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Of course it is, but if the goal is fixing the planet, you can’t just say “carbon tax” and be done with it, because there’s many other things that are screwing up the planet, and a carbon tax itself just raises the cost of polluting, so if the rest of the manufacturing chain is cheap enough due to everything else having no protection, than a carbon tax isn’t a solution at all.

Free trade with a country that has limited environmental protections just off-shores the environmental impact to another part of the world, which invariably screws up the entire planet. Any sort of unfettered free trade must have very strong societal and environmental guarantees.

Would need a few more stipulations than just a carbon tax.

Labor rights would be important too. One country that uses slave labor to build stuff, and dumps toxic waste into the ocean, but just tacks on a few $ in carbon tax for their big carbon belching systems still wouldn’t be good for anyone.

Probably would be ok with a general human and nature rights treaty, where there is free trade as long as the overall impact of the economy in all aspects is at least neutral.

What does consent mean when you’re talking to people who you have control over their careers?

Sure, he may have asked, but if someone felt like saying no means they don’t get to continue working?

It’s an old trope that everyone was somehow so smart and wise right up until my generation, then everyone suddenly got stupid and mean.

Socrates complained that the youth in his day were spoiled by having books to rely on so they didn’t have to memorize things anymore.

Every generation has the same attitude, and humanity somehow keeps on keeping on. Sure we are finding new and different ways to be stupid, but we’re also finding new and different ways to be amazing.

One of Tim Curry’s finest performances

That’s like saying one of the Beatles best songs. He is outstanding in everything, so all of his performances are one of his best.

No? How is that even a question. There’s almost 0% chance there’s any world out there that’s remotely suitable for human life.

We don’t even know if there’s any life out in the universe aside from on earth, why destroy it for no reason?

It was just a few years ago, before everything on the Internet was HTTPS, that using a public Wi-Fi was pretty dangerous, in terms of exposing your login credentials and traffic.

Even today, it’s possible that some random sites might be HTTP only, but it’s unlikely.

But even then, anyone on the same network can still see what sites you are going to, just not what’s being said.

Yes, however we should wait about 500,000,000 years, cause the earth will be rendered uninhabitable by the sun around that time anyway.

Such a weird question, FTL would theoretically be a savior to the human race, but in what scenario would it be necessary to destroy the earth to make it work. Why couldn’t you sacrifice Venus, or Neptune, or just fly for a decade or two out of the solar system before turning it on?

Problem is that even if you have a newer kai or Hyundai, if you live in an area with a lot of car thefts, they’ll still break the window and try.

So you might not lose your car, but you’ll still be more susceptible to damage. You’ll probably be fine, but it is worth noting.

Depends on what you’re using the phone for. Personally, my usage isn’t very demanding, so having a phone that’s going to have security updates and a replaceable battery will probably let me use the phone for 5+ years.

I probably won’t keep the phone for 10 years, but it means I can upgrade on my schedule, not just because some company decided for me.

LOL, I feel like your best bet is to see if Square Wheel Entertainment will email you a copy. They seem to have a Facebook page.

Well, unless you spelt it incorrectly, I don’t see it on any of the major torrent search sites.

Messaging apps are tricky, you can’t just pick what’s the “best” because it’s primary function is to message people, so the best app is what can do that.

If nobody you want to message uses telegram, or signal, or matrix, than they aren’t very good messaging apps FOR YOU.

You have to start using the app, then start convincing everyone else to use it, and that’s quite a hurdle, when most people you know use the “good enough” Whatsapp, or even just SMS, or iMessage.

Let’s say you have $100,000,000 dropped in your lap. You now never have to worry about needing money ever again, which in our current society means you don’t need to worry about a LOT of problems.

So it’s natural that most people want to preserve that security, the best way to do that would be to invest the money in a way that it grows equal to, or faster than you will spend it.

You can just get it all in cash and stuff it under your floorboards, but there’s a non zero chance that the money will be physically destroyed or stolen from a disaster.

You can stick it in a bank, but you have very little protection for the bulk of that money from the government insurance.

So the smartest thing to do is to spread that money out to investments that will grow that money in a diverse way to protect your newfound security.

Once that is set up, you create a will (or trust) to handle the money when you are dead. Who gets to benefit from your windfall once you’re gone?

Then you have complete freedom to live your life how you want to.

If you lived in a society that had ready access to replicators and holodecks, you’d probably be asking for teleportation and eternal youth.

What’s amazing yesterday is boring today. That’s kinda part of the human condition.

Being able to fly anywhere in the world with almost zero planning, and then being able to communicate back to anyone at home with almost zero delay, would have been unheard of just two generations ago, but now that it’s normal, it’s a shrug and look for the next thing.

Baby showers (at least in my area) are done in the last part of a pregnancy. They’re used to give gifts and useful items to a new parent(s) to prepare for the coming of the child. (Baby clothes, diapers, stroller, etc.)

It’s also a party to celebrate the birthing parent (and more recently, the non-birthing parent) as a last hurrah before they’re tied up with new baby for months.

It’s also typically a bigger deal for the first child, and either omitted or toned down considerably for subsequent children.

Development has always been incremental, but as gaming engines get better, they start being used for more and more things. AAA games don’t always develop the graphics and game engine from scratch, most often they develop one technology and use it for many games, or even buy a pre-built engine and “just” build the game around it.

Unreal Engine has been used not just for games, but also for real time, or near real time film making. The same engine that is used for playing a game can be used to create the background effects in TV shows, or whole scenes.

It’s crazy to suggest we just stop working on something because it’s good enough, because that’s not what people do.

Can portals exist on a moving object?

Not sure if that QR code just doesn’t work, or if the quality is too low for my camera to pick up.

Either way, probably shouldn’t be QR code scanning a random joke code on Lemmy Shitpost.