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They'd sell the sky if it was possible
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I wonder how long it'll be before they'll start selling bottled purified air, or something. I could even envision metered filters as a mandatory installation for every enclosed space.
Didn't work. Put something in the brackets.
(Crud, now it doesn't appear as a link.)
What client are you using?
For me, it shows up as an embedded video (with video player controls) when using the default web UI and shows up as a looping image (without video player controls) when using Voyager. Both the version in my comment and the one in yours display the same, in both cases.
(Side note: I usually like to paste the image data into the comment rather than a URL to it so that a copy gets uploaded to the Lemmy server and doesn't depend on third-party image hosts, but whenever I try that with an animated gif it becomes a still image. 🙁 )
Firefox on a Windows PC.
And the default Lemmy UI (as opposed to Alexandrite or the one that mimics Old Reddit)?
If that's the case, then I guess it's a Windows problem 'cause I'm on Firefox on Linux. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm on "old". The syntax used to work, or maybe it's a comm thing? Couldn't get it to fly today with or without anything in the brackets.
They already do in places like Colorado. Not air but bottled oxygen for tourists not used to the lack thereof.
This may be the most Freemium thing I've ever seen in real life...
To be fair it’s oxygen and not air and designed for people who come from sea level, but yeah.
Also I can’t say I wouldn’t take them up on that. When I was a teenager I went to summit county on a snowboard trip and coming from sea level…. Despite being an athlete… I was winded just going up a flight of stairs. But your body adjusts after a day or two as long as you hydrate and don’t drink alcohol.
That does make some sense, but the whole idea of privatising the distribution of life-sustaining gasses while it isn't strictly needed gives me the creeps.
As per your example, there's still air at high altitude, and the body does just fine in adjusting to the variation; would not have a problem with medical uses for people who have cardiopulmonary issues, to be clear.
It feels like putting the pot on the burner and starting it up at Low, y'know?
Oh totally. It’s just for privileged people to have a better vacation. And honestly, when one has a bad headache one will do anything to stop it.
Without the ability to sell oxygen it wouldn't be as accessible to those that end up needing it.