It’s total energy usage (including not just direct electricity and heating, but also transport, energy required to produce the food you eat, etc).

“One pound” is just the unit of the ratio, it’s not a serving suggestion. According to CO2everything, 100g of beef is equivalent to 15.5kg CO₂ emissions or 78.7 km of driving.

The 2000 watt goal could probably be reached easily with more focus on efficient appliances and usage.

For example, many people have massive upright refrigerators that are mostly empty space with features that reduce efficiency, like having an ice dispenser in the front (this usually compromises the door insulation) or a cheap “anti-condensation system” that adds heat to the interior, thus counteracting the main point of refrigeration. Using a smaller fridge, or a top-opening one (so the entire volume of cold air isn’t lost into the room every time it’s opened) and avoiding “features” that increase power usage would go a long way to reducing constant power usage.

Unfortunately once the government or agencies start telling people what sort of fridge they should buy, people who don’t understand why will start complaining about the “nanny state” interfering in people’s private lives.

As an Islander, I can absolutely appreciate to you

Sorry, I didn’t explain the Australian context of Islander - I don’t live on an Island.

I’m a Torres Strait Islander by descent, i.e. an Indigenous Australian so considered “Blak” in Australia. (We use “Blak” sometimes to differentiate from the US usage of “Black”). The term “First Nations” is popular these days but I hate it because it sounds like manager speak.

I consider climate change to be more important than Blak issues (or Black issues for that matter), including ones that specifically affect me like police brutality. I’ve had police ignore people physically assaulting me in public before, was ostracised all through high school and in other situations, etc. I consider all of that not as worrying as climate change.

if we have to give priority, then climate change is lower.

at the time when climate change impacts are felt

Did you see the other post on here “The Gargantuan Lie That is Collapsing The World’s Climate”? - this is part of the lie.

No, the monstrous, misshapen garden colossus lie we’re referring to is subscribed to by most of the U.S., has stopped and slowed climate action far more than outright denial, and keeps growing and growing. Every day this deception whispers seductively in the ears of mankind: “global warming is real but not urgent… Keep doing what you’re doing.” Less embarrassing than “climate change is a Chinese hoax,” but every bit as unscientific and ridiculous, it is the preferred lie of the ruling class, mainstream news media, and corporations.

If you accidentally consumed a fatal poison

The premise of your question is trying to compare an individual crisis that affects one person with a worldwide, global problem that affects not just humanity but other species living on this planet.

As I said before, I’m an Islander, and I consider climate change to be a higher priority than stuff like wage equality or cultural issues. Dealing with inter-human discrimination isn’t going to matter if our entire species can’t survive.

This is great research, just foundational chemistry work solving a real problem. I’ve cross-posted it to the Science community.

Why would you prioritize a threat that will kill you 30 to 40 years from now

Because climate change is a long term process and the changes we make today are going to take 20-50 years to take effect.

It’s like being infected with rabies and thinking you have a few months before it will kill you, ignoring that the treatment must be given promptly or it won’t be effective. If you wait until the symptoms show, it’s too late to treat it and it’s almost certainly fatal.

I agree with this in general - it’s the billionaire class that’s causing most of the problems for everyone else. Unfortunately for some activists, their anti-colonialism and anti-authority approach spills over into anti-intellectual, anti-science attitudes like rejecting scientific consensus on climate change, vaccines, infection management etc.

During the first two years of the Covid-19 pandemic I was saddened to see many people whom I considered comrades reject science based medical advice, falling into anti-vax conspiracy theories and other nonsense because of their distrust of what they dismissed as “Western Science”. It’s that pathway that worries me about climate change. I’ve seen that happen already, with people who love their V8 petrol cars rejecting EVs and green energy because they see it as being pushed by “the government” which they don’t trust.

wage inequality and the continued decline of civil rights in American as a much more important issues to them than climate change

Climate change has the potential to literally wipe out all the humans. Surely that makes it a bigger problem than inequality between humans.

This is a US centric article but I expect there are similar effects in most “western” countries.

I’m a left-wing indigenous Australian, but find my own political priorities don’t align with most other left indigenous people I meet. I consider the climate crisis the #1 problem in the world, with the potential to cause the literal extinction of humanity. Wage equality and racial issues aren’t going to be a problem if everyone is dead.

There are a few things you can add to an existing house:

• Awnings and other sources of shade over windows
• White painted exterior (some white pigments are better than others at reflecting infrared)

The south-facing comments would need to be the other way around in the southern hemisphere too.

Yes, I also receive goodies shared by friends/family too. Could be stuff we’ve bought in bulk, or stuff we’ve made (soap, jam, crocheted blankets…) or grown in the garden.

For certain food styles, I buy bulk spices sometimes because I don’t like to pay for an entire jar I won’t use, knowing that most of it will go stale by the time I’m through the jar. Being able to buy tiny quantities is sometimes way cheaper.

Have you considered sharing with friends/family who would use the same spices or other supplies? I sometimes do this with spices, legumes, baking soda, etc.

The idea of “scrap this edifice and let’s see if we can do without”

That’s what I found confusing about Gemini - its goals aren’t incompatible with HTTP but it’s deliberately trying to be incompatible with HTTP, apparently just for the sake of being different and not any technical reasons.

To answer the original question of “What’s up with Gemini development” it seems that interest has waned because building something that’s deliberately incompatible with existing systems isn’t going to maintain broad appeal and get people creating and using content and software on the system.

99% of the goal could be done in a web-compatible way by just having a way to declare that any site is “gemini-like” or “gopherish” by enforcing a Gopher-style hierarchy on the site, using a restricted subset of HTML (and semantic use of markup), minimal or no CSS (e.g. Smolweb’s CSS Grading), no font embeds, no images, no JS, no videos. The remaining 1% could be done with a browser extensions that activate on any such page and provide gopher-style map/menu navigation with the keyboard.

I would definitely avoid drinking it - condensate from home dehumidifiers (etc) collects lots of spores and dust floating around in the air.

Living up to my username: Pink mold isn’t an actual mold, it’s usually a growth of a common airborne bacteria, Serratia marcescens. It’s not particularly dangerous but can cause urinary tract, wound, skin and lung infections in immunocompromised people.

Condensate from home driers, air cons, dehumidifiers (etc) is not sterile or potable, it gets lots of airborne bacterial and fungal spores in it.

Isn’t that when you give a pigeon a bit of food and it vocally thanks you?

Edit: No wait, that’s a bread coo

There are many sources of fabric that would be otherwise wasted - old clothes going to landfill, sheets and pillowcases, etc.

Some of the libraries around Melbourne now have maker spaces; many of these include sewing machines, and there are weekly clubs/groups and classes on how to use the equipment.

The best bit, about a third of the way through:

… and so we end up sounding like a nineties era sociology textbook and there’s this trope of like toxic masculinity. And every time you hear the word masculinity among people on the left, it’s usually. It usually comes with that toxic trope. Now, if there’s not another option about a non-toxic masculinity, then at some point you’re basically condemning a whole group of people. And if you don’t offer them anything, why is it surprising that they’re gonna go in a different direction?