Comments by "Traveller" (@traveller23e) on "Sabine Hossenfelder" channel.

My first thought when I heard that was "Nah, she's probably just German" and then just a few seconds later she stated that was her hypothesis as well 🤣
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@brothermine2292 presumably the fact that downwind there will be less water in the air so probably less rain.
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@darkwingscooter9637 Because 1) they are experts in the field and their research is peer-reviewed and 2) as anyone who doesn't live in a refrigerator can tell you, weather patterns in many areas have been changing in obvious ways which often include temperatures that didn't occur even just a decade or so ago. I'm more inclined to believe the people with rational explanations for why things are going to shit rather than the people who will try to gaslight me into pretending nothing's happening. Why are there still people against climate action?
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Thank you, I'm so glad I'm not the only one. I'm 23 and was diagnosed at the age of somewhere around twelve. For me (and in retrospect probably even more for my family) it was really helpful because I could finally start to understand why I didn't ever really fit in and start to get some help in the for of books and so on targeted to that audience. I have a fairly high intelligence (particularly when it comes to mathematical and logical topics) and not too much in the way of sensory issues so for me it's mostly good, but I do struggle in social situations. I don't need help in everyday life, certainly not more than what friends can provide now and again, though I do sometimes amuse people around me for not thinking about something that is "obvious" and sometimes I have to remind myself that I'm in public so I shouldn't dance and mouth the lyrics of the song I'm listening to in my head. I do also struggle in social situations as well; that may be part of why I've yet to have a date for all my trying. Coming from this background, more or less all discussion of autism irritates me for some reason or another. First off, a self-diagnosis as far as I'm concerned is not a diagnosis. It doesn't mean you don't have autism, but I'm not going to believe you do just because you claim to. Yes you're very special Chad, next. Personally I've always been a little nervous and embarrassed when I tell someone, never sure how much they're going to judge me for it. Though in today's trend of marks of not being normal, I guess I shouldn't bother to be concerned. Also, by the time I know someone well enough to discuss it, there's no way they haven't noticed that after three or four sentences of smalltalk I'm out of my depth. Secondly, the terms neurotypical and neurodivergent. When a sizeable percentage of your population is neurodivergent, and both groups have a great amount of internal diversity, I don't think it's a useful distinction. It would be a "useless or whatever" thing in my mind if I weren't seeing these terms used ever more frequently with correlation to the trend discussed in the previous paragraph. Next off, ASD: As mentioned in this video, disorder is not always the most appropriate term. When it's mostly just thing that sets you apart and doesn't require medical attention or constant assistance, I think using the term disorder may be misguided. Condition might be a better term, as in a lot of cases much as with dwarfism there's not really anything particularly wrong with the person per se. Dismissing it as not an issue: There are people for whom it is debilitating, so those people need support. Really I think what it boils down to is a lack of attention to the severity of the issue and particular unique traits or struggles of the person. I suspect if there were medical classifications (preferably without the word "autism") specifically for people who really need help living their lives do to the issue and/or separate classifications for the different facets of the condition, it would be easier to discuss. And as a last note, each and every one of us upon this planet has our foibles; just please have a little patience for those of the people around you and help out where you can. Life's too short to laugh at someone for walking funny, never remembering that you ordered a cappuccino unless they make it right away, or singing joyously one day an moping around the next.
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@kx7500 Well, yeah if you remove forests then of course you'll release that carbon, but a larger problem is we've spent the last two hundred years taking vast quantities of carbon from secure underground reserves and depositing it into the atmosphere as quickly as we could. It's hard to expect the global ecosystem to instantly adapt to all that extra carbon and increase forest growth to absorb it. And the issue with planting trees is that although reforestation in many cases is a good thing, the amount of carbon each tree can remove from the atmosphere is finite and depressingly low. Then of course there all all the issues with tree planting scams, but that's a separate matter.
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@drzeworyj If I had to guess I'd say it was mostly just chance that German culture aligns with public perception of autism.
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I'm sure the western Europeans would have loved that solution... and on top of it all, the USSR being so much further east would have been a lot less affected than France.
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@RetiredRhetoricalWarhorse I'm pretty laid back and like a flexible schedule (I am autistic, but I suspect this has more to do with being Italian) and I'm currently working as a computer programmer at a company where they don't really care when you're working as long as you're at meetings and get stuff done. I'm remote though which is a bit of a shame, but it is nice how patiently everyone handles it and really amusing at times to see the contrast with some of my colleagues from other countries. For example, one of my German coworkers likes to get up bright and early (i.e. at the middle of the night) and often goes home at around or shortly after noon (which is lunchtime up there). He has been known to send messages at four in the morning. Meanwhile my lunch isn't until sometime between one and three, and I have another coworker who has written to me at 23.30 before because he "found something interesting" regarding something or other at work.
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If it were tethered in perfect spherical-plane-in-a-vacuum conditions, yes. That's how wind tunnels work.
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@brothermine2292 For sure that makes sense (though I do wonder if rain does have an affect on oceanic life and if so what sort), but sadly I suspect consideration for the downwind environment is unlikely to be taken in most cases. Especially considering any number of a wide array of other environment-changing technologies and how they have been deployed.
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The top-ten fastest-growing sectors was honestly pretty horrifying...
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Lol. Living in Sicily and hating AC, I wouldn't do it any other way
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@kx7500 Which we currently have no technology to do in any quantity. If I recall correctly, that mega carbon capture place in Iceland will be netting about the same as removing 50 or 100 cars...which would be far easier and cheaper to do with a tram, or pedestrian zone, or any one of a number of urbanist strategies.
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@kx7500 Yes and no. Plants are fantastic at capturing carbon temporarily, but they die and when they do all that carbon is still at the surface and ends up in the atmosphere. That's why although forests are great for a lot of things, they're not really a climate miracle; the total carbon they hold remains more or less static as life dies and more grows to take its place.
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