Cut your own e-waste.
Cut the number of times an Amazon truck delivers a product and a cardboard box to you.
Keep your phone an extra month.
Recycling is 100% effective and pollution free if you did not buy the thing to be recycled in the first place.
We can use the same computer algorithm to sort tires, apples and trees and discuss the algorithm by itself in the abstract.
We can do this without hyper-fixating on tires and all their aspects.
We can do this with looking at how governments can gang up and extract a multi-generational revenue stream from an industry without hyper-fixating on the aspects of that industry.
Agree. That's the "large demographic has lost the ability to have a rational reasoned discussion" part.
My point is about discussing with persons that have the capacity to hold a rational discussion a topic with data and facts and expertise to back up their viewpoint.
The point where experts in the field, licensed medical doctors in the infectious disease and immunology fields for example, being excluded from public discourse for asking for a fact based discussion, is the problem.
Less informed people, average people on the street, are less likely to have a rational reasoned and fact based discussion.
The "association fallacy" used to dismiss a reasoned and fact based discussion by qualified medical doctors in the relevant fields was a net negative.
The internet and social media are different than addicting tobacco.
The same playbook is here though.
- Lots of government jurisdictions and agencies collectively sue an industry
- The industry eventually settles out of court with a pay X% per year to a fund split by the government entities
- The government entities sell municipal bonds backed by future revenues from that settlement fund
- Government entities today can massively spend more money from the money raised by the bond sales
- Politicians of all strips can campaign on "we built X, we achieved X, we punished the evil social media companies"
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Yes. The Tobacco companies deceived the general public and did other things. The same general "gang up and sue" a profitable industry for a multi-generational settlement revenue stream is in play here.
This is neither a for or against social media or tobacco take here.
The UK may be the future example of what happens when you stop producing your own food, machinery, energy and import them while pretending that shuffling financial paper around increases GDP, improves productivity and enables the bottom 75% of the population by earnings to support themselves.
A total economic collapse would result in 10% to 50% of the entire population starving to death around the entire world.
One solution to unwind the risk level is to slowly reduce the amount of debt and amount of financial derivatives over a decade or two.
Not a solution but there is a modern example where Russia defaulted on its foreign owned debt in 2022 https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...
Oddly, there is a trend of those with long standing and well entrenched political or social issues, non-profits for them, NGOs and paid-speaking tours about them doing a "our topic is the most important, needs the most government funding, needs the most news coverage,
We can and have in the past held multiple priorities in the center of political discourse, debate, news, media focus, political campaigns and government program funding.
What we are seeing is the different political / social topic industries reaching for a shrinking amount of government funding, possibility of more laws being passed for them, average citizen attention.
Some topics / areas vying for keeping their status in the "Top 20 Issues List"
Foreign Aid
Social / Gender issues
Left vs Right wing
Political party leadership, entrenched and wanting business as usual in their sunset years
Shrinking workforce, less people that pay more in tax than they receive and wealthy taxpayers immigrating to other countries and you have a long term slide with a declining tax base.
The UK government cannot get out of this by following a raise tax rates forever plan.
The longer term effect is that the UK will be a hostile place for companies, wealthy people and eventually have to fund their government overspending by paying bondholders ever increasing interest rates.
The net effect will be that younger workers will have less reason to work, and a larger reason to leave for another country.
A large demographic has lost the ability to have a rational reasoned discussion of any topic or idea that that demographic group disagrees with.
Their reaction to someone with an idea differing from their own belief is to try to shut down any discussion, personally shame, attack or punish the holder of the different idea or opinion.
The common thread is that stopping any message which does not agree with their own.
This is without even discussing the opposing idea on the merits of the idea.
Common things from them
- "we've come a long way, with more work to do" or that the activist group, nonprofit, NGO, politician needs this issue to remain so that they have a job or income stream
- assigning responsibility to a group of people instead of the tiny fraction which have done some wrong
- Dismissing a person based on their demographic group instead of discussing that person's idea
- Using stereotypes or historical misrepresentations to prevent discussion of ideas that they do not agree with
- Advocating spending other people's money to force their own idea on everyone
- Placing themselves into a judge or expert mediator role between different groups when there is no judge or mediator in that position already
- Accepting and promoting actions which are not based in legal precedents, laws enacted or existing regulations
- Advocating for, cheering on and promoting retroactive punishments or retroactive investigations into past events which were not prohibited in law at the time of the event as long as the person, company or entity being punished / investigated is from the opposite political party
- Cheering on perpetual investigations into members of the opposition political party and extending those investigations for as long as possible so that the "accusations of wrongdoing" can be repeated as campaign talking points for most or all of an election cycle.
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Limit the number of internet connected, soon to be bricked, devices you have.
How are a copyright holder or individual actor/actress going to prove that a movie used their likeness in a court of law and get paid?
Predict that we will see AI model trained on real data, then that model used to train a second generation model. The second generation model will be used to make the movies.
It's a problem because you can take a near lookalike to an actor or actress and claim that you licensed that person's likeness go generate a movie.
It is up to the software community to fix this, large industry players are not going to fix this, governments are not going to fix this, ECMA/WC3/ANSI are not going to fix this.
From the largest to the smallest, the software community has three choices:
1. Keep using an even more fragmented pyramid of software packages, "hoping" for no issues
2. Slowly, systemically reducing the number of software packages you use
3. Resetting the common standards HTML, JavaScript, HTTP, more so that they are much simpler with a lot less need for many layers of 'fixes' to make them workable. Included in this is resetting the commonly used patterns, architectures and inherit fragmentation they present both on server or in the cloud.
Yet another layer or Yet another library is how we got here.
The only solution presented by large software companies is creation of a 'trusted' registry of libraries which does not address the fragmentation and keeps any effort at simplification and security away from those same large software companies.
The path forward may be replacing scripting languages, type-less languages and everything is a dynamic object languages (JavaScript, Python) with compiled beforehand and type checked beforehand languages.
These mass conferences of the diplomatic class elites (diplomats, politicians, WEF, World Bank, UN,
A lot of slogans, TV soundbites, press releases, and international agreements which do nothing is just more of the same that past COP events resulted in.
Can we just stop ignoring that men die earlier because they work riskier jobs, are exposed to hazardous chemicals at work, sacrifice their health and body for work.
The media lie perpetuating the dismissal of risks to men at work such as "There are traditional explanations: Men smoke more. They drink more. They tend to engage in riskier behavior" needs to stop.
If media and politicians and half the population can resort to "men are stupid and need to do better", any issues affecting men can be dismissed so that government funded programs and media attention can keep attention on the other half of the population's real or imagined issues.
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Indonesia protests explained: why did they start and how has the government responded?
Anger at perks for politicians spilled over into wider protests after the death of a 21-year-old delivery driver in Jakarta
The protests began on 25 August, with thousands demonstrating outside parliament against a housing allowances for MPs that was nearly 10 times the minimum wage in Jakarta. Prabowo has simultaneously implemented strict austerity measures, including cuts to education, health and public works.
Uncompensated overtime? Just Say No.
