For just $250k you can have dinner with me and I will give you his blueprint- just be a multi-Grammy award winning rapper with over 100 million albums sold and then leverage that fame and money into business ventures with billionaire partners. Simple as that!
China uplifting the global South through cheap solar, electric mobility (not just cars but ebikes, scooters, etc), and digital connectivity. What a change of pace from the previous centuries of Western subjugation (to put it mildly) and extraction of resources.
Haha, that brief two or three week period after Harris replaced Biden and the media pivoted HARD into hopeful optimism for our girlboss heroine. They suddenly backtracked from their months long defense of Biden's cognitive decline and then admitted he was too mentally frail to survive another presidency but here comes a vibrant new replacement to crush Orange Man! And Dems fell for it hard, with poll numbers showing a resurgence of hope for victory. And then the assassination attempt on Trump derailed everything. I think they still would have lost, but there wouldn't be as dramatic of a shift in sentiment without it.
All of those are way more rewarding than scrolling on a phone, but most of them actually have a higher carbon footprint. Not that life should be lived purely on that metric, but the ad aims to guilt people for their screen usage. Reminds me of a discussion I read around this chart:
Modern batteries are so efficient that an e-bike has less carbon footprint than traditional cycling- which in itself is much more efficient than walking.
Holy shit, even attempting a marathon within a year of running is super impressive. Did you have an athletic background in other sports? I've been running regularly since 2020 and the longest race I've completed was a very slow 10k. And I actually played a lot of sports growing up but long distance running is so challenging for me (was more into sports with short bursts of speed).
As far as activities you can do in your leisure time go, browsing through your phone probably has less environmental impact than anything other than napping. Even say, reading a (physical) book is usually going to require you to go to a bookstore or library (or worse, have it delivered) which will have carbon expenditure.
It feels like Ridley Scott doesn't commit to lore and backstory in his franchises and just wings it as he goes along. That's why everything in the Alien franchise feels disconnected from each other aside from the two OG films.
No one with a sub 5% mortgage is selling and that is a good chunk of the US housing market that is off the market. So everyone has to fight over the remaining supply driving prices up. It used to be that empty nesters would downsize once the kids are gone but they're not gonna budge now if they have to take on 7% rates.
For just $250k you can have dinner with me and I will give you his blueprint- just be a multi-Grammy award winning rapper with over 100 million albums sold and then leverage that fame and money into business ventures with billionaire partners. Simple as that!