I have been saying for awhile I don't get why oil companies seems to be anti wind/solar/etc. Basically in the past one barrel of oil could get you a hundred but we have sources that only get a couple now but one barrel can make produced many barrels of oil worth of burnt electricity by making solar panels and wind turbines.

Cooperate mentality, profit for the year end reports and no future planning.

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Ok buddy debate bro

Because he will cast vile spells at us if we don't heed his words.

This is a bit mangled but I guess you're saying, "I don't just believe authority, I'm an independent thinker". But where did you get your opinions from? Did you do the research yourself - including the hard science that you (or I) know almost nothing about in detail? Of course you didn't. Ultimately you just believed someone. The point of "authority" is it means we're not just believing anyone.

People having opinions and not defaulting to "authority" based logic arguments is the downfall of society big think

Is it so weird, really, to worry about this new world where authority counts for nothing, where journalistic ethics have gone out the window, where everyone just finds their own personal pundit who expresses their prejudices better than they can themself? This is going to end badly.

Am hunter gatherer, can partially confirm, use a simpler vibe based but still ultimately democratic system. I think you could argue we have political parties though.

Because after reading their opinion piece you can decide whether you like the cut of their jib? Weird criticism. Every pundit starts somewhere.

Who is The Honest Sorcerer and why should we care what they think?

This is why you won’t find political parties and parliamentary elections among hunter gatherers.

Citation needed!!!

related: Refrigeration uses up to 30% of world electricity

Unlike the USA, Canada doesn't have any legal countermeasures against monopoly, duopoly or oligopoly. In many areas of Canadian life, citizens choose between one or two companies for phones, 6 or 7 banks, 5 insurance companies etc. For health care, pensions and education you're basically dealing with government programs and they are compulsory. It's all too big to fail and completely uncompetitive. For example, this huge rich telecoms in Canada could never compete outside of the country...they only survive through regulatory capture and mega corruption of the government.

A generation ago, much of the attraction of Canada was the fact that things like education, medical care and social housing were open to both native born and immigrants and the standards were good. People would move to Canada and cheerfully move down the social ladder with the idea that their kids would later have upward mobility. And life could be ok.

A lot of the social safety nets were paid for purely from population growth. They didn't have a huge pot of saved money to dip into, they take this year's taxes and pay out current year benefits. So immigrants were coming into the country and paying for elder Canadian's old age pensions and end of life health care. But at least there was a perception of a social contract and it would eventually benefit these immigrants.

However, now its clear that an entire generation of elder Canadians have pulled this ladder up behind them. Their own kids and grandkids are thrown to the lions now that all these bubbles are either exploiting workers / young people or (in the case of education and health care) popping and leaving everyone to deal with anarchy and collapse.

There is now a phenomenon where immigrants pack up and leave Canada and go back home. Sometimes their kids also leave. A lot of other nations have improved a lot and it can be better to be retired back in their place of origin rather than to face the Canadian systems and high cost of living.

In the case of this particular story, notice that nobody cares about the fact that these government registered colleges were running outright scams? Like charging students application fees, running entirely fake and low quality courses, reporting false and inflated enrollment to the government to scam extra money and all that...that was fine. It didn't matter how bad it was for these students or the native Canadians who were stuck in the same school system.

They are only fixing this to reduce demand for housing, period. A certain class of Canadians are worth something and everyone else can suffer.

it will be interesting to see how canada plays out. they have a potemkin economy based on everyone selling houses back and forth to each other for millions of dollars more than they would be worth in a sane world. they have tar sands, potash and timber. but most of their economy is fake. Its probably good they let in a bunch of smart driven people from across the world but those gates are closing now and those smart driven people are often locked out of owning anything and are mostly rent-slaves that cant get ahead paying their feudal overlord canadians that were born into ownership class.

This isn't DAC but using flue gas CO2 for metal oxalate production, for a low-carbon (non-Portland) cement.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0950061824041412

https://news.umich.edu/carbon-capture-method-mines-cement-ingredients-from-the-air/

The bar for CO2 scavenging has already been set by plants and photosynthesis. Anything less cost, labor , and resource efficient should be considered an inferior alternative that won’t scale as well.

1. universities as business
2. Loving that international pork
3. Who moved my cheese?

The problem was neither recent nor hidden.

It really happens but how much and.tk.what effect needs to be validated before making strong claims about it.

I think the fact that schools are passing absolute imbeciles across the board is much larger problem . Credentialism in the form of college degrees has almost zero signal of competency now.

The guy linked the DEI with institutional failure thats actually happening, but probably only minimally from the DEI.

I hope palladium goes back to being more ideologically neutral towards institutional functionality and doesn't fall to moronic neoreactionary bullshit like Quillette did .

Usually when something like this passes through the editors desk without getting tossed or forced to come back with substantial supporting evidence it means a magazine hit the beginning of the end. It took less than a year for Quillette to go from good to garbage after they let this type of shit in the door unedited.

It sux because it's been my favorite magazine lately besides Quanta .

If places like the USA stop sucking up all the top cognitive 1% from the rest of the world while conflating that with DEI it's going to seriously accelerate institutional failure and enhance the positions of other countries . Once the "brown people scary and bad" blocks geniuses out USA is cementing it's decline.

Also covered in The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/09/sea-acidity-ecosystems-ocean-acidification-planetary-health-scientists

Provides no evidence whatsoever to back up what it's saying. What a crap article.

The core issue is that changing political mores have established the systematic promotion of the unqualified and sidelining of the competent.

Yeah, this is bigoted crap, through and through.

"From Meritocracy to Diversity" Get a load of these clowns