And we will be earlier adopters than our children. Yeah that’s very cool of your mom… and Jimmy Carter :)

TIL

Very much agree that moving away from fossil fuels is most important. Given how long these large scale technologies take to develop, I’m glad that we are working on this tech now, even though these exact plants are not producing a net benefit.

And it’s thanks to earlier adopters, like your mom, that helped fund the technology that we have such great green energy tech today.

This article shows it pretty well : https://decarbonization.visualcapitalist.com/the-cheapest-sources-of-electricity-in-the-us/

The top graph shows that wind and solar are some of the cheapest electricity options available, even compared to fossil fuels.

On the bottom graphs shows that if wind and solar technology had stayed at 2009 levels (more than a decade ago to your point), they would be among the most expensive.

So thank your mom for me.

A decade ago people argued that solar and wind didn’t work.

Sorry I wasn’t aware of that situation. Talking about politics on the internet, or in real life for that matter, is tricky to do in a constructive way. Thanks for being in my virtual neighborhood and helping us learn together.

It’s good to hear that criticism sometimes. Thank you.

That sounds frustrating. Lately I have been trying to think if there is a good way to help promote political discussion in a really constructive way.

I don’t know your specific situation. I moderate a community and yeah sometimes a post will end up with a lot of aggression in the comments so rather than try to make a lot of nuanced judgement calls I’ll remove the post with an apology to OP.

I also have made a lot of mistakes. I’m certainly learning a lot about being a better online citizen.

You folks know that we are “in the same room” as you?

:P

I’m glad y’all are here. Lemmy is a small community. I hope we can continue to make this a welcoming place that will attract people away from corporate social media.

Let’s not make a culture war where there should be a class war.

One can hope.

Other than hoping, I am donating a few bucks to the most pro-Palestinian politicians.

I have been looking for protests but they are hard to learn about.

The Three Body Problem also had a habit of coming up with really interesting concepts, which could have themselves been entire books, then dropping them after a chapter or two.

For example the device that could make anyone truly believe anything. They never got too techy about how it worked but after a chapter or two you really felt like you had explored some implications of such a technology on society.

I guess it’s a bit much to ask a book about climate disaster to provide detailed insight into what the future may hold for Lemmy.

Sweet! Thank you!

That’s very fair.

I’ll have to read more of their stuff. Which of their books is your favorite?

I drove it! I saw a person! It’s an odd feeling

Thank you!

I have been curious about this. I do hope they add it.

I have tried this. I got crushed by many of the paper planes.

The population is 67 million. I know there are probably people that go through multiple a week, but the average is 1 in 8 people are throwing out a vape every week. That’s crazy.

Yeah, Wikipedia is such a stable and positive force in the internet and directly reaches so many people. It’s easy to take it for granted but the internet would be so much incredibly worse without it.

I happily donate.

I want any organization that has shown that much commitment to making the world better to be well supported.