Indeed. First time I heard about it, it was clear: until you can remove the “allegedly” in front of Trump’s crimes, it’ll be very hard to prove.

Not really, because there are different “scopes” of emissions when declaring offsets:

Scope 1: emissions done directly during normal operations

Scope 2: emissions from the suppliers, transport and resourcing of raw materials etc.

Scope 3: indirect emissions caused by the use of the product and other effects the company is responsible for.

Obviously fossil fuel companies like Shell mostly have Scope 3 emissions. Barely any company that declares offsets even considers Scope 3 emissions though.

So all companies out there that even say they 100% offset, often just mean Scope 1 emissions. That’s basically systemic green washing.

Also a lot of the offsets are nearly useless, so even if Scope 1 and 2 are offset you gotta subtract 90% ineffectiveness from the amount.

That was my thought too. In Tech we do the same because of total compensation. Stock (options), bonuses etc. have a yearly cadence.

Also some places have a 13th salary, so yearly makes sense there too.

Interessanter Versuch.

Von den globalen jährlich emittierten 50 Gigatonnen sind also etwas über 5’000 in diesen Zertifikaten drin. Also etwa ein Millionstel.

Russia invaded Ukraine and the US didn’t send troops. The largest economy, most powerful military, veto power in the UN has lots of tools available to pressure Saudi to get their shit together and be decent… if they have an interest in doing so.

Ethopian refugees are probably not worth it for the US to call in a diplomatic favor from the Saudis… or threaten some sanctions even.

And norwegian fishing huts

Forget technology. Even scientists’ and engineers’ wettest dreams don’t consider technologies that capture even a tenth of the billions of tons of CO2 we release on a yearly basis.

If you look closely at the numbers it’s hard to understand that we engineer ourselves out of this mess.

Solar, wind etc. is all nice. Nuclear fisson, cold and hot fusion, okay. We’re far away of anything useful. Capital is just in the wrong hands.

running for president

Looks to me more like running from the law

Isn’t it just religious fundamentalist in general?

You get ads?

Now UBS’ problem

How can they even compare them? Nobody even suggested that COVID is similar to the other two. Cancer isn’t even a virus and left to their own devices COVID is probably the less dangerous one.

Also cancer isn’t just a single disease, there are multiple conditions that can lead to cancer and they all have different chances of survival.

More on 2: even though it’s also transmitted via blood transfusions and other “innocent” ways, the main transmission risks are unprotected sex and shared needles when using drugs.

No way conservative, religious countries are putting up a grand effort to find a vaccine for promiscuous young people and drug users either, even if they aren’t gay.

It’s use is limited for some situations. Especially when you don’t only have carry-on, some places still require you to stand in line for checkin. Then you barely have a benefit doing an online checkin.

However, more modern airports/airlines have automated the checkin process, even offer tags to print at home and automated bag drop areas.

For these situations it’s pretty good to check in online and just walk past the lines.

People in this threat also don’t seem to realize how the island of Mallorca is full of foreigners, even some just living there, but nobody speaking Spanish. In fact it’s probably easier to get around with German or English in the touristic parts of Mallorca.

This is not about some poor US tourist who wasn’t good enough in school back home to learn Spanish. It’s about huge crowds of rowdy UK and German tourists who go to “Malle” every year for partying and getting piss drunk without any consideration of the locals.

Exactly, it’s mostly a legal problem. Most often a single day, weekend or even a few weeks however are rarely a problem.

Strikes basically. Yes, I agree. Money only makes them powerful because we need it to buy goods from them.

Yeah, we have a country list with different security levels. The company issued laptops are only allowed in some countries, for other countries you get a special travel laptop. Not sure if China is not just entirely black-listed. Certainly just working remotely from China is a no-go. Business trips are probably okay under some conditions.

What the disaster. Went through there on the day it happened. The extra hour was annoying. I hope they are able to properly adapt the schedules.

Had the same thing happen. They found out he logged into the company VPN from China.