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Ideally one would walk everywhere or take public transport, and in Europe at least a lot of people do…
But even then that’s not always feasible - especially if you live in a country that has actively sabotage both those methods of transport - so making the cars they drive able to operate off of renewable energy (dependent on their source of electricity) is better than ranting like an old man and doing nothing
Trees don’t actually produce that much excess oxygen at all. If I remember correctly, only about ~1/1000 molecules of O2 generated by a given tree actually ever leave its local environment. The rest gets used up by the tree itself and surrounding wildlife
Ah yeah, the old “Good Guy with the X”…
Cause we know that argument pans out so well when applied to other facets of life
A fundamental part of TV mechanics, the token friend exclusion principle. Two friend can’t access the occupy minority token state at a once.
Yeah, infection is the best protection… If you survive your first infection, which an awful lot of people didn’t, and many more still developed life long disability as a result.
So I think I speak for most when I say I’d rather take the vaccine, so my chances of dying/being hospitalised were way lower if I ever got the real thing.
Man, it’s actually quite concerning seeing the amount of people in the Y-Combinator comments who flat out do not give a shit about the horrific privacy implications of this device.
Sure you might be comfortable with yourself using it out in the wild because you consider yourself sensible and trustworthy. You’d never use these glasses for any malfeasance.
But not everyone is you. And I’m personally not that comfortable with the idea of some stranger going around with a concealed camera recording whatever they please.
At least with a phone or action camera it’s usually fairly obvious when someone is filming, and there’s enough of a hurdle with “discreet” recording to prevent most perverts from doing it… But that’s not the case with these glasses. Bleh.
Replaying the Ratchet and Clank PS2 quadrilogy. On Deadlocked now. Some of humour is a little dated and falls flat in places, but the gameplay itself holds up well.
Sounds like someone who really wants to justify taking back their tip
What do you think are the chance that they cooked these insects first?
“Public discourse increasingly attributes the challenges faced by the middle and lower classes to the actions and influence of wealthy corporate executives,” the fusion center memo says.
Because a lot of them are caused by the influence of wealthy corporate executives. They’re legally bound to bring in profits for shareholders, but that doesn’t mean they have to do it by being scumbag human beings, lesser than insects.
By warning corporate security outfits of the danger posed by average Americans who blame their problems on the actions of corporate executives, the report effectively dedicates public resources to securing a private system that has made the few extremely wealthy at the expense of the many.
What do they mean “effectively”??
This IS dedicating public resources to ensuring the safety of the wealthy view, and is metaphorically and literally at the expense of the many.
The “Quarterly Executive Threat Watch” bulletin warned corporate bodyguards to switch up the daily routines of execs, limit information on public engagements, and remove bosses’ personal information from the web. The report says bosses should “remain vigilant of lone offenders with personal grievances.”
“Following the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and the current political climate, there is a heightened threat environment surrounding corporate executives,” the report says. “Online glorification of the murder of Brian Thompson and calls for violence are still apparent and further create a risk for a lone offender attack.”
Honestly, I don’t think it’s wrong to let these scumbags who chose money over humanity live in constant paranoia that the one of the many they’ve screwed over will eventually come out to get them.
If they wanted to live normal lives, they could have chosen a different, more ethical path.
Then imagine giving the guy with easily the most provable connection to said trafficking ring the complete responsability and authority to control the release of the files to the public. I mean who would be dumb enough to vote for that??
Exactly. I absolutely agree with OP that robbing people of the choice to own physical media sucks…
But when not paired with shitty-ass DRM, digital format media can be an absolute boon for games preservation. Easy to backup, takes up barely any physical space, and doesn’t require physical hardware to play it that will become increasingly sparce and expensive over time.
If the industry doesn’t want to provide legal pathways towards games preservation, then it looks like the pirates are going to start wearing archavist hats too.
Exactly this. Overlord’s primary weapons and defense were held on by relatively thin and delicate arms that Warhead just broke almost instantly with the first bite.
A simple and sturdy design is hard to beat.
Extra parts means extra failure points. The Nudge is just KISS on steroids.
If your ass can shit out Plasma or a Bose-Einstein Condensate, you ought to go to hospital
Okay, that’s true for fresh produce with a minimal shelf life. But we also do that for shelf stable (like dried, canned, jarred) foods which can much more reasonably be donated after their display date.
And that’s assuming some sort of centralised donation scheme, and not just mandating the stores donate to a local foodbank or such - which would make it a bit more feasible to donate some fresh produce.
Do you think industrial safety standards that companies spend tonnes of money on maintaining every year just popped out of thin air or the good will of companies?
Hell no. The mega-corps at least would be chucking children into factory machines 7 days a week like back in to early 20th century if they thought they could get away with it.
If you want companies to do something they’re otherwise not incentivised to do, you regulate it into existence. Force their hands just like Governments did in the past, and have now become increasingly less willing to do because of blatant corruption.
The easiest path in my mind is a one-two combo…
Firstly you give minimal liability to the food donor, so as long as they made a good faith effort to check the food wasn’t bad before handing it over you can’t be sued (I.e. if you’re giving a batch of cans, you’d check them for defects like bloating or cracks/dents).
Secondly, you create criminal liability for throwing away non-defective shelf stable foods (such as dried, canned and/or jarred foods) for companies over a certain size (to prevent from screwing over small businesses that may not have the logistics to ensure consistent donations).
Those two things create a pathway by which donations can be made with minimal risk, and disincentivise the route of least resistance (aka. Throwing it all away).
To make more food to stockpile and force people to buy or watch rot you silly billy!
Seriously though. Its one thing to want to sell the food, I get that people gotta get paid, but the fact that in a lot of places we just throw away the unsold food to rot in the rubbish is ridiculous!
Like seriously, we’re just gonna throw away this food rather than even attempt to give it to those in need, and fire anybody who tries, cause it might slightly eat into profits?? That’s just psychopathic levels of corporate apathy.
Certainly makes you considerate. Past you saved future you a lot of work
Honestly, yeah.
For certain niches, the Fediverse is great - but it absolutely does suck for local community stuff.
Big tech platforms make those hyper-niche communities easier to set up, in exchange for all that sweet sweet data - and that won’t change anytime soon.
To do that on Fediverse you’d probably have to host an instance and get people to sign up if they aren’t already. Which for a techy or privacy orientated group they might actually do - but I don’t picture most hobbiest groups having the technical know-how or want to do that.
Maybe one day enough of the population will become tech-savy or privacy aware that niche local community Fedi instances might actually become a thing - but that day certainly isn’t today