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    • Energy demand to power heavy industry that we all use (steel, aluminum, chemicals, fertilizers)
      • I don’t see these going away, so it’d be best to make their processes greener by repurposing the carbon into ag products, then institute a viable carbon tax and offset the rest of their footprint
    • Use of concrete in construction
      • some promising technologies coming that crystallize the carbon and use it to self heal the concrete, carbon tax and offset the rest
    • Shipping
      • bring manufacturing closer to consumers, global environmental manufacturing and shipping standards, improve right to repair laws
    • Transportation
      • upgrade public transportation options where it makes economic sense to do so, make our cities and towns more people friendly instead of car friendly, raise the gas tax to fund these efforts. Reduce the amount of detached single family housing stock and encourage multi-family stock, particularly in cities.
    • Heating and cooling
      • incentivize heat pumps, add taxes to heating fuels and fossil energy plants to fund it. Start a major campaign to educate people to keep temperatures around 68 (winter) to 76 degrees (summer). And encourage use of ceiling fans.



  • I am not an AI hater, it helps me automate many of the more mundane tasks of my job or the things I don’t ever have time for.

    I also feel that change management is a big factor with any paradigm shifting technology, as is with LLMs. I recall when some people said that both the PC and the internet were going to be just a fad.

    Nonetheless, all the reasons you’ve mentioned are the same ones that give me concern about AI.


  • Rebuttal, he doesn’t actually need to stop paying the taxes, he just needs to nullify them.

    • California’s port in LA brings in more goods than any other port in the country. They could collect the tariffs and federal dues and not remit them to the federal government
    • Likewise, they could collect a fee for all agricultural goods coming from every other state leaving the port.
    • California is the nation’s fruit and vegetable basket. He could impose a tax on all ag products leaving the state.
    • He could seize all federal buildings in the state as collateral.
    • Ever heard of the La Brea tar pits? California is an oil rich state. He could pull a page from DTs playbook and seize the mineral rights.
    • If he was really ballsy, he could seize the naval base in San Diego.








  • I’m not so sure. Coding is a skill, just like any other. A project or construction manager who knows VBA can automate 1/5 of their job. A mechanical engineer who knows code can modify a CNC. A sales rep with coding skills is an unstoppable force for leads, outreach and reports.

    Yes, coding was long a job and it long still will be for the best in the business, the well connected, or those who focused on archaic languages. For the rest of us, it becomes a skill like trigonometry or knowing a foreign language.





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