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Mostly I was objecting to young more than content creator, since it has connotations of inexperience. But yes I think in some circles books are regarded as "better" than videos. There's certainly a higher barrier to publishing books than electronic content, although obviously both and contain quality or crap.

Edit: bawolff said it better than I could

My bad :-)

Good point, misread, thanks

In that case it's useless and disbanding it is sensible, no?

As a Brit at least, the empire was doing very well out of the slave trade at some point even if there were no slaves in UK (which iirc there were some depending how the law on bringing bringing in slaves stood at the point), so I don't think we can disclaim responsibility like that. Whether we should feel personally guilty for something that happened before anyone now living was born is a different issue, but I think we should acknowledge it happened

Bournville in UK is another example. It was definitely a step up at the time, but I feel like conditions are somewhat better an century and a half later and if they would be going back to where losing your house with your job is an acceptable risk, it would now be a step down.

I'm also turning 40, but I'd much rather be like that than a young person right now..

This can be educated/advertised. A label saying "finger prints on our dvds prove they are safer for you(r children) and the environment" would be enough I suppose.

Here in Germany at least, I see less plastic packaging than there was when I came 10 years ago. For example, locally, you can take your container to the supermarket deli counter and they will fill it with cheese or meat. This is a big national chain (Edeka). I assume awareness is better in most countries than it was, and companies follow demand.

Dunno it was obvious to me that s/he meant it in a half ironic jokey way as in "I don't like exercise and I say this to justify the dislike but I know that it's not really true".

Did you read the article? She runs one of the biggest bookclubs in Hungary. That comment seems a little patronising. :)

Because they were accused of having uygar forced labour in their supply chains iirc

Annecdata, but a Chinese guy in my language class said that China was is trying to compete against quality rather than price, so maybe both are true at different points.

I'd say at least some Europeans have their own guilt to deal with, if we're saying the sins of the parents should be visited on the children... Not like the US has a monopoly on terrible history

Gonna go back to the days where the company owned your accommodation & you had a house as long as you had the job?

I think the idea is that it's not influenced by politicians who don't know anything about the topic.

Well since we were talking about replacing plastic lids with silicone it seems relevant.

I call this competence porn - a brief escape to a world where leaders are both competent and benign.

Wikipedia thinks it was most likely climate change rather than over hunting.

Guess their evolution worked in your case, although seems like a risky strategy in the long term if predators get used to the idea.

Well yes, it was a slightly flippant comment.

Again, you're thinking human centric. Maybe they could do amazing things with non metallic materials which we haven't needed or which haven't been practical for us due to the different circumstances.

It feels like an ethical low risk kind of pirating.

There are a few, we use one and my family uses another. Cinema Paradiso is one.

In practice it doesn't though. Greater efficiency just leads to higher usage, if you look into it. Total emissions go up, this is why we can't just technology our way out of this thing. We need to actually reduce total emissions not just per unit.

Ripping is pretty much undetectable though unless they decide to torrent it for others. So in practice they own it. As to the 2nd point, it's not really 1:1, a more accurate equivalent would be a netflix dvd rather than a bought one.

Streaming is also bad for the planet, it needs a ton of servers which all need energy to run and produce emissions. I don't have figures to mind right now but it wasn't nothing. I'm not sure how it compares to distribution though.

Just a hacker huh? Is a female hacker different than a male one?

To follow that: Genetic changes that have a short term advantage & a long term disadvantage, it's going to be selected for. Evolution stops caring as soon as you've got your child to child bearing age.