I wonder if 98 counts as retro at this point:

https://archive.org/details/camel-cash-1998-catalogue-red/mode/1up

Now that I can harness my own metabolic heat who are you to attempt to stop me?

Valid, lowers the costs of the resulting meat and thus increases consumption

I’m not a vegan, but the current state of beekeeping is pretty shit. Taking the honey and replacing it with sugar water on top of the stresses of monoculture and killing varied flora with herbicides creating food deserts and using market conditions to race to the bottom on pollination contracts just results in a whole bunch of dead hives. Like you can both support sustainably practiced beekeeping and find the production of industrial honey to be a horror show.

Good news: we’ve found ways to satisfy them with the conditions while also killing the hives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonate–silicate_cycle

I’m all for reduction, but if you priced in the externalities even that would likely favor other materials in many applications that are extensively cement based. Including bitumen in some cases. I just think we have to be aggressively against cement usage because theres no stoichiometric way to get it to not be a massive source of carbon if we keep using it the way we do.

My problem with the don’t throw the productive economy out by just trying to decarbonize argument is really structural though. It just gets to the point that we can’t outgrow destroying the commons. Who cares if we maintain rapid development if the resulting assets are worthless?

The greater point I’m getting at is whatever aggregate you use to make more concrete, making the concrete with Portland is still 8 percent of CO2 emissions. You can protect local environments and maintain concrete production, but what use is that when you’re cooking the planet with the concrete in the first place? Gotta stop liberating the CO2 from rocks, not green wash it.

Sand ain’t the fucking problem in concrete it’s the clinker/Portland that’s releasing massive amounts of CO2 that would be otherwise trapped by rocks. Destroying habitats for sand sucks but we’ve got bigger fish frying us.

Yeah but like, shattering cereals would be appreciative of the habitat. That sorta argument justifies keeping a mutant around for laughs. Or pugs.

Why do you folks think that joyriding and grand theft auto are different statutes? Mens rea in theft is very important and it has to have an intent to deprive. A jury wouldn’t believe your example, but this dude actually DID bring them to the sheriff. You could argue civil tresspass to chattels or some local level minor property charge for unauthorized use if they didn’t think they were depriving someone of their property. But it’s not theft.

Jesus Christ.

There’s no intent to permanently deprive if you literally take something to the authorities for disposition which is a key plank of theft. Not criminal mischief if they’re not damaged either.

Like you can force the market with good industrial policy of subsidies and oversight pretty effectively. See East Asia in general. Problem comes when those you gave power with those actions start directing your government to do stupid things for their benefit and they capture the very oversight that made it work in the first place.

Yeah. Now sometimes they don’t want one because it’s embarrassing to get an indictment and then later get a judge to grant a motion to dismiss with failure to state offense (actions do not match the crime charged) or a motion for judgment of acquittal(the facts in no way present this being the crime even in the best possible light) and then yell at you. That’s part of why the Trump admin has regularly failed to get indictments(the other part is they’d have to directly lie about what happened in some of these cases to even convince a grand jury what happened meets the charge, which might break the seal on the Grand jury and actually get your ass sanctioned by the judge). They want their boss to think they’re doing something but they really don’t want to be shown to be incompetent in open court. But overall it’s much much easier to survive a grand jury than a judge’s probable cause hearing(because the judge will actually ask about exculpatory evidence that should be there), so if you’re going that route it should be a slam dunk.

I hope they were immediately released if you can’t get an indictment. The reason they couldn’t get an indictment is because the prosecutor didn’t really want one. Grand juries only really hear what the prosecutor wants to tell them. That’s why it’s said you can get an indictment on a ham sandwich. If the prosecutor just said “he shot her after an argument” with no exculpatory evidence he would’ve gotten an indictment and that would’ve been okay and cool with the US supreme Court.

Quake and quakeworld predates it by a year and frankly were the shit. Quakeworld team Fortress was 96 even and that’s when things really got popping. Windows 95 was having some good shit shooters. Half life just built on what quake already made awesome. Goldeneye came out in 97 and it looks like a poor stepchild compared to networked over IP quakeworld with full 3d and incredible verticality.

Logistics infrastructure can take a huge hit when trade does, but only if it’s overleveraged. And Amazon ain’t that. Those vampires know what they’re doing.

Depends on what you mean by economy and financial infrastructure but in the West you’re mostly right. Since globally we’re a market economy dependent on trade, you’d still need financial infrastructure no matter what, even if you’re talking about building loans for starting co-ops or whatever. That doesn’t mean you have to allow capital accumulation to run wild. But the West is built around rent seeking and largely increasing asset pricing. Hell if property values go down and people aren’t able to extract rents from the productive economy most Western nations view that as an economic crisis. They’ll quickly sacrifice employment to prevent that. That’s why it’s so attractive to park capital in Western real estate and other nonproductive “capital”. At least until the parasite grows so large that, whoops the economy can’t run anymore. As it stands there’s a homeostatic mechanism that allows this rent seeking to exist while also essentially forcing some of the productive capital to be funded to see enough returns to also grow to a degree. They call this hedging. But even in those cases they’re largely investing in things that create financial moats like AI is proposed to be though extremely expensive infrastructure or through consolidaton and regulatorh capture like what’s happening in US healthcare vs investing in capital that will compete in a commodity market.

It’s almost like the rich themselves aren’t the drivers of the economy but instead it’s the financial infrastructure and the actual producers and they’re dependent on that. Funny idea.