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Or used money they had saved. Or would otherwise save...

Well said, thank you.

> Historically, as we run out of a resource (whale oil, elephant tusks, seabird guano), we transition to a new technology based on a more abundant resource—and there are basically …

You mean... Kind of like living? Are you the same now as you were a year ago? I find it scarier to think that my personality might become static! Plasticity is the ability to learn…

I think I can agree there's a happy middle ground somewhere between "paleolithic misery" and "late stage capitalism climate change induced neolithic misery". Both are extremes of m…

I hope not. Imagine how devastating conflict already is to the environment. Now make every bird shoot on sight, just in case. I guess ravens really are the dark one's eyes and ears…

So the ideal is no one ever dies (most good!) while everyone makes more people (more good!). I guess eventually we'll figure out how to eat rocks. It's not sustainable. Earth is an…

Is this saying that slavery is justified as long as the goal is something "monumental"? As long as some slaves are "proud" of the work they're being _forced_ to do _on penalty of d…

> Here's this one example, so therefore this is proven bullshit Nice logic. What is "a lot" that indicates the majority of tribes didn't understand that babies happen when sex happ…

You honestly don't think they "knew how seeds work"? It's not like you can't turn over leaves and see a literal plant growing out of a seed. Why clear the land and plant a "crop" w…

I'm not sure many workers building cathedrals considered it a labor of love. Particularly those cathedrals that took many generations to build. > Half of all the work done in the w…

I chuckled at this. Thanks :)

I read this the same way. Any divide will be exploited to keep us from getting mad over all time high corporate profits unaccompanied by any benefit to the workers, the actual valu…

> I'd also submit that he and his cohort has no idea—no idea how much anger there is about what he and his cohort have done to make every aspect of life flatter and crueler and ris…

"I have everything I need and more, but despite you asking you can't have it" is how we expect people who never learned how to share to act. When it comes to grown men we should ha…

Would it still be theft if the money in your wallet was money that you found on the street the day before?

Well, history is certainly written by the victors eh? The military is a tool used to maintain the empire of an unsustainable culture of consumption. This military is KILLING people…

> But the world won't become a better place if all we do is to shame those people with self-flagellatory insinuations that they should re-think their place in the world or whatever…

Why throw all the working stuff away? I don't feel any need-for or right-to new & shiny things if there are less new things that work just as well. I'm bothered by the fact that my…

Yes! These are all things that rely on the subjugation and abuse of other human and are bad for our earth-spaceship

There may not be societal costs in the consuming country, but there are certainly negative externalities to the people/countries that produce the coffee beans

> their community moralizing the use of nuclear weapons to shut down GPU clusters Did I miss some news?

I've always thought that these apps are missing a feature-set: Manipulation of the sound clip prior to identification. In both this app and BirdNET the selection always selects fro…

Conscious/consciousness. I like the thought experiment though!

The sentiment is great, but it is truly mind bending seeing these truly hippie ideas -- being one with the earth, valuing relationships and community, self sufficiency -- couched i…