It's really easy to see the world without iPhones. I grew up in that world. It was fine.

Usually when I'm searching for information on something it's not an unknown new thing where I'm the sponge for the information and manipulation of the internet to mold me to it's latest fantasy on it's quest for riches.

I'll be looking up specific information, technical information, and it just gets me that information a lot faster, Instead of reading someones junk article that tries to get your time on their page for 2 minutes when they know you're looking for the 10 lines of code or instructions that takes 10 seconds to read and I don't have to do that now, great.

The business model of that is garbage is limited, and it's okay to fail.

If I know what commands I'm looking for and information, and I know it's out there, and google presents it, it's a refresher, it's not information I need to verify, I already know what it needs to do and can validate it myself if what it presented is right.

It's not always right and that's okay, I just make sure to write my queries in a way that gets me the right answer

You got pretty angry which means there are problems with your position clearly. I won't be able to name a place 100%, you're the kinda trash that will be like some farmers has a solar panel on there house so it's not 100% coal, and maybe for sanity100% everything anywhere is probably not accurate, or it would have to be a very narrow scope but not nationwide.

If you're going to argue that using a combustion engine (natrual gas plants use engines oh so clever one, an engine not pushing wheels is just called a generator), making electricity, transferring it, which all, all, has energy loss and efficiency gone from heat and other losses, down to charge a battery for an EV is some how more efficient is just plain delusional.

If this was plausible, then just engines that run on natural gas, which is absolutely a thing, would be way, way, way, way more efficent than an EV, instead of generating the power miles and miles away, transferring it across lines, and storing in a bettery, then running an electric engine to push a car.

Places that are mostly renewables, I never argued that it doesn't produce less c02 that ICE vehicles in that area, although let's question your damn ethics where all that lithium is being sourced. You know, better for the environment if you violent labor practices and decent human conditions right? So stuff your morality, it's false.

Your delulu methods are clear as day, you won't take the complete life cycle of an electric vehicle for c02 because it doesn't look so great, and it's garbo in a place that isn't using renewables.

You also completed skirted the pollution to manufacture and recycle renewables, and don't factor that into your green revolutions. The only real way is nuclear, it wouldn't surprise me if you're against that.

You can have your last word, I won't respond, I know it's going to be antagonistic tripe that is selective on data so you can pat yourself on that back. Don't worry, you're so good and knoweldgable, and it's not about money or anything else, and everyone else is wrong. you are the best and most rightest. Next tim emaybe try a discussion without being an antagonistic little turd and you might get a better response.

Have a great day.

Um, some places they are, or burning natural gas to generate electricity. Where I live is hydro dams so that's a plus for electric, although we do destroy a localized area to build the dam and flood a large area to store the water, I'm certain it's objectively better than constant c02 into the air.

But yeah, no there are plenty of places that do not use renewables. You also have to factor in the pollution renewables create in production and waste recycling, margins are slimmer than people are led to believe for 'clean energy'. Parts are clean, parts are not.

Also do we want to dive into the c02 in the atmosphere being 0.04, and it was originally a couple hundred years ago like 0.02, and that only a small percentage of that is actually from human activities. less than 30% I believe.

Exactly this. If I could recharge my EV at home and save money overall I'd consider it, but I can't, and it would make my life worse, take even more of my time which, companies already get 70% of my day during the week dedicated to them, and you're going to take more of my free time, and more of my money? And paper straws? While other countries pollute way more on the same planet I live on, so I'll die from it anyway, but I need to do it so I can join the morally superior club? Pass.

I don't have an EV because I can't charge from my apartment. EVs do destroy the biosphere, I would have to drive twice as much as I currently do per year to recover the additional c02 an EV from manufacturing creates and it would take 5 or so years to recover, at double my driving rate. Even longer with how much I drive.

In addition, how long do I need to sit around to get a charge that is even less than my ICE?
Power grids are also not the same everywhere, and not everywhere uses renewable energy sources. EVs are great in the right environment, but mandating it everywhere because someone is morally superior is completely mental. The numbers that show how great they are, are chosen in specific environments. It doesn't apply to the entire world and everywhere geographically.

Like that time in the city all the cars were dead on the road because of a cold snap.

Tank Girl - The company water & power. They have all the water, and all the power.

Only so many people can post so many recipes and have it have value. Yes, I get it, your dreams is to make tons of ad money posting your recipe and think it's amazing because you put two pinches of salt instead of none.

There is a limited amount of space, everyone wants in it, and it will turn to shit. Enshittification is real, and in many cases, unavoidable. You want to do it, so does everyone else, the value in it drops as people get more desperate to do X thing, everyone keeps 'undercutting' each other, or reposting redundant crap.

Perfect example is youtube videos of someone elses content by just cutting in half, and inserting them above the video so now it's a "review". Nothing creative, no new content, just the same content but everyone wants a piece of the pie, and it gets shittified.

The same thing happens with food recipes. Everyone wants "their recipe" even if it's the same as someone else.

What I think it is that if you have the IR data that doesn't automatically link you to a face and isn't useful for matching photographs. If you were going to build database that linked a persons biometric data together, having only their IR won't let you match it to photos for your database.

It's likely not about unlocking your device. It's more likely it's about having your color image available so they can cross reference it and link it to their database, which will be updated in some terms of use later. First they want everyone to use it and build that data on their PCs, then later they will change the terms and have a trove of data, color images that match the IR database, and those color images can be used by AI to match with other places that have your photo, and poof, more data to collect / sell / monetize.

It certainly does, we just have the internet now so the 1% of people who think they dictate society will be very loud and you'll hear them since 99% of us just either watched the movie and laughed, or just that it was okay or whatever, and never posted it to the internet in outrage.

Yeah that's what did it for me. Was just once, I don't know if it would keep happening or not, but the level of fuck that when I even paid for them not the fucking do it. I'm likely done with their service for good.

Dropped the ad free sub and just stopped watching prime video entirely.

The other thing I find a problem is the bar for outrage keeps getting lower as well. Now you can simply say 'Your rights end where mine begins' which for equality and everyone treated fairly makes complete sense, but then they get mad at that, the truth turns out a lot of people think they should have more rights than others for and love to manipulate the heck out of it to make their justifications.

I think the problem stems from the fact that "I just want to afford a home, be compensated fairly for the skills and efforts I developed, have a reasonable income, and not be responsible to give all my labor to people who believe they deserve for some reason, even tho I never met them and did nothing to them" puts me into some sort of activists on one of the sides.

I just want those things and my family to be safe. I'm not talking about medical care for people who are injured or have illness either, it's good that we all contribute to help have that system in place in my country.

and I don't think it means what you think it means. Progressive? We're seeing the progress around the world, if that's what you're calling it. Also somehow since it's not better it's always someone elses fault, Maybe progress towards slavery where the elites dominate the working class because they think it's their turn or something?