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I was taught about global warming in the 90ies at school and have always been concerned about the environment and pollution. I’m from the generation that saw that Manbearpig episode, and even though I know South Park “makes fun of everyone”, this one always seemed too much. But I stopped giving a fuck during the pandemic when I realized that even a pandemic wouldn’t change society. We saw first hand how the environment could improve and benefit from making changes in our way of life, but most people wanted to go back to their commute and waste energy in traffic. Even today, governments and public employers are still forcing their employees to go “back to the office” even if it’s not needed for lots of jobs. I care about the future of next generations, I have nephews and nieces, but apparently nobody gives a fuck because it would be too expensive and disruptive. We prefer cheap gas. So I still maintain my lifestyle of not having a car and being careful when I can, but I was avoiding airplanes as they are the most polluting mode of transport, and I don’t anymore.The majority apparently doesn’t care and just wants cheap gas and cheap shit. They want to choke us while complaining everything is getting more expensive, amd won’t change anything. Every headline year after year is how we won’t reach our climate “goals” and how we’re passing thresholds one after the other. So I don’t give a fuck now. It’s sad but I can see what people around me chose, and it’s cheap gas and endless consumption.

Who is going to arrest/fine FOSS developers for not doing anything about that? Would Brazil and US states go after uuuh, the systemd developers? What about distros not using systemd, like Slackware. Who is ultimately responsible for a collaborative project? Are they gonna send the police after Torvalds? Plus, other countries don't have this obligation. All that dev had to do is nothing. Instead he chose to comply with something that was never asked.

A gas station chain as a client and the type of work that came with it. I was working as a help desk tech subcontractor and already had about 20 different clients. I've been doing this for a decade but because the new ones always messed up their work, we had tons of reminders and automated tasks in Teams. So I was already on edge because of the constant Teams notifications and all the triple checks. Then they introduced this new client, a gas station chain, with hundreds of locations. I already worked in gas stations when I was a teenager and hated it. I hated the constant beeping for pumps to be unlocked when someone wants to buy gas. And I certainly didn't want to have stressed teenagers on the phone telling me it's super important that all their pumps are working on a Sunday afternoon while my instructions were to simply convince them to wait until the next business day if all we tried didn't work. Fuck cars. Fuck oil companies. I can usually tolerate working with Microsoft even if I hate it, but Microsoft + oil companies. Fuck no. I still haven't found the will to get a new job, but my bank account is now starting to push me with insistance.

And I even pasted the wiki article. Thanks, I corrected it.

I once heard an American say something "weighs as much as a 2 liter bottle" and it made me raise an eyebrow.

I once brought my nephew camping on an island with millions of snails. When the evening came I didn’t think much about them and proposed a bike tour around the island. Well, we will remember that. They were impossible to avoid just by their numbers so we were hearing dozens bouncing on the bike trailer, or being shot left and right by the wheels. My nephew was horrified. He wanted us to stop but we were now in the middle of it so we plowed through. Poor snails. But they should have known better than just fuck in the middle of a trail.

It’s so sad and depressing that the only thing that moves the needle and makes the average Unitedstater react is the price of gas. Obviously they’re not invading other countries and killing innocent people for nothing. Who cares about other people, kidnappings in the streets, turning against your allies, as long as they can get cheap gas, there’s no problem. Maybe the US is due to invade another country with oil, to keep its population happy.

Oh I understand that. And that’s whybwe should work really hard to get rid of gas powered vehicles and find alternatives. But no, the only solution is to burn cheap gas.

Je suis du sud du Québec et je l’aurais pas compris. J’ai jamais entendu sleep de ma vie pour désigner un sac de couchage. In French, we also use sac de couchage.

No need to be new. It doesn’t even need to be an EV. Just a car that’s more efficient. It can be used, and/or smaller than a SUV/pickup truck. Or, there may be other options like public transit or cycling. Or maybe even moving to a place where a car is not really a necessity most of the time. Some cities have car sharing companies to bridge the gap and only use a car when necessary. In some other countries, they have accelerated their transition to renewable energy. asianinsiders.com/…/asia-energy-transition-plans-… The priority for governments is getting through the current crisis, but many have also turned an eye to the future. Reducing dependence on oil imports is the only way to ensure a similar situation doesn’t happen again. In nearly every Asian country, greater energy security starts with a successful energy transition. This is creating opportunities for overseas firms boasting tools, technology and knowledge in a wide range of areas. Meanwhile other countries are just hoping for cheap gas, and some are even slowing down or are actively working against alternatives. Some presidents even go as far as pay more to cancel renewable energy contracts. And I wasn’t there but apparently there’s been an oil crisis in 1970 that led to more efficient cars and reshaped the industry. enginestories.com/…/oil-crisis-to-electric-revolu… But I guess that no, of course there is simply no alternative to cheap gas.

Unfortunately if nothing slowly starts to change, it’s gonna the same thing in several years. Other countries and region will have transitioned and liberated themselves of that dependency while others will still rely, depend, and hope cheap gas. If someone is a smoker, it’s still better to encourage them to try to stop continuously or multiple times, even if not successful, rather than hoping the person will just stop in the future.

When I went on twitter and reddit a few years ago, there was the hashtag #carryshitolympics and a subreddit with the same name. This belongs in that category.

God forbid people use less gas, or even switch to electric. All that’s needed to be happy and fulfilled is cheap gas. Fuck the environment, fuck other people killed for this, as long as we have cheap gas, everything goes. Don’t try anything else. Just keep expecting cheap gas. Ask me how I know we won’t do fuck all about climate change.

I hope they will keep their promise. Both the federal and provincial governments had plans to ban the sale of gas powered vehicles by 2035. They kept this policy for a few years but both scrapped it recently. My province initially made it a law that 100% of cars sold by 2035 should be electric. It’s now 90%. So, as much as the current German can say it plans to do this by 2045, there’s more than enough time to have another government that will scrap this policy. And their plan is even more ambitious. I hope they will continue in the long term with this policy, but the cynical in me is doubting.