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  • After much thought and googling, really that’s before and after dieselgate.

    NO2 is a notorious byproduct of diesel engines at 10x the rate of gasoline cars. Dieselgate cars emitted 40x the legal amount. You can’t quite do this, but roughly that means a dieselgate vehicle emitted 400x the NO2 of a gasoline car. Aka a single dieselgate vehicle was equivalent of 400 gasoline cars.

    Now let’s get the absolute number of cars. France had 984,064 dieselgate affected vehicles. Paris has about 19% of France’s population. Assuming equal ownership that’s 186,972 dieselgate affected cars in paris. At 400x the emissions of gasoline cars that’s the equivalent of a whopping 74,788,800 gasoline cars.

    So replacing the dieselgate affected cars with gasoline cars (apparently the popularity of diesel peaked around then and has been declining since) is the equivalent of removing 74,788,800 - 186,972 = 74,601,828 vehicles off the road in paris alone.










  • Play this out:

    1. Russia nukes the US.

    2. In response, the US nukes Russia. Not just a little bit either, they nuke all population sites.

    No “decapitation” strike is possible from either side. Any attack by either side is met by the other striking back, and again not just a little bit - all population sites. That is what mutually assured destruction is.

    And maybe more if you need:

    1. if you think the US nukes Russia, then:

    2. surprise, Russia nukes the US back.

    Once again, no decapitation strike is possible from either side. A strike by the US is met by Russia striking back. That is what mutually assured destruction is.

    MAD literally works if either side starts nuking the other, regardless of the reason why. This is the whole basis of MAD.

    Ok I’m really gonna peace out. You really need to do some reading.