vmaziman
How does this purchasing power increase compare with rent increases and price of groceries and gas?
May we all learn from his mistakes and heed his call for better empathetic communication in our daily interactions.
Unless the worker is vastly underpaid nothing is worth that
While I agree that less mindless work is better as someone from nj, it’s quite nice not having to get out of my car to pump gas when it’s cold windy rainy or snowing or stupidly hot
They also wipe windshields and rear windows for free with the squeegee stick
Maybe in some future where we drive up to automated car chargers that can plug ur car in or auto battery swaps I’ll call gas pumpers redundant but honestly It’s not that bad a deal if it needs a person
Probably not helpful for a thermostat on a local only net, but there is a specific use case for a thermostat connected to a third party network. If you have a iot only network that you can allow outside ingress and egress to you can get a connected thermostat to participate in smart grid demand response events. Basically instead of having your thermostat just set to your preferences, you can also allow a utility company to modify the temp offset by +/- 4 degrees temporarily or even do things like “pre cool” your house by having your tstat be set to autocool the house aggressively before the hottest part of the day and then switch off when everyone else’s starts turning them on and your house is cooled already. This makes it easier for utilities to supply houses with renewable electricity instead of relying on peak power coal plants. The controls they send out allow for an opt-out, but the less you opt out the more money you generally receive off your power bill or thru some other incentive
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2022/07/smart-thermostats-inadvertently-strain-electric-power-grids
(How tstat with user only settings affect electric grids)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2210670720308556
(How distributed demand response with devices like thermostats, car batteries, water heaters etc can help)
https://blog.srpnet.com/how-smart-thermostats-are-changing-the-electrical-grid/ (An example from a utility directly)
While self driving cars seem like a good way for enterprise to bypass the cost of paying a driver, the driver’s other function isn’t just to drive the car, but to be liable for its operation.
I wonder if it’s gonna take an insurance company to push for driverless before we see any driverless cars for sale. And if insurance companies don’t want to be liable then we may never see them.
Newsflash: it’s illegal to conquer
But isn’t it the fact that we have so many people coming into the middle class with middle class resource usage that causes planetary resource overruse? Either we need less people in the middle class, or 7 billion ppl have got to go back to pre industrial levels of consumption
Saying it’s our responsibility to have kids it’s implying it’s our responsibility to endlessly expand and multiply. That is the domain of viruses and creatures that exceed the environmental carrying capacity of their species
Wrong. They’re correctly predicting that despite a shift away from non renewables, society will always have a need for plastics, jet fuel, diesel fuel, and legacy ICE regular petroleum. This is a move to be the consolidated monopolized leader at the top of the stack when all the climate involved millennials eventually get into governance
This is actually pretty nice then especially since the figures report the biggest increase occurs in the 25th percentile.
I am curious to see how this stacks up compared to historical periods