Yeah but humanity used a LOT of coal and oil already. I think making electricity ubiquitous would be a better idea. I want to abort big oil as an industry before it can be conceived.

Midgley is a person sitting on top of a technological trajectory, not the trajectory itself.

Even if Midgley never existed, someone else was probably going to pursue antiknock additives, leaded gasoline, refrigeration chemistry, etc. You might prevent Midgley’s particular disasters, but you haven’t fundamentally altered the industrial system that makes them attractive. You gotta do that or someone else is just gonna figure it out.

Eliminating Midgley is too narrow compared with changing the economics of energy.

Coal was already an enormous industrial fuel before Midgley was born. Oil was already becoming important.

I would go to March 1886, Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and I would seek out William Stanley Jr.

Stanley had already built the first practical transformer and was demonstrating a complete high voltage AC transmission system. In 1886, his system transmitted electricity along Main Street and stepped it down for individual businesses. This was one of the critical technological foundations of the modern electric grid.

From there, I give him the conceptual roadmap for the electrical civilization that follows his work. I know enough about how modern renewables work to give him some good ideas. Oh and involving Westinghouse would be important and pretty much inevitable. This would be easier if I could prepare like, a binder, but I could still potentially help with just what I happen to know.

The goal is to go back when petrochemicals as an industry were still weak enough to be slain. If I were successful it would be one of the most outsized positive impacts I could have on the course of human history.

Divided evenly and then backhand whoever thought it was necessary to AI generate a picture of some fucking bars of gold for no reason. (The text is weird and smeary and all of the bars are inconsistent sizes)

Well giving it has a bed I would personally lump it in with trucks such as it is.

Does A Hat In Time’s “Murder on the owl express” count?

Well he just kind of lives his life one impeachable offense to the next and individuals able to hold him accountable have yet to do anything about it.

You stand a certain number of feet away from the fire I honestly forget how many, I think it’s like four to six? But I would honestly be free balling it based on my best judgment at the time. Also the instructions are written on literally every fire extinguisher.

You’re then supposed to make a sweeping motion and make sure to hit the core of the fire so the extinguishing media hits the burning material.

Deep geological disposal in underground mines or stable rock formations 200 to 1,000 meters deep is the globally accepted standard for isolating high-level nuclear waste.

I did say that I was oversimplifying it radically. We don’t literally just put it back in the ground it needs to be in a smart place.

I’m pro nuclear because it’s orders of magnitude better than the shit we’re already doing and it turns out you can basically just put the spent fuel back where you found it yes I know that’s a little reductionist but you get my point.

That said I also think renewables are a good idea and we need a mix but there’s been so much damage done to nuclear image when it’s a perfectly good power source

It is openly terrifying how The stance of the American government is basically yeah we did that what are you going to do about it?

WebRTC handed us your public IP directly: 0.0.0.0.

Well that doesn’t seem right I really wish I could just tell my computer to stop handing over all this information for no fucking reason

I wonder what the best place to VPN to is now.

Well that’s a whole other kettle of fish

Well hey America has some wind farms so a broken clock or whatever I don’t even know anymore.

The amount of references to Christianity in random pieces of media makes me want to crash out God damn America cult

I got my shots as soon as i possibly could, they were actually really squirrelly about giving them to me.

Day of shot one I actually felt incredibly, unsure why. Day after I felt like I had been beaten near death with baseball bats and left to die in the street. Recovered rapidly in the coming days.

Second shot was I think similar but less remarkable.

Got COVID again after because a certain family member of mine is an idiot and ignored all my guidance. Felt vaguely cold like.

I’ve had covid like three times through the baffling idiocy of one of my parents and I’m still mad about it. I warned him that it was a serious disease when he got it and he refused to stay the fuck away from me even though I didn’t have it yet and could have potentially avoided it I swear to God I wish I could I don’t know sue him or something.

I’m tempted to just start carrying a big roll of smiley face stickers and put one over the lens of any cameras I come across.

I mean I’ve been in the back of a McDonald’s before. I can see a little bit of sleight of hand getting a few extra nuggets in a box here or there but I’m having a harder time visualizing how the fuck you would manage to pull your pants down and stick your willy in it. Additionally you would have milkshake all over your cock and it probably wouldn’t be very pleasant. I really just struggle to envision how the fuck you would get away with doing that even one time given how much of a slave drive working at McDonald’s is.

I can’t explain why but I really hate old people furniture names. Hearing the word credenza makes me twitch like a CIA sleeper agent being activated.

I mean I’ll say there are different severities but it is still racism.