Yes, extremes are bad, regardless of which extreme.

And, to your point, sunlight is even easier to get, and distributed widely.

At the point where we can charge houses with electric vehicles, even easier to transport, since the transport *is* the energy storage mechanism, and then you can go to wherever there is energy having been harvested/stored, and use that. If you have two cars (or have a friendly cooperative neighbor), you can have one available to you, and one charging elsewhere during such events.

I wish we were moving faster in this direction.

I suppose if we had to pick one, it'd be BBC's Planet Earth?

If words do not harm, then the words of students reporting other students cannot do harm, and also, clearly the ills of victim mentality (which is just words) can do no harm.

Oh, "but I said 'primarily' physical."

so.. where do you draw that line?

I'll maintain what I said at the top. This isn't easy, and if you think it is, you're just wrong.

So is a lack of anonymity.

The truth is that rarely does "Goldilocks" live at the extremes of anything.

Even the Supreme Court thinks anonymous speech is speech. Perhaps surprising given how many times they've messed up, but...

Not at all ironic?
The defenders of speech must shut down speech to protect speech.

This isn't easy.

Moderation and promotion are practically equivalent. They both imply choosing some content over other content over nothing.

Limiting speech is the nature of free speech, else your speech is compelled, not free.
You can't have one without the other.

Links point to 3rd party content.
An internet without 3rd party content is an internet without links.
The web would cease to exist.

The algorithm being secret vs public doesn't change the fact that it is an algorithm.
And both Google and Slashdot use user data in their algorithm.

The line is not bright here.

That is a distinction without difference.

Google's results are ALSO driven by users, via an algorithm. It is just more hidden.

This is making a large assumption that you can handle spammers spamming whatever incessantly.
Good luck with that without section 230.

The thing that pisses me off about people who say that is that they're happy to take a chance, but never happy to take responsibility for it.
What are you going to bet on it, is another way to phrase it?

Inflation can also be caused by rent-seeking/monopolistic or similar trust-like behaviors.
This is more true of "essentials", like food, shelter, water, medical care, transportation, energy, communications, etc.