I wouldn’t mind the idea of everything going digital. So long as we actually own the digital copies we buy. So long also as we are able to continually access said digital copies. We wouldn’t be having this physical vs digital debate going on for so long, if the practices of what companies like Sony and other media companies have been going about with handling digitally purchased content.

It’s a very stupid easy of a solution that has been continually fumbled time and time again. Because greed got in the way.

  • shalafiEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I’m back to, technologies build on what came before. Lion battery factories weren’t possible without oil. We couldn’t have cranked out 18650s in the 70s, and why would we with oil so abundant? (OK, except for that one time. 🫤) Did evolution take a wrong turn lately? It often does!

    Oil was so cheap and plentiful, and global warming wasn’t a thing. We can point to industry reports or ancient newspaper articles that saw it coming, but it wasn’t in the public conscious.

    What I’m trying to spit out, and failing to do, is that getting away from oil is both a societal and technological evolution. In hindsight, of course we could have done it sooner! But there are those pesky societal and technological changes that hadn’t come yet.

    • imeansurewhynot@sh.itjust.works
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      2 days ago

      You’re still missing the point of the post, even when you’re literally agreeing with me.

      In hindsight, of course we could have done it sooner.

      Yup. From the beginning, in fact! That’s the whole point of this post that it doesn’t even seem like you’ve read, and my initial answer.

      This is why I don’t let people off the hook. As long as I explain something 15-30 times and keep things consistent, you eventually get there even if you don’t realize it.