Largest market chain where i live is run like this.

A consumer cooperative (or customer-owned cooperative).

Its a business owned directly by its customers, who usually become members by paying a small membership fee. Profits are returned to members as bonuses, discounts, or dividends, and major decisions are made democratically, but there is the normal corporate hierarcy running the day to day operations.

I get the dumb little point you are trying to make, that would leave the companies only stagnate while competition keeps growing.

Hmm. What could industry producing millions of jobs world wide offer for working class. What a tough nut. You got me stumped. Maybe we should have just stayed using pen and paper.

No. I think the computer industry is more expensive and creates more jobs than all the paper and pen industries have trough the history.

You know companies have whole branches deticated to computer support and cyper security, right?

Or do you think that before laptops businesses had their own divisions of Quill-Certified Problem Solvers and Paper-Based Troubleshooting Engineers?

Well in any case. RIP in peace Spirit Airlines.

Guess my view is little unreasonable. I mean building something new and expect it to work is demanding awful lot.

But stopping with the snark. Africa has it problems with countries weaponizing cellphone and internet connections and that would not be solved even if every tower had its own nuclear reactor powering them.

You say it would take a volcano eruption to cloud the sky. Intense Sahara dust events can lower the PV output and the soil landing on the panels can make them useless. Cleaning these panels is laborius and uses water that can be hard to get in some areas. These are happening more frequently as climate change is doing its thing. There has been studies showing solar energy drop up to 50% as far as Greece because of the sand in atmosphere.

I think using solar for powering those towers is a great. I just dont see logic behind building a system that can with a bad luck just stop working, when you could instead build some failsafe option.

Only thing in solar that worries me is the reliability. It almost always needs some auxialary power to reliable smooth the lows and ups.

That said Afrika as a continent is pretty reliable for solar power all year around. Average is something like 325 days of bright sunlight annually. Cell network is pretty critical system tough, so as long as there is some fallback plan in case of failure i think this is excelent use for solar.

I have always loved the saying: Lie, outrageous lie, statistic.

Data is a wonderfull thing, but it often can be really easily to be presented in a way, that while being true, is not representing the truth.

Like if we would just look the numbers containing just necessities and remove the luxury products it would not be that lopsided.

Well i havent downvoted you during this conversation…

And you must be somewhat intrested in what im saying because you take your time and respond to my arguments.

And id like to think that given good enough argument i could change my mind.

I think we perceive the downvote differently. I dont think it means shut up. Its a binary choise. (Or ternary because no voting is choice too). There is hardly enough substance to interpret any intention behind it. Its just something people press, when somebody dont have anything to add to the discussion, or they dont have time to write their own comment.

It’s my idea of social-media utopia and this small feature would make it possible.

This is the fundamental part we seem to disagree with. I dont think its “utopia”, i think its facade, that only creates personal echochambers for people guarding them from seeing any opposing opinions.

I disagree. Its not fine tuning. Its fundamentally changing it.

I firmly belive that if we are ready to write anything on to a public channel, in this case even with anonymity, we need to be ready to accept critique and the fact that people will sometimes disagree with you. Also there will always be irrelevant, or snarky comments, but as a adult we should be able to ignore those. If you are not ready to accept it, you should reflect with yourself, if you should even be writing anything.

Artificially making it seem like everybody agrees with you is just lying to yourself and skewing your own perception of the mattet.

Also as a another point. This whole discussion we have right now comes from disagreement. I have read your comments, it has made me ponder things i would not have tought without you and weighted things you have written. I hope you have done the same. Even when we clearly have different opinions i think we have argued in good spirit.

The system you are suggesting would remove these interactions completelly.

Im against auto-blocking.

The block feature we have now is fine for what it is, because user needs to review case by case if they want to block somebody or not and they will always keep seeing other peoples opinions even if they try to make a bubble for them self.

Dont you think its inherendly dangerous to just automatically block anyone who disagrees with you?

If you see only comments that agree with you or interract only with people who have the same opinions, your views will never be challenged. Many of the societys problems has its roots in people living in their own bubble.

It has little more nyance than that.

Most phones now days have camera set up so your fingers dont obfuscate the camera lences or smudge them when you hold it on your hand. Same with the front camera. If it it would be on the bottom part the navigation buttons would go over it --> more smudge on thr lense.

With buttons there is the design principle that buttons should work always similarry. Flipping the phone would flip volume settings, buttons and any ports. (Its a minor thing, but i think everyone has somepoint in their life used a software where buttons chance places depending what you are doing and its annoying. This is basically hardware version of that).

No reason here is not really hard to circumvent or even a real problem, but in the end, so small percentage of people need that feature, so why spend time doing it. Especially when it indroduces one new thing that needs to be debugged.

Well you can see my patio furniture from satellite images too. Generaly when something is big enough “to see from space” it means its visible to astronauts without any additional equipment.

So yes. I doubt this too.

Maybe a little doomer view.

I wanna point that we did listenen the right people after 1970’s and we pretty much fixed the ozone hole and mitigated acidic rains. Shame we have decited to stop it for some reason.

Also ironically to your statement AMOC effects most the northern europe and there is problem with small birthrate so in this particular catasrophe most people suffering will be white and children will be minority.

Edit; small edit to make the text harder to misunderstand.

While i understand that licenced hunting of big game is good for the local economy and it funds the reservations so they can fight against more descrutive things like poachers and it keeps the wildlife refuges alive so nobody turns the area into highway…

…I also find it somewhat beatifull that the hunt thats purpose is to cull unwanted elements, like for example older males that cant reproduce anymore, but are strong enough to keep younger generation from procreating, ends up removing old male, that hoards recources from younger generations in a completelly differend ecosystem.

Well they got what they wanted and Russian Oil Flows Again through the Druzhba Pipeline…

God you are lucky in lapland. I have always wanted to do that, but the ones here in northern ostrobothnia dont fit trough the doors so we can use them only as patio furniture.

Ah. The late Aldof Hilter. The failed fascist who turned into decent artist.