More that “at no time do enough parts start failing often enough that repair ceases being cost-effective”

That’s horrible.

There has been a really big drop in walking and biking to school over several decades. Kids never stopped completely, but it’s a lot less common in the US than it used to be

Talk to your municipal government, and bring a bunch of other parents to do the same — this is something that can be fixed.

People have done all the things you propose. Repeatedly. It maybe gets some minor local attention, and a police crackdown, but hasn’t changed much of anything. That’s why people have resorted to stuff like putting soup on the glass protecting artworks or gluing themselves to runways.

Per the article:

Now, these problems have been fairly obvious for at least a decade. Why are they only becoming acute now? Well, international economists are fond of citing Dornbusch’s Law: “The crisis takes a much longer time coming than you think, and then it happens much faster than you would have thought.” What happened in China’s case was that the government was able to mask the problem of inadequate consumer spending for a number of years by promoting a gigantic real estate bubble. In fact, China’s real estate sector became insanely large by international standards.

Per the article:

Sekisui Chemical, a supplier to display makers, is tackling the moisture issue. It says it has developed sealants that allow its cells to last 10 years.

Not nearly as good as silicon, but perhaps good enough for a lot of applications

I see lots of renderings and press releases…but nothing about what it actually cost once built, and I don’t see others rushing to do the same, which suggests that the project didn’t come in anywhere near the promised cost per unit volume of desalinated water.

Huh? Plenty of desalination going on already. Brine gets diluted back into the ocean.

The reason it’s limited is that desalination requires a lot of energy and is therefore too expensive for most agricultural use

Sadly you can’t desalinate without a significant energy input.

There has started to be change. The US and EU are actually cutting emissions already, and it looks like China is about to.

It’s that we’re not cutting emissions to zero quickly enough yet. That’s going to take a lot of work to make it happen.

We’re at the point we’re pretty bad things happen, but not yet at the point where they’re bad enough to take down civilization. Acting quickly will keep it from getting that bad

It’s not about ‘fucked/not fucked’ but a matter of degree.

We’re at the point where we go into what is essentially a minefield where we’ll see individual ecosystem components fail. We don’t know exactly when each of those will happen, but we do know that every 1/10 of a degree of warming we can avoid sharply lowers the risk from here on out.

Probably used a color palette calibrated to use the blue end of the spectrum for the cooler temperatures since the late 1800s. Those low temperatures have stopped happening.

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27 years is a long time. Full replacement or retrofit is doable in that kind of time.

The rules on the talks require consensus, and the president of the talks is an oil executive from another petrostate and likely to interpret a requirement for consensus as a requirement for unanimity

The insurer pays for it by not having to cover the expense of treating the disease anymore. It’s an incredibly expensive disease to manage as a chronic condition. People who have sickle cell are going to have to have budgeted money to cough up their yearly deductible in any case. (Skipping out on paying medical bills is also a possibility)

And yes, I agree that not everybody will get treatment quickly because of the high cost.

The pricing is higher than you’re describing - about 2 million dollars, which is still cheaper than paying for ongiong treatment over the course of a person’s life.

It’s priced to be attractive to corporate-sponsored insurance plans, not for individuals to pay out of pocket.

They gave OpenAI 60 days notice before publishing so that they could add a new guardrail. That’s surely what happened.