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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire world⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  First of all, thank you. I don’t want to be telling developing nations to halt their progress. You underscore where my mindset could be prescriptive and harmful.

  Second, my point is that we seem to only get infrastructure or ‘progress’ when it can be weaponized under capitalism to make someone money, the same way we can’t have meaningful recycling systems because it will never be profitable over virgin plastics and other single-use materials.

  My attitude has been morphing into “nobody gets second until everybody gets first plates” but for housing, accessories, tools, etc – that plays directly into the kinfs of capital equipment, network buildouts, and supply chains that deliver iPhones to us for $1,000 when the actual material, energy and human cost could be easily 30x that.

  I’m saying the paths and lanes that deliver consumer goods and experiences are obscuring the waste therein, and that they drive copper crisis just like every other scarcity crisis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire world⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We are all literally being tricked into bringing home more copper.

  I bought a whole ass Samsung S25 In February, only to discover in March that a $6 part and $20 bucks of labor made my S22 perfectly serviceable (needed new USB charging port)

  But like a dumbass I bought a phone after 3 years of waiting, and was giddy about it and I’m literally typing on the older phone now.

  I have been trying to trick myself into letting devices grow into a more full obsolescence before replacing them, and have had very poor luck in doing so.

  Plenty of this is my own impulse control, but plenty of this is by design and marketing, and if enough people are satisfied with their three years old cell phones bad things happen to your 401k and to my friends employed in South Korea.

  I realize that this is an infinitesimally smaller amount of copper, Even all-in with accessories, and the institutional and industrial requirements for copper.

  But if we don’t start to figure out some sort of degrowth, we’re going to hit that wall as others have mentioned, and it all seems to start with the marketing demand and design.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Telegram and xAI agreed a one-year deal to distribute Grok; Telegram will get $300M in cash and equity from xAI and 50% of subscription revenue⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know about any of this. I pretty much only have looked into it for porn and bootlegs of academic papers. Feels like I’m missing out on all the ‘fun’ of ai chats and cult groups.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lulwut? When did /r/TD start leaking into Lemmy. Did any of what you said have anything to do with what I said?

  Are you feeling alright, man?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Genuinely curious, what was the point of you tuoinga lol of this to put on the internet?

  I don’t know how to say this without being rude.

  I’m wondering if you’re a bot that just churns out a few semi-relevent sentences or if you thought this was going to contribute to the discussions at hand? Because it felt like it wanted to blame the victims and then pulled back at the end and I ant fathom why you stepped into the tightrope wire in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love this, so much. Blue Links have been the most critical pass to my future, across my entire life.

  Purple links often, too. I can’t imagine surrendering the ability to sift through information with my own eyes and hands and brain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The internet was founded on the sponsorship model where content was free and ads were ubiquitous. while I completely agree with you that I would rather pay for the product instead of being the product, at this informs every single sign up I make on the internet, I think it’s self deluding to think there’s any great again to go back to. The philosophy was always there, the execution just wasn’t possible until they had finished building their walled gardens

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla confirms it has given up on its Cybertruck range extender to achieve promised range⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Important thing is Musk can’t sing Billy Joel’s ‘We didn’t start the fire’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla confirms it has given up on its Cybertruck range extender to achieve promised range⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is St Elmo’s Fire made of Li-Ion or Life-Po?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Several phone brands rumored to be planning a major shift away from Android⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They got you searching for the thin line between entertainment and war.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deepfake porn is destroying real lives in South Korea | CNN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Succinct, says the quiet part outside, it has me exploring my own assumptions.

  Thanks for being a part of this community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenPin is an open-source project to revive Humane's dead Ai Pin - Liliputing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Philosophically agree with you, and would love to see it okay out exactly as you say.

  The problem with incorporating a business is that all humans therein pretty much escape liability.

  The only value is the assets and intellectual property that can be sold off to another organization. Releasing all the proprietary data brings that value down to zero.

  As usual, our addiction to market capitalism means the world is pay-to-play, and the risks will always remain higher than you or I would like or need.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenPin is an open-source project to revive Humane's dead Ai Pin - Liliputing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe because it’s got a CPU and memory, and beer waste harms us all?

  I’m all in favor of upcycling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That sounds really rough, buddy, I know how you feel, and that project you’re working is really complicated.

  Would you like to order a delicious, refreshing Coke Zero™️?