Part of what makes plastic useful is that it DOESN’T DECOMPOSE.

What’s the use-case for stronger than steel material that rots in 3 weeks? State Fair buildings? Concert bleachers?

If you can make plastic bags out of it for groceries that would be useful. Doesn’t have to be stronger than plastic though, just equally flexible.

Seem fairly sound and self evident. Obviously there can be disagreements on judgement, but I can’t think of an scenario where the greater evil should not be opposed.

Different strokes.

I had my wife and best friend using signal until they dropped support for sms. Switching between apps was too much for us.

If nothing else the fall in birth rates world-wide will lead to political instability.

If they can maintain the infrastructure of wealth without workers they won’t care what people do, and if they can’t then the surveillance will collapse with the supply chains.

Either way there is an other side to this dark tunnel, not without suffering and death, but there is still hope for resistance to the new facism.

Economies that worked without cash still had debt.

Debt and obligation do not require money, but they do require people that will give you the things you need in exchange for “I’ll owe you one.”

Genz is 13 to 29 nowadays. Kids that age today are alpha.

Also kids that age in the photo unsupervised today can get their parents arrested.

Absolutely.

When you were growing up there were places you could go to be social without phones. Those don’t exist anymore. You can’t go to the mall and meet strangers, that would be weird and creepy. If you turn 21, bars do not have young people in them, they are for older people.

There is nowhere gen z people can go to meet other gen z people except online.

I know there is an exception somewhere but for the vast majority of young people today that’s the truth.

Fox happened in the 90’s, boomers were fucking shit up as far back as Reagan.

Not an expert but I am a patient.

Immune system reset is already a type of therapy for MS. Lemtrada and Mavenclad are two brand name drugs that work on this principle. You don’t take them for life. That’s good because they make you very ill, but after 2 rounds of treatment you can go years without needing any further therapy.

Could the measles virus work better than these drugs? Maybe, but all the reasons at the top of the comments present challenges.

DEI was always about hiring the best candidates instead of the cronies and nepo babies which you would know if you bothered to read anything about it.

Some of them wanted it out of government. The fundies of the day we’re willing to go along because their parents and grandparents were chased out of England for being wackados.

All of the practices in the book are inspired by real history.

If someone doesn’t want to date you because of gossip they read online, then you dodged a bullet. The garbage took itself out.

Do you think X should be shut down because some users use it irresponsibly?

Reddit?

Lemmy?

It’s not about fairness for them. It’s just power.

Removed by mod

Sigh.

Let them. Let them lie. They don’t care about truth, evidence, or justice. Why should we care what they lie about?

Exactly. They don’t want a white ethnostate, and they wouldn’t appreciate the level of totalitarianism it would take to pull off that kind of ethnic cleansing.