John937

There is nuance!

Heavy duty trucks is broad, and includes semi trucks, buses, tractors, etc

I’d be curious to see those commercial vehicles broken out, and the question answered for how much impact personal transport has on us emissions

Any vehicle exceeding 26,001 pounds is considered heavy-duty. Examples include city transit buses, mobile cranes, cement mixers, refuse trucks, and tractors designed to pull refrigerated trailers, dry vans and other equipment.

https://fleetnetamerica.com/blog/post/classifying-medium-and-heavy-duty-trucks

I didn’t think this was true, but according to the EPA in 2021 it is

Personal transport road vehicles are the largest category of transportation which is the largest source of greenhouse emissions, accounting for roughly 15% of total us emissions.

The largest sources of transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions include passenger cars, medium- and heavy-duty trucks, and light-duty trucks, including sport utility vehicles, pickup trucks, and minivans. These sources account for over half of the emissions from the transportation sector. The remaining greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector come from other modes of transportation, including commercial aircraft, ships, boats, and trains, as well as pipelines and lubricants.

https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emissions#transportation

Not quite, but would’ve.

His general refused an order from another general to fire on Russians, believing it would start ww3.

Blunt claims he would’ve refused the order too as a captain in the British army, if it hadn’t already been refused higher up in the chain of command

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/singer-james-blunt-prevent-world-war-iii/

Yes, but our whole economy, and maybe even society itself is built on the requirement and assumption of growth.

We steal tomorrow to pay for today.

If we stop having enough people to grow, we will collapse under the requirements of our system until a new non-growth economy/society is formed from the ashes.

I don’t think it will be possible to have a smooth transition to a non-growth or low-growth society since very few people will willingly sacrifice the amenities we pay with in debt, which is paid for by predicted growth.

When that predicted growth goes negative, collectively, we will not be able to afford the things we want, and that will cause mass chaos and potentially even resource wars.

It’s sometimes hard to separate those feelings

Maybe a 3 button setup

• Agreed and acceptable content
• Disagree and acceptable content
• Bad content

Default Rankings are based on minimum bad-content/maximum agreed count
And controversial ranking is based on minimum bad-content/maximum good-content count (agree+disagree)

This way even comments that people disagree with can be exposed so long as it’s still good content

Brigadiers who blindly vote everything bad content to maliciously influence rankings can be identified and removed for manipulation, while people who vehemently disgree with an idea can still have that outlet without influencing the community/magazine haphazardly