Any petroleum used in their production is subsidized by the petrodollar economy, though

I really wanted to argue with this, but you’re right. Shipping companies would have gone truck-only by now to attack brown countries harder with climate change if brown neighborhoods in the US had any say over the use of train tracks through their areas. Yet another thing that’s not about efficiency or cost, while corporations pretend to be all about money.

Electric is definitely about as bad as gas for mowing a lawn. The gas you’re not using is just being used by someone else, if not more, because you’re helping subsidize the petrodollar economy by paying orders of magnitude higher cost for batteries+motors+solar power than you would pay for a push mower or probably even a gas-powered mower. But you also have to factor in the other environmental damage from manufacturing and shipping the batteries and solar panels which you make it really difficult to avoid by demanding the mower be electrified, whereas if the mower was push-powered it would be up to suppliers whether they feel like wasting their fuel shipping it across the planet or just manufacturing it with materials found closer to you

I don’t think I trust the studies saying human power is worse tbh. Cultivating food uses CO2, cows eat plants before we eat them, the plants drink CO2 from the air. Lawnmower takes power out of the ground and injects pollution in the air. Scythe has to be better

I thought a push mower might help but some studies say it might be worse. I guess the recommendation is to plant something other than grass that naturally stays good to walk on, maybe? I’m still learning about this myself

It’s wasteful

Pretty sure the mowing is the exact problem. Can’t remember if it’s solved by using an old school push-powered mower or something

Edit - after looking into it, seems like push mowers don’t help because Americans eating meat will cause as much pollution pushing a mower as using gas? Not sure

But I showed up and didn’t sign up so who’s the real number?

I’m smarter than them and I can assure you the magic number is 2.4% not 3.5%

I went to one and it had pretty good turnout for a town in the middle of nowhere in Maine

We also haven’t tried every possible configuration of atoms to see if anything creates a portal to an infinite energy dimension or a perpetual motion machine or something we can use to make our own stars

Sure, in the prime timeline. But in the pocket universe alternate timeline where time travelers went and executed the perpetrators, I’d say the instructors’ concerns were addressed

There is precedent. Hitler was taken out by a pretty big fascism enabler

Cars are all spyware now but if you choose a bike to avoid that, the spyware in the cars will not be used to blame the person who kills you instead of blaming you for riding a bike

Idk, I think SS and ICE are both not really in line with the “laws of man” and they can’t always be enforcing the “laws of nature” either

Wow, so we’re not even in the top 30 when you count tied countries

At least they work as a quick visual cue that a car is designed with zero utilitarians in the room

Idk, “off the shelf parts” seemed pretty clear

Top ranked for the people inside the cars. Not so safe for the people mining the material to replace cars that get totaled, etc. but most people don’t give enough of a fuck to count anyone but the occupants of the car

Your comment is giga based because it doesn’t let the overton window get shifted by being too suggestible.

Your brain still went where logic goes, not where was suggested. So important at times like this.