Kim Jong Un’s Train Appears Bound for Russia for Putin Talks
(www.bloomberg.com)
from Rapidcreek@reddthat.com to world@lemmy.world on 11 Sep 2023 11:01
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from Rapidcreek@reddthat.com to world@lemmy.world on 11 Sep 2023 11:01
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Why is he afraid of flying?
They both are, so they tootle about on trains like the tin pot dictators they are
It would be halarious if they meet in the middle of sibera train to train, like a bugs bunny cartoon
Choose one:
A) Getting shot down over Russia by some drunk and untrained air defense crew
B) The North Korean plane falls apart midair because it hasn’t been serviced since 1960
At least he’s reducing his carbon footprint 😂
All air travel, all of it, amounts to less than 3% of carbon emissions.
Every category of carbon emissions is just a part of the total carbon emissions.
Yes and the percentage is important.
So if we make up some 30 more categories with as much emission as air traffic, none of them make an impact, because they are all only about 3% of the total?
Is this how you really think percentages work?
Let’s see: 30*3 = 90
We have room for 3 more categories, and then some!
They are all small, but they still make up 100%
That is not how percentages of an existing number work. C’mon man.
I have 100 sandwiches. 3% of them contain mayo. If I break that total up into all manner of groups 3% of them still contain mayo.
Atmospheric carbon is measurable and we know how much of that number is released by various causes. Adding other causes will not change these percentages - the added causes will just be smaller fractions of percentages that exist.
I had to re-read it a few times, but I think they are trying to say if the other 97% is divided into 30 categories they will all be about 3% also. The implication being that every percent counts.
That doesn’t make any sense either because the complaint is that rich people flying is a big contributor to our carbon releases, and it is not
These are the same geniuses who point to fossil fuels companies as the reason there is global warming, as if they aren’t selling that fuel to others, so idk what I expected, honestly.
I thought it was substantially more than that.
Just shared this link elsewhere, but it’s generally estimated to be between 1.9 and 2.5% across all data I’ve seen
ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector
3% is huge.
Road transport is almost 10x air traffic emissions, as an example
ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector
How many people/cargo get moved by road transport vs air transport.
Yes that’s the point.
NK greenest country all thanks to dear leader /s
Doesn’t want to risk having a pilot take one for the team and play the lawn dart game with him on board.
A good old CFIT
Sounds like something you have experience with if your username is any indication.
Anyone have the non-paywall link?
Omg - Joe Biden, bomb that train.
So I am mildly hopeful the trip will be so long, at arrival Jong Un will eat Pootin alive. Go Kim Go!
Ukrainian secret service should try to cover Putin in cheese as he meets Kim to make this more likely.
Brad Pitt onboard?
Serious question for anyone who knows NK politics… What would happen to NK’s government if that train exploded?
I believe his younger sister, Kim Yo-Jong, would make a try for the seat.
Which might be the only thing worse.
Fact check TRUE
He was in a coma or some shit for a while before he emerged back in public having lost a ton of weight. So probably not much. I believe his sister was running things while he was away. This is all speculation of course. They would never admit he was sick.