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Is the Global Top Sellers list a fabrication (a lie)?
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Number 4 in the list I see is the Valve Index VR Kit for £919.
So with all the things for sale on Steam, the Valve VR Kit for £919 is the 4th highest thing being bought on the planet.
I think they are lying to me. What do you think?
Top Comment: I believe that list is by volume of revenue, so you would have to sell 23 copies of a 40 pound game to equal 1 sold VR kit.
The ‘EV Slowdown’ Is A Lie. Global Sales Just Reached A New Record In September
Main Post: The ‘EV Slowdown’ Is A Lie. Global Sales Just Reached A New Record In September
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I like how this slowdown could theoretically continue all the way to 100% market share.
CMV: Climate Change is a lie
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I have grown up in the Bible belt all of my life. I attended a private Christian school from K-12. Every time I hear about climate change I have been told that it isn't really happening. I don't know the truth at this point, but some direction would be nice. It seems difficult to believe that humanity has need doing some serious shit to the planet that could disrupt its order. The arguments I hear the most are: 'Volcanic activity and other natural events dwarf the human output of pollutants' and 'the trees can balance out the CO2 levels in the atmosphere.
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Both of the arguments you mentioned are factual, and luckily can be measured!
Carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere from volcanoes is incredibly small compared to human activity. 'Not only does volcanic CO2 not dwarf that of human activity, it actually comprises less than 1 percent of that value.'
In general, trees have a net zero carbon impact on the atmosphere across their lifetimes, because any carbon they absorbed is stored in their biomass (trunk and leaves) and will be released again when the trees die and are decomposed by bacteria. I will find a source, but I'm procrastinating a paper writing this.
Here is NASA's climate page, which has some good links for more info.