Fine face-to-face but still vote to make your existence illegal. I'm not alright with that kind of "civility" and it's the reason I don't connect with an arm of my extended family. Fuck em.
We'll probably live to see robot towns, where a small contingent of maintenence workers keep a huge fleet of automated farming/processing/shipping equipment operational. If they're lucky Monsanto will buy a restaurant chain so there's somewhere for them to eat nearby.
PNW weirdo here. I like things to be green and alive, I like my skin unburned, and I like being able to poke around tide pools on a lonely beach. Clouds and rain help all of that.
It's currently sunny and about 77°F, which is about as warm as I want it unless I'm going swimming. Late summer when it approaches 100° is miserable, but for now the bright weather is fine and good for the plants.
Well sure, but "end the concept of Intellectual Property" is already a radical position to argue. Fully Automated Space Gay Communism is a little beyond the scope of the topic and a hard sell to normies.
I don't see the predictable effects of dropping IP laws as more harmful than the current reality. The idea is to protect small creators but the implementation does the opposite.
The solution, as is with so many societal issues, is UBI.
There's an industry to make new guns but people just step over the skeleton in the lobby of the half-collapsed hotel the three dozen residents call "Halftower" without a drop of irony.
Fine face-to-face but still vote to make your existence illegal. I'm not alright with that kind of "civility" and it's the reason I don't connect with an arm of my extended family. Fuck em.