Here’s some more food for thought: what happens if they piss off the Eve players? Those clowns have basically been training themselves on how to come out on top in a no-hold-barred capitalist system.

As a millennial, at no point did we actually want participation trophies. The feeling of coming in last was not changed in the slightest by receiving a junk trophy.

I seriously doubt that will happen. The current administration has shown zero indication that they give two fucks about what the people want.

That would explain why she’s willing to just toss the coffee in the back seat. Must have a side hustle doing razor blade disposal as well.

I mean, you can. Probably shouldn’t though.

Osmosis

Not all of them. Some of the carbon atoms will have decayed into (I think) nitrogen.

I work in a factory making turbine engines, if I worked in a factory making 50k$ watches we would produce just as much CO2.

You absolutely would not. Not even remotely close.

Also, you’re ignoring the emissions over the lifetime of the thing. As soon as the watch is manufactured, it’s emissions contribution is done. That turbine will continue generating emissions over it’s entire existence.

Not by the usual definition. The carbon, etc that used to form the cyanobacteria is completely broken down and formed into miscellaneous hydrocarbons. There’s no petrified remains, nor rock impressions of the bacteria.

Many people do this.

Many people are insane.

The loyal cult is the result of Stockholm syndrome.

Because this is Lemmy, I feel like I have to ask, Linux support? Or is it Windows-only for now?

The kind of waste I’m talking about doesn’t give two fucks about proportionality. CO2 in the atmosphere makes no distinction between being emitted by a single person or three million.

Also, fuck living in a world where only things arbitrarily deemed “useful” are considered worthy. Does art have no place in your world? It’s not “useful”. Should people be banned from having hobbies? Those aren’t “useful”.

I wouldn’t say so in this case. A watch is probably about as close to “good” conspicuous consumption as it’s possible to get. Think about it: it’s generally a “buy once, keep it forever” item, takes essentially 0 resources to keep functioning (generally the expensive ones don’t require batteries), uses very little material to manufacture, and all the price is coming from specialist labour.

It’s a waste of money, but it’s a harmless waste, especially when compared to things like private jets and yachts.

That’s pretty much the theme for most of the responses here.

We already have a definition for this, the Karman line.

In new build stuff, I’ve actually been seeing a lot more torx.

Blame Henry Ford. The superior screw head style was available to him, but he refused to use it.

This is one case where I don’t think the cell phone would drastically change the movie. He’d still be home alone dealing with the thieves as his mom worked her way back. He just wouldn’t be in the dark as to why he is alone.

So that source specifically states that the production emissions are a best estimate, and not thoroughly examined in the scope of that study. In the not-so-theoretical case where the grid is carbon free (there are locations in North America where this is very close to true) that completely changes the math on the production emissions. That study chose not to look at that, and instead choose a flat rate that reflected the current average.

Also, I’m not saying that electric cars are the proper solution; I’m saying they are the fastest solution. They are a stop-gap because the proper solutions are going to take too long to implement.