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A Boring Dystopia

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They'd sell the sky if it was possible (discuss.tchncs.de)
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[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

I wonder how long it'll be before they'll start selling bottled purified air, or something. I could even envision metered filters as a mandatory installation for every enclosed space.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Didn't work. Put something in the brackets.

something goes here

(Crud, now it doesn't appear as a link.)

[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What client are you using?

For me, it shows up as an embedded video (with video player controls) when using the default web UI and shows up as a looping image (without video player controls) when using Voyager. Both the version in my comment and the one in yours display the same, in both cases.

(Side note: I usually like to paste the image data into the comment rather than a URL to it so that a copy gets uploaded to the Lemmy server and doesn't depend on third-party image hosts, but whenever I try that with an animated gif it becomes a still image. 🙁 )

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Firefox on a Windows PC.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

And the default Lemmy UI (as opposed to Alexandrite or the one that mimics Old Reddit)?

If that's the case, then I guess it's a Windows problem 'cause I'm on Firefox on Linux. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

I'm on "old". The syntax used to work, or maybe it's a comm thing? Couldn't get it to fly today with or without anything in the brackets.

[–] inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They already do in places like Colorado. Not air but bottled oxygen for tourists not used to the lack thereof.

[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This may be the most Freemium thing I've ever seen in real life...

[–] inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

To be fair it’s oxygen and not air and designed for people who come from sea level, but yeah.

Also I can’t say I wouldn’t take them up on that. When I was a teenager I went to summit county on a snowboard trip and coming from sea level…. Despite being an athlete… I was winded just going up a flight of stairs. But your body adjusts after a day or two as long as you hydrate and don’t drink alcohol.

[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

That does make some sense, but the whole idea of privatising the distribution of life-sustaining gasses while it isn't strictly needed gives me the creeps.

As per your example, there's still air at high altitude, and the body does just fine in adjusting to the variation; would not have a problem with medical uses for people who have cardiopulmonary issues, to be clear.

It feels like putting the pot on the burner and starting it up at Low, y'know?

[–] inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago

Oh totally. It’s just for privileged people to have a better vacation. And honestly, when one has a bad headache one will do anything to stop it.

[–] desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 3 days ago

Without the ability to sell oxygen it wouldn't be as accessible to those that end up needing it.

[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] Rooty@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

I never expecter Spaceballs to correctly predict the future.

[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I have been blissfully ignorant until now, it seems...

How can things be THIS much worse than what one would expect?

[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Your expectations were too optimistic.

A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals, and you know it.

Agent Kay, MiB

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

George Carlin

(By the way, the average American has the literacy level of a 5th-6th grader now, so that's about 160 millionish people basically dumber than 6th graders, 11 year olds)

[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I think you're right. I do have a problem with misplaced hope, I'm noticing...

[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 hours ago

I used to as well.

I was going to post you a link of Land of Confusion cover, but I broke down into ugly crying for 10 minutes... something in it triggered me, remembering all the high hopes I used to have for humanity...