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Another reason to regulate industry, as has already begun in the US and EU. Relying on individual behavioural changes to solve these types of systemic failures simply does not work.

But I'm glad it gives you a reason to feel morally superior.

Keep saying it. It'll be true eventually.

Lol as if the Canadian Construction Association wants infill. Their members are responsible for the municipal lobbying that leads to sprawl in the first place, and I all but guarantee you their infrastructure cost estimates are assuming traditional suburban residential growth

So sure, this person may have a point in that supportive infrastructure is not being adequately accounted for. But I don't believe for a second that they're interested in what's actually best for Canadians.

You know the old saying: you're not wrong, you're just an asshole.

Hint: you can have a differing opinion without being a dick about it.

What?

Compiling quality datasets is enormously challenging and labour intensive. OpenAI absolutely knows the provenance of the data they train on as it's part of their secret sauce. And there's no damn way their CTO won't have a broad strokes understanding of the origins of those datasets.

Absolutely. I have over a dozen pairs, both from the 2017 eclipse and the annular last fall, and you can bet I'll be reusing some while giving away the rest.

The most obvious problem with their comment is the dismissive, holier-than-thou tone.

They could have made their point by suggesting non-disposable alternatives: finding a local viewing party with shared equipment, preferring reusable glasses, or safe alternative ways of viewing like pinhole cameras or projection techniques.

But no. It's much easier to sneer on an anonymous forum while stoking that sense of superiority instead of actually offering something constructive.

As opposed to your world changing contributions of bitching online to random strangers?

Keep fighting the good fight. I'm sure you're just one more post away from saving the planet.

Oh fuck off with the mindless cynicism.

The amount of plastic used in those glasses, which is only in the lenses as the rest is card paper, is a fraction of what's in typical disposable consumer goods. I guarantee you've already thrown out more plastic in the last week than is in a whole ten pack of those glasses.

Meanwhile, events like this are a great way to remind people of the natural world we live in and how miniscule our experience of it is relative to the enormity of even just our solar system.

The focus on drama over logic completely shallows out the allegory until it's JUST a gay couple being contemporarily gay on screen

Yeah. That's my point.

Maybe there is no allegory.

Maybe it's just a gay couple on screen.

Like Nichelle as Uhura was just a black woman in an elevated position on screen.

No message. Just simple representation.

Why is that such a problem?

Because if you ask people in the community, many will tell you they're kinda sick of the gay experience only be represented in a negative light, always a struggle, always a message, as opposed to just them simply and comfortably existing.

So, putting a gay couple on screen and just having it be a normal aspect of who they are (to be clear: the nature of their relationship was never a plot point on the show) is "blandly doing the cultural issues"?

Was casually putting Uhura, a black woman, on the bridge of a starship on a show airing in the 1960s, without ever calling attention to her race, also "blandly doing the cultural issues"?