Cethin

It deprives them of money if people would have paid otherwise. It generally doesn’t though, because most people will just pay up. If people are able to be convinced to pirate instead, they’d lose money from that effect. (It wouldn’t cost them money, but it would lose them money they could have made.)

This says otherwise.

Anyway, yeah, I agree. It’s all a distraction. I don’t know how sayings it’s poop helps. The problem is cattle farming produces a ton of methane. The details don’t really matter.

Ironically, it could be like the astroohage if it somehow spread on its own. The sun is dimming, so it’s getting cooler, and fast. To counter this, they actually release a bunch of greenhouse gasses to keep things warm.

I wish the movie included this, because it makes it more clear it’s all about climate change, and that the world needs to work together to solve the problem. Huge sacrifices need to be made, but we have to do it.

You’re probably right, but bioengineering this to self-propogate quickly in the environment would be exponential. I’m sure that isn’t the plan, but it could be done, and it could make this an issue. We shouldn’t let that stop us because we’re currently in an exponential fuck up in the opposite direction, but it is something to think about.

That’s one part the movie for Project Hail Mary missed from the book, that’s disappointing. Sunlight is decreasing, so they bring in a climate scientist to figure out how to produce as much greenhouse gasses as possible. He’s really disturbed by it obviously, but sees it needs to be done. They end up melting the ice caps to release Methane, because it’s more potent and decay into less potent CO2 in a reasonable time frame, so they can stop when things are solved.

I actually don’t think this would be that useful for space flight or terraforming really. CO2 is still two parts oxygen. Assuming the atmosphere isn’t already full of O2 and we want it to be, we want to convert it from CO2 into O2 (like plants do), not into this form. I guess it could be useful if we want to decrease atmospheric pressure too maybe?

It could be useful for a short-term solution, where we don’t need to recover CO2 for breathing, and just want to remove it and store it. I don’t think it’d likely ever be more efficient than existing technology for this though.

IIRC, most of its from their mouth actually. They’re ruminants, meaning they’re fermenting their food in their multiple stomachs. This is where most of the Methane is produced, and the pressure is released through their mouths.

Yeah, one of the issues with plants is that they don’t remove the CO2 from the cycle. It’s only a temporary storage, unless you bury them in airtight containers, or do something else to process them. Coal was effectively permanently sequestered. A tree, when it decomposes or burns (also decomposition), the carbon is right back into the environment. Turning it into rock is effectively permanent, unless we decide to release it.

It’s not just not there yet. This is almost certainly not going the right direction to ever be “there” if there is something that can handle security issues. It’s just not the right tool for the job, and I can’t understand how so much of our economy is just assuming it is the right tool for every job.

Notice almost all of this is outward facing. It doesn’t improve your experience, but it gives you a thing that others see. The goal is the same thing as children bullying other children to buy iPhones. They don’t know what the product is. They just built in features that tell you if other people aren’t using it, so you can make fun of them.

How about they’re protesting a new machine that is removing people’s jobs while also destroying the economy and the planet? Would that be reasonable then?

Would you say that factory workers dropping a bolt into the machinery to protest is also just being a dick? If not what’s the difference?

Even without the “browser loophole”, developers are pushing Google and Apple about further permissions being granted and sideloading and whatnot. Apple and Google careth not… Your argument is pretty moot at this point.

No, not even without it. Without it there would be a significantly larger push. It wouldn’t just be a small movement. It’d be necessary. It’s like being on a computer and getting everything from the Microsoft store (if you’re on Windows). Sometimes they don’t have what you need, so basically every moderate user has had to download something elsewhere. It’d be the same on phones. Apple and Google would not be able to get away with preventing sideloading because every user and developer would care, not just the few of us there are now.

Good luck distributing it “elsewhere” when it comes to iPhones.

Without creating the stupid browser based loopholes, it wouldn’t be a choice. Developers would be pushing Apple and Google to allow “sideloading” (as if alternative sources are any less legitimate than from their stores).

Also, a lot of the time, a full blown app is unnecessary, or not practical.

It’s just as practical. It’s unnecessary for a browser to be built to function as a replacement to an application for literally any purpose. If you’re making a website, then fine, you don’t need an app. If you’re making something that interfaces with the functionality of the device, that isn’t the job of a browser.

The solution isn’t to prevent functionality from existing - this includes browsers and web apps having access to certain aspects to the hardware - but giving the user absolute control over what they allow an app to do.

How do you do this? If the browser has permission it has permission. Each application should be separate so the permissions are separate.

That’s not a legitimate reason. The correct response is to make a standalone application, not a web app, and distribute it elsewhere than the main store. It’s one more reason sideloading needs to be allowed. If it isn’t we end up with vulnerabilities because of workarounds.

Your view, while understandable from a personal standpoint, is fucked up. The way schools are funded means that poor districts get very little funding, while wealthy white district get plenty. This leads to worse education in poor areas and better education in more wealthy areas. Is this how we should really be handling this?

These freeloaders were sending their kids to school on my dime.

We live in a society. Part of that is your dime paying for stuff that benefits other people. You also get plenty of stuff on other’s dimes. Stop being so selfish. The real fix is to increase funding globally, ideally on the dime of the ultra-wealthy (who are going to complain that’s it’s on their dime, but I don’t give a fuck).

Well, Linux isn’t totally ad free. Once you use it, you become the ad.

You claim someone is biased against China, because they said one true thing, then you bring up all kinds of unrelated things to attack another nation, which wasn’t being discussed. I wonder if you might possess the bias your against, But for China and against the US? Both nations do good and bad things. If you’re so angry about bias, maybe you should check your own. Or maybe bias isn’t the issue, and you just support the Chinese leadership?

It arguably is malware.

Maybe. I see it more as a mixed bag. It’s regressive only after you have too much money to spend, and the people with literally zero savings (the latter can be solved with a tax rebate).

It does do a better job at capturing wealth that is trying to be obfiscated though. Income tax works for people recieving their money as income, but for others it’s easy to avoid. A sales tax captures it at spending though. The only way to avoid it is to just not purchase anything.

I see pros and cons for it. It’s not the first option I’d reach for (land value tax is my #1, since it solves cost of living issues too, but also capital gains, inheritance, and wealth taxes should be first), but it can be part of the solution. It just needs to also come with methods of either reducing the harm to poor people, or helping them in some way.