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[–] query 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not easily. There are bottlenecks when everyone wants to do the same thing, and distributed solar and wind require more infrastructure to fully utilize it than something like nuclear. If we built nuclear in addition to renewables, the transition would go faster.

[–] query 64 points 1 year ago

If that's what makes you lose respect for police officers, you haven't been paying attention.

[–] query 59 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

And every now and then they'd go on a rampage destroying other people's and eras' art.

[–] query 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Who are the landlords selling to? Are the properties that disappear from the market used for homes, or something else?

More people selling should mean house prices going down.

[–] query 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Reroll at what point? "Hey, kids, today you'll learn about resurrection, and what that booth is for". There could be billions of people with no clue about the rules, let alone trust in how it would work.

And it's just that much messier if non-humans are part of the cycle. Hundreds of billions of farm animals and semi-domestic species like rats, and all the rest of nature. They don't get opt-outs.

[–] query 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ideally it would mean everyone's united in improving society for everyone and especially raising minimum standards, when you could end up as anyone.

[–] query 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Oil companies will default to doing anything that makes them money. Governments need to make climate forcing cost them more than their revenue.

[–] query 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

As if there are women on dating sites/apps wondering where all the men are.

[–] query 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

People shouldn't be paying to opt out of ads, websites should be paying their users for what they're exploiting them for.

[–] query 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"More competition" meaning less access, people having to pay for multiple different services instead of having it in one place.

The competition should be about having the best platform, not exclusive content. There's no reason why the same show couldn't be on two different platforms. And available globally. Practically, all you really need is more local servers for where there's more traffic.

[–] query 67 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

For personal use, but corporations trying to profit off of it could be fined 100% of their assets if need be.

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