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Nearly the hottest place on Earth, India swelters under intense heat wave

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Re: Nearly the hottest place on Earth, India swelters under intense heat wave

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If there is anybody who sees Indian domestic news and/or articles, could you tell us whether there is any political impetus there to start spraying climate-modifying aerosols at high altitudes regardless of effectiveness and/or international opinion, or if it's completely outside of the Indian overton window?

Was this comment inspired by Kim Stanley Robinson’s Ministry for the Future, or is this a case of life-imitates-art-imitates-life?

Neal Stephenson also published a geoengineering novel this year.

Re: Nearly the hottest place on Earth, India swelters under intense heat wave

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If you're afraid of p!ssing off your military partner when it comes to quite simple right and wrong ... then they aren't your military partner, you are the slave, they are the master.

What is right and wrong? US killed millions of Iraqis and Afghans, yet Europeans still support the US, is it because Europeans are slaves and the US is master or is it because brown lives are worth less than white lives?

To stay on point ... a good partnership depends on shared values, which may (and probably should) extend to similarities in what is viewed as right and wrong.

If you cannot agree on that, or negotiate and compromise on that right or wrong, or influence your partner when you think things are going wrong, then ... it's not a partnership.

Re: Nearly the hottest place on Earth, India swelters under intense heat wave

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post #290

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What is right and wrong? US killed millions of Iraqis and Afghans, yet Europeans still support the US, is it because Europeans are slaves and the US is master or is it because brown lives are worth less than white lives?

To stay on point ... a good partnership depends on shared values, which may (and probably should) extend to similarities in what is viewed as right and wrong. If you cannot agree on that, or negotiate and compromise on that right or wrong, or influence your partner when you think things are going wrong, then ... it's not a partnership.

To stay on point by your own definition is there a slave master partnership between Europe and US because US kept killing millions of Iraqis and Afghans and Europe also shares those values or does Europe not share those values yet still keep partnering with US because they need US protection against Russia?

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> trotinette I believe we call that a scooter in English. Had to look it up.

For me a scooter is a small bike ( moped in American i think?).

It used to commonly be that in the US before those Razor push scooters, and then electric scooters, became a thing.

Re: Nearly the hottest place on Earth, India swelters under intense heat wave

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To stay on point ... a good partnership depends on shared values, which may (and probably should) extend to similarities in what is viewed as right and wrong. If you cannot agree on that, or negotiate and compromise on that right or wrong, or influence your partner when you think things are going wrong, then ... it's not a partnership.

To stay on point by your own definition is there a slave master partnership between Europe and US because US kept killing millions of Iraqis and Afghans and Europe also shares those values or does Europe not share those values yet still keep partnering with US because they need US protection against Russia?

"Let me stay on point ... by straying off point"

Sorry you couldn't stick with it.

Re: Nearly the hottest place on Earth, India swelters under intense heat wave

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To stay on point by your own definition is there a slave master partnership between Europe and US because US kept killing millions of Iraqis and Afghans and Europe also shares those values or does Europe not share those values yet still keep partnering with US because they need US protection against Russia?

"Let me stay on point ... by straying off point" Sorry you couldn't stick with it.

Next time just remember, don't throw stones if you live in a glass house.

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> people still don't like using public transport Because most public transport sucks, is unreliable, only works at certain hours, is dirty, unsafe, and covers only a small ridiculous amount of space limited to key cities. No wonder. The pandemic will only make public transport less desirable as well.

> only works at certain hours, is dirty, unsafe, and covers only a small ridiculous amount of space limited to key cities come to japan, i think it will change your mind

Check out my profile before commenting...

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> people still don't like using public transport Because most public transport sucks, is unreliable, only works at certain hours, is dirty, unsafe, and covers only a small ridiculous amount of space limited to key cities. No wonder. The pandemic will only make public transport less desirable as well.

Go protest to your local government for better public transport.

Wont change anything these are inherent issues of public transports.

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> - paint that has high emissivity in the IR window and high reflectivity in the rest of the spectrum. paint is not free and needs replacement every few years. hardly a solution.

So you are looking for a free magic solution? I mean, I like houses made from big stones but it is probably cheaper to paint an existing house, instead of tearing it down and replacing with stonewalls.

Probkem is that it does not scale globally if you can only rely on short term efficacy

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> people still don't like using public transport Because most public transport sucks, is unreliable, only works at certain hours, is dirty, unsafe, and covers only a small ridiculous amount of space limited to key cities. No wonder. The pandemic will only make public transport less desirable as well.

Public transit sucks in areas where only poor people use it. When everyone has to use it, all of a sudden, everyone becomes invested in improving it. > unsafe Driving is unsafe. ~40,000 people die while driving in the US every year, and many more are seriously injured. Public transit is so much safer, it's not even in the same ballpark.

> Public transit is so much safer, it's not even in the same ballpark.

It's safer because it goes nowhere in the first place. I can't even believe you guys are even trying to compare public transport which is super limited in the areas they can possibly cover (by definition, because it's made to cover denser areas), and stuff like cars which can go virtually anywhere, anytime, in pretty much any weather condition. In video games that would like comparing a rail shooter to an open world one: they are too different products and the overlap in utility is very narrow.

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