Aesthesiaphilia

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[–] Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

carbon sequestration is not ever going to work

I don't know what you're talking about, it's a thing that is currently being done. Not some future hypothetical tech.

But yes it is too expensive for now. Costs are coming down hopefully that continues to be the case.

And yes, the best, cheapest, most efficient way to reduce ghg is to eliminate fossil fuels.

[–] Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Instead of offsets, companies should be pursuing direct carbon sequestration like with https://climeworks.com/

No estimates, no accounting magic. Just a direct measure of physical, measurable tons of carbon directly removed from the atmosphere.

[–] Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol cope more

Communism killed itself, which is good because it has an almost 100% track record of turning into dictatorship.

(Capitalism is working on killing itself but hasn't quite finished the job yet)

[–] Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I always try to remember this. SOMEONE is an absolute idiot in situations like this, but it's not always the most obvious one.

Also: someone going super slow in the fast lane. It's not always the car in front of you, especially if it's a big car. Sometimes there's a little car in front of em.

[–] Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Providing tax breaks to businesses that hire homeless people, off the top of my head.

[–] Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

True, but fixing that is way easier than somehow housing all the homeless people

[–] Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

What good is having housing if you don't have a job to pay rent?

Plenty of jobs don't require a stable address. It's a small ask to provide a PO box for homeless people.

[–] Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Judging by the foolishness of unfocused anger I see on reddit, tumblr, twitter, etc... I think it's very likely they're just incredibly stupid but well meaning people.

See also: "vote 3rd party", "oh you eat meat you must like torturing animals", "we should literally ban all cars" etc

[–] Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Honestly I don't care if it's solar, wind, geothermal, biofuel, or nuclear, as long as it displaces fossil fuels. And it's feasible on a very near time scale.

If Sweden did an honest investigation and found that renewables would be more costly and take longer, let em get nuclear.

We need an "all of the above" approach. This fight between nuclear and renewables is just stirred up by fossil fuel interests. Either is good. Both is good.

[–] Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

Why was appointing Eich as CEO so controversial? It's because he donated $1,000 in support of California's Proposition 8 in 2008, which was a proposed amendment to California's state constitution to ban same-sex marriage.

That has nothing to do with the software. And that's a tiny donation. I'm not going to stop using an excellent tool because one of the guys in charge is a bigot. If that were the case, I wouldn't be able to eat, drink, breathe, make a phone call, or do anything really. There's a lot of people out there. Some of them are bigots. We should work to reduce their influence but we can't boycott literally everything. Every alternative to Brave has at least one bigot involved in it, I guarantee it.

Brave’s replacement for ads doesn’t reward users in a meaningful amount

Not enough > 0, which is what you get without adblock. And I'm fine with occasional non-targeted and unobtrusive ads to help fund a service I use.

Brave’s BAT was built around the cryptocurrency ecosystem

Who gives a shit except crypto bros? And who gives a shit about crypto bros anyway?

Brave was also caught up in a privacy scandal in 2020, when it was revealed that the browser was adding affiliate codes to some URLs typed into the address bar.

Are these affiliate codes tracking you? No? Who gives a shit? It's more money for Brave, same webpage for you.

That should have been enough to swear off Brave as a privacy-centric browser forever, considering the entire point of affiliate links is to collect data about the user and traffic source. For example, when you click an Amazon affiliate link in a web article, the publisher can see the exact products you purchase in the timeframe the tracking cookie remains active

Brave blocks cookies by default. Unless they specifically made an exception in their own browser for these codes, then this carefully-worded paragraph is just bullshit.

Much like the rest of this article. Bunch of poo-flinging. "Brave is involved in crypto, here's all the bad things crypto has done, that's why you shouldn't use Brave". Stupid guilt by association and a lot of hot air. Bringing a smoke machine to make people think there's fire.

There's a lot of effort going into making Brave seem like a bad browser and I don't know why.

[–] Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

It sounds scary

/s

[–] Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let me just make sure I got this right

Dee is on lemmy.world

Zoop is on beehaw

This thread is on lemmy.blahaj.zone

So Dee and Zoop can see each other's comments since neither lemmy.world nor beehaw is defederated from blahaj.zone?

It's like a border state or something

 

Dog is a good boi, deserves a treat.

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