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by bluescrn 3y ago
The drugs trade and sex trade will figure out alternatives within minutes of cash disappearing, and that'll enable other black markets.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Don't the poor rely on cash far more than the wealthy these days?
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Give it a decade or two of inflation, and that's cash effectively outlawed
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by bluescrn 3y ago
The Battlebots/Robot Wars metagame got so stale. It was just down to 'put as much kinetic energy into a spinning weapon as possible, and pray that you survive the first impact' I wish there'd been 'competitive robot
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by bluescrn 3y ago
We have a two-party system, and neither have real plans to solve these problems, beyond maybe raising taxes/reprioritising spending a bit to slow the decline of the NHS. The increasingly ridiculous cost of housing is at the core of the
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by bluescrn 3y ago
It might not be about locking people up, but it's about removing transport options while providing nothing in return. Living within a 15min walk of a decent job is always likely to remain a luxury. The best chance we had to seriously r
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by bluescrn 3y ago
The UK, for example, has seemingly-permanent crisis-level problems with housing, healthcare, and transport as it is. The country seems incapable of building infrastructure. Migration is a big political issue not just because of bigotry, but
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by bluescrn 3y ago
The future involves far less (legal) travel, not more, as the working class even in the richest countries lose access to cars and air travel. You will stay in your assigned district of your '15 minute city', and if you complain,
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by bluescrn 3y ago
That was the idea in the past. University now teaches you precisely what to think, and makes clear the consequences of ‘wrongthink’.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Even the original Half-Life monorail intro sequence had the player moving relative to a moving vehicle. You weren't moving on a simulated rigid-body physics object, but in practice there's not much difference - other than handling
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by bluescrn 3y ago
In my case, it was just discomfort rather than pain, the worst bit was having a metal 'temporary crown' that felt/tasted uncomfortable and wouldn't stay in place over the mostly-drilled-away tooth for a week or more whil
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by bluescrn 3y ago
If you take a car to a mechanic, the upper limit anyone will likely pay for repairs is the value of the car. If you take a human into the healthcare system, there is no upper limit.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
'While you've got good insurance, we can upgrade all your teeth now, before they get bad'? There may be stereotypes about the British having bad teeth, but I've never had a dentist try to milk my wallet like that despite
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Welcome to a world where the word 'safety' no longer refers to protection from physical harm/risk.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
I think it's rather more than a 'sentiment', at least in the UK.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
But at the same time, we may already be in the early stages of the collapse of western civilisation, with or without Russia/Ukraine escalating into WW3.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Job insecurity encourages people to live where there's a high density of jobs
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by bluescrn 3y ago
It's a meme, but not really true. Those in power rely on economic growth, and economic growth relies on population growth. To keep this going, you need ever more people but for this to be sustainable, they now need to be confined to ti
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Eliminating 'suburbia' is even more distasteful to voters than forcibly taking away meat. While city life can be attractive to young and single people, people don't want to be forced to live in Mega-City One, especially as th
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by bluescrn 3y ago
> Would standards of living really decline that much if we didn’t all have mega SUVs and the latest years iPhone? Would emissions really decline by a measurable amount if the changes were limited to that? If we're going to have any
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by bluescrn 3y ago
And this is why people are being pushed away from the environmental movement as a whole. As well as the activists blocking roads and throwing paint around. Significant changes to energy/fuel usage and transport/travel were already
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by bluescrn 3y ago
> Climate change is caused by pollution and overconsumption. We're perfectly capable to change that ... we just don't want to. Yes, we can turn rich countries into poor countries by taking away transport, energy, and protein fr
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Until private jets and superyachts are banned, it seems wrong to complain about this. It’s very wasteful, but I’m assuming it’ll ‘entertain’ a large number of people, at least. And it’s nothing compared to the waste and environmental damage
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by bluescrn 3y ago
As unpleasant as these right-wing figures are, do you really think that any of them are truly genocidal or likely to engage in military conquest? (and therefore genuinely worthy of comparison with the Nazis)
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by bluescrn 3y ago
It's amazing for about 15 minutes, then you start to feel the motion sickness, or the sweat starts to build up around the warm headset. It's just not comfortable enough for prolonged use. As well as those issues, there's the
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by bluescrn 3y ago
When they released an Apple TV with an app store, casual gaming seemed an obvious use. But they came with a controller that seemed to be designed with the goal of ensuring that it was as useless as possible for gaming (also as useless as po
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by bluescrn 3y ago
People have made replacement PCBs for the Amiga and C64 and populated them with original parts. Very niche product/project, but you can replace a damaged PCB or build a 'new' retro machine (when combined with other projects t
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Something along the lines of ‘We face a climate emergency that is even more serious than the Covid emergency, we have to do this, this is about saving lives’? (I’m not in any way a climate denier, just a huge pessimist when it comes to atte
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by bluescrn 3y ago
No, but big centralized power tends to crave ever more power, control, and surveillance
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Imagine being paid in a ‘programmable’ currency that your employer (or government) decides cannot be spent on alcohol, meat, or fossil fuels. Meanwhile, wealthier people get paid in ‘unrestricted’ currency.

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