If you read the paper, they’re building on existing work that shows night-time light affects the metabolism

Just waiting for all the people to come and tell us to use Mastodon so that the people of Mastodon can shout at us for Mastodonning wrong

Sorry, but no

If they really cared about children and the most vulnerable they’d be taking much firmer action about car pollution, especially near schools and hospitals

Any vaguely recent car is constantly reporting its location back to its manufacturer.

Sure, appetite drops a bit in that specific person, but this still doesn’t do anything to motivate the big food industry to change its ways - they can assume that specific person will still eat their products, and can carry on selling ultra-processed food to everyone else

Isn’t the dystopian bit of this the scary capitalism of it? This approach allows the food industry to continue selling people crap that is making them unhealthy rather than reforming their business model, and it’s doing this by handing a massive amount of money to the pharma industry. This is exactly the solution I’d want if I were a wealthy investor with money in lots of vast global businesses, and for me that’s the dystopian bit - the way it’s all about handing money to The Man to continue unhealthy lives rather than, y’know, fix anything a bit

Now imagine that, but onions

Hard to get too excited when Norway funds all this by selling fossil fuels

Here in the UK, I’ve seen bloody sushi restaurants and hairdressers drive branded pickup trucks FFS. No tax exemptions for businesses. As another poster noted, the damage is being done and needs to be paid for - it doesn’t magically not matter because it was done in the course of somebody using the road for their business

2 and 3 are massive. I’m on Mastodon, but am having a much better time on Bluesky. Mastodon is full of gatekeeping and policing and people complaining - Bluesky is just fun and interesting, like Twitter 12 years ago

Also meanwhile…

Meanwhile…

I know. But I was satirising GPT’s bland writing style, not providing facts

“Shits are frequently classified into three basic types…” and then gives 5 paragraphs of bland guff

How surprising - an artificially subsidised industry wants more subsidy

These things only become meaningful when you look at emissions per capita AND remember that China manufactures large amounts of the world’s stuff. All your iPhone emissions count as China’s because it was manufactured there, but they really belong to your country. Same for loads of other stuff. Careful you don’t fall for the tenor of this article, because it’s probably intended to distract you (“Why should I bother when China is really bad?”) and keep you consuming

Important to know that real-world testing shows that PHEVs are rarely plugged in and just burn oil much of the time

fossil fuel companies farmers