Cat probability: 98.3%

I agree, we all have search engines and if someone doesn’t understand a word or phrase they can learn it on their own. Brilliant write up!

Was this the root cause??? Hahahaha

Certainly could if it had good contact. If it was air gapped (held up by hair), it could be an effective barrier for shorter wavelengths.

I took some antenna theory courses back in the day and yes, you are correct. Some frequencies reflect off the upper atmosphere so there would be a longer effective range at higher incident angles (going into the top of the head) but it wouldn’t completely block radio waves. Going from memory, the wavelengths that reflect off the upper atmosphere are long enough that a tin foil hat wouldn’t cause much interference anyways.

TLDR: Fashionable, but not practical.

Easy, kings side bishop red carpet promenade

That’s quite a bomb to drop in your last sentence. Gonna need a source on that one.

Her back foot is definitely not riding on him.

“It is hard to remember that people can be both victim and perpetrator at the same time.”

We try often try to assign one group as the good guys and the other as the bad guys. It doesn’t work like that.

Constructing economic incentives is generally more effective at driving desired actions than completely disallowing things. It also allows for ‘crowd sourcing’ the decision making process for what is low hanging fruit and what is difficult or ‘expensive’ things to change.

When people hear “free trade” they think of a system that waives all import duties, which may or may not be what is desired here. I can think of some bad actors passing a “carbon tax” just to get all the other duties on their goods dropped.

Honestly, this is exactly what I was thinking when I formulated this question. While I agree with your comprehensive list, we may not have time for that. Even a 10 or 20 year deal of a “carbon tax free trade agreement” may be all we need to course correct. If it is effective (at curbing carbon emission and as a political tool) a new FTA with the qualifications you listed could be crafted. The more qualifications, the slower nations would be to adapt/enroll and I’d be wary of adding too many if the goal is fast action now.

Bad actors’ intent matters little, as long as their actions align with world goals.

Our generation can’t fix all of the problems with the world, as much as many of us would like to. What we can try to do is give future generations the opportunity to fix what we can’t - but that requires us taking action on the climate today at the cost of our other ambitions.

I agree. The goal is fixing the planet. There are loads of problems that need fixing. Unfortunately, we need to start considering the cost of inaction. If adding some societal guarantee reduces participation in a carbon tax that is a cost the whole world has to pay in the future. If too many restrictions are added there may be no change from the status quo.

I am frustrated by the myriad of lofty goals that go nowhere. We needed action on those lofty goals yesterday. We are more desperate for it today and have to pay for that with compromises.

All valid points. Compliance would have to be a staple, which makes enforcement and oversight critical.

Where would you want the tax revenue to go in your country?

Personally, I’d be happy with a blanket tax return. Take the money generated by last year’s carbon tax, divide it by the number of tax payers, and call it a day. Since wealthy people typically have a higher carbon impact (pay more into the tax), this would average out to a small redistribution of wealth towards the less fortunate.

Countries within the FTA obviously will not want their carbon taxed products competing with ‘polluted products’. This gives countries in the FTA an incentive to place tariffs on goods produced outside the FTA. This would make it difficult or expensive to export into the FTA if a country isn’t a member. The benefits are the access to the FTA markets (more or less).

I don’t think it would, but certainly worth discussing. Countries in the FTA would have an incentive to put tariffs on products produced outside the FTA zone to bring them inline with ‘carbon taxed’ prices. These tariffs would be legal to impose until the country joins the carbon tax FTA. Countries that don’t join the FTA would (or at least could) have trouble exporting products into the FTA zone which would give them incentive to join or risk economic harm.

You wouldn’t get to pick ‘which nations’. What I’m describing would be a blanket statement: If you implement a carbon tax you can sign into this Free Trade Agreement club. Any nation in that club automatically has the same FTA with every other country.

“A Free Trade Agreement isn’t something universally good.” - Totally agree, but I think we can also agree that it would create an incentive for countries within the agreement to trade more with each other than with outsiders. It would also provide an incentive for the outside countries to join the club (specifically after it has reached some critical mass).

Industries within countries could definitely be negatively effected because of the FTA. I get that. All industry will be negatively effected if climate change isn’t curbed though. This seems like a way to make a tangible policy today that builds economic incentives for a carbon free future. It does not require full world ‘sign off’ before you start. It can start with just two countries drafting this open-invite FTA and allow any other country into the club once they’ve proven they have a carbon tax.

Also the fact that ‘less moving parts’ doesn’t mean lower complexity or maintenance cost. Train wheels are a very robust and efficienct mechanism and most train designs are not being limited by them.

I started using todoist for this and it helped a lot.

(I’m not trying to shill this product, but I am trying to shill the idea - I’m sure there are a ton of similar products out there.)

I use it in the “getting things done” method where you drop every little thing you need to remember in the inbox and go through the inbox once a day to organize your thoughts into whatever project or container they need to be in. It has immensely improved my life and the underlying feeling of dread that you missed or forgot to do something.

Disguise?

This is the exact path I took, and I highly recommend it. Code academy python then immediately wrote some code to scrape some websites and email me if something I wanted to buy dropped to a price I’d be willing to spend.

I’d say all in all it took 3 weeks to a month, but I’ve been able to not code for months at a time and still feel comfortable when I come back.

I am NOT a programmer, I am someone who can cobble something together to accomplish a specific task. I never got to the more abstract concepts you listed, but maybe one day!