SuperJail Warden
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That reminds me of the new infused tea or whatever they call it at Starbucks. Caffeinated tea with cut fruit. I had the strawberry one.
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Tasted great being used to chase vape hits. Heart attack waiting to happen.
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colm toibin on the new pope. v interesting.
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SuperJail Warden wrote:

That reminds me of the new infused tea or whatever they call it at Starbucks. Caffeinated tea with cut fruit. I had the strawberry one.
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTS60RQKzGOy39g-Vcm1vetwGL2MAifwbKRPg&s
Tasted great being used to chase vape hits. Heart attack waiting to happen.
looks like total shit. pocari is an electrolyte drink. think gatorade but without all the sugar, artificial colours, and additives. it’s good for you.
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uziq wrote:

you forgot the part where your suburban lifestyle relying on a considerable amount of fossil fuel for household energy/transport to any nearest store or amenity or place of work still contributes more emissions than 99.9% of any other human being on earth.

glad to help.
Just think, if Japan could reduce its population by 65% it would have the same CO2 emissions as Australia.
You know all those places you go to to enjoy the wifi, light, heating and cooling?
They also consume power.

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yeah, shared spaces that service 1000s of people a day ... just so much less efficient than your suburban homes in their 100 degree heat moats.

Just think, if Japan could reduce its population by 65% it would have the same CO2 emissions as Australia.
it's amazing that you still and repeatedly cling to this type of statistic with no grasp what it actually implies.

what you're in effect saying is that the teeny weeny nation of australia, a sunburnt pimple on the ass of earth, consumes as much resources as HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of human beings elsewhere. which evidently puts a very high valuation on your own life/way of life. why do you have the right to consume more energy per capita than 99% of the rest of the planet? is it so important so that you can sit on your ass doomposting on the internet all day?

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Once again, per capita emissions are irrelevant, total emissions are what matter.

Or does the atmosphere somehow gain more air and the plane gain more area each time an extra person is born?
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if total emissions are what matter, why do you place so much stress on individual lifestyle choices? you are effectively being a martinet and a taskmaster over forcing people to sort their plastics for collection every wednesday while new giant open-cast mines are opened every other week in the back-country to continue enriching your government.

the argument you keep resorting to, 'we need far less people', fully accords with your neo-malthusian, eugenicist bullshit. let's not actually examine the obscenely higher-than-average level of luxury you live in, the wastefulness of the suburbs, their unsuitability to the present century and its problems – let's not be honest at all, let's instead wave our hands and say 'there are far too many brown people and 700 million of them need to disappear in order to keep my conscience clear'.

obviously over-reliance on per capita statistics distorts the picture. but you don't seem to have any notion that we are all in this together and have to figure it out somehow. and suggesting a third of the human population painlessly and bloodlessly vanish is even less realistic than all the STEM tech-futurist boosters' claims that some new invention will magic-wand the problem away. not smart, actually !!!!

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People in glasses houses etc.
Once again I'm sure my personal environmental load is level with or lower than yours, as you fly from one coal-burning industrial powerhouse to another.

There are multiple solutions, we probably need to exercise all of them to the full right now, exponential population growth is not one of them.
Countries which have grossly overpopulated themselves should not be rewarded.
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exponential population growth? it's pretty funny how much you've harped on and on about korea and japan's industrial policy – of which my involvement and contribution are a gnat's fart in a typhoon – and now you're moaning again, like a lost little malthusian in the wilderness, about ... exponential population growth? my guy, korea and japan famously have the lowest birth rates of anywhere on the planet.

in the next 2-3 generations, most of those countries will reduce in large number. how's the population trend of australia going, by the way, with it's world-beating consumption per capita stats? the world needs a whole lot fewer australians. don't worry about japan's emissions, they are very much taking care of themselves.

and again, we're back at the obvious point of stating that there *are* too many people if everyone is aiming for *your* standard and way of life. suburban sprawl with 2-3 family vehicles on the driveway is *not* exportable to the entire developing world. and yet here you are raging at hipsters who live in dense inner cities and walk and cycle everywhere. you better hope all the human beings born in the rest of this century file into apartment blocks in cities, dipshit.

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2-3 generations is about 2-3 generations too late, not forgetting catholics won't change, we can do it with this generation - but we will have to burn a lot of catholics.

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https://preview.redd.it/paris-pollution-after-they-added-bike-lanes-and-restricted-v0-qeum2j0l1y0f1.jpeg?width=1080&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=63b093dae647cad6e46545d81f688a7afc2a07bb

disgusting hipsters in paris with their disavowal of cars and preference for clean air.

someone should tell them that all those cafés they are cycling to and local shops they are making use of use electricity too you know.

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Thats pretty but what is it?
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the changes to pollution in paris since they started building bike lanes.
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I imagine heating and lighting have not dropped significantly, and those images are for NOx which would also be taken out by increased use of catalytic converters and other vehicle emissions controls as the vehicle fleet catches up with emissions standards.
Look the colours even match your charts.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/EURO_Standards_Gasoline.png/500px-EURO_Standards_Gasoline.png
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_ … _standards
Nice try though.

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do you live without heating or lighting or something? am i missing something?

is it better to live in small spaces and high-density housing or giant suburban spreads, from a heating and lighting POV? i wonder!!!

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anybody remember how the veil of smog briefly lifted when everyone was hiding from covid? turns out, driving less could be a good thing? too bad so much in this country at least is so fucking car-centric. wonder who's responsible for that!
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Stupid americans?
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shortening your lives due to pollution, dying in wrecks, getting DUIs and turning a beautiful continent into exurban sprawl to own the europoor libs.

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Dilbert_X wrote:

I imagine heating and lighting have not dropped significantly, and those images are for NOx which would also be taken out by increased use of catalytic converters and other vehicle emissions controls as the vehicle fleet catches up with emissions standards.
Look the colours even match your charts.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/EURO_Standards_Gasoline.png/500px-EURO_Standards_Gasoline.png
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_ … _standards
Nice try though.
it's obviously multifactorial, and investment in bike lane infrastructure and an increased quantity of commutes per bike are contributing to the picture.

the idea that cities are green zones nowadays because they got rid of diesel HGVs or everyone switched to a tesla is obviously pretty farcical. have you been to an inner european city lately? people are driving a lot less. you know - those controllable lifestyle factors that you like to stress so much and laud yourself for.

https://www.paris.fr/en/pages/bicycles- … -far-28354
Bicycles outperform cars in Paris and its inner suburbs (by far)

According to a study by the Institut Paris Région published on Thursday April 4, 11.2% of trips in the capital are made by bike, compared with 4.3% by car. Find out more about the seven most popular bike paths.
the article goes on to list the most popular/busy cycleways, about half of which didn't even exist a generation ago. so, erm, yes, i'm sure it's the banning of "catalytic converters" in 1999, chap.

https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/ar … 55770.html
A Paris, la fréquentation des pistes cyclables a doublé en un an

but thanks for your condescending karma. dilbert knows best eh.

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SuperJail Warden
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There are a lot more mopeds and electric bikes around my city. This greatly upsets many of the older (white) people in my city who see it as "ghetto." My MAGA assistant really wants to hit one young person on electric bike she sees everyday. I told her that articulating such a thought counts as premeditation.
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the problem in UK cities at least was that the space was totally unregulated and a bunch of 'disrupter' companies, normally from the SF area, flooded the cities with loads of rental bikes/scooters with little care for health and safety.

private eye in the UK did a good exposé recently on how one of the main electric bike providers in london, who became pretty much ubiquitous overnight, have actually got lots of lawsuits on their hands because of a very real problem with london denizens breaking their legs on the tihngs. the electric bikes are very heavy and their geometry makes them prone to toppling over on top of inexperienced/untrained riders (i.e. basically everyone).

probably not good, but everyone should own their own bicycle anyway if living in a big city.
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Dilbert_X wrote:

Stupid americans?
i blame motordom poisoning america with the notion that it's the only thing that makes sense and we actually want it anyway.

https://i.imgur.com/scACH5R.png

three hour commute and whole clusters of towns set up to where you can't really get anything done unless you have a car to do it in. don't you see how cars are really saving people time! and actually it's much safer than going on foot.

https://gifdb.com/images/file/home-alone-kevin-almost-hit-by-car-l82tkdsatxs0gx6w.gif

i've minimally driven for a good few years now. saved a ton on gas, get my steps in. can be inconvenient in the current culture for reasons i've posted on. "no backpacks," lol, carrying heavy stuff in your arms for long distances is not that ergonomic. good way to see how businesses don't care about you!

stuff like bike racks and trash cans on business properties have been removed in large numbers. ride a bike! where are you supposed to chain it, exactly? yes it was inconvenient having a bunch of outside trash fill your cans, but they're still dumping it on your lot! and now your business property is Trashnado. maybe garbage service cost residential less, instead of trending inexorably, unaffordably upward? what are you supposed to do in a place only serviced by one trash company?

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Saw a black bear on the trail the other day. Big dog

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He was peeking around a tree, then decided to just flail on the ground and sunbathe his belly

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