GreyEyedGhost

Then I guess you aren't alone.

Okay, but you're glossing over the point, so let's talk about black holes. They are part of our universe, information can go in past the event horizon, but no information can come out past the event horizon. Are they connected? Yes, absolutely. Can we collect any information from them, beyond a few basic physical measurements (gravity, momentum, rotation, mass-energy)? No, that whole event horizon again. So are you proposing that causality doesn't exist in black holes, doesn't exist in our universe, or that maybe we can have an interconnected system with a one-way transfer of information?

Again, I'm sure someone with a PhD could not only come up with better reasons for the flaw in your assessment, but has probably already articulated it somewhere. Perhaps you should search that up.

If everyone started doing it, things would have to change at airports! I'm just not sure they would change for the better...

Well, there's a neighborhood handshake where I live. It starts with a knife and ends in the other person's guts, so I guess there's that. 🤷‍♂️

"Your honor, I object!"

"On what grounds?"

"On the grounds that it will be devastating to my case!"

"Overruled!"

"Good call."

I get the feeling it will cause irreparable harm to their bottom line. They may have to pay employees more instead of paying them in optimism the company will be wildly successful.

But the hero also engages in vigilante behavior in order to get the bad guys, and they're all for that, so I can see the confusion.

Almost nothing Reacher does is laudable in real life, no more than Bauer in 24. It would be a poor morality play...if that's what you thought it was.

If you're the only one, could you please retire your other accounts? I don't overly have a problem with you voicing your opinion, no matter how poorly thought out I may believe it to be, but I don't need to see it from all these different accounts.

They allow you to share ideas, possibly without monetization! How is that not communism?!

There is no requirement for a subset of something to have the same properties as the superset. Just because everything in our universe is interconnected is no guarantee that the same applies to the hypothetical universe in which our simulation is run. This is ignoring that the idea is that we can't see out of the simulation, i.e., there is no uncontrolled information being inserted into the simulation. This doesn't preclude static from the outside impacting us in some measurable way...such as a background level of noise that is pervasive in the simulation, like the CMB.

I don't know if we're in a simulation, but a lot of people smarter than me and more knowledgeable in the field have come to the conclusion that this idea isn't falsifiable, and I doubt your proposal is a new idea for them. This leads me to believe they probably had a good reason to dismiss it, better than my points listed above.

I hear a lot of what you're saying, and I agree to a large degree. What I don't think is so valid is what do we do with the 9 billion tons of plastic waste we already have? Reducing our need for oil with our current (bad) behavior is a start. Taking care of the mess we've made is also a huge win, even if it's converted into other, longer-lasting products, and assuming it doesn't require too much energy. Having a world where the bottom line isn't such a big factor would also help, and I'm not sure that will change quickly enough to help us out of this mess.

Totally a puff piece, though, and I'm not optimistic is will be energy-efficient enough to work.

Deserts also tend to have very clear air (not humidity for clouds and few other sources of pollution), which allows heat to radiate away faster than in other regions. If you do things right, you can localize this to make an area cool quickly using heat radiation and reflection, perhaps even more quickly than using convection and isolation (big building that blocks out the heat but allows airflow).

"The last thing I want is for our politicians and government agencies to be accessible to the public or, even worse, to be able to reach as many as are interested in hearing what they have to say!"

I'd far rather they be on the fediverse, preferably on their own instance(s), than on Facebook or Twitter.