In my region, haggling is very common. It's almost insulting if you don't haggle while shopping. Everyone does it daily, regardless of whether they are rich or poor. The only exception is with big corp, as you can't haggle at places like McDonalds or Starbucks
I got one of those once, I contacted the grocery and manufacturer with the receipt. Grocery store promptly replaced it, while the manufacturer sent me a box full of random goodies and an apology letter
Most of the warming from CO2 emissions is not due to the emissions this year, but the cumulative effect (which persists) over the past 80 years. But for contrails, the warming impact is only really from those created very recently as you mentioned, see this graph:
Contrails contribute roughly 2% to the world’s effective radiative forcing; tackling them would reduce that by a similar amount
We would only need to have 5% planes slightly redirected to avoid producing the most harmful contrails, which tackles around 80% of contrail climate warming avoided, and it would only cost on average $1 of avoiding warming equivalent to one tonne of CO₂
Reducing contrails does not mean we don’t also need to tackle CO2 emissions from aviation. Ultimately that is the persistent driver of long-term temperature change. What tackling contrails now would do is slightly reduce the rate of warming. It is not an excuse or a substitute for finding a way to decarbonise jet fuel.
How did you come to that conclusion? Isn't it actually better to have more routes available? Decentralization is always a plus in my books at least, specially considering how easy it is to disrupt worldwide communication with a single point of failure
The best part is that they are also funding LibreOffice development. If everyone funds FOSS with money that would be used for MS subscriptions, we can further accelerate FOSS development
From the article:
Austria isn't just replacing Microsoft software. Unlike typical public-sector and corporate migrations, Austria's military has heavily invested in LibreOffice development itself. The armed forces have been funding the creation of new features and improvements that are now included in public releases. These additions, ranging from improved slideshow editing to better handling of pivot tables, have been rolled into the latest version of LibreOffice.
In my region, haggling is very common. It's almost insulting if you don't haggle while shopping. Everyone does it daily, regardless of whether they are rich or poor. The only exception is with big corp, as you can't haggle at places like McDonalds or Starbucks