As a late night cab driver, if you're ever wondering why I'm on the street rather than the driveway in your sketchy, pickup truck filled suburban neighborhood, this is why.
Give me a shady looking industrial district or run down residential neighborhood over semi-rural suburbia any day of the week. I feel much safer.
A fifteen year old version of myself somewhere inside just screamed in iptscrae induced frustration.
You know, there's a discordian game that seems pretty appropriate right now.
I honestly can't stand slowly scrolling and waiting for the text to appear. What a terrible design choice.
Can we start archiving stuff somewhere that doesn't block firefox?
Have you ever experienced actual snow? Like, four feet deep with a frozen crust on top? You're not plowing that with your feet.
They won't if you get rid of cars. Good luck plowing with a bike.
Skis would probably be more reasonable at certain times of year, but the terrain between cities isn't exactly designed for skiing.
I know you want American infrastructure to not necessitate some sort of vehicle bigger than a bike, but it literally just does. Wanting it won't make the change, and making unrealistic suggestions will remain just as ineffective as making no suggestions at all.
Accessibility is also more or less non-existent with these proposed solutions.
If you tried to bike in heavy snow here your entire tire would literally be buried. Especially if there were no plows.
There are, in fact, places that get real snow.
There's some good information in this article, but I would have appreciated it being a little less of an ad for a podcast.
The title implies that we're going to hear from scientists about their opinions, but all we actually get in its body is a single quote from one scientist as the literal tagline. Talk about clickbait.
In some places. But if you're in a non-metropolitan area somewhere that it gets cold and snowy, you're going to need a vehicle to bring you directly to your house unless maybe you're downtown, and it's going to need to have four wheel drive or at least enough weight to grip the snow.
Heat doesn't go up. Hot air rises because it's less dense than cold air. You know what's less dense than hot air though? Vacuum. That's a good thing, though, because we don't want to be hemorrhaging atmosphere.
Even if we could build a physical heat sink sticking out of the atmosphere somehow, it would be less protected from solar radiation than anything inside the atmosphere, so if it were facing the sun it probably wouldn't work.
Even if we had the resources and like, enough readily available materials on Earth to make some sort of retractable heat sink sticking out of the night-side of the planet, it'd probably require more energy consumption to create than would be worth it.
Probably the best way to cool things down is to quit burning so much shit and quit knocking forests down.