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This is the real scenario, right here. Everyone is so focused on increased disaster occurrences that it feels like this is invisible - until its not. Last summer Alberta was under drought conditions, and overall crop yields were 67% of the 5-yr average.

Less and less snowpack means less and less water to deal with worse and worse drought conditions.

67% of statistics are made up

"Researchers say"

Researchers also say things they pulled out of their ass 90% of the time.

Source: I researched it

How do rambling blog articles full of terrible assumptions and analysis like this get posted? Is there an alternative technology community I could sub to that cares about quality content?

OP, I appreciate what you've done here. I lol'd, keep up the good work. A++ would tip again

"Reality has a well-known liberal bias." - Stephen Colbert

This is some serious wharrgarbl. Doesn't anyone moderate this kind of literary trash?

I agree. We also need regulation that makes manufacturers responsible for the end costs of their packaging and products. This kind of thinking is starting to come around, as municipalities and taxpayers have finally started waking up to the fact that it's ultimately our dollars that are paying for the corporations to create as much waste as they want. We're the ones that have to pay for the garbage pickups and the landfills where it all ends up.

This is terribly incorrect. Space is not a solution. The amount of energy required to send trash into space is very high and therefore expensive, like ~$5000/kg, and would generate a stupid amount of C02. Watch this video, it gives a great perspective on the scope of the problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us2Z-WC9rao

Alternatively, the Earth is HUGE. All the garbage ever generated in the history of humankind would fit into a comparatively tiny space. This is obviously a terrible option too, but WAY better than space.

Burning it is also terrible - no matter how good we get the incinerators, they still produce unacceptable levels of dioxins and other chemicals. You are much more likely to get cancer if you live near an incinerator.

The ONLY solution is to stop producing so much plastic.

I'd rather use Edge than Chrome.

But basically screw everything except Firefox at this point!

Do people not know what "bricking" means? This article is about HP disabling features if the printer runs out of ink.

If they bricked it, it would be unrecoverably broken, never to function again.

Was this article written by an insane person?

the current Goldilocks state of the North American economy

What?!

Much of this conflicts with the view, widely expressed in some form by commentators and political leaders of all stripes, that Canadians will benefit if the prices of things like groceries and houses would only go back to the levels they were at in the good old days, say, before the pandemic, so that people could afford them.

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so that people could afford them.

🤯🤯🤯

No shit?

Fix It Again Tony!

Don't worry everyone. The free market will take care of this for sure! Deregulated private companies always have the best interests of the consumers at heart!

Hell yeah. Fuck you cultists. Nice work by everyone in that town!

This comment needs to be higher up.

This kind of article isn't news, it's marketing.

Good. Fuck landlords, and especially Airbnb landlords. Hopefully other cities will follow suit.

"I'm getting down voted so this site is terrible and everyone on it is an idiot. There is no chance that my position was interpreted incorrectly, I missed the point, or I am wrong - it's obviously everyone else".