Of course it is! We are simultaneously facing a labor shortage and mass unemployment. The important thing is to keep being angry and frightened, the specific subject you're angry about at any given time is flexible.
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You made an assertion about what end users want. I'm an end user and my desires are not the same as your desires.
But if the sentiment is that common, maybe there's something to it.
Or maybe it's just a common fallacy. Like argumentum ad populum.
My advice against getting too deeply invested applies to those companies and communities as well.
I once got permabanned from a politics subreddit (I think it was /r/canadapolitics) that had a "downvoting is not permitted" rule, because there was a guy getting downvotes and I offered him an explanation for why I thought he was getting them. That counted as evidence that I had downvoted him, I guess.
My response: I sent one message to the mods that was essentially "really?" And then when there was no response I unsubbed from that subreddit and moved on. I see no point in participating in subreddits with ridiculous rules and ridiculous enforcement.
Granted, unsubbing from politics subreddits is generally a good idea even when not banned. But eh.
The only other subreddit I'm banned in is /r/artisthate, which I never visited in the first place. Apparently they scan other subreddits for signs of users who don't hate artificial intelligence enough and preemptively ban them. That was kind of hilarious.
Anyway, I guess my advice is don't get too deeply "invested" in a community that can be so easily and arbitrarily taken away from you in the first place. And also manage your passwords better.
It's not specifically oxygen that's linked to life, it's chemical disequilibrium. Oxygen is highly reactive, there are lots of minerals that will bind it up and there aren't any natural geological processes that unbind it again in significant quantities. If you put an oxygen atmosphere on a lifeless planet then pretty soon all of the oxygen will be bound up in other compounds - carbon dioxide, silicon oxides, ferric oxides, and so forth. There has to be some process that's constantly producing oxygen in vast quantities to keep Earth's atmosphere in the state that it's in.
There are other chemicals that could also be taken as signs of life, depending on the conditions on a planet. Methane, for example, also has a short lifespan under Earthlike conditions. You may have seen headlines a little while back about the detection of "life signs" on Venus, in that case it was phosphine gas (PH3) that they thought they'd spotted (turns out it may have been a false alarm). These sorts of gasses can be detected in planetary atmospheres at interstellar distances, especially in the case of something like Earth where it's quite flagrant.
Even if these are sometimes false alarms, in a "Dark Forest" scenario it'd still be worth sending a probe to go and kill whatever planets exhibit signs like that. It's a lot cheaper and quieter than trying to fight an actual civilization. That's why I can't see why we wouldn't have already been wiped out aeons ago in this scenario.
Yes, that's exactly what I'm doing. Though specifically this community, not Lemmy as a whole (I'm not a Lemmy user myself for that matter).