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  • The problem is these numbers are based on the country of origin of emissions and don’t take into account the demand/consumption that is driving those emissions. China is a huge exporter and the US is a major importer of Chinese goods. US consumption is driving a lot of China’s emissions

    By not being a manufacturing economy, we’re able to offset the appearance of our emissions when the data is tracked this way

  • Based on our sun’s life cycle, it’s not likely.

    Even if all emissions stopped tomorrow for good, temperatures would continue to rise, our climate would continue to destabilize, and the mass extinction event currently underway would continue.

    Like your comment says, we have likely fucked the climate enough that we’ll probably be gone within a couple hundred years.

    The problem is, we’ve killed off so many species and damaged our biodiversity to such an extent, that by the time biological life could evolve to a similar level of biodiversity like we once enjoyed, our sun will already be expanding enough that earth has become uninhabitable.

    We did it guys!

  • Apparently so, but there is a wide variance in American diets. I wouldn’t be surprised if the biggest meat eaters are skewing that data quite a bit.

    It’s not exact, but I just did a tally of the meat I’ve bought in the last year and it’s about 20 lbs. I could’ve forgotten something, and had a handful of meals out, so I’ll round up to 25lbs to be safe. Totally anecdotal, but 9% of the average listed here. I know I’m on the low end, but for most of my family I’d be pretty shocked if they ate over 3lb a week, or ~150lbs a year.

    I live in the south and it seems like about half the people I meet eat more along the lines of what seems normal to me for someone eating meat, anywhere from 4-10x a week. A lot of those outside of dinners can be very small amounts of meat.

    The other half unfortunately seem to be the type that consider it a tough challenge when they stop eating meat at every single meal, and it’s often at least 30% of their meal. It’s wild.

  • I applied to a small tech company back in late 2021, when everywhere was hiring like crazy. It was my first full time role, but I have my bachelor’s and had work experience.

    Overall I had:

    • a phone screen with the recruiter
    • a video interview with the recruiter for the specific role
    • a video interview with HR
    • a cognitive aptitude test online
    • a personality test online
    • an interview with a team member from the department hiring
    • a take home assessment that I completed then went over on a video call/interview with my would-be manager and the same team member

    I also had my credit checked, and had to provide 3 references which were all called.

    The job paid $36,000. Though it is definitely getting worse, these people have always been out of touch. My company was just ahead of the times, I guess.

    When I left last year, they had just excitedly announced that they would be using video interview question submissions for all candidates going forward. The only feedback I gave in my exit interview was that I wouldn’t apply today with the required video interviews.

  • I saw an instagram profile that “specializes” in Trump related AI art, and is run by a German teenager. It looked like there were paid features Trump fans could sign up for, and a lot of them were eating it up in the comments.

    The account owner has just a couple pics of himself posted in a suit, and one brief explanation + a few short comments on why he loves Trump, and how he came to being a huge Trump fan. Which are all very vague/surface level reasons and come across about as genuine as the more lazy sponsored videos on YouTube.

    I’m convinced this is what he’s doing lol. Also a little impressed tbh

  • Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, and Texas do not pay incarcerated workers at all for their labor.

    This only adds to your point, but I wanted to include that several states (in the South of course) do in fact pay absolutely NOTHING for their prison labor.

    Some areas may pay prisoners minimum wage for work release jobs, but I believe many of those can turn around and garnish those same wages for room and board at the prison. It’s ridiculous. The second you make more than a dime for your labor, we will start charging you for the right to live again.

  • His last election was the most competitive of his career.

    The public in general leans pro-choice, so Republicans are absolutely losing support with their insane anti-abortion policies even if it isn’t obvious yet.

    He’s also been in national headlines a lot lately for his extremism. He has always been horrible, but he has never been so visible for it.

    Next election, he will be hanging on by voter suppression, a wish, and a prayer.

    What worries me though is why he’s gone off the deep end already if he still believes he needs to get re-elected…

  • I watched a Perfect Union video on YT a few weeks ago about the minimum wage for gig workers/delivery workers in NYC.

    People worked so hard to get it approved, and this douche has been undermining it since it was passed. I think he has even made changes to it after the fact in ways that are not legal.

    That’s all I knew about him before, so this headline doesn’t really surprise me.

  • This is why anything with “for liberty” or “right to” in the name immediately makes me suspicious.

    I wish more people realized this. “Right to Farm” was just passed in Texas by voters by a wide margin - long term it just removes accountability from agricultural giants and even emboldens them to push out small farmers.

    It was advertised as being for small farmers 🤦