The thing is: in the not to distant future encyclopedias will be a thing of the past.

Technically you could cite a version in the version history. But Wikipedia isn’t about being right. It’s about trying to get It better

Lemmy seems to be the old nerdy internet of the 90s, prior to the enshittification

Afaik NZ has already implemented such a rule.

Huh. I gave it a try, and while drunk, i just went on and on, but overall it just smelled so bad that it never became a habit. I guess i’m lucky

But… you have choice. Nobody needs to go to taylor Swifts concerts. Nobody needs to see the next Marvel movie. It’s a business.

As long as people only spend money on things that are worth more to them than said money, everyone is fine. If people can’t control their purchases, it isn’t the industry’s fault.

I’m fortunate to not enjoy popular culture in the first place.

And a lifestyle that doesn’t require cars seems incomprehensible to them.

It seems that when a dictator’s interests differ from his countries interests, the entire country becomes foreign to him

Isn’t cheap land good for anything that involves land use?

We have the north sea, quite windy and shallow enough to build tall wind Mills.

Currently the power rating is up to 10 MW and the blades are over 100m (300ft) long.

I agree

I didn’t say density is the paramount parameter. Also, once you optimize one drawback, it generally gets less important.

I just wanted to put the image into context, and show that it isn’t a big step backwards, just sideways perhaps. Or in other words, a sigle wind farm isn’t relevant, the sum is

It’s about density. Renewables Are great, but not on terms of value add per square foot. The coal under the wind mill is worth orders of magnitude more than the windmill.

And, it’s not as bad as it sounds. In general, the number of windmills keeps increasing.

I’m absolutely not surprised.

Them and chemicals in general.

Feature request: an option to aggregate all comments of crossposted posts. It would save manually going through each crosspost

His statement isn’t really about the severity of the issue, he just says that people are prone to give up

The thing is, America is culturally really influenctial. Here in Germany we have a wide variety of jobs that typically pay minimum wage. Some are service related, others aren’t. It’s roughly 20% of the workforce.

But we listen to american podcasts, watch your movies, your series and so on.

So waiters tend to get minimum wage + tax free tips, while cashiers just get minimum wage. Granted, tips are more like 10% here. I hate tips being an expectation.

To all the people here ranting about monetary debt: its not an issue. Money isn’t designed to hold value in the long term. It’s a feature, not a bug.

It’s just really unfortunate for those who play the game as if money were an asset. It’s meant for transactions, not for storage.

Yes, but most people using the term don’t know their defitition, so knowing the correct definition is of limited usefulness.

Ponzi is for Investments that offer high returns, by marking the principal as gains. Pyramid schemes sell stuff, through a pyramid of salesmen. Each one earns a percentage of the revenue of his underlings and is encouraged to recruit more underlings.

Capitalism is nothing but allowing freedom and allowing property (in contrast to posession)