rodneylives@lemmy.worldtoscience@lemmy.world•Bill Gates-backed startup makes ‘butter’ out of water and carbon dioxide
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2 months agoI love it when foodstuffs get put in scarequotes.
I love it when foodstuffs get put in scarequotes.
Even 20 minutes seems like too long, but that would still be wonderful.
They also hate the idea of phone trees. Companies don’t care unless we make them not care.
Doom, for multiple reasons.
I’ve slept on an Amtrak train before. It wasn’t great, you’re in a seat the whole way and a lot depends on who you’re seated next to, unless you spring for a bed, which substantially increases the cost.
While the “recent troubles” put energy to my leaving, I have always been uncomfortable with Reddit, Twitter, Discord, Stack Overflow, Quora and Fandom, as corporate-owned repositories who work by, in one way or other, profiting off of freely contributed work.
It used to be that if someone wanted to help people with freely-given information, they’d offer it in a forum, on Usenet, or on a website they started and hosted themselves, or if it fit in there, put it on Wikipedia. Now, people add it to a freaking pile that corporations monetize. Don’t just hand them value! Put it somewhere that won’t beg you to install an app, or beg you to “upgrade” to “Nitro,” or force you to watch intrusive ads, or force people to create an account to see it, or track you! Your volunteer labor should not be a profit center!