Call it data prison. Once they get your files, they don’t give them out, hold them hostage for a fee you pay.
You can just call it capitalism. Almost every problem with everything listed is actually a capitalism problem not something inherent to itself.
All of those existed way before capitalism. Except the ones that require technology more advanced than what they had available.
But… But… Number must go up!
Monoculture farming is pretty much the only thing that’s keeping billions upon billions from starvation and is pretty much the foundation of society.
There’s also not that much wrong with it. You can absolutely do modern farming sustainably, it’s just many don’t. So, like all companies, farmers need to be forced to do the right thing.
Also, the Netherlands is basically a giant floodplane, and wetre all fine. It’s not our fault other places have a skill issue.
Nah, golf’s great.
Yeah, if you live in Scotland. Basically anywhere else and it’s an ecodisaster wrapped in massive land wastage.
Thank you! So many AI bros keep going “then why aren’t you against xyz?” And I’m like, I am? I can actually have a consistent moral framework?
Lawns are fine. Having lawns and nothing else is a problem. Filling your lawn with chemicals is a problem. Most people I know who have lawns don’t do that. They also have rich borders and beds and planters and wild areas. I post a different pic everyday here of bugs I find in my garden; the grass and clover and soil itself is full of life. Most people need an open space to play or entertain or whatever, and a lawn - though not a wildflower meadow - beats decking or concrete.
Edit: disregard this comment, I mistranslated lawn in to garden/backyard, i am not native english
Filling your lawn with chemicals is a problem
NileMr. Green sweating in the cornermost lawns are monoculture, water hungry and non native
the native focused setups being the few alternatives but those are not really lawns
I don’t think your first statement is true. Most people I know or places I’ve lived in or been have a mixed, lived‑in garden where the lawn is one component of a wider ecosystem. Most don’t look like the green on a golf course.
A lawn with clover, moss, daisies, micro‑wild patches, little plants I can’t even name that drift in on the wind, and healthy soil full of ants and worms and beetles and spiders and things I need to photograph and identify is not a monoculture. It’s a low meadow kept short that hosts plenty of life.
Go take a look in any real garden or lawn for 10 minutes. You’ll find life.
this is just based off of info i’ve read on the internet so i can’t say i’ve tested it myself but most ‘nice’ lawns i’ve seen with people i’ve actually talked with do at least weekly watering outside of normal rainfall
i know for a fact none of the lawns here are native because this area used to be a swamp
as to the mono culture all the lawns here are even, maybe two types of grass sometimes
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1618866724002589
I water my lawn once or twice a week when it’s dry. Nothing crazy, just a misting for 10-15 mins. I don’t think it’s wasting water to help an ecosystem blossom. The vast majority of grass seed we see in the UK would be native grasses. Mine is mixed hardy horse paddock grass. Grows like wildfire, and the bugs love it.
I still think even monoculture grass lawn is a good middle ground between nothing living at all and a wildflower meadow or the like. Not everyone cares about the plants around them, but grass and soil beats concrete or bare earth.
Monoculture lawns create massive gaps for various bugs that can’t transverse those gaps to eat, hide, breed, lay eggs/reproduce, hibernate for winter - and that impacts all the other species up and down the chain, from birds to microbial life. Mono culture lawns also limit the fungal life, which limits microbial life. Both those being limited along with introducing gaps where there once were highways for life means species dwindle, and that causes other species of plants and animals to dwindle. It’s a fucking massacre of life just to be “fine”. That hardly seems reasonable and fine to me.
As I said, a monoculture lawn is better than concrete or bare earth. I’m by no means a fan. I agree with you that they’re shit, but most I know simply aren’t that at all. They’re healthy and host a variety of life.
Just one?
Nobody wants to get datacenter chlamydia
I would think space tourism would be cool if the normal person could afford it.
And maybe add “we can get up there without putting tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere”
Gigantic Catapults.
Well yes, but have you ever really given golf a chance?
Maybe you will like it…
I feel like one possible future where I go to jail is when a conversation goes like
Me: “That thing you’re doing is unnecessary, bad for the environment, and bad for society.”
Them: “But I like it”
Me, screaming “BUT I LIKE IT” while I punch them in the face over and over and over and over.
Liking something is not a trump card that supersedes all other concerns, and yet some galaxy brains act like it is. Much more respect for people who can admit “I don’t care about the environment or society” out loud.
well put. and the worst part is the chuds who want to use public funds to pay for their habit - get FUCKED with that garbage, it’s a racist, shitty waste of a ‘sport’.
Golf in trimmed greens is noob-level, give me extreme golf in an untrimmed mangrove
And alligators….
I’m in Florida’s, gators love golf courses.
