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> Imagine, I go to get groceries: > checkout machine: “sorry, you used all your carbon credits this month” > You: “but I need food!” > Checkout machine: “if
by knowaveragejoe 4y ago
> Imagine, I go to get groceries:
> checkout machine: “sorry, you used all your carbon credits this month”
> You: “but I need food!”
> Checkout machine: “if you need food, remember cricket powder is carbon net neutral”
> You: “guess I’ll eat that this week.. grumble”
> Yeah, that’s literally and explicitly what is being discussed. Maybe this scenario is exaggerated, but carbon tax credit and restricting purchases inbound.
This is trad "RETVRN" conspiracy BS verbatim. Nobody is going to force you to eat bugs or live in the pod. Let's try and do better, folks.
- calvinmorrison 4y agoAnd this is where technologists totally fail to understand the implications of the technology they push forward. Okay, get a drivers license, OK submit to speed limits, OK submit to random searches for a failed bulb, OK submit to automated license plate scanners, OK submit to marketing companies tracking your car in the parking lot. Most technologies do not exist in a vacuum, when one becomes entrenched in society, it is impossible to operate as a human without one. Even the Amish have telephones now.