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  • I like the general concept of this, it reminds of Kants categorical imperative.

    However I’d be cautious to mix general concepts/principles and laws. I already found a contradiction between the right to life for everyone, including “Mother Earth” (I share @Vicinus@piefed.zips reservations on this term), and the explicit inclusion of the right to bear firearms with the explicit mention of hunting. I think it’s obvious which of the two parts is not supposed to be in there.

    Also the further one reads, the more it feels like the text adapts more and more to existing structures and problems, instead of getting rid of them. Why even include states and borders, if it explicitly mentions that they are to be ignored, and nationality and place of living can be chosen freely? In that case the concept of nationality and borders does not make sense any more





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    I’d been pretty skeptical that solar could ever cover its production costs

    If you mean EROI, no one should be skeptical about that, unless you are constantly being fed misinformation. Solar panels quickly generate the energy required to produce them, in the worst cases it takes a few years.

    And the good thing about solar panels is, they are incredibly durable, once they are put up they just keep on producing energy. Personally, I would argue that as long as not every roof is covered with them, recycling solar panels is bad. Why replace something that is still producing energy (and at that point for free, in EROI terms), when you could leave the old ones up and put the new panels on roofs that have none yet.

    Luckily, companies are starting to see that as well, and refurbish solar panels instead of recycling them.

    There’s a reason it goes reduce -> reuse -> recycle.




  • This comment got me to stop lurking and create an account! I finally found my people!

    I’m also still using an i5 750 for gaming. Just this year I upgraded to a whopping 12 GB of RAM, because a friend wanted to throw their old PC in the trash. I upgraded the GPU to an RX570 at some point. And the main reason I still use this PC instead of a low-power laptop is that many badly optimized games try to burn a hole in the integrated GPU for no reason (looking at you, unity).

    I love that someone else is still out there running an i5 750 :) There are dozens of us! The i5 750 was just too good for its time