saying this while holding one of the most stressful jobs in the world is such a crazy way to come out but pop off king

wait wait, what happened to LibreOffice? I'm trying so hard to not give microsoft money ;-;

Wait, wait, let him cook

I mean if you want to talk about sequestering carbon, there's all sorts of natural lawn options that aren't actively planting an invasive species that has proven to be really bad at doing any sort of water filtration or absorption. In fact, I'd wager that planting (and letting grow) prairie or whatever your native biome supports probably sequesters more carbon, assuming your native ecosystems aren't straight up desert. Even if they are, you're now using so much less water that it's a huge net win there.

As an environmentalist, fuck Kentucky bluegrass, fuck golf, and fuck lawns while we're at it

Perhaps the frustration is exacerbated by the lack of progress relative to the amount of money spent and time since these issues have manifested. It's also particularly visible in our increasingly globalized and interconnected world.

Joke's on you, I have a humiliation kink

It's state dependent how much it's Actually Slavery™ vs. Basically Slavery©, but prison labor is still very much a thing, sadly

Yes, but why would we dismantle our free slavery system? /S (but not really)

Disco Elysium be like:

The healthcare industry is not providing you any service by buying your personal data and using it to determine that your rates should be extortion-level high. It doesn't matter that some companies are benign in their usage of your data, because there are organizations who have incentives to act on that data in ways that benefit them, directly at your expense. Do you understand what I'm saying?

Yeah, for sure lol someone could dox me and steal my identity or set me up for murder tomorrow, bad actors are bad actors. My point isn't that the data is highly abusable, though it for sure is, my point was that even the people WHO DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT YOU are exploiting your personal information for monetary gain. In, again, the case with health indicators and the medical industry, the insurance companies don't give a damn about you outside of your worth and your potential liability. There doesn't need to be any one person responsible for that fact- it's just the way the system is set up. So if they get data showing that I'm prone to leukemia genetically, then yeah, they're going to make it impossible for me to get insured at a reasonable rate, because I'm suddenly a huge risk for them.