling them, folding their own envelope - do people still lick envelopes anymore? - using lettering stamps instead of handwriting…

Forgive me for the joke on your username, made me laugh.

On one side you have a free software, on the other you have a paid service. If you pay for that service with a credit card, of course they’ll have your name.

This is like comparing walking across town to hiring an Uber and being annoyed the Uber keeps a record of the transaction.

Accepting payment through a means that isn’t tied to your personal identity would be a good step too.

They do accept bitcoin, and if that’s not private enough, they also let you mail them cash in an envelope.

Presumably such a site would be visually obvious as parody. Having it give jokey answers in as a caricature would be one thing. If you dressed it up as a professional legal advice service for opinions on criminal law from Alan Shore, that could be problematic.

At a certain point of information sharing, we should want a high bar for the ones providing the answers. When asking nuanced questions, we should want for the answer to come from knowledge, not memory. I made an example in this other comment.

I’m not sure I agree with your ‘right answer’ bit. Personally, I’d prefer dumb people to be protected in a similar way that I want the elderly protected from losing their savings from an email scam.

‘Should I use one teaspoon of salt in this recipe, or two?’

Two is ideal.

‘Do dogs like chicken wings?’

Wild dogs regularly hunt small animals like hare or chicken for food.

One of these answers results in a bad cake, the other results in a hurt dog. Potentially inaccurate answers aren’t much of a problem when the stakes are low, but even a simple question about what to feed a pet could end with a negative outcome.

I could see the argument for things that aren’t particularly important, but to continue with the legal example, it seems akin to asking a practicing lawyer a question and asking someone that watched Boston Legal when it aired and can quote James Spader.

Unfortunately, with the potential for a hallucinatory response, anything beyond quite simplistic queries shouldn’t be relied on with more weight than a crutch of toothpicks.

What was it that initially sent you down that path?

I would be happier if Tim Tams were included with this agreement.

Yes, but the all new 2028 Ford Mustang Mach-E comes with a HEPA cabin filter and racing tires guaranteed to last half the time they would on a Corolla. You can take advantage now of Ford’s More Than You Can Afford Event, and get yourself into a Mustang with Always-Low* payments across a 12² month term!

~* Always-Low payments subject to increase; does not include seven nigh mandatory monthly subscriptions~

Is this some type of new year’s resolution, a head of state every month? What a timeline this is.

That video seems to fit with the only other example I’ve seen about the sport.

After looking at an article that can actually be read, I’m more surprised than I expected to be. I assumed this price point was for a season pass type thing that included with your parking space a free shuttle given the distance. Turns out, nope. Price per game and bring your walking shoes.

I’m glad I never got into sports much.

Hey, be nice to the big company. This policy of shooting an email doesn’t undermine the profitability their addictive money machine. Won’t you think of the shareholders Mister Curtis?

It’s not the world I want to live in, but I would watch the alternate history miniseries where Canada decides to sell the Gordie Howe to the United States then closes the border entirely until a new administration manages to restore the country’s reputation. Probably wouldn’t end well, but the schadenfreude would be nice for a little bit.

Only a matter of time before these advanced printers begin printing themselves, then we’ll have to develop a 4D printer to fight them off!