> I could list a million things that are worse than this research, not just worse as in less useful, but worse as in actively harmful to society. The thing tha

> I could list a million things that are worse than this research, not just worse as in less useful, but worse as in actively harmful to society. The thing that comes to mind is the “manufactured ewaste” that people buy on AliExpress and Wish.com and Temu. The products on there are enticingly cheap, but are often so crappy that they rarely even get a single use, and end up in a landfill. Plastic waste is bad, but I am even more concerned with potential problems with lithium batteries piling up in landfills, not even considering the potential ethical issues with mining the resources for the battery. It’s one thing to me if the device you are actually using was made with dubious labor, it’s another if it’s a device that will immediately become waste.