alasdair
@alasdairc
Portland, OR. Physicist. City Liker.
our carbon emissions have been reducing for the last 20 years even before the solar boom, and we've done it while getting more stuff and more americans. our per capita emissions have been reducing even more!
hmmm, im not sure if your cartoon about how free trade takes money from white people and gives it to chinese caricatures really rebuts my point about this just being maganomics
yeah this last week we cooked at home indian, indo chinese, mexican, italian, english. like theres so much at the grocery store a mile walk from me its trivial to pick up the bits and bobs needed. and honestly as an immigrant going into an american supermarket will always feel like this
the speech bubble goes the wrong way! they made themselves the nerd in the locker!
good heavens, housing getting cheaper? but that means i have less wealth from being a landowner!
but they had fine luck building cheap dense housing in your neighbourhood, that's why you're here getting annoyed at poor people moving in
enh that's not the most useful way of looking at it bc everybody dies - cars punch above their weight in terms of how many life-years they take away because young people tend to be killed by traffic violence more
this is exactly why you tear down the freeways fyi. individual cars on freeways are comically inefficient at moving large numbers of people. they just scale badly.
did you turn your brain off less than half way into the first sentence, lmao
right, and they still have a significantly lower environmental footprint even after accounting for the fact that having more money means you buy more expensive stuff like meat (which increases footprint) around NYC it's like a factor of 3 difference vs suburbs
just for fun no, that isnt the model youd build from the data you described
what "does the car start" is a binary variable and in this analogy you only have 1s what we are talking about is predicting how a continuous variable specifically changes
the top secret report you were referring to is out now, so you can refer to it now, im just being helpful 😇
I guess the "change" hypothesis isnt too different from what im saying. that voters are actually dipshits and aren't actually choosing candidates based on which ones promise structural change for the working class
i dreamt i was drawing a political cartoon last night, this is my recreation