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Well the trend for the past 400 million years has been sharply down. In fact, the last few hundred thousand years are as low as it has ever gotten as far as we can tell. A few times dangerously low (180ppm) where the C3 pathway was getting close to failing which is estimated at 150 ppm. BTW I'm...

Of course it is going up. We are adding more than what is being taken out. Now imagine if humans added little or nothing. The trend would reverse. Long term over millions of years CO2 concentrations have declined from over 2000ppm and then settled at about 200-300ppm in recent history until the...

Yes but without all the immediate destruction, fallout, and nuclear winter. The existential stuff.

Have you ever seen how fast CO2 fluctuates over the course of the year? Most of it is due to the Northern Hemisphere's growing season. If we got to net zero it would take awhile, but nothing like a forever chemical. In fact, without humans Earth might start having a serious shortage of CO2 in...

There is no doubt that it will probably be a significant problem, but I don’t think it will be existential. (nothing like 1000s of nuclear weapons detonating) We can adapt where we live and farm and are making progress in reducing CO2 just slower than we ought to. As the effects become more and...

Of course you would expect fewer during hard times, but not blanket commitments to never have them. People can and do wait which is fine within reason. What is scary it just how prevalent the doomer narrative of "I'm never going to have kids and the world is ending" has become. What we need to...

While having kids is a personal choice, I'm really tired of gen z and younger millennials using the economy and climate change as an excuse to not have them. Yes climate change is important and will probably cause real problems in the future and yes starting out now is harder than it has been...

Honestly, given the enormous differences in priorities and beliefs at this point, it is pretty clear that there is no way we can realistically collaborate sufficiently on a global scale to meet climate goals. Focusing on mitigating the damage is probably the only pragmatic harm prevention path.

Not a lot of people realize this, but cops are free to lie about all sorts of things to you in the course of their investigation. You, however, cannot lie to them or you can get charged with obstruction. In almost all cases, the best thing to do is to invoke your right to maintain silence and...

It is classic economic exploitation with a dash of racism. Having them be illegal means they keep their head down and don’t complain about long hours, poor pay, unsafe conditions etc. The laws are enforced just enough to keep them nervous, but still willing to come. Americans in general tend to...

The way the Constitution has ended up being interpreted (basically unlimited federal power) you are probably right. Originally, the idea was to have a set of enumerated powers for the federal government and the states would do the rest. The idea being that the more invasive laws should be set...

So far at least, they do accept American as a race and/or ethnicity. Lots of people might have difficulty answering more than that anyway, because there are practically no people with perfectly pure blood (whatever that even means}, so it becomes subjective to categorize oneself anyway. You do...

That’s why you just answer American, unless you are not a permanent resident. That way you are not lying and are in full compliance. Race is scientifically invalid, extremely subjective, and is only used to divide people anyway.

Super3DPC said: I mean seriously most other country has national photo ID card. It includes citizenship or visa status. None of their citizens feel like that’s a major invasion of privacy by the government. I am forever perplexed why the USA never implemented national photo ID. We did....we...

Should only be age rounded to nearest year and number of persons. All that other stuff is just asking for problems or could potentially be used against you. American is the only race or ethnicity I ever acknowledge. Anything else is stupid anyway since my family has been here for hundreds of...

If it was the equivalent of the old check id paradigm it wouldn’t be a problem because no record was kept and the clerk didn’t really care and probably couldn’t remember you 20 minutes later. Unfortunately that model seems to be going away. I know in many states now they actually scan and...

Why not just cut the wire or pull the fuse to the cellular antenna? It seems like that would solve all the problems. Does that brick the car now? I honestly don’t know my car is from right before they started adding the internet as a default option to pretty much all cars. My personal...

True enough, but there was no way to practically enforce it and you could legally resell it making it kind of a non-issue. I can’t wait to hear the uproar when Steam eventually gets sold to someone like Epic, Microsoft, or Tencent or maybe even goes belly up one day. I keep hearing...

I have a hard time understanding why some people are so deeply opposed to adjustable difficulty settings in games. To me at least, video games are all about having fun. To some people that means punishing difficulty, to others a relaxing stroll. I don’t think enabling both diminishes either...

It’s becoming abundantly clear that these data mining companies will never be properly regulated because it allows the government to do an end run around the 4th amendment. The government can go out and buy any data they might need and claim that it isn’t an unreasonable search because they...