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I can see that you were very angry when you wrote this

I’m not angry. I’m shocked at your position though. I see your position as dismissive of someone who is actually doing something about the crisis she will inherit with the tiny fractional power she had before adulthood. She, and her generation, have no time for a timid approach. We’re going to be long dead and she’ll still be here trying to live through the mess we, and our parents, have cause her and everyone else her age.

so I think it’s better that we stop here.

Thats fine. I don’t see a path to anything that would yield productive conversation from here.

Wait, you think Putin has credibility when speaking on climate change? To quote the late Sen. John McCain describing Russia as “a gas station masquerading as a country”. Putin’s life and livelihood depend on continued world’s unchecked consumption of fossil fuels. Putin has zero credibility on the subject. Why would anyone consider him an objective source?

While the public saw Greta behaving like a petulant child during the speech

You and I must have seen different speeches. Part of Thunberg’s appeal was her eloquence in speech especially speaking truth to power. Here’s part of 16 year old Greta Thunberg’s speech in the UN:

"The popular idea of cutting our emissions in half in 10 years only gives us a 50% chance of staying below 1.5 degrees [Celsius], and the risk of setting off irreversible chain reactions beyond human control.

"Fifty percent may be acceptable to you. But those numbers do not include tipping points, most feedback loops, additional warming hidden by toxic air pollution or the aspects of equity and climate justice. They also rely on my generation sucking hundreds of billions of tons of your CO2 out of the air with technologies that barely exist.

“So a 50% risk is simply not acceptable to us — we who have to live with the consequences.”

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I can’t imagine a world where you’re calling that “petulant”. At 16 years old she had more poise and gravitas than many of the world leaders she was speaking to. You say she hasn’t done anything. I beg to differ. Further, if what she has done is nothing, it raises the obvious question: what have you done to avert climate catastrophe?

Solutions?

Carbon tax.

In this micro example, imagine if you could access all of your data for free when there as abundant sunshine (carbon free), or had to pay for carbon based energy at night. You’d start to sort your data for what you really wanted so that you’d only be paying a small amount for a small amount of data.

He’s in the same bucket as Greta Thunberg. They just like to scream and blame people instead of providing practical solutions.

Greta Thunberg is 22 years old right now, and was “screaming” and “blaming people” when she was 11 years old.

She saw the world she was going to inherit and forced conversation to work toward solutions. Expecting an 11 year old to provide answers that none of the established world has is silly.

It would be cool if it could somehow integrate to a VPN and only do that while the VPN is active. I don’t think it’s possible, though

Potentially possible, but I agree, likely not worth the effort.

When was the last time you checked the length of your DHCP lease?

I’m past caring about giving my IP to a website that I want to use, but what this is doing is handing out your information to every single advertiser that is published on any page you visit. In some cases this plugin would match the definition of “leaking personal data”.

You do you though. I won’t stop you.

If you care about your information and privacy, why are you giving them your information for nothing?

That HTTP request would also show up in the advertisers web logs with your origin IP address.

My email provider allows for unlimited aliases. So, while I have 600+ email addresses, emails to them all end up in the same mailbox.

I do this too. The unique email address I create for each is identifiable to the place I’m using it. This has other benefits. If an organization you created and account with sells or has a data breech you know exactly which company it was when you start receiving spam or phishing email directed to that address. This is also nice because you can “black hole” that email address and all the spam goes with it even future spam not sent yet.

Poor #4 had to settle for knees.

Settle? We don’t kink shame here, sir.