Climate: Luxury private jet service available for climate conference attendees
The only way to attend a climate conference is to travel in luxury on a private jet. Every time.
Autos: NTSB proposes speed controls built into cars
NTSB proposes measures to inform drivers of speeding, or even to prevent vehicles from speeding.
Climate: A Thanksgiving family visit is shameful
Per Time Magazine, traveling even a few miles for a Thanksgiving family get together will leave a massive carbon footprint. Shame on you!
Environment, health: Air pollution kills up to 7 million people
Nearly half of estimated air pollution deaths are due to indoor wood and charcoal cooking fires and stoves.
Finance: 1 in 4 Americans have debts from last year’s holiday shopping
1 in 4 Americans are paying off debt from last year's holiday spending; 1 in 5 have applied for another credit card so they can spend more this year.
Climate: Must ban having kids
Climate porn: "The Morality of Having Kids in a Burning, Drowning World "
Climate: Will cause the end of Thanksgiving, says ABC
Climate change will kill off Thanksgiving. Of course. Also, CNBC has ended their dedicated climate reporting team.
Climate: You should post on social media when you avoid air travel
Even more reasons we must mostly prohibit flying. It's Science.
Business: “Pay tip first” culture has turned tips into bribes
With tipping out of control, tips have turned into bribes: Pay up front or then get crappy service.
AI, Media: Microsoft Start News is AI generated crap
MSFT Start, Yahoo News, etc, have degenerated into AI and content mill generated crap designed to sell eye balls to advertisers.
Climate: By assigning all the world’s emissions to the 1%, the 1% emit all the world’s carbon emissions!
Oxfam count emission made by companies in which the top 1% have investments, and says all the emissions from those companies are emitted by the top 1%. Brilliant.
Education: Competency-based certification now “in”
Skill certifications based on what you already know and can do - rather than a college degree - is now called competency-based education.
Climate: Good to know – Being dead will reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
"But can we help reduce global warming by dying? Probably."
Environment: We must ban microwave ovens or at least anything with plastic
You just knew this was coming, didn’t you? Our “just pop it in the microwave” mentality is unleashing hordes of tiny plastic particles — more than 2 billion nanoplastics and…