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by abyssin 7y ago
You can say you life is good with these features, but how can you say it's better? How did you compare? Here's another question. Is practicality the adequate criteria to judge the ethical implication of some behaviour?
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by abyssin 7y ago
Better hope there's no issue with the pollution caused by the energy needed for the additional commutes.
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Aviation is a topic anyone can understand. It's mostly used as a luxury, so it's easy to justify lowering its usage.
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by abyssin 7y ago
One feature that FF has and Chrome doesn't, is the abiliy to edit and reset an http request.
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by abyssin 7y ago
And the fullscreen mode of Firefox doesn't seem to be very well integrated to me. It's the only feature that is still superior with Chrome. I wish there was a way to maximise screen space used by the page displayed itself.
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by abyssin 7y ago
Yes there is, but it is statistically countered by the benefits of physical exercise that cycling provides. Car drivers are also exposed to pollution, although they don't breathe as heavily.
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by abyssin 7y ago
You could visit Amsterdam or Copenhagen, they aren't exactly tropical cities. And the situation isn't binary. Because switching to something else than individual cars as the default mode of transportation doesn't mean there&#
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by abyssin 7y ago
For some, it stems from values that differ from the norm, ie. antispecism, and values have something to do with religion. It allows for virtue signalling. But I don't see rituals associated with veganism.
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by abyssin 7y ago
I recently started adding Points of Interest to OSM using OsmAnd during my holidays, and the biggest obstacle for me was the number of available categories. The list is huge! I haven't started tracking my GPS position full-time because
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by abyssin 7y ago
I became a developer partly because it looked like the best career for a nomadic lifestyle, for which I'd need to work remotely. But I ended up dropping the nomadic lifestyle and I can no longer see myself working from home without suf
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by abyssin 7y ago
> "If yokeless axial-flux machines replaced only a fraction of the older machines, we would save our customers some money and make the planet more livable while we’re at it." The engineering feat is impressive and exciting, but
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by abyssin 7y ago
I spent some years reading on the topic of psychedelics and this book would have saved me a lot of time. It's an enjoyable read, a nice story, and it covers most aspects of the topic.
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by abyssin 7y ago
Maybe it's a social thing where it feels better when you're not alone?
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by abyssin 7y ago
I don't understand why this needs to be said, and I agree with you. There's no point owning a car that is more expensive only because if has to face specific conditions one or two days a year. Renting a car seems to be the obvious
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by abyssin 7y ago
Machining bamboo is also harder on the tools because of its high silicate content.
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by abyssin 7y ago
There's a paradoxical incentive to write comments about topics that nobody knows about. It is true that bad comments get downvoted on subjects where there are many experts. But there might be many of us that for no good reason would li
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by abyssin 7y ago
I can find myself in your description. One thing I conscientiously do in the hope of not being an asshole is using my assertiveness to publicly praise those brilliant introvert coworkers that I feel deserve more recognition than they get.
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by abyssin 7y ago
As Mises wrote: "When we call a capitalist society a consumers' democracy we mean that the power to dispose of the means of production, which belongs to the entrepreneurs and capitalists, can only be acquired by means of the consu
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by abyssin 7y ago
Plastic waste looks like a very small problem compared to CO2 emissions. Cutting CO2 emissions is much harder than acting on plastic waste, and we no longer have time for small actions. We need to radically lower our consumption of goods of
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by abyssin 7y ago
Neoliberalism replaces the citizen with the consumer. Voting with your wallet is part of the ideology that destroys public power, creates short-term selfish thinking and behaviour. So I don't think counting on wallet voting makes much
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by abyssin 7y ago
I don't think anyone should accept that someone who's paid to provide a service is entitled to expect their client to be available for dating.
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by abyssin 7y ago
I enjoyed watching his documentary, but I'm not part of sailing circles. In what way is it considered controversial?
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by abyssin 7y ago
This is the crucial part. If the transport depends essentially on petrol, why care about the plastic? Plastic comes from petrol and is first used as a container, then to produce heat when burning it. If single-use container helps improve th
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by abyssin 7y ago
This is a fair point. But couldn't there be a different engine to technological progress?
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by abyssin 7y ago
I think the abstraction of humanity as a group of which every human being is part of is something that many people understand. People care about the messages they hear, and most of them still hear a message that says there's no real is
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by abyssin 7y ago
Our enemy might be an economic system based on growth that gives critical political power to groups of people that don't actually care about decreasing carbon emissions. True, economic growth makes everyone richer. But if we don't
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by abyssin 8y ago
I see two big differences between music and news. The first one is that good music stays good. The second one is that bad music doesn't pose any democratic problem.
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by abyssin 8y ago
How about your children breathing the same air as everyone else and sharing the same planet? Cars are a small exception in the way human have been moving around.
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by abyssin 8y ago
Where can I find a place that feels more like it was here five years ago?
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by abyssin 8y ago
Not sure there's much money to be made there, as many of the psychedelic compounds are both cheap to produce and unpatented.

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