European. Liberal. Green. I never downvote opinions: jeering at people is poor form. Comments with insulting language, or snark, or gotchas, or other effort-free content, will simply be ignored.
And that’s only the start of it. Think of all your vehicle emissions, and the land needed to sustain your diet!
But you didn’t get a say in your existence. Nobody has to apologize for being alive. And there are plenty of things we can do to minimize the impact and even affect things positively.
Great idea. Backed by some kind of Patreon for FOSS. Which might exist already, as I just learned here: Open Collective
A corporation will only pay users to watch ads if it is a way to get them to buy junk that they didn’t need or possibly even want. Otherwise the model breaks. Advertising is a scourge, to rely on it in any way does not feel “values-driven” to me.
PS: to be clear, maybe the ad model has merits on pragmatic grounds but, speaking personally, if I ever see an ad here, I am GONE and never coming back.
Won’t happen but it’s a great idea. The environment loves recession. The only years in recent history when the climate indicators briefly stopped moving in the wrong direction were 2009 and 2020.
A VPS costs 5 bucks a month.
To me at least, this contribution makes you seem like an even worse asshole than them. Just some anecdotal feedback.
How about doing it after a certain period has elapsed? A week, or 30 days, say.
This would approximate the freemium model where early access is paid and archives are free.
It might make it easier to get creators on board.
This is hyperbole compounded by anecdote. The dysfunction in US politics mainly concerns Washington. The USA is a federal state and state-level politics is mostly unaffected. Security is everywhere guaranteed by police, not gangs. And the statistics that I cited remain.
Do you have data or is that supposed to win you the argument?
This feels a bit out of touch. Firstly, anywhere in the USA, even Mississippi, is richer than almost anywhere else in the world in dollar terms. That is always going to buy a certain level of function and safety compared to most countries in the world, which are, well, poor. Next, “the US” is continent-sized federation. Vermont, say, is clearly safer and more functional, by any measure, than all but handful of independent countries.
In terms of figures, the USA is currently #43 out of 105 in the Safety Perceptions Index. Admittedly not a great score (but I can’t help noticing that #1 is Uzbekistan, which is a literal police state). Even harder to measure “functional” but the US is at #20 out of 193 in the Human Development Index, which measures wealth, education and healthcare.
Whatever the current frame of mind of Americans, it’s important to remember that the USA remains a privileged place.
Guatemala is considered more functional and safe than the US these days? Seems a stretch. For what it’s worth I have spent time in both countries.
You’re walking down a busy street while texting. Oops! You stepped on a kitten! Is it animal abuse? Intention is (almost) everything because it suggests what you would do if you had the means to do so, or if you felt you could get away with it.
This is one of the 10% of showerthoughts here that are actually showerthoughts and not… something else.
Yes. And even then I struggle to concentrate. This is what modern life has done to us.
Actually, I asked them to consider whether, all things considered, there might not perhaps be a better way to imagine living their life. Big difference. ;)
Interesting. Actively seeking out FOMO. I prefer the inverse of that: amistics
Yes I know but it seems odd to ask the question if you don’t in fact want anything.
Which begs the question of how it can ever be justified to create a green desert using a gas-powered lawnmower.