ok so it’s not a perfect solution. so?

name a language that websites are written in that has less than a million users

the problem is that even if you convince 5 million people to join your union and raise your wages, the other 295 million people in the country are then gonna take the opportunity to undercut you, which leads you to be fired as “too expensive” and other people to take your job.

yeah i’ve made the same experience. they don’t seem to actually store the fingerprint across each site visit? or they do but it changes continuously. in which case, good job firefox ❤️

actually, what i’ve learned is that some people (probably the majority?) actually like being shown ads. that is, i believe, because many people have no inherent purpose of life. so they need to be told why they exist by someone else (“you must consume” is the message of ads. it gives people a purpose in life).

I also pointed out that this was highly unethical because it’s using physiological data to manipulate someone into spending money. Indiscriminately.

I said What about people with a shopping addiction.? Or kids using their parents credit cards. And you would be using this data to psychologically manipulate people for purchases but the data could be used in all sorts of other ways that really even more unethical.

marketing is highly unethical in general. however, your points are kinda invalid. sure, children can use their parents’ credit cards, but they can also burn the money with a lighter. children can do stupid things, and ideally such a purchase would be illegal and the parents eligible for a refund. or you would need a password to authenticate etc.

however what is a real problem is that advertisement poisons our environment. when you step out on the street, there’s ads everywhere. you can’t go anywhere where there’s no ads. the consequence is that your head is trapped in an eternal cobweb of “consume, consume, consume”. you must consume, there is nothing else to do. that is the true horror that modern marketing has brought to us. psychologically hacking the brain to make us think about buying stuff all the time.

yeah that can all (except language) happen browser-side easily

and language, now the website knows i speak english. there’s 1.5 billion people speaking english. that alone does not identify me.

i agree with everything besides “it’s our job to …”

yeah but now the website knows i speak english. that does not personally identify me. there are 5 billion people speaking english

ok nvm it’s 1.5 billion, still a lot.

the point with the Have’s and Have Not’s is an interesting argument. yet, you lack vision. the system you describe is (obviously) not sustainable, because ultimately you’re gonna run out of Have Not’s resources to spend. You need to develop your vision for a better world, one that can actually feed us all without slowly ruining it.

And sustainable housing is surely a part in this.

then again would it make any difference of somebody else owned these homes and charged high rents? the problem is not the owner but the high rents

we’ve had this discussion so many times, let’s have it one more time, shall we?

electricity is the most valuable form of energy. every time you want to convert energy A into energy B, you almost always do it via electricity energy as an intermediary step.

for example, if you want to convert the potential energy of water into light energy, you go: water potential energy -> turbine rotary energy -> electric energy -> light.

so, the question is, how can electric energy be converted from/to other types of energy? important types:

• electrochemical (direct reduction, batteries, galvanic cell)
• electromechanical (motor, generator)
• photoelectric (solar panel, LED)

there are some others that i’m still thinking about how to categorize (peltier effect / seebeck effect).

these are represented by major 4 integrated circuit types:

• capacitor / supercapacitor represents battery
• coil represents motor / generator (electromagnetic coupling)
• diode represents photoelectrics
• transistor for switching

the first 2 are “linear” (described by linear theory). the last 2 are semiconductor materials.

a black hole’s radius grows linear with its mass. but its volume grows with the third power of its radius. so, the more massive a black hole gets, the less dense it gets.

yeah mastodon leans in on hashtags heavily too

today i learned that loops video is still around, and it actually has some good content.

i mean, this mostly applies to american mindset. “work hard” is a function of progress; in the absence of progress, it stops making sense. and people who only knew how to work hard their entire life suddenly see that way of life ending.

there’s a lot of americans who think that way. “work hard and you can make it”. nah

you could also maybe make the cars scan street signs to tell their current location? these street signs largely already exist as human drivers have to read them too. maybe add a QR code for easier readability and extra data.

i had the same realization a while ago

you’re forgetting here that all people want to commute at the same time between 7am and 9am in the morning. so you can’t just operate 1 vehicle 24 hours around, you need the vehicles for these two hours especially and then some in the afternoon.

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