That painting on the wall could potentially fall and break in a hazardous way. The point is: regulation for its own sake is theater and it’s impossible to account for every conceivable risk. If a product is plausibly harmful under normal usage, sure. If it causes cancer when force-fed to rats in impossible proportions? Leave it be, study further perhaps.
You willing to apply that logic to every unnecessary decoration in your life?
The more you study geoscience the angrier you’ll get about it all, trust me.
Sure, but consider that North Sentinel Island has been mostly isolated for tens of thousands of years. 23 square miles. That’s how small of a rock we can cling to. Resource availability is the big question mark of course, and the exact nature of global ecosystem collapse and the water wars can’t be known exactly, but my money is on “at least one sustainable holdout” somewhere.
Hopefully they can eventually scavenge the good bits of our mountains of waste.
Sure, but I’m unconvinced that would scrub the entire surface clean. Desertification of huge swaths not near the poles, ocean pH plummeting from carbonic acid causing a mass extinction of most plankton, algae, and the life that depends on them, and the end of countless evolutionary lines. But if there’s a temperate zone in Antarctica, or even a swampy tropical jungle, there’s gonna be humans eating snails and xylem for however long it takes something to start sequestering carbon again.
We bounced back from a 100,000 year bottleneck with a population of 1200. We’d seal that many in an underground cave complex with naught but lichen and crickets to eat before we rolled over and died out.
The empires will fall but the species will remain. We would have to kill the entire planet’s ecology for humanity to go extinct, we’re too good at adapting.
That’s the urban/rural divide, same thing in every state.
Marginally superior. They’ve got their own problems with right-wing politics, genocidal past and continued mistreatment of native peoples, foreign investors upending local economies, unsustainable extraction of natural resources, and they’re still connected to a heriditary monarchy for fucks sake. But they have better healthcare and safer cops.
It should be a hell of a lot higher, but the people with the power to change it are the only people who would be punished, so…
All nationalism is bad nationalism because it necessitates a narrative of exceptionalism and lessers.
Because Biden is not and will never be a progressive.
Well I was born well after McCarthyism destroyed all semblance of good-faith discussion of leftist politics, and the current world order is not just America’s fault. Rupert Murdoch has been one of the most influential figures in that regard, his propaganda apparatus has pushed the entire Anglosphere right.
Many Americans don’t to be like us either, but we seem to be losing.
The inverse is more impressive to me.
But it can be defeated by trying slightly harder. Multiple characters, inconsistencies, adding slang and loanwords, the same tricks we’ve always used to get around censors and oversight.
Of course we’d have to keep it out of their training data and constantly change it… cyberpunk future is exhausting already.
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We flip idioms all the time. Head-over-heels is another one, used to be the other way around. I suspect it’s a subconscious thing as both moved the long e sound to the end and we prefer vowel sounds in particular orders and rhythms.
“Just lay down and let bad things happen forever, it’s better to let a million people die than shoot a single villain.”
I’ve got bad news about every country on Earth.
I played Yahtzee once and now I hustle back alley Craps foe drug money.
That’s a solid argument: we have several ways to achieve the same result and should limit the riskiest because market forces aren’t going to correct for them. Much better than “get rid of this one possibly risky thing because I don’t personally value it.”