I'm curious if using an extractor hood makes a difference. If it's sized correctly the extractor should replace the air 8-10 times per hour so that should eliminate I guess most pollutants in the kitchen.
Another way to look at the this is checking the health outcomes of chefs, given they spend much more time next to the stove we should see increased respiratory problems.
> Cornet has now begun his new job at Twitter. And while he is more hopeful about the company's ethical core, that's not prompting him to put down his pen.
So in the end money and status wins? Maybe he should make a sketch about that because less than 1 in 100 people would consider Twitter to be an ethical company. All in all Google has the upper hand of good delivered to the world compared with Twitter.
I felt the article was not very inspiring since it emphasised the tax the rich pay in relation to their wealth not their income. Which is irrelevant. Of course they are not going to spend all their wealth and pay tax on it.
>I felt the article was not very inspiring since it emphasised the tax the rich pay in relation to their wealth not their income. Which is irrelevant. Of course they are not going to spend all their wealth and pay tax on it.
They didn't though. They show how much they paid as a fraction of their increase in wealth over that period.
The real tax isn't calculated against total wealth wealth, but the increase in wealth over a fixed period.
Blockchain is a technology in search of a problem.
Maybe as a storage of wealth it produces fewer emissions than mining gold but it's not the solution to the money problem.
Why it's still no 1 cryptocurrency? First mover advantage, a few die hard believers, many speculators and lots of FOMO.
Even I am reluctant to sell my 0.01 share of a bitcoin. What if...
When a much better solution comes people will sell it but for now the fiat-alternative market is too crowded with not much differentiation - to my best knowledge.
This is the first time I hear about the dangers of gas cooking. I have to admit I haven't read the whole article but from experience gas is much more pleasant to use. Excepting the fact that you have a nice glass surface that is easy to clean, cooking with electric is frustrating.
> The people most burdened by these impacts are those who struggle the most to pay for cleaner alternatives
I don't believe cost is the main issue, rather lack of awarness. I just checked, in Uk you find both gas and electric hobs for the same price tag - stating from 100 gbp.
The biggest cost of installing a electic cooktop is actually having dedicated wiring with a 32amp fuse. This is more tricky in old builds, it could require changing the fuse box and running new wires - a lot of mess. In new builds it is more common to have this by default.
So it's not exactlly a case of rich/poor but rather old/new.
I'd be interested to try but I'm told that induction will not work well for what I cook which is mostly chinese food in a wok, unless I have a huge amount of money to drop on an induction stove specially made for woks.
People are objective driven so I guess money is an easy objective to have. It's easy to measure, boosts social status, gives you freedom, etc.
Until you have FU money it takes a change of attitude to forget money. The people you surround yourself are as well important. Just spend some time with some artists and you'll be more like them.
Parts of me feels the same since I moved to a big city where in order to own a house I need to pay mortgage until I'm 60 even if I'm in top ~3% of earners. I guess it's the stress, the uncertainty of our world, the competition, the ego.
As an atheist, my line between bad and good is "don't harm others". Ideally, those others include living beings besides humans, but ffs, if at least you restrict to humans, even if you never actively help anyone, it's a great improvement.
So we would have to ask: do I harm others by working for this bad company?
UBI is only relevant if it's universal. Doing such a study on a small sample is rather irrelevant and inconclusive.
A better idea might be to do it in a village and compare with another village that doesn't have it. But even this cannot fully replicate the nation wide effects of UBI. How about immigration laws? Germany is in EU, anyone can move to Germany and ask for UBI.
Another way to look at the this is checking the health outcomes of chefs, given they spend much more time next to the stove we should see increased respiratory problems.