Thanks for the laugh!
I've put a note in my calendar for December 2025.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinkerton_(detective_agency)
established around 1850
Oh rain on me dystopia.
Chengdu is the capital city of the Chinese province of Sichuan. With a population of 20,937,757 at the 2020 census.
Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a population of 2,794,356 in 2021
You're shaking your head your fucking head?
I'm curious about these old things around the house you keep functioning.
I'll give an example of an old thing I want to keep running: a 1980s cassette deck.
Between the metalized plastic buttons, the belts, the wheels, the gears, the pressure rollers, there is nothing that can be 3D printed that even remotely approaches the finished look or function of the parts I'd need.
Actually, cigarettes are renewable compared to vapes...
You. Have. To. Touch. Them. To. Open. Them. To. Get. To. The. Dollar. Store. Battery.
What is the difficulty here?
I don't see plastic straws on the ground anymore since they've been banned, paper straws on the ground are not a problem.
I think I see why you're grasping at straws, however.
Picking up disgusting items that have been in people's mouths to harvest cheap batteries is fucking weird.
Fantastic. I'm hungry, when can I come over?
You have to sort of, I don't know, come into contact with the stupid device that has been in people's mouths first.
Are you people being intentionally dense like neutronium this Sunday morning?
Are you being obtuse on purpose? Picking up disgusting items that have been in intimate contact with human bodily fluids to harvest dollar store items is pretty fucking weird.
JFC, was it that hard to parse?
Indeed not, but that EROEI is going towards 1, and maybe even <1. That's not the same type of civilization any more. One sends people to play golf on the Moon to impress the neighbors.
The other densifies its cities in desperation hoping the food doesn't run out.