Anyone who is sabotaging the best efforts of society to minimize death and suffering should expect some grief. If everyone had done the necessary, the outcome would have been much better. If you were anti mask or violated lockdown, you prolonged this shit show and to a certain extent you have blood on your hands. Judgement is inevitable.

Because you can play it back as often as you want with no revenue generating adverts. Also you might be tempted to buy a small percentage of the music you download for free if it wasn't trivial to make a perfect copy.

Petty easy. Have a look at the outcomes?

Would that matter though? If we had cheap abundant energy, what problems would arise if we didn't recycle? More specifically wht problems would arise that we couldn't fix with enough energy?

Use wind or tidal or pumped storage or one of the many other renewable alternatives available when the sun isn't out.

Nope, don't buy that at all. Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Fill the bottom block and our relationship with each other changes. What would be the point of a war if you don't get extra resources? Maybe people would become hyper-sensitised to ideology or something, but what's the point if all basic needs are already met, and superfluous ones too?

I like that saying. I'm nicking it!

I'm under no illusions about the eternally 20 years away promise of nuclear fusion. Heck I remember reading about ITER when I was a boy I'm now mid 40's. Even though ITER is experimental that still hasn't been built yet.

However with the constant small advances we get such as the recent one at NIF, I think we'll get there eventually. Doubt I'll be around to see it though.

Pfft - he chose to fight against US control of resources.

Wtf are you on about? Lol! Everything in our current societal setup is based around access to resources! Once the value of that goes to zero things change. Try thinking a bit.

If we were to achive that super cheap energy those problems go away. Desalination becomes affordable, alleviating water scarcity for billions, food distribution becomes affordable at massive scales. If we satisfy those basic needs. for the entire planet aggrssion becomes counter productive. We can finally start working together.

Didn't his prediction/discovery of Hawking Radiation state that over time black holes evaporate?

Surely they are skewewd by recruiting people who are likely to take a survey. Those people are already weird.

Brilliant, you’re a specialist, congratulations. When you talk to people in the office their eyes glaze over. I’m not talking about you, I’m talking about the vastly more numerous base of the pyramid.

Give it time, young man.

Most work has to happen face to face. It's inefficient otherwise. Companies that go 100% remote will fail.