The only thing I remember from Session 9

Look, maybe you will be able to get another 30 years out of your car, and if so good for you, but eventually we have to stop using fossil fuels. That’s all I’m saying. The longer we keep using oil, the more impacts on the climate. But also, the more oil we use, the faster it runs out. And once it’s gone, it’s just gone. Forever, no more. Sure, we probably won’t run out in 30 years, but it is a finite resource so we run out eventually. I just don’t know why people are in such a hurry to completely use it all up as quickly as possible, especially knowing what it’s doing to the climate. I just don’t get it.

Good! Whatever people can do to stop using fossil fuels is what needs to happen.

Then get an EV. Or drive less, or just pay the premium for biofuels, if you absolutely MUST have an internal combustion engine.

We have to stop using fossil fuels. We just have to. And it’s not just about the climate, although that should be reason enough. Fossil fuels are non-renewable. Once fossil fuel reserves are depleted, they cannot be replenished on human timescales. And I know, I know, people will swear up and down that we’re not in danger of fossil fuel reserves becoming depleted anytime soon, but it’s inevitable, even if it isn’t imminent.

Plus, we’ve already depleted most of the reserves that were relatively cheap and easy to extract, so what’s left is only going to get more difficult and more expensive to get out of the ground. Oil extraction would have peaked a long time ago if we didn’t start using more expensive extraction methods like hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, which comes with its own ecological issues.

I’m ok not having the bubble boat car. Of course, having better, more affordable EV options here in the US would be nice. But a lot of people don’t like EVs. Not sure why, but if you just gotta have your ICE vehicle, run it on biofuels that are at least renewable. Some of y’all are ridiculous: “Electric car? Biofuels? No, I HAVE to have an internal combustion engine, and it HAS to run on FOSSIL FUELS only!” Why?

I always put the lid down. It’s got a lid for a reason, it looks much nicer with it down.

No one who speaks German can be an evil man.

Who was projecting that global energy related CO2 emissions would increase from 34 gigatons to 50 gigatons between 2014 and 2040? Was that a reasonable projection? What was it based on? Is this evidence of “progress” or inaccurate projecting into the future?

I can project that the murder rate will increase 50% between now and 2050, and then when the murder rate only goes up 10% I can say, “omg, we’ve made such great progress on the murder rate,” even though it still went up, because it didn’t go up as much as I projected it would. But was my projection likely or even feasible in the first place?

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Probably someone who lives in the southern US, where it rarely snows. This wouldn’t be unusual for someone living in many northern states, especially those around the great lakes. But to a southerner, this might as well be a different planet. They will close schools and businesses even for relatively light snow in the South. It frightens and bewilders them.

People want validation not advice, even if that advice could fix their problem.

EV adoption in the US is going to suffer as a result of the industry being dominated by tech bros. It’s unfortunate that buying into the EV industry in the US also means buying into a toxic culture. I just want a car that happens to be electric, I’m not interested in joining a techno-utopian cult.

“Seized” makes it sound like they did something nefarious, but all they really did was just invest in their own rare minerals industry and we… didn’t. And rightfully so, right? I mean, the government directing investment toward vital industries of national importance is socialism, right? And we don’t do that. We let the market decide that stuff, and the market said, “let China do it.”

I helped a family member with their Windows PC a few days ago and, omg, I hate using Windows. It’s so bloated and unintuitive. It’s a mess, and it seems to get worse every time I use it.

If you think the next US civil war will be fought between Nazis and Marxist-Leninists, you don’t understand American politics very well. The US in 2025 isn’t Stalingrad in 1942.