It’s a headline on the Globe and Mail website.

That sounds awesome

That’s how we got our first place. The sellers still got 2x what they’d paid for it seven or eight years before. But the price was relatively low, so we could afford it.

“I’m glad it’s nonmetallic, otherwise I’d have to remove it for my MRI.”

Active living may not be the only way to address the obesity epidemic (it’s endemic now, isn’t it?) but it would help. People will be happier and healthier if they can get exercise as part of their day to day activities.

I really prefer walking to cycling. I’m totally fine with bike infrastructure, but I’d really just like neighbourhoods to have amenities they can walk to.

Generally I agree, but

you might have to code your own drivers for some of it

is a bit hyperbolic. Most of the time, most users will be using pretty standard hardware to do pretty standard things. They won’t need fancy drivers to do it.

phew, that was close

Instead of returning a random number, what if we make the program guess?

M U R D E R

None of this put a dent in CO2 emissions, because more energy available just means more energy consumed.

I’m my geo, we’re lowering GHG emissions and increasing electricity output. That isn’t entirely due to renewables, but it’s part of the equation. Those renewables were affordable due to feed in tariffs mentioned above.

Without continued advocacy, entrenched interests will reverse those trends. With continued advocacy, we may be able to lower emissions further.

IT BURNS!

When you get to 50, you’ll understand.

I’m not the original commenter, but as someone in a similar boat, I’ll interpret:

Aging fucking sucks. Seeing doors close as your body switches modes is depressing as hell. Knowing you have another half century left, but it’s all gonna be worse is a terrible feeling.

Political advocacy is the way to go. Pushing politicians to change laws is what got renewables to be cheap in the first place. We need more of that.

Solar, wind, and EVs have become much cheaper after they received significant government incentives. Feed in tariffs started in the 1990s, implemented by Japan, Germany, China, and many other governments decreased the cost of renewables and built industrial capacity.

Governments did that because of significant environmental advocacy from the 1960s onwards.

Advocacy feels like it doesn’t work now because there’s massive advocacy pushing back against our longterm interests, but it’s couched as “industrial interests” so we don’t see it.

If you truly don’t need the money, donate it to an org that’s doing political advocacy.

10k of solar isn’t going to make a difference in the grand scheme of things. Changing laws and regulations will.

I worry that we’ll only get it fixed once the human population falls to some horrifically low number.

It says right there. Like three times. Which isn’t suspicious at all.

pugjesus has a lot too