I understood you meant the first one. I'm also biased towards the people of my former home city.

There are several sources that collude to raise prices for the average New Yorker, rent and food amongst them. I'm not at all blaming the lady taking the job remotely, there is pain in financing & operating the business, for the employees in getting to and from, and getting paid close to what their work is actually worth.

The bitch is that none of this system is voluntary. Work or starve, how inhumane.

At no point have I ever said our excessive consumerism is good, only that people shouldn't be competing internationally for an in-person job.

Having been raised in NYC, I can tell you directly that the job market is a bit fierce, and I think offshoring basic service jobs is terrible for everyone involved, owner included.

Same, stuck with tiered on SCE and it worked reliably and at reasonably low cost.

Everything in the US is already expensive, that "great wage going to a Filipino/a" is at the expense of a person in their own hometown not having a job.

Too bad? Put the shoe on your other foot. If we in the US ban imported rice to protect our farmers, would you and friends feel comfortable in that time things take to adjust? The loss of income?

How far does $6/day go in the Philippines? I can tell you how far it goes in NYC.

Where did you get that info? Cops in LA NYC & Seattle (all places I've lived) have very high starting salaries, besides all the excellent benny's like double pay for anything over 4hrs OT work per day, zero dollar PPO insurance, etc..

Hot. Just gotta do all the things for her that'll make her happy, so she'll want to bend you over.

Two way street and all 😎 I think they're called relationships?

Fool, what replaces it has just as much technical power as America, but even less concerns of morality.

At least, for a while.

Nah there's a lot going for EVs in the material recycling realm, see redwood materials inc as an example of a company looking to skip the mining.

We don't really need stuff to carry over, besides that the source of most hydrogen is fossil fuel based. See the IEA report for a fair and reasonable assessment.

Electricity infra is already installed almost everywhere in the world. When I lived in California, I saw exactly 2 stations which offered pressurized hydrogen.

3M made a great alternative I actually tried to get my company into, Novec 4710... But turns out they've stopped making it.

The bitch about SF6 is that it's so stable (as required, to resist high voltage electric breakdown) that it also lasts way, way long in the atmosphere.

Yeah man, I don't know. I think we need to just use less energy, as a species.

I think this is what anti-natalists are going on about, that life is more painful than joyous, don't bring more conscious beings into it.

I understand that premise, but I'd argue that there is more good than bad in life, that while the universe may not care about any of us, there are plenty of genuinely beautiful moments out there, even just walking around your local park.

Death is certain, maybe some should be permitted to exit life early, but there's gotta be a way to show people nature's beauty. I don't really know where to go with this comment in truth. I just hope people in pain find genuine solace.

Very nice, and my favorite bit is that the principles you learn on a simple moto engine easily scale to a full-size car or even truck engine. Spark, fuel, air, all at the right times and ratios. Everything else follows.

Still, considering a switch to electric, just because I mostly commute and don't want to contribute to environmental destruction. Just wish batteries had a bit more range 🤔

That's no bueno for the environment.