But if the true costs were quantized in the formula and not just externalized maybe it would suddenly make more sense. After all, in the end, society pays for it no matter what.
SkyeStarfall
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Ah yeah, that's very fair.
You are always allowed to be a catgirl for fun if that's what you want though! It doesn't have to be anything beyond that! As long as, yeah, you're not making life worse for others haha
I compare them to good indie games, and in that sense most AAA games are bland rehashed kitchen sinks that all look and play the same. It's boring.
And in 2024 we now sit together irl with cat ears on, as god intended
What's stopping you
I mean, they are just small diodes inside, if they have a bulb shape it's just some plastic to have it be a familiar shape. I'd even argue most new light fixtures these days come in all sorts of shapes, and in my home, for example, I don't even have a bulb shape.
Then people will argue capitalism incentivizes innovation.
And these are systemic issues
This would make sense... If it was exactly the same everywhere with a similar level of convenience.
But it's not, America is much much worse than Europe on this, and rich countries in Europe don't exactly have less convenience than the US. How else would you explain it other than a systemic difference? American brains are not fundamentally different to European ones.
And it's not like you can screw off into the forest to live a self-sufficient life either, because I'm pretty sure that's illegal in most places in the world. If the forest isn't already devoid of resources due to human activity that is.
Oh god I can totally see clueless old people doing shit like this by accident
I mean, it's still the case under the hood, and languages like C do work that way. Sure, it's abstracted away in most programming languages these days, but if you ever need to do direct memory management, it's very much still how it works.