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@LRRRonEarth Oof. That sounds like a long string of situations where i would stop what i was doing and ask what is wrong until it escalates.

Hope you can get out of that, be it by protest or by refusing to travel.

@interfluidity Must be the ghost of Arnold Palmers genitals. Be sure to avoid news about Trump.

@interfluidity And going for "no social security!" is an admission of guilt, specifically that the incentives are known to work in reverse.

@ai6yr That's not tunnels, that's an eldrich frog being which has the good sense to keep away from the police.

@daswarkeinhuhn Und dabei wurden im Totort schon lange vor der AFD Bürgerrechte verletzt ^^

@VeroniqueB99 Not wrong, but i still think the chickenboy should not complain - chickenboy is much safer than cowboy!

@Hyolobrika @VeroniqueB99 Casually, personally?
By numbers you are right, but it doesn't change that this chickenboy should not complain!

@VeroniqueB99 Seems pretty safe. I heard cows can and will kill ya.

@interfluidity I'd be coming out of that banal background to make some irrelevant observation to the hero, probably pointing out they misinterpreted some symbolism, which would mess up their timing, thus preventing the world (or universe) from being saved.

But at least that misinterpretation has been adressed!

@Hyolobrika Ah. Sorry, my pain preservation reflex of not unmuting that video (neither now nor in the other instances i saw it) probably prevented that.

The cringe was just tolerable with it muted...

@Hyolobrika Where is there any israel in that? Seems like you support greek restaurants, not that that would be a bad thing. They often have pretty good food ^^

@jerry Now if we just got german neonazis to accuse magats of cultural appropriation, we'd have a win-win.

@daswarkeinhuhn Ich wünsche dir die Kraft, das ohne bleibende Hirnschäden durchzustehen. Möge das sich-lustigmachen mit dir sein.

@Hyolobrika Regarding irrigation of dry tracts of land?

@lunarised @Hyolobrika Another take: Pooling resources is a powerful way to achieve more than everyone could individually, but pooled resources are vulnerable to be highjacked by people that didn't even contribute anything.

@lunarised @Hyolobrika We are so used to having people in power that the cake being made by the many is not even in our worldview anymore ^^

@Hyolobrika @lunarised I agree with the multiplication take. I also agree that people with problematic wishes (here called "evil" and "human nature") are attracted to power.
The real question that i see is how to keep that in check. What we do get is power keeping reason in check, which is not ideal.

@lunarised Well, nuclear is problematic in multiple ways, and since wind/solar seem pretty practical, it would be irresponsible to use it now. The waste that we find no way to deal with, the security concerns that are neglected... not to speak about nuclear weapons. And i hear it is pretty expensive per power generated.

But what i am doubting is that it is the cost of switching. As far as i understand, it is that fossil power infrastructure can net more profits to owners, and switching would prevent them from milking what they already have. So it is important to distinguish between cost to humanity and loss of profits for some few. Not to forget the externalization of costs, as the masses usually suffer more from the ecological damage than the owners.

I generally think oppression (sometimes indirectly and hard to see) is more of an issue than the technology itself.

@lunarised What i had been holding back is the emphasis on the last line, but now that you brought it up... "powers that be" are more dangerous to us than any technology.

I think it becomes obvious with fossil fuel usage: people are often positive about adapting alternatives, but it is not something individuals can do well. A concentration of power is displaying its reluctance to do what is known to be necessary for humanitys survival. The technology would not have been a problem, had it been abandoned when the dangers became clear and alternatives were feasible.

@lunarised Hmm. With irresponsible use of new technology widespread, one could argue that nothing new should be made, since humanity is not mature enough to handle it. But that makes no sense as long as the immature entity has no mature entity to parent.