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Except we live in 2025, and we have modern green technology enabling us to do a lot of things differently.

We can get our power from renewables, and newest sodium battery/pumped hydro/thermal storage techniques are brilliant and more eco-friendly than ever. We now have modern green fabrics, hydrogen steel, etc. etc. We now have greener agriculture technologies, as well as efficient biogas collection and utilization. You can even make some polymers, like polyethylene, out of that alone!

We have what it takes to reverse course. But following that path means upsetting fossil giants, while also investing heavily into the infractructure. And right now, it is easier for politicians to ignore the passive crowd than it is to ignore their sponsors. We need to tilt that balance.

It's no use going for collective blame and doomerism.

"We have nobody but ourselves to blame..." yeah, except that guy over there burning coal and guzzling fuel like there's no tomorrow. "The only way is to wipe humanity" ...or do something about it for once.

As long as we're here, no matter how bad it is, we have to step against it in the ways we can. It's not us who makes it so. We don't want that. And it's essential to make it a very clear and loud statement one can not turn away from.

Look up your local climate activist groups. See what can be done. Participate in protests. Do it.

I see. But sometimes, progress really makes lesser problems than there were before.

We have cheap and generally eco-friendly solar, we install plenty of wind, and now we have a much more ecological way to store the power, too.

The rich care about their profits, and if eco-friendly tech delivers that, they'll be all-in. Some fossil kings will try to stop it, but at this point, this trend is irreversible, because others among the rich are ready to destroy them.

Yes.

Here's the thing: sodium chloride aka table salt is extremely abundant. We are not expected to run out of it in any measurable timeframe, and the effect of sodium mining on the oceans or ecosystems at large is negligible.

Same cannot be said of lithium, which currently forms the backbone of battery tech. It is rare, and its extraction is extremely polluting. In fact, lithium is responsible for a huge chunk of renewable energy's ecological footprint.

Switching to sodium technology is like switching from silver to sand. It's just one thing we truly have enough of.

Linux is exactly where you should go with old computers.

With a proper distribution/DE combination, you can run it on 20+ year old computers with no issue.

But overall, if your laptop runs Windows 10, it will likely run every Linux distribution easily.

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It's not you, it's Big Tech. There's no use bundling yourself with greedy billionaires, and it may actually harm you in the long run, IMO.

Combat the inner enemies in the ways you can. You are not the one.

Everyone is attractive to someone, not necessarily by the looks, but by the spirit, character, and a personal charm.

The problem is dating apps and how they shaped our dating sphere overall.

Aside from intentionally picking mediocre partners with algorithms so you could never find a date and stay there forever, generating profits, the very structure of dating apps is super wrong.

What do you see on most of them? A big photo and a tiny bit of text, which for most people ends up very generic. But looks is only one small part of the picture, and one that doesn't ultimately decide the fate of relationships for most people. It is exactly that text part that matters, and it cannot be a one-liner.

To get to know someone, you have to talk, interact, and this very interaction is what breathes life into relationships and makes a date an actual date, and not just an evening stroll.

I am certain you know something that will be interesting, amusing, funny to someone, that some people out there would love you as a partner. But, for the love of God, do not look for that someone on dating apps. You're wasting your time and confidence in a loop designed to have you do just that.

Oh and - it is great that you don't have several dates a week. This fucks up so bad with the very idea of romance. Relationships are not bargaining chips and not scores to make track of. When you "date" like you choose your new jacket, all the magic and butterflies are gone.

You're good, don't screw yourself up and you'll be golden. Speaking as someone with mid looks and personality and a lot of social awkwardness, while being in healthy long relationships with adorable partner.

App that mimics wireless debugging device and allows you to access ADB functionality locally. Widely used to perform actions that are normally unavailable on non-rooted devices. Some apps rely on functionality provided by Shizuku - for example, Canta, which allows you to delete any app, including undeletable pre-installed ones.

Bought a 19-year-old secondhand Brother printer 2 years ago, still working flawlessly, and everything (drum, toner, etc.) is available when needed.

Lack of jobs is not a problem; the system that makes us work BS jobs or die is.

AI replacing some of the workforce is a good thing; businesses firing people they don't need anymore and state leaving them without a safety net is the core issue.

Being against a new wave of automation is just being a luddite. Yet, as religion generally supports the capitalist mode of production and conservative policy, it cannot offer a way out and just blames tools for societal shortcomings.

Vigilantes are pretty much always odd in applying their "justice".

Which is why we have police, y'know