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So they only use algae-only oil. Still doesn’t change the point.

This is shifting blame. Fossil fuels are vegan in the sense of origin, however the harm done to the biosphere in using them is not vegan. Therefore a vegan using fossil fuels in a dependent society is to blame.

Sure. It’s not the much higher percentage of people participating in this, it’s the vegans. At least they’re making attempts to change, unlike the rest of us.

I don’t know if it’s still a thing as generations move on, but I remember when people objected to putting their credit card info into a web form even if it was HTTPS, yet they’d gladly read their card number over the phone.

The reason: while alternative energy has grown very rapidly which gives the impression of replacing fossil fuels, demand also increased (maybe faster) so the ratio is similar. Also, fossil fuels can’t be replaced everywhere. Think heavy duty machinery, most aircraft. Reduce demand and consumption (a topic of debate on its own of how and what) and maybe the ratios would be more on the alternative side.

Then clearly we’re resisting “natural” progression, whatever that means. It’s definitely against the direction for economic growth, and that runs the world. Line go up.

100% is not realistic physically. You should phrase the question as a world where everything that’s possible to be recycled is recycled, and where it isn’t we go back to materials that are naturally recycled or reusable. Basically a world where plastics and other materials that are one-time use are banned. It’s a great topic, as we don’t remotely realize how much we throw away. The scale is huge. The change in what is affordable or possible would be huge too.

We could do a lot better, and it would be impactful. Some things have to be disposable in our modern world though, at least with current technology. Just medical use alone is a big example.

“It’s the same picture.”

Always has been. The only difference is what they’re selling.

True, the implied was “if you can”.

Also, retire early. You can’t buy more time, and you definitely can’t buy the energy and health you had.

The first Earth Day was in 1970. It might have been too late even back then to avoid any consequences because nature had been absorbing what we had already done for a long time, but it sure would have helped to slam on the brakes. We should absolutely keep trying to get those brakes pressed, but it’s debatable if we’re already over the cliff.

You’re not a doomer if you’re seeing all the evidence and putting it together. You’re a realist. The label “doomer” is just reactionary from those who want to keep the status quo and don’t like people pointing out reality.

We know how that ended up. Yikes.

But since we’re talking about early life forming (actually chemical replicators, much simpler than a virus) let’s use the card shuffling odds, but decks of cards are being shuffled in billions or trillions of places on early Earth every second for millions of years. Even a very low odds of finding a working sequence of molecules will be found geologically quickly given the amount of times done over area and time. We’re pretty sure now that life began very soon once the Earth cooled down enough to allow it. What took much longer was the more complex forms of life like viruses and single cells, then even longer for multicellular.

I haven’t had to link this in a long time. Here is the link to the relevant FAQ topic about abiogenesis from the talk.origins Usenet compilation. If you’re honestly curious about the real statistics, that’s a start. The cited works are obviously old but the science hasn’t changed, if anything we’ve learned more.

Usually the strawman against abiogenesis is that a simple bacterium or virus can’t just appear from nowhere, which of course is true but isn’t what the science of the beginnings of life even remotely suggests. The opposite is actually true, in a world where there are no higher life forms to compete with we’d probably see all sorts of complex combinations of chemicals that eventually run across a replication process. This is the answer to OP’s question, once higher life develops, the basic chemical replicators can’t compete anymore. Or get absorbed into a symbiosis, as what seems to be the case with the mitochondria.

With the right conditions on other worlds (not necessarily only what Earth was like) simple life forms may be very common. We certainly now know just from recent sampling that there are planets everywhere.

Shift away from consumerism and go back to a more local economy. Yes, that’s going to be very bad for the western world’s way of life. I forfeit my extra points because there’s no way to change without some disruption.

Food sources don’t provide water unless there is water to grow them, and if the water is contaminated that will just end up in the food.

The policy is going to be instance dependent, but in the beginning there was a lot of hesitation on image storage on a server vs. a link to a dedicated image storage. Maybe things are better now with both space and federation and it’s not as big of a problem? Hell, that’s why Imgur was born, to take the pressure off of the Reddit servers.

Sounds like how the Fediverse was when Reddit blew up the first time. Amazing how sudden demand sparks development.

I’m still in awe how it gets things correct from randomness. Even the early stages years ago that were obviously bad still would get close to the idea, and now it’s not that easy to determine some video origins.

I’m not talking about the morality and ethics of how it got here, but the science of how it works.

They literally went “why having testing, when production gives us more data?”

I can still have back in college dreams where I’ve missed class or don’t have an assignment. I obviously got scarred with my real experiences, as when I wake up I find it ridiculous to still have such anxiety to try and fix what was broken so long ago. It doesn’t help that they usually are combined with the regular impediment of my bad dreams of not being able to move well, just walking is like being in quicksand.

The weirdest dream I’ve had in my adult life that still bugs me was some liminal horror from watching too many Backroom type videos. I can’t recall the setup or anything, all I can remember is that I was looking up at the sky and the sky was becoming not darker but felt like it was closing in and projecting an oppressive feeling, and there was this ominous low level sound that was paralizing me. Nothing appeared, nothing happened (except I woke suddenly), but that hopeless feeling was terrible.