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Rich_cb wrote:
You can look at consumption based emissions to take into account offshoring. These are also falling. Capitalism drives efficiency. If a process uses rare or hard to process materials there is a huge profit motive to adapt that process to use common and cheaper resources. Likewise with energy use, reducing the energy intensity of any process leads to more profit. Li-ion batteries are a good example of this. Cobalt free batteries are now commonplace. Lithium free batteries are on the cusp of commercial roll out. In both cases the removal of a rare or difficult to obtain material leads to both cost reductions and reductions in ecological damage.Capitalism drives exploitation.
If a process requires natural resources, then Capitalism will encourage the businesses that exploit those resources the fastest and those that can use loopholes to avoid any clean up. That’s certainly a big part of why we’re in such a mess – privatise the profits and socialise the losses.
If BP/Shell had to pay for cleaning up their messes, the world would be in a much better shape.
However, the exploit everything mindset pervades other political systems, but it’s certainly an integral part of Capitalism.
This is definitely in territory where numbers / detailed studies would be helpful… but are you sure you’re not falling for a general “ecological nimbysm”?As in – for our more efficient activity here in the UK we’re relying on outsourcing production of both material inputs to process and the energy it requires – ergo “not on the balance sheet here!”
We have certainly made processes more efficient. However for any industry which has had a certain period of development (thinking of the chemical industries here) after a point while we can still be “more efficient” what we’re doing is expanding the resource space – we’re shifting to using different – or additional – process inputs or equipment. The materials are often rarer / have a greater ecological impact to extract and process. More technologically advanced equipment often requires more detailed equipment itself / more energy / more rare resources.
So the immediate process is definitely more efficient than yore (and garners more profit) and looks “cleaner” (especially – cleaner here) – but ultimately depends upon the use of more resources.
Jevon’s paradox certainly isn’t a physical law and the direction of travel is not always towards more resource usage … but that is definitely the overall direction!
It’s certainly notable that the world is not reducing CO2 emissions, but merely slowing the rate of increase of CO2 emissions. It’s like the driver of a speeding car claiming that they’re not accelerating as fast as they were (but still accelerating none the less).
There are folk on the right of politics trying to do the right thing.However, that’s just talk and we need action. Seven Bins Sunak is not going to listen to advice when he’s just setting things up so that his wife’s family can get the most money from their investments in oil companies.
TheBillder wrote:
Bloody smug Linuxerati with 4096 codes in a lookup table in their Tefal heads…Sorry to disappoint, but I just do a search and copy/paste.
At my windows PC, I’ve got a nice clacky keyboard with a built in trackball (I love trackballs ever since playing Centipede in the arcades back in the day), but it’s a US layout, so I’m often doing the same to find a pound sign.
That doesn’t sound good,
That doesn’t sound good, though you should post a picture here (it’s easier to upload a picture on the comments than in the original forum post).
It may also depend on the manufacturer and the material of the steerer. There can be an issue with the stem clamp bolts deforming the steerer and causing a nasty failure if there’s not sufficient spacers above the stem.
For some reason those exhausts just make me think of the saddlespur.Now I am wondering whether that invention is something you were behind somehow (or in front of, rather)…
I’d never claim to have anything to do with that abomination. It’d get in the way of any fluffy tail wouldn’t it?
I don’t think apostrophes (single-quotes) or semi-colons are disappearing anytime soon or else there’ll be a lot of angry programmers.Well, they could switch to using e.g. Befunge… oh – we don’t want them angry. Hmm… Haskell?
How about using the COW language? (It’s Turing complete)
Here’s an example of “Hello World” in COW:
MoO MoO MoO MoO MoO MoO MoO MoO MOO moO MoO MoO MoO MoO MoO moO MoO MoO MoO MoO moO MoO MoO MoO MoO moO MoO MoO MoO MoO MoO MoO MoO MoO MoO moO MoO MoO MoO MoO mOo mOo mOo mOo mOo MOo moo moO moO moO moO Moo moO MOO mOo MoO moO MOo moo mOo MOo MOo MOo Moo MoO MoO MoO MoO MoO MoO MoO Moo Moo MoO MoO MoO Moo MMM mOo mOo mOo MoO MoO MoO MoO Moo moO Moo MOO moO moO MOo mOo mOo MOo moo moO moO MoO MoO MoO MoO MoO MoO MoO MoO Moo MMM MMM Moo MoO MoO MoO Moo MMM MOo MOo MOo Moo MOo MOo MOo MOo MOo MOo MOo MOo Moo mOo MoO Moo
Just use the ellipsis key.That key would be such a good idea.
Unfortunately, I suspect the ellipsis is going to go the way of the apostrophe and the semi-colon…
I don’t think apostrophes (single-quotes) or semi-colons are disappearing anytime soon or else there’ll be a lot of angry programmers.
If I’m typing into a comment box here on road.cc, how do I type a ‘proper’ ellipsis, then?(I’ve always just done three dots).
On Linux, I can hold down ctrl+shift+u then 2026 then enter.
On Windows, I believe it’s:
Press and hold down the Alt key.
Press the + (plus) key on the numeric keypad.
2026
Release the Alt key.Alternatively, just find the wikipedia page on ellipsis and copy/paste the example one.
That gives me Û
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Googled it – an ellipsis is alt + 0133 😉
I’m at a Windows machine now and strangely my instructions (which I just copied from elsewhere) gives me Ω
Your alt + 0133 does the trick…
I did try searching for a method on Android, but there didn’t find an easy an obvious method apart from doing a search and copy/pasting (that works everywhere)
If I’m typing into a comment box here on road.cc, how do I type a ‘proper’ ellipsis, then?(I’ve always just done three dots).
On Linux, I can hold down ctrl+shift+u then 2026 then enter.
On Windows, I believe it’s:
Press and hold down the Alt key.
Press the + (plus) key on the numeric keypad.
2026
Release the Alt key.Alternatively, just find the wikipedia page on ellipsis and copy/paste the example one.
Wait – how do you know what he typed? I mean, I know what road.cc is showing me, but… are you … Rendel Harris too?Aren’t we all?
I wonder what the Artic circle is? Is it where they build or store HGVs?I’m pretty sure Aldi has these on offer at the moment for £2.75.
Nah, you’re getting confused with the mini
ViennettaViennese on a stick
It’s fair to say that there is very little serious action to reduce resource consumption. In the UK I think only the Green Party are suggesting economic reduction, all the others promote growth that can only be achieved by increasing ecological footprint. Globally there is not a single metric that indicates any reduction to the rate of increase of environmental degradation.I suspect direct action will become more frequent and in a 100 years time will be seen in a similar light to the suffragette movement of 100 years ago.
Sadly, other countries are now using our new Cumbrian coal mine as an excuse to not bother with reducing CO2 emissions: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/16/allowing-cumbria-coalmine-was-disaster-for-climate-diplomacy-says-lord-turner
Maybe I’m being paranoid, but your ellipsis makes me think you’ve put an intentional error in there somewhere (or, worse, I made an unintentional one!)His error was to type three dots (…) rather than using the unicode character for ellipsis (…)
I wonder what the Artic circle is? Is it where they build or store HGVs?Probably somewhere ice-olated
Just had a quick search around and seen the same quote published, but with “Arctic” spelled correctly, so I think it’s a BristolPost error. However, discovered that there is a charity called “Reclaim Our Community” that is unrelated to this activist group – maybe they should join forces with Tyre Extinguishers instead.