Obviously pious concerns about fraud are...not...the motivating force here; but I'm curious where on the scale from 'secondary but real' to 'frankly absurd' the burner-powered fraudsters actually live.

It's not like bad prepaid phones are expensive; but, especially if you are actually burning them with any frequency, they aren't really cheap unless you are doing some sort of scamming rather more lucrative than spamming people about nonexistent aftermarket warranties with sub 1% response rates. Are actual SIMs, or even actual phones, remotely competitive with the VOIP equivalent of bulletproof hosting if you want an in to the phone network?

In a similar vein; what's the breakdown of phone-using criminals between people who actually go to the counter and pay cash, where the FCC now wants them carded, vs. the various PO box companies that tend to show up on weird phone charges? It's not a surprise that they are running with the excuse; but the idea that telcom enabled crime is actually substantially the domain of something as clunky as burner phones/SIMs, rather than more efficient services that nobody cares enough to chase down, seems very implausible.

There should be something like social networks, but with a scoring system controlling what you see so you aren't deluged with bots, and which is also peer to peer. Because social networks aren't the problem, having them controlled by people who think those who trust them are "dumb fucks" is the problem. (Not that they're wrong.)

Never fear, my actual expectations are low.

The subconscious has entered the chat. But... quietly.

Anyway that's nonsense. Attention is single-subject. Consciousness is not, not even close.

Those aren't cameras linked directly to a social network. They're CCTV sent back home if anything. Sometimes only a low-res stream is sent, sometimes nothing.

No one with even two brain cells to rub together thinks they can teach anything to dogshit stupid denialists.

If it were sometime else I might

Perhaps when you learn to read, you'll be able to figure it out from all the explanations we've already given. You don't get to demand a repetition. Just learn to read.

Look, there's a dumbfuck now!

Your logic is childish if you're not demanding the wealthy make the changes first, because everything we can do is 1) trivial by comparison since businesses make most emissions and we don't own or control those and 2) dependent on their decisions, for the exact same reason. What we can reasonably change without making ourselves destitute is almost nothing in the grand scheme. They can make huge changes while still remaining wealthier than the rest of us. Childish is accepting their demand that YOU make changes when it's THEIR decisions destroying us all. Childish is not holding the actual offenders accountable. Childish is abdicating your thought process to the status quo.

If every wealthy person on earth did the right thing, then our available actions would be more environmentally inoffensive, because the decisions of the wealthy control all of our lives.

It'd be far more intellectually honest to admit you're simping for billionaires because you admire them than to blame The People for living in the world those fucks have bought.

They're running out of prisoner conscripts, yes. They have not really tapped their main population. That's why there is still a reasonably high level of support for his war, although it surely must be waning with the recent successful attacks by Ukraine on infrastructure which must be affecting consumer prices by now. Otherwise I think your comment is accurate, but this does mean that they could throw more people at the conflict if they wanted to.

That you're asking that question is how we know WWIII hasn't started. If it had, it would already be a wider, full-fledged conflict.

That's not to say that it won't, but that this isn't a world war yet.

How many cubic meters of water does that 3.3-3.6mm represent? How much additional heat energy was stored in the ocean? Explain on what basis you imagine it's not significant.

Yes, because when you run them when it's cold you have to contend with all of the dumbfucks who think that if the globe is warming, it should mean they are never cold again.