It strikes me as pretty low to hand wave away the grief of these real people

Grieving people are stupid people. Call it low if you want, but ignoring them is sound policy.

I mean…you’re kinda arguing that stupidity is just a different form of intelligence here imo. It gets a little epistemological, but I can’t agree that “intuition” is a valid way for a sapient being to live their life.

I disagree with your main point. But the idiot reply you got does kind of support it. He literally did exactly what you said people do, and he didn’t even realize it, and he got loads of upvotes.

My counter to your main point is: lemmy is not reality. Lemmy is full of morons. Also, the entire right wing is full of morons. There is, however, a decent fraction of Democrats who are not morons, and they can tell centrists from right wingers pretending to be centrists. Most centrists are either pretenders, or they’re just woefully ignorant people. Sure you have the occasional true centrist who has actually throught about politics more than once in a blue moon (and it sounds like you’re one of those) but most are not like that.

“From MY point of view the Jedi are evil!”

It’s all about perspective, and some perspectives are more reasonable than others. Saudi Arabia likely views the US as having a left wing and a far left wing party.

I think it’s reasonable to call Democrats centrists with a slight lean to the left, compared to parties globally.

Found one!

Good. Chicken is exponentially less bad for the environment.

I hope they get huge pay raises and job security, but I can’t support their anti-automation stance. This generation of longshoremen will likely be the last - soon it will all be robot technicians.

I agree, but it definitely puts the union in a tough spot.

The fucking hilarious bit is that the great majority of TP is produced in the US, from Canadian trees. It was never in any danger of shortages.

Ah, the middle child of the generations.

Hey, you asked man.

I’m surprised that anyone is surprised. School admin is ridiculously, absurdly corrupt. Nationwide.

I’ll check out Almond Breeze, thanks! I do loooove the taste of oat milk in my coffee, but yeah it’s weird in cereal.

They currently have breaker switches, they need something more granular and automated

“Everything is so fucking simple that I can easily figure out the solutions to giant societal problems with 15 minutes of googling” is the dumbest take I’ve heard all day. Granted it’s only 6am but still.

Maybe you’re not fucking Sun Tzu, Einstein and Jesus rolled in to one and there might be the occasional issue that’s slightly more complicated than your armchair quarterback solutions.

Christ you people piss me off.

Oh Christ why is it so ugly

I thought the box-shaped car fad died out 10 years ago

Cute, you think adding a reductio ad absurdum and a flat out falsehood equals a reasonable opinion.

You aren’t spewing Russian propaganda? Who are you voting for in November then?

I think it’s a perfectly valid and internally consistent moral framework to care far more about the suffering of humans than animals.

Also, “don’t care” is a bit of an exaggeration. More like, I don’t like abusive practices and would prefer to eat humanely treated and humanely slaughtered animals. But abusive practices are also not a complete deal breaker for me. So there’s a level of care there, but it’s far below the care for humans.

And I do think that’s a fairly normal and common moral framework, whether conscious or subconscious.

One of many issues caused by the assumption that solar would only ever be a minor part of the grid.

In addition to what allero said, you seem to only be considering future installations rather than existing ones. Retrofitting existing equipment is massively more expensive than changing a design prior to building it.