[-] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Video games haven't been worth playing for a long while now.

[-] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

😨 And people are just okay with this?

[-] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

They sure are, bro. They sure are

[-] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

It would take 5, maybe 10 years at most to build a Lofstrom loop making it possible to send out unmanned mining craft en masse, and then have the craft process minerals in zero g and then dump the calcium into the ocean. Furnish the magnesium into rebar and run a current theough it when it's stuck in the deep sea. We could even build nice seasteading islands at the same time with that approach -- create more living space while undoing the damage we've done to the oceans. Win-win.

Governments are running experiments on SSPSes now, in no small psrt because of climate change.

We absolutely can and should take the space approach now while we still have time.

Speaking of time, we can and should launch a solar shade up there to immediately stop the warming to give us the time we need to decarbonize, and clean up the oceans and forests. A solar shade will cool the Earth without the baggage and environmental problems associated with dumping sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere as the U.S. and EU are considering.

Of all the options, the solar shade might be the most mandatory, and would be very doable cheaply with a Lofstrom loop.

[-] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Actually, I used to be a janitor, and you're wrong.

Janitors have free access to the building, including to rooms with sensitive equipment and papers, when no one is around, and have the ability to steal shit, perform industrial espionage, destroy equipment, and otherwise completely fuck over their employers if they so choose. That's why you have to have credit checks, background checks and sometimes even security clearances before you can get a lot of janitorial jobs.

Plus if the janitor doesn't do their job and leaves the place a mess, the salesperson can't invite the client in and make that sale. They could go out to a restaurant, but that further drives up costs.

So it's not in actual fact that simple.

[-] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Ultimately, it's a good thing, because it's making people leave that cesspool and actually go to other websites.

[-] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

No you don't get what I'm saying, because I am explicitly telling you I am not playing your game. My ethics are my personal boundaries, not trivialities up for debate. OP wanted to know what they were, so I shared them. That does not make it open for debate, nor is my refusal to allow it to be put up to debate, up for debate.

Take the hint and go away.

[-] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Sounds like you need to get the last word to win something, and you'll prove that you need the last word by running your mouth again. Here, go ahead:

[-] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

It's reductive because it's not meant to convince you. It's simply what is. You asked me why I thought it is moral and those are my reasons why, and they're gonna stay that way whether you like it or not. They don't have to be reasonable or sensible or in line with your worldview. You don't have to agree with them. They don't even have to make sense to you. They're MY reasons, and they are valid simply because I hold them, because I say they are, because I decide what's ethical to me and what's not. That's all.

And you have to put up with that whether you want to or not.

[-] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for telling us you're just meaninglessly concern trolling and for proving debate is fucking pointless

[-] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Dude, stop. They don't want to run a business, they want a guarantee of security, and by rights they are entitled to that. If you don't agree, that's your problem, but don't come up on here thinking their complaints are a threat to your society thinking you have to change their way of thinking to quell it.

We're abandoning you whether you like it or not :P

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