I keep seeing phrases like “readily available solutions to the problems of oil dependence”.
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…There’s a squeeze on material conditions right now. Wonder how long it will last?
https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/116266349420674761…If you read Kris’s article linked to directly above you can see that there are *substantial interventions* we can make.
But ones that require fundamental and radical changes in policy
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I keep seeing phrases like “readily available solutions to the problems of oil dependence”.
That would be nice. But no.
Renewables are rebuildables built with the products of oil and mostly a ‘solution’ to electricity generation only.
There are tens of thousands of petrochemicals in everyday products. Which are slowly killing us and slowly degrading fertility too.
We should want to not be dependent upon oil, but we have to be prepared to do most of what we do *really differently*
"about 500 hours of human labour that’s replaced by a $2.50 gallon of diesel" -- yep, that's me. But the other way around. Happy most of the time but that's why you see so little of me here, except on bad weather days.
Carry-on y'all. You know best.
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"about 500 hours of human labour that’s replaced by a $2.50 gallon of diesel" -- yep, that's me. But the other way around. Happy most of the time but that's why you see so little of me here, except on bad weather days.
Carry-on y'all. You know best.
@urlyman but what you get for that 500 hours tends to be something that people love (in the same way as they love Stonehenge) but would never do themselves, instead get a guy (inevitably a guy) with a fuck-off great diesel machine and make something tolerable at best, that you try not to let your attention dwell on, and put a few pot-plants or small arty things around it to soften it....
Gritty this morning.
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…If you read Kris’s article linked to directly above you can see that there are *substantial interventions* we can make.
But ones that require fundamental and radical changes in policy
…In the meantime
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…In the meantime
…I read somewhere a couple of days ago that most of the ‘growth’ in the US economy is now coming directly or indirectly from the AI bubble. 🫧
What are the chances that a country which consumes 31x more oil than it produces
and is being intentionally squeezed by the dumbfucks at the top table of a country that produces more oil than it consumes 
, will be looking to squeeze back via messing with a country 
that produces most of the chips? -
…I read somewhere a couple of days ago that most of the ‘growth’ in the US economy is now coming directly or indirectly from the AI bubble. 🫧
What are the chances that a country which consumes 31x more oil than it produces
and is being intentionally squeezed by the dumbfucks at the top table of a country that produces more oil than it consumes , will be looking to squeeze back via messing with a country that produces most of the chips?@urlyman that it still regards as an internal region. ? I preferred the earlier iteration.
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…I read somewhere a couple of days ago that most of the ‘growth’ in the US economy is now coming directly or indirectly from the AI bubble. 🫧
What are the chances that a country which consumes 31x more oil than it produces
and is being intentionally squeezed by the dumbfucks at the top table of a country that produces more oil than it consumes , will be looking to squeeze back via messing with a country that produces most of the chips?…Yes I know Taiwan is not officially a country but it should be.
Just because the liar of the ‘free world’ is a fucking bully doesn’t mean that China being a geopolitical prick is ok
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@urlyman that it still regards as an internal region. ? I preferred the earlier iteration.
@AndyDearden thanks. I wanted to emphasise the chips to bring it back to US growth, and I didn’t want the sentence to become any more unwieldy than it already was. And I wanted to reference the right to self-determination of Taiwan. See follow-up post
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@passenger same 🫡
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I keep seeing phrases like “readily available solutions to the problems of oil dependence”.
That would be nice. But no.
Renewables are rebuildables built with the products of oil and mostly a ‘solution’ to electricity generation only.
There are tens of thousands of petrochemicals in everyday products. Which are slowly killing us and slowly degrading fertility too.
We should want to not be dependent upon oil, but we have to be prepared to do most of what we do *really differently*
Available. Readily available is another thing.
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