I wasn't on the list but I feel included now. Thank you deranged manchild of the fediverse.

Yeah this type of satire has lost all meaning and amusement when we realized there are many people taking this shit seriously and they have voting rights.

I don't think there's any positive environmental impact tbh. Plastics made from petrol tend to be made from by-products of the gas industry and are cheap and readily available. Plastics made from bio-sources sound eco, but actively require land and water to produce and it's not like they break down somehow better when released in the environment so are in fact net worse. Sounds like green washing to me.

Well no I don't and I agree but the problem with the great filter theory is that currently the only way to prove it is real is to confirm it through human extinction which is paradoxical for us as a species.

Technically a great filter would assume the species is extinct before it goes intergalactic, but if billionaires can somehow survive on their own on a wasteland planet and achieve long range travel and leave a detectable mark on the universe, then the filter did not in fact apply even with a fraction of the population remaining. The great filter doesn't care if the working class gets to be the one to leave the mark, only that the species overall does. Also the marks left can just be endless capitalistic destruction and ruin.

We may be inteligent as a species but we are not wise. Since we exist already as a species in this universe, adding just one attribute doesn't seem that outlandish to obtain a better more successful version of us that can avoid the filter. Even for us, we don't yet know if the filter is real and if it will apply to us or we will only cause it to other unfortunate species that share the same planet as us.

On one hand supporting a product with parts only for 6 months after it's discontinued is unacceptable. On the other hand, most manufactures don't even do this or offer parts at all. It's a pretty sad state of affairs when it comes to right to repair.

That is surprising. I've had two in the last dacade, the last one bought 3 years ago and they are around 60dB which is standard from what I've seen. I checked the local midea models and they still say >60dB in their spec. No decent central or split system gets close to that kind of noise and personally I find it impossible to live with.

I've tried this many times over the years but when the walls are already heated up and the temperature outside stays high during the night it makes very little difference to confort levels. The heat just radiates from the walls and heats the inside air all night. Until I got proper air conditioning installed I just suffered during the summer.

When it's 40°C outside during the day and 27°C during the night the apartment doesn't get the chance to cool down and fans only move hot air around. Portable air conditioners keep the dead alive with their noise while also cooling about as well as a wet rag. I totally understand the desperation of just sleeping outside during the night.

Keeping your head down, worrying only about your own problems is exactly what the Epstein class wants out of you. Don't ask, don't question, don't push, just lie down and take it.

Every little thing in the car has a computer and they have kilometers of wire connecting it all. You would need hundreds of Raspberry PIs with CAN and LIN communication capabilities.

While developing a new car each of those computers has a team of developers and testers working for two or more years on that single thing, so in total a few thousand people have touched just the electronics in that car. Even if they cared about your privacy no single person would ever be able to know for sure what software is running on what hardware in every corner of that car.

The only way you'd get a feasible DIY car is with 1950s or 60s technology which is illegal to sell in most developed economies.