Absolutely, we should completely stop coal mines, that’s the easiest and most effective thing to do to fight climate change, especially in rich countries that have access to cleaner alternatives.

That being said, I understand that regions where coal mining is the only activity need to be helped with it, firing hundreds of coal miners is not acceptable, and that’s probably why closing/opening mines still sparkle a lot of debates

There’s a nice song from Sting about it btw, “We work the black Seam”

I think I understand a bit better now, thanks for your interesting comments !

I get that taste has a lot to do with it, but usually when I read one of the SF “classic”, even though I don’t like it I can see what other people like in it. Ubik is really one of the first where I didn’t understand this. I just read an article saying that what I consider a lack of connections between the different part of the story is in fact a writing effect, to make readers have a “dreamy feeling” while reading the book. I hadn’t considered it that way, and was looking to analysis like this, I’m not trying to tell people my taste is better, just wanted to have their input on the book

Who controls the couriers though

Not blockable by any government would be a positive in my book if it didn’t imply bloclable by a single billionaire with huge mood swing. Don’t forget how musk switched off starlink in Crimea at Putin’s request when the Russian realized starlink guided missile were heading towards their ships (Source

Are you sure about that? Joinmastodon indicates 819k MAU, would you have a source you can share ?

“Millions of people” if only…

The kind of sentence you write when you’re still 20 words from the target your editor set for the article

You’ll never allow him to leave the sandbox?

A new trap from Stephen king!

I’m sorry I’m not English so I’m used to Euros, I wasn’t sure if the £ was supposed to be before or after

Because I live in another country, a non English speaking one, so there’s zero chance that thud book will make it to my country thrift store

12£ is just the book, no shipping included.

Making a X10 markup on something you bought from a charity is infuriating imo

And sorry for finding basic capitalism infuriating.

X10 markup on a product you bought from a charity is not a reasonable price imo

It’s already illegal in the EU, several influencers have had trouble with the law because of this in my country (France)

There’s an intern inside the server that checks every transaction by hand

If I may, what do you do with 84TB in your Nas ?

Aggressively writes a backdoor in COBOL

I’ve never seen Douglas Adams and a LLM in the same room together 🤷

You should try thinking out of the box

Welcome to Lemmy btw