Signal had SMS support and dropped it. I imagine any argument for Whatsapp interoperability would face a similar fate.

Great point

Red note just added a feature that lets you translate any comment to English (or presumably the local language of your phone number) . Online reviews and Airbnb have done this for a long time. It’s a simple yet amazing feature, one that will really remove barriers to appreciating different cultures. I would love to have it here so that everyone can speak their native tongue and others could appreciate it. I always want to know what the French and German communities are up to (those are the most common other languages I see).

I tried it from a test account I have on another instance and it seems to work.

This was reported for being political, rule 3. Economics is highly politicized but we need to draw a line somewhere so I added a little more guidance in the sidebar. For example, a similar but less politicized phrasing might be “Capitalism and humanism both come from the same aspects of human nature” Leaving up for now. Thanks for being civil everyone.

If you dot your t’s and cross your i’s, you’d still get t’s and i’s

… i also like this Your lips don’t touch when you say the word touch, but do touch when you say separate

Looking through the top voted ones i really liked: When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.

My friend was working on a start-up for marine carbon capture. I have a lot of friends moving to green energy and related fields. It’s promising to see.

And we will be earlier adopters than our children. Yeah that’s very cool of your mom… and Jimmy Carter :)

TIL

Very much agree that moving away from fossil fuels is most important. Given how long these large scale technologies take to develop, I’m glad that we are working on this tech now, even though these exact plants are not producing a net benefit.

And it’s thanks to earlier adopters, like your mom, that helped fund the technology that we have such great green energy tech today.

This article shows it pretty well : https://decarbonization.visualcapitalist.com/the-cheapest-sources-of-electricity-in-the-us/

The top graph shows that wind and solar are some of the cheapest electricity options available, even compared to fossil fuels.

On the bottom graphs shows that if wind and solar technology had stayed at 2009 levels (more than a decade ago to your point), they would be among the most expensive.

So thank your mom for me.

Very much agree.

The one in texas funded by the oil company isn’t built yet.

Yeah its critical to cut emissions. At the same time I’m excited to see this field growing. It’s another tool.

A decade ago people argued that solar and wind didn’t work.

I agree with the video. Carbon capture is no replacement for reducing emissions.

Also, I am excited that people are working on direct capture too because many of the same arguments that the video makes, were valid arguments against solar and wind a decade ago, but not any more thanks to those early pilot projects.

The article states that the plant needs to be 10x more efficient to be considered a viable tool.

You sound like my dad. He never misses an opportunity to point out that the roof is on the outside of the house.