You're reading very far into my use of a word. I used it because its meaning is very applicable here. It's not "empty ideological language." It means something similar to "patriotic," though I didn't use that word because for some reason in the US patriotism is considered to be a good thing.
This user seems to think the US superior to all other countries. The word's definition certainly seems to apply:
Militant devotion to and glorification of one's country; fanatical patriotism.
Prejudiced belief in the superiority of one's own gender, group, or kind.
They're asking because you're probably stuck in a media bubble based on the fact that you simply cannot read the opinions of people outside of the US's sphere of influence.
People have been referring to white plant excretions as "milks" for hundreds of years. Coconut milk, milk of magnesia, etc. Hell, almond milk was a popular ingredient in the Middle Ages.
But you'll also notice that language has changed a lot since the Middle Ages. This is a natural process, and no amount of prescriptivism or pedantry will stop it. Calling things that are not dairy — but that we use in all of the exact same ways as dairy milk — "milks" is not a problem.
I started on 10mg and am up to 50mg now, about two months in. I have experienced no side effects whatsoever, except the first day I took it in the evening and then was a bit buzzy at bedtime. I also haven't noticed any of the positive effects yet, though I have heard it takes a while for that to kick in and that you may not even notice it due to how gradual it is.
At least where I am, they are pushed based on which cell tower you are connected to. My old phone did not even have functional GPS and I still got emergency alerts.
And it's not even just a few of them. I recently looked at the Wikipedia page for Stephen Harper (former Conservative PM) and he's been on Ben Shapiro lately, and started ranting about "woke culture." It's become pervasive.
Honestly, fuck the economy. Areas dependent on fossil fuels should have h
started diversifying decades ago, but they stubbornly refused to — and continue to do so — to their own detriment. We've known for a long time that being entirely dependent on a single natural resource for the bulk of our jobs and trade was a bad idea: just look at the mill towns in BC when their mills closed. At how devastating the softwood lumber disputes were. It was pure hubris for provincial and local governments to push forward with continued dependence on single resource economies.
I agree that we'll never entirely end fossil fuel use because plastics are an amazing material, but I absolutely do not agree that we need to continue fossil fuel extraction for the sake of the "economy." This is shortsighted thinking: the "economy" will be destroyed in the longterm by climate change. Natural disasters, human displacement, crop failures, water shortages, wildfires, the list goes on and on.
For any app that isn't network-facing and that works with protocols that haven't been changed in a long time, there is no point worrying over how "active" the development is on an app. If nothing has been broken, then nothing needs fixing. My music player has had all the features it needs for a decade, and continues to work to this day. Why change a good thing?
It just doesn't do much of anything. We're not going to reverse, or even halt climate change with it. For any industry that cannot be made green that has to continue in the future, we should obviously do it, but the claims about it by the fossil fuel industry are severely overinflated.
The first time I read about CCS I actually laughed out loud. Somehow I'd assumed it would make some kind of usable carbon that we could bury to augment soil, but no. They're literally catching ~30% of the CO2 gas from an industry's tailpipe and putting the gas underground in an "airtight" chamber.
And this as we're seeing stories from other areas about massive die-offs due to eutrophication. Animal waste is hugely eutrophying to waterways, and this is well-documented. We just never learn.
Stop eating meat, folks. Under current circumstances, the planet just can't take it.
In general, tires are a huge environmental problem. The heavier the vehicle, the more wear on its tires (and the roads in general.) As with half of the world's problems, it seems like the solution is more trains, and better trains. Both for freight and for transit. Getting heavy trucks and single-commuter cars off the roads helps with more than just GHG emissions at the tailpipe.
The UAE also has a large propaganda wing dedicated to cleaning up their image on Reddit. While I moderated some eco communities there, I banned dozens of their sockpuppet accounts that were posting greenwashed articles about them. It never ended.
Luckily this user is not one such sockpuppet, but it is important to look out for them.
Number of fires is honestly a terrible metric: you could have 1000 fires the each the size of a backyard and it would sound worse than one fire the size of New Brunswick, but the latter is obviously worse.
Looking at the amount of area burned, this is the worst fire season on record so far.
You're reading very far into my use of a word. I used it because its meaning is very applicable here. It's not "empty ideological language." It means something similar to "patriotic," though I didn't use that word because for some reason in the US patriotism is considered to be a good thing.
This user seems to think the US superior to all other countries. The word's definition certainly seems to apply: