I put some of the blame on the App stores. I had a nice little logic puzzle game out on Android that people just loved playing. The graphics were simple but effective and not obnoxious and the game play was excellent. To this day I still have people asking how to get it on their new phones.
But, it doesn't show up on the store anymore because it has not changed in a few years. It was perfect and worked flawlessly. I had plans to add puzzle sharing, so you could pass the same puzzle to a friend and compare times, but otherwise it was working and done. It still works perfectly on modern Android versions, but the Goog store either lowers it's ranking or even removes it from the store completely if there are no more updates. So update for update's sake just to stay on the store, I guess!
Actually, it is only the McDonald's machines that are always broken. The same company makes machines for other restaurants and they have much easier to understand error codes and are self maintainable. Basically, they always work. But the ones under contract with McDonald's for the franchisees has error codes that don't tell you what to do and everything requires you to call a service rep. All they can really do is run the cycle again, it takes a couple of hours to run, and it fails due to some temperature of the water being a degree to low or something.
It all comes down to the monopoly contract that franchisees are required to be in for the machines.
Yep, and there barely last longer than the filament version due to poor power supply circuitry that overheats and breaks down. Each one using a ton more rare earth materials than a regular bulb. Plus, they work like shit in any standard dimmer circuit. The flickering and stuttering is so annoying that I have now written off the damn things and am going back to the old fashioned ones that work correctly.
That seems to be the way everything works now-a-days. It basically doesn't. Google used to be able to show you correct search results, bring useful tools on the map, play classical music on the smart speaker... all broken now. And it isn't just them, I just used them as an example. Peacock blanks out the commercials from the like Olympics coverage, but leaves the black screen there for several minutes, WTF, how f**ing lazy can you get!
They like to look at a table of billiard balls move in motion: you tell us how fast they’re moving and where they are, we’ll tell you where they were and where they’re going to be.
In motion is the important part here. If you look at a table of billiard balls sitting still, you can tell me nothing about how they came to be there. What direction did they come from and how fast were they moving before coming to a stop. Why should it matter if it stops in a black hole or it simply stops on the pool table somewhere? Either way you can tell nothing about it's past motion.
In the Scottish moorlands, plots planted with trees stored less carbon than untouched lands: Study
In the Scottish moorlands, experimental areas planted with native trees actually stored less carbon after several decades than untouched plots covered in heather.
These results are of direct relevance to current policies that promote tree planting under the logic that trees remove carbon from the atmosphere and lock it in their biomass as they grow. This is true, but disregards the role of soil.
Globally, more carbon is stored in soil than in all the Earth’s plants and the atmosphere combined.
Planting trees in areas that have never been forested, a practice known as afforestation, can release these carbon stores, resulting in a net loss of carbon from the ecosystem.
So, assuming that planting trees is better than the desert is just that, an assumption. It needs testing before you end up making things worse.
How far removed must you be from someone to be considered not associated with them?
Considering how the cancel culture has ruined people for getting their picture taken with the wrong person. We are talking about someone in a crowd coming up and getting a shot of the celebrity and them together. Then years later that celebrity is now black-balled and will get no more jobs because some stranger who is now seen as an evil enemy of the "progressives" secretly took their picture with you.
So, not very much association needed.
Is there something wrong with aiming for better?
When your "better" is fake fur make from plastic, or clothing make from plastics, and the whole environment ends up polluted with microplastics that every living being on the planet is infested with, then I question your idea of better. Fur is a renewable resource, unlike your alternatives.
"The greatest warriors are the ones who fight for peace." -- Holly Near
