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  • Plastics aren't just shopping bags. Plastics are used in clothing, machinery, solid state electronics, literally everywhere. You can't just ban a material that's been essential to the world economy for the past century, you have to replace it with something

  • two western keyboard warriors arguing over the fate of an island nation on the other side of the planet, having likely never spoken to a single inhabitant and likely never will

    reddit lemmy baby

  • out of the goodness of his heart im sure

  • Capitalists need to be regulated (forced) to play nice, without that it's gonna be the same song, same dance for the rest of time. And it's not gonna happen anytime soon by the looks of things

  • Same. And I'll chalk this up to there being multiple providers (fiber and broadband) in my area so no one can really afford to be too sloppy

  • Data harvesting is a lucrative business. You don’t need to have a good product with todays internet, you just need to have access to a lot of insanely personal data, and yahoo has both an expansive advertising network and hosts hundreds of millions of email accounts. They're just Google except they don't pretend to care about anything else

  • Yep, it seems that behind all the smiles and handshakes Zelenskyy has seen the writing on the wall

  • quick question what languages do america, mexico, brazil and haiti speak?

  • Discrimination is just American?

  • I see. My bad

  • as long as states like Iran aren't getting access

    This is kind of the whole argument against nuclear proliferation though. The more bombs that exist, the harder it is to keep it out of the hands of completely unpredictable groups like iran. You have allies to radical Islam all over the world, it's how you get the kind of coordinated terrorism on the scale of 9/11 and the Paris attacks. Even one single security slip up might be enough to completely fuck us all.

    The barrier to entry between terrorists and nuclear weapons needs to be kept watertight, rock solid, and a mile thick, and you really can’t expect that on a global scale, it's just the law of large numbers. The risks of proliferation therefore, in my opinion at least, are completely unacceptable

    Edit: also I just want to mention that the swords/guns metaphor really doesn't work because this is a problem that potentially concerns the security of literally all life on earth. There is no historical precedent beyond a few decades of REALLY precarious history. That precedent is being set every single day with every policy and every minute to minute decision. The danger to humanity is very real

  • Thanks for the (second!) completely unprovoked swipe in this thread but it's a minor inconvenience and I like my instance just fine

  • Mike though? How is there any universe where this wasn't scripted

  • Ohhh wait does it depend on the instance your account is hosted on?? And not the instance you're on?

  • no offense but i don't think I've ever heard this opinion before, may i ask why

  • You think Putins imperial Tsarist regime is gonna save you from capitalism? Russian imperialism and western imperialism are two turds from the same ass moron. All these people know how to do is steal land and inflict suffering

  • we did most of the work ourselves tbh

    step 1. invent light speed communication and connect all of humanity to each other

    step 2. do not under any circumstances regulate it or the people who control it

    step 3. lose everything

  • Europeans seem like they constantly need reminding of this. You people are also fucked for a myriad of reasons