I can read fine. You can’t write. Your messages so far have been full of spelling errors, are hard to understand, and you can’t even quote properly. Come on now.

You act like I should know all about this Carter person, when they were in power long before I was born, in a country I don’t even live in. It’s daft. Most people on this site either wouldn’t have been born or would have been small when Carter was talking about this stuff. That happened in the 1970s. If it isn’t absolutely clear using renewables for everything in the 1970s wouldn’t have been practical. Nuclear would have been great, but it’s mainly environmentalists that put a stop to that, as they keep trying to do now. It seems most environmentalists and climate activists even now don’t want nuclear, even though it’s the obvious choice for certain applications like data centers and AI. The most staunch anti-nuclear people have always been environmentalists. Nuclear also wouldn’t have solved any of the problems caused by cars. It doesn’t even work without large grid storage or demand management, at least not using the reactor technology available back then. Those are things we are only just figuring out now for goodness sake. It could have at least replaced coal for baseload power, which is much better than nothing.

You can’t say in one breath that the planet is already doomed, and in the next say we should make major changes. It’s a contradiction. If people believe we are really doomed they aren’t even going to try. This should be relatively straight forward to understand. So if you want people to make a change then stop saying we are already dead.

I don’t use the term whataboutism in my post anywhere. So I don’t know who you are quoting.

The not serious person here is you, saying we are all going to die anyway instead of encouraging people to do anything. I had to look this up as I don’t know anything about Carter, but it turns out the panels he was installing are for hot water. They don’t generate electricity. This makes perfect sense as it took much longer than that to develop photovoltaics and get them ready for mass production. Even now modern photovoltaic panels are fairly inefficient devices.

We already have walk-able cities in much of Europe. It’s not a compete solution by itself, we still have cars. You are weirdly fixated on USA history when this is a global problem. It’s not all about the USA. Stop pretending it’s the only country that exists. India and China are the biggest polluters these days if I remember correctly, you should be focusing on them.

Edit: Carter was also aiming for 20% of energy in the US to be made renewably by 2020. That wouldn’t have been anywhere near enough to stop climate change.

This kind of talk isn’t really useful and is making the problem worse. Where are you getting all this from? You must have some good sources to make claims like this.

There wasn’t a time line 25 years ago where we could use only technological solutions as said technological solutions didn’t exist. Those have only been invented since then, many still haven’t been invented or are still being worked on now. Take batteries for example, it took us until the 2010s to manufacture enough lithium ion batteries with the right chemistry to even think about using them as grid storage. Said batteries still have limited lifespans and manufacturing them is costly to the environment and requires lithium which has a limited supply. We really need Sodium ion batteries but those are only ramping production now. Starting to switch over 50 years ago would have been even more impossible, not that we understood the problem fully 50 years ago. This is all revising history.

Fyi CO2 levels have been higher in the past than they are now. None of this is actually new, it’s just changing far faster than it would naturally. It’s the speed that’s the issue, not the actual magnitude of the change. It’s a case of changing things faster than nature takes to adapt. We are still technically in an ice age after all. Pollutants like microplastics and forever chemicals are the new thing, not greenhouse gasses. No one has any idea what that might lead to in the long term.

You feel insane because your suggesting things should have happened before they are actually possible. You are saying things that are extremely alarmist without giving evidence and without considering context.

Edit: There was one way to decarbonize earlier than 25 years ago or maybe before. It’s called Nuclear. I wonder who prevented that? Oh wait it was climate activists. Funny that.

We aren’t putting it off. Already many countries are deploying renewable energy like it’s going out of fashion, and have been for years. China, France, the UK, Spain, and India all have significant parts of their energy coming from renewables and nuclear, or are building more as we speak. Here in England our largest source of power is wind. People are already doing stuff about it, just not fast enough or universally enough. Technology for renewables and energy saving has gotten progressively better over the past several decades. Even fossil fuel technologies like cars and natural gas plants have gotten markedly more efficient meaning they produce less CO2 than they did previously, while also emitting lower levels of other pollutants too. It’s even possible now to power planes with biofuels.

What made you think I blame women?

IP over ham radio is a thing, so yes. Wouldn’t be very fast mind you.

I am not talking about Google but rather Overleaf and GitHub. Though there is university data kept on Google Drive including students marks.

Actually many people use cloud as the original. I don’t get why we are pretending this isn’t normal.

Phone SoCs aren’t made by Intel lol. You should be more worried about modem/baseband firmware.

Actually you can pay for google services including cloud storage and many businesses do this. How are they not customers?

Using cloud services as the only copy is literally what I have been told to do working on my PhD by my supervisors. This is in the cybersecurity department. How you think this attitude is acceptable or normal is beyond me.

The whole point of modern cloud platforms is they worry about this so you don’t have to. Not that people ever actually followed 321 backup policy anyway.

Edit: at least my stuff is on two different cloud services.

This could all end in war against the USA at this point. Honestly that might be for the best at this point.

No biological male can have periods or bear children. I think that’s fairly straight forward. Strength is a spectrum though I agree.

Hmm. I think there are some things where they are necessary for biological reasons. Like males having increased upper body strength, or females dealing with birth, period pains, etc where some things can only be done by one physical sex or one needs more understanding of certain things. Other than that though your pretty much spot on. Plus sex and gender aren’t exactly the same thing anyway as I am sure someone will point out.

Sure there are many other societies where gender is also thoroughly and completely cooked to higher levels than it is in say UK, USA, or so on such as Saudi Arabia but it’s a very broad generalisation to say it’s cooked everywhere. There have been and are matriarchal societies even that have very different norms than we do. Not all societies are heteronormative either. I don’t know all the societies in the world. I am pushing it to even say all western societies are cooked.

That wasn’t my point at all. A lot you are good at jumping to conclusions based on not a lot of information instead of asking clarifying questions.

I am saying gender roles are cooked for both men and women because they say a lot of shit that doesn’t make sense. Like the idea that men are always more logical and women are always better parents. Even the thing about colours and skirts don’t make sense. If anything skirts are better for male anatomy than trousers are. Gender norms and heteronormativity make no sense. They as concepts are cooked. It’s lead to lots of dumb laws and injustice on all sides.

That’s not what I am saying. Gender roles in general are cooked and it hurts both sides. I never said this is the fault of women. It’s not on them that they couldn’t open a bank account for decades for example, or all the sexist things men have done over the centuries. You’ve taken one thing I said and twisted it to a completely different conclusion.

It’s things like men like blue and women like pink, or women wearing skirts but not men. None of these things are actually biological, just like the idea men and women do different jobs. We are cooked because we have invented daft roles for genders in the first place. Don’t get me started on things like the idea women are better parents or that men are inherently violent. The idea that men are inherently better at certain jobs and tasks as well, especially ones that have nothing to do with physical strength.

Agreed. Gender in many societies has gotten too cooked at this point. IDK how this gender war shenanigans is ever going to end.

This isn’t a you problem. You haven’t been mansplaining. This is gender war shenanigans and people being sexist towards men in the name of feminism. Gender in western society is honestly cooked at this point.

You sometimes have to press a button for using your own bag first