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  • Tell me more about how freezing water is the end of civilization.

    Just because people are paying a premium for it doesn’t make it any worse than the bags of ice at the grocery store.

    Ice was one of the first things humans used to keep things cold, and was super important on the path to refrigeration and freezing.

    While I know a lot of technologies are overused, and capitalism twists them to disgusting ends, but refrigeration is a massive boon for making food last longer. Most American families just have ones far larger than they need and as such they end up wasting food instead of getting fresh food regularly and using it all up before it goes bad in the fridge. I personally enjoy a small fridge.

    Also, freezers and refrigeration are an integral part of the medical sciences.

    Anyway, personal opinion, this is pretty innocuous compared to like, jet travel between Seattle and Portland.






  • Oh no I’ve heard of China’s 9-9-6 and such, but it’s definitely American political and social influence that is helping push Europe right.

    I would namecheck China if I thought China was the one influencing them like this, but the American cultural and legal influence on Europe is plain to see.

    Like examples such as when Sweden was influenced by US media companies to put the guys from The Pirate Bay in jail prison, but those same companies are more or less okay with making “deals” with AI companies despite the AI companies having done what The Pirate Bay admins did but by ten-thousand-fold if not more.

    Anyway, yes, the rest of the world often has even worse options, but Europe (in general) has pretty good social and worker protections, and it’s not China exerting it’s influence to reduce worker protections in Europe. China seems happy just kicking back and letting the West make all the mistakes.

    EDIT: typos, clarification






  • People have forgotten because he turned out to be a sex pest…

    But once upon a time Louis CK would get annoyed with piracy and sell copies of his new standup show at $5 with a no DRM copy of the file, just politely asking people to not pirate.

    He made $5 million almost overnight which helped fund his foray into television with Louie which was on TV for five years.

    This literally was the thing that took his career to the next level. Where he went from a comic with a pretty okay career to one with a massive career.

    He used to do the same for other comedians, too. I bought a couple Todd Barry specials from his website the same way: $5, DRM-free media files.

    I still have all those files backed up.