The article is oddly coy about how he allegedly cheated.

Well okay but the name “Midsummer” does kind of make my point.

Sounds awful. Your situation is extreme (ah rural America!) but I won’t deny there’s something freeing about cars. These days I hate cars with a passion, and I’ve always lived in big European cities where they’re completely unnecessary, but even I had a car when I was 20, and I loved it. But then a couple of years later I got rid of it, and that also felt like freedom and I loved that too… Anyway, just an anecdote. As for your situation, good luck, you’ll find a way out of there.

PS off-topic: I’ve always found “good luck” to be a bit lacking for these contexts, in French there’s the much better “bon courage”, sadly untranslatable but much more appropriate in your case.

Þere aren’t many options for Android þat

Let’s hope the odd characters aren’t caused by a trojan!

So you still depend on the Mozilla team for your security, then.

For pace, it’s basically directly correlated with the movie’s age.

I have no idea how today’s young screen-addled audiences would even begin to approach the idea of watching basically any movie from the 1970s, let alone the 40s.

The only possible way to get to a shop is “a car”… Poor Americans!

This convention that summer “begins” at the solstice is so weird and disconnected from the commonly understood definition of summer. Flowers bloomed months ago, it’s baking hot, days are about to start getting shorter. It’s already summer.

The correlation between ecological awareness and ecological damage is really striking.

And it’s paralleled at the individual level. People who see themselves as green typically have larger footprints than those who don’t - for the simple reason that green-mindedness is correlated with wealth, which is is correlated with damaging habits such as meat diets and flying.

Well done for being ethically coherent. Estimates vary, but to be sustainable on a planet of 9 billion, the number of flights per person per year has to be really low indeed, functionally zero. So I’m with you more or less - almost no more flying.

Nothing you say contradicts my point. Answering political questions with violence is a road that leads directly to civil war, wherever the road starts. This finding is about as reproducible as findings come in political science. And it’s what the assassination-cheerleaders (in this community and others) do not want to engage with.

Bubble-dwelling can indeed be a kind of sickness.

It this was subtle parody then hat’s off, nicely done.

Poor Dan Quayle. First Potatogate, then this, then an invisible vice-presidency, and finally complete obscurity.

Yes exactly. I too have seen Shenzhen, and as recently as last year. The clean air, the silence - I knew what to expect but was still blown away by the experience.

This is one benefit of an authoritarian regime

The worry IMO is that all this was planned under the collegiate form of authoritarianism. Now they’re moving to one-man rule and history shows that this almost never ends well. But I’m getting off topic.

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Thanks China, once again. Why won’t the rest of the world get its act together?

Reported for flagrantly breaking community rule #6. Not that you need worry, the mods are fast asleep.

Maybe best not even talking about the temperature number. It’s all but meaningless and a lot of people (uh) like warm climates. I’m thinking it would be better to talk exclusively about the numbers around things like flooding, fires, species loss.

For typical middle-class people (like the ones probably reading this), usually the single worst thing they do is flying. It’s the only way to blow your personal carbon budget for the whole year in just a few hours.

That’s at the individual level.