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Wait, why would wind and water be rare on other planets? Finding good places to do water-based renewables is probably gonna be difficult on most planets, but shouldn't most planets with atmospheres have wind?

Since it's unscientific for me to assume your experienced pain, there's no moral reason why I should let my assumptions affect my behavior. Consequently it's just as moral for me to eat a potato as it is for me to eat you alive. Am I understanding you correctly? If not, please explain what your standpoint has to do with the discussion, as you've already ignored my previous attempt to bring it back to the topic.

No, I'm simply going by my best guess, informed by what I know about the current state of research. That's not conclusive evidence, but it is morally incredibly hard to argue against it.

After all, I cannot measure pain for humans besides myself. You may just be a philosophical zombie. When I'm treating you like you can experience pain, I'm presupposing your feelings. What if you're programmed to act scared of pain & secretly wish to experience it?

I do not know. Does that mean you may have a lesser pain experience than plants? How should that affect my decision making?

You only quoted part of their question. Yes, plants react to pain, but that doesn't mean they feel pain the same way a lobster does.

I switched to LibreWolf when the privacy policy fiasco happened a while ago. It's funny how every few weeks Mozilla manages to demonstrate why I won't switch back.

The new CEO has also already lost me with this gem:

He says he could begin to block ad blockers in Firefox and estimates that’d bring in another $150 million, but he doesn’t want to do that. It feels off-mission.

Even taking the statement at face value, it's unacceptable for it to just "feel off-mission". It should be a clear "no, never" instead of some wishy-washy answer.

But reading between the lines, such a statement is not just an off-the-cuff remark, but at best a threat to their users, and at worst a way to gauge the blowback of such a decision. They must have already taken it seriously enough to come up with the $150 million.

If I had to put up a number, I'd guess there's a 25+% chance that Firefox will drop Manifest V2 in the next few years.

Why? Combustion engines are a dead end. European car companies ignored this and kept focusing on ICEs. Now they're falling behind on EVs, and the solution is... to focus more on ICEs?

At best this will buy the car industry a couple additional years, but doing so will make the crash afterwards even worse.

Sure, that's fair, but 1) you're just one user out of many thousands, and 2) stuff like "multiple 4 minute ads in a video" is usually rolled out through A/B testing, so many users probably never saw it.

Hm... It's suspicious you haven't mentioned any money going to Bavaria. Are you one of them dirty Greens?

Apps and video games have been thoroughly enshittified, at least on mobile, but also partially on desktop. Amazon Prime is also still very successful and people have not stopped watching Amazon shows entirely.

Do you see the major difference? In audio streaming, most providers have most content. In video streaming, single providers have most content. That means video streaming will get enshittified much more quickly.

Ah yes, who could forget that the US is at war with Venezuela

The article opens with:

LOCAL AUTHORITIES HAVE been instructed to implement 30km/h speed limits in built-up and urban areas “where appropriate” by 2027.

Now, do you really think "where appropriate" includes roads built for 100km/h?