Very automated. I've been having regular calls for a while now from all sorts of different state area codes, same exact script about a loan offer almost complete and just lacking some income info. I let any unknown number go to voice mail, and find it entertaining to see which AI voice I get this time. For a while there it was a friendly woman that had a convincing tone, but the one guy's voice they tried sounded like he needed a vacation and was over his job.
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The first Earth Day was in 1970. It might have been too late even back then to avoid any consequences because nature had been absorbing what we had already done for a long time, but it sure would have helped to slam on the brakes. We should absolutely keep trying to get those brakes pressed, but it's debatable if we're already over the cliff.
You're not a doomer if you're seeing all the evidence and putting it together. You're a realist. The label "doomer" is just reactionary from those who want to keep the status quo and don't like people pointing out reality.
We know how that ended up. Yikes.
Shift away from consumerism and go back to a more local economy. Yes, that's going to be very bad for the western world's way of life. I forfeit my extra points because there's no way to change without some disruption.
Food sources don't provide water unless there is water to grow them, and if the water is contaminated that will just end up in the food.
Corruption is a flat circle.
I'm still in awe how it gets things correct from randomness. Even the early stages years ago that were obviously bad still would get close to the idea, and now it's not that easy to determine some video origins.
I'm not talking about the morality and ethics of how it got here, but the science of how it works.
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They literally went "why having testing, when production gives us more data?"
It's not an equal comparison because there isn't a single Lemmy. And I say that from a non-Lemmy account (Mbin), furthering the point. Most people from the Reddit migration probably came here because of the decentralization factor. Think of Lemmy and the rest as subreddits but without the domination of the main site. The best any community (subreddit) can do is defederate other groups (prevent their content from being seen in their own instance) that they see as problematic, but that's all that's needed.
Imagine the Fediverse structure, but there was a single controller that any instance had to go through to filter external content, and had to obey when told to filter external content. It's a new Reddit. The freedom for anyone to set up instances with whatever content or filtering they want makes it totally different. But to the point asked, that's why you can't talk about Lemmy in a singular manner, it's not one thing. And that's good.
I've said it before, early on he should have become reclusive and hired PR people to filter his ideas out to his companies and the public, and he'd be considered a prodigy and genius and wouldn't have the self-induced failures he does. But that goes against his narcissistic personality, so it wasn't going to happen.
100% is not realistic physically. You should phrase the question as a world where everything that's possible to be recycled is recycled, and where it isn't we go back to materials that are naturally recycled or reusable. Basically a world where plastics and other materials that are one-time use are banned. It's a great topic, as we don't remotely realize how much we throw away. The scale is huge. The change in what is affordable or possible would be huge too.
We could do a lot better, and it would be impactful. Some things have to be disposable in our modern world though, at least with current technology. Just medical use alone is a big example.