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Comment Re:Morally questionable (Score 2) 149

I've seen a religious leader say it's excusable for very basic necessities like bread if you can't afford it.

But I think in the case of the media it's more a matter of: what is considered a reasonable price.

TV meant cable for most people, you had a pretty simple pricing system in most European countries over a decade ago, you got 1 price for the basics and could pay pay more for a large package (nothing to choose). Most people choose the large package, because the basics were really basic. Then many years later you got streaming, the content moved to streaming, you only had 1 large streaming company and you got all for a fixed price, no ads and not that expensive, now years later, we got some nice enshittification, if you want to choose from a similar set of movies, you will need to pay multiple streaming companies and they all charge the same as the 1 streaming company or even more. So in total you pay a lot more. That's where the rub is.

Comment Re: I don't like both. (Score 3, Informative) 506

I wouldn't bet on trump getting that right, he was the one that ended the agreement with Iran on nuclear, he was the one that said Jerusalem is the capitol of Israel (which is part of why we have the problems with Gaza right now), he was the one who dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb in recent history (2017) and he was the one who killed Qasem Soleimani. You might agree with him on some of those, but I doubt if you look into them that you would think these are the things which will get less war.

Comment Re:Comparing apples to peanuts (Score 2) 231

Also I should add, I've not done the numbers, but people claim: the largest grid storage systems are pumped-storage hydroelectricity aka pumping water from a lower lake to a higher lake and letting it flow down over a generated when needed. So those are clearly also used for some energy storage for solar panels, but not directly.

Comment Re:What should we do about it? (Score 4, Insightful) 76

Just a quick tip: by the time politicians get worried, something bad has already happened.

It's basically always the case similar to this: new technology comes along, it gets deployed, turns out bad things can happen too and happen in real life... only after the fact will politicians do something.

climate change is all about taking the right steps now or in the past to do what needs to prevent bad things in the future.

See how that doesn't align with politics ?

On the topic of fungi specifically, I would like to see a lot more vertical farming, hydroponics, aquaponics, etc. which on average are less susceptible to such things and also less depends on weather in general.

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