• @HonoraryMancunian
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    551 year ago

    Well those sweet-ass trucks aren’t gonna buy themselves

    • guyrocket
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      181 year ago

      Yeah and just imagine the car insurance costs for those apocalypse-mobiles. It would cost a small fucking fortune every month! How can anyone afford to drive one of those?

  • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬
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    221 year ago

    I never understood why they did not switch to solar power when the fossil fuel got so sparse.

    • BruceTwarzen
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      211 year ago

      It’s just america that chooses to live like that. The rest of the world juat goes on

      • @[email protected]
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        71 year ago

        Reads like an advice: think long-term, start the transition as early as possible. So, basic rationality.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        It would be interesting to see them update that with current data since global PV installations are estimated at 392 GW for 2023.

        It is unrealistic to imagine that we could jump into a full-scale infrastructure replacement in one year. To set the scale, the U.S. uses about 3 TW of continuous power. A 1% drop corresponds to 30 GW of power. Our modest 2% replacement therefore would require the construction of about 60 new 1 GW power plants in a single year, or a rate of one per week! Worldwide, we quadruple this number.

        What capability have we demonstrated in the past? In 2010, global production of solar photovoltaics was 15 GW, which is only about 6% of what we would need to fill a world-wide energy gap of 2% per year. Even on a tear of 50% increase per year, it would take 7 years to get to the required rate. Wind installations in 2010 totaled 37 GW, or 14% of the 2% global requirement. It would take 5 years at a breakneck 50% per year rate of increase to get there. When France decided to go big on nuclear, they built 56 reactors in 15 years. In doing so, they replaced 80% of their electricity consumption, which translates to about 30% of their total energy use. So this puts them at about 2% per year in energy replacement.

  • @Hotdogman
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    181 year ago

    Pssh, that’s just a picture of the beltway around DC in the morning.

  • @[email protected]
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    121 year ago

    There is not going to be MadMax. The rich people will have their reasons for wanting to colonize Mars or even go to Venus, as the CEO of the crashed Titanic submarine wants. We can be happy if we can leave the underground bunkers without a fireproof suit and oxygen mask.

  • Karyoplasma
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    71 year ago

    The Mad Max open world game is so underrated. I bought it without much expectation because I liked the setting and then it was one of the few games I 100-percented.

  • @Touching_Grass
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    1 year ago

    Some kids will believe these memes. Won’t save a dime and end up poor as shit. Then they can make memes and do it to another generation. Its self fulfilling.

    For my generation it was adults saying shit like

    “smoking kills? Yea right that’s why my uncle Carl lived until 80 smoking a pack a day.”

    • @DoctorTYVM
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      21 year ago

      Yeah, people growing up the 80’s heard about nuclear war and ozone layer and acid rain and lots of other stuff. People freaked out then too and lived recklessly thinking the future was lost. But most people just lived their lives and didn’t go live in a bunker. That’s what’s going to happen here.

      Life just sort of happens, even when the doomer memes get upvoted to the front page

      • @Touching_Grass
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        11 year ago

        Yup and life happens fast. You really only got like a good 15 years to “sorting hat” a good position in our society. Success is determined pretty fast between grades 10 to whenever we all finish school. If you’re in an area with advanced classes then its even earlier.

  • @[email protected]
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    01 year ago

    The future is my money devaluatig because I can’t even save for a fucking down payment for a house and now the EU is gonna make throw away my piece of shit ass car because it’s too old.

  • @[email protected]
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    -31 year ago

    Parents: put some money aside. Government: pay taxes over that. Parents: do it with cash. Stores and others: we don’t accept cash anymore.