qevlarr @ qevlarr @lemmy.world

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It doesn't work. That website sucks

I think this is the answer why big movies suck and won't try anything new. Filmmaking has become outrageously expensive to make and market, and they have to return their money at the box office right now rather than a longer lifespan with video rental, so the companies cannot afford a flop and they stick to what's familiar.

https://youtu.be/OZ28knLt5Rs?si=Z6pUL2hN3l-d6ul1

That should be the goal. This cannot be left to individual consumer choice, is what I'm saying. The annoying cookie banners should be a wake-up call for regulators that the "let the consumers decide" experiment has failed.

What do you mean? GDPR allowed for the "unless the visitor agrees" stuff so that's why we see cookie banners everywhere.

I would say it should either be allowed or not, depending on the use case. A navigation app should be able to track your location for the service they provide but not for ads or selling to other companies. Your calculator app has no business even asking. Profile based advertising (rather than content based) should be banned wholesale. That sort of stuff

Exactly. Identify what uses are legitimate and what uses aren't, and legislate directly. None of this consumer consent crap because it's meaningless to consumers. No consumer benefits from their browsing habits being under surveillance.

You're right to be angry.

I don't think people are misinformed or unaware. We have a collective action problem. People think they can't do anything about the problem, it's to big for us, we can't do those drastic things because greater society isn't transitioning. My personal solution is to do what I can that helps, but don't expect anything to change. It's like voting: Your vote counts, but you can't decide the outcome.

Looks like a face to me

I don't know the details, but I'm pretty sure greenhouse effect has something to do with it.

But it doesn't matter, it's beside the point. This person obviously means global warming could make the planet much hotter than we want, inhabitably hot like Venus. Not that we are literally Venus

Understandable to think this. Maybe we did come really close to some of those disasters, such as nuclear war. It's just survivors bias to think that it wasn't civilization ending danger we were in back then.

I hope we learn from that and steer clear of the danger next time, rather than think it'll be alright because nobody happened to actually press the red button back then so I guess we worried about nothing

I remember this is exactly what it felt like. Yes there were some things to solve, but in the end it will all work out. Read Fukuyama if you want a taste of what it was like. We beat communism, famine will be solved, no more wars, everything will be fine because of economic and political stability and technological progress forever. Any crisis is just a bump on the road, never a regression

That was the thinking in the 90's

It will be civilization ending. I never said it would kill every single person. There may still be people but 100 years from now, everyone's fucked. Further ahead, 200 years, 500 years, definitely no future there

You're wrong. Scientific consensus is that this will be catastrophic. We're still emitting more greenhouse gases year over year, and the rate at which global warming is happening is still increasing year over year. Anyone who says this will stop at 1.5 degrees, 2 degrees, 3 degrees, whatever, they're all wrong because no slowdown is happening at all. It's wishful thinking. Climate predictions are being broken all the time, never in a good way. And that's not taking into account any tipping points that suddenly speed up climate change, such as melting ice releasing trapped methane.

There is no reason to say it won't be that bad. It will

I actually think these lyrics aren't that bad

No shit

How about awareness that climate change will ruin us all.

It checks out that the peak of optimism in your graph is around the 80's and 90's. We weren't just "optimistic" in the 90's. We were delusional. We were ignoring problems instead of solving them

Such as what? I've always found Keychron to be cheaper

That one is actually useful and I use it every day.

Can we also talk about stupid keyboard manufacturers putting media functions and whatnot on the F keys, but then requiring me to hold Fn to use it as a regular F key? Nobody wants to go Fn+Alt+F4 to close a window. What the hell?

Reddit is the same. Nevermind the lurkers, just have fun with the people who post and comment

Don't threaten me with a good time!

Exactly. This wasn't a protest as far as I'm concerned. They shut me out. So I no longer visit reddit or moderate any of my subreddits. It's that simple