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Cake day: October 6th, 2023

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  • Honestly, the pipeline isn’t really the problem. Pipelines are the least terrible way to transport oil, creating by far the least CO2, and even ruining the least amount of land and water with spills, simply because trucks and trains crash more.

    The REAL problem is that the pipeline makes it profitable to exploit the oilsands, which is basically the preteen child labor of energy. It is horrible for the environment to extract, horrible for the planet to prepare for shipping, terrible to refine and after all that, it’s still crude oil.



  • but wouldn’t that imply an interchangeability that doesn’t quite reflect skill, and even moreso institutional such?

    Sort of, yes. There’s definitely a difference between how an experienced hotel cleaner makes beds and how I make beds, but I can start cleaning hotelrooms tomorrow, without needing other qualifications. And you could also start tomorrow. And so could basically every other able-bodied adult, and we’d all do roughly the same job (though not as well as the person who’s done it for 10 years).

    But neither of us can start tomorrow as a plumber, because it requires pre-existing training. That’s not an unskilled job.