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bioemerl, to upliftingnews in Well, this is something! (fossil-free electricity in Europe)

Does it still produce more emissions than solar when your have spin up the natural gas plant every winter because people need heat and the sun isn't out?

bioemerl, to upliftingnews in Well, this is something! (fossil-free electricity in Europe)

Sweden had around a quarter of their electricity from fossil fuels.

That's really damn impressive

bioemerl, to piracy in Steam: New Pricing Needed For Argentina and Turkey by November 20th

The alternative is not listing in those regions, not lowering prices for you

The alternative is marginally lower prices for the first world and higher prices for the third world as the prices become global instead of a massive grift which charges you based on how much money you're able to spend.

bioemerl, to piracy in Steam: New Pricing Needed For Argentina and Turkey by November 20th

Yeah they are.

The game is being sold to the third world only exist because the first world is paying as much money as they are.

It's literally a scheme to extract more money out of people. It should be illegal to prevent people from the ability to use things like VPNs to get those cheaper prices opening up the market and ensuring the prices actually match supply and demand.

bioemerl, to piracy in Steam: New Pricing Needed For Argentina and Turkey by November 20th

Oh I think they are making more revenue by charging the first world more, but I also think they shouldn't be able to get away with it.

bioemerl, to piracy in Steam: New Pricing Needed For Argentina and Turkey by November 20th

How do you think a price for a product is found in capitalism

It should be priced on supply and demand. It should be priced based on companies like steam having no ability to control which country someone purchases from and everyone on the first world just using a VPN to jump borders and fix the cheapest country available.

Basically we just been a regulation making it illegal for companies like steam to deny people access to regional pricing. Then they will be forced to find a price point that matches supply with demand, instead of fleecing the first world for more money

bioemerl, to piracy in Steam: New Pricing Needed For Argentina and Turkey by November 20th

there aren’t any costs to subsidize.

Literally the entire development cost. Games don't appear for free. They are developed with the money you pay.

Regional pricing is basically saying that for some reason video games should cost more because you have more money to spend on them.

That's just asinine. Every other industry that tries it gets widely criticized for it. If you want to get more money out of people with more money, give them more stuff. Don't arbitrarily decide something costs more in one country than it doesn't another even though the distribution costs are identical and the development costs are identical between them.

bioemerl, to piracy in Steam: New Pricing Needed For Argentina and Turkey by November 20th

I'd rather force companies to not use third world labor so they stop suppressing our salaries and pushing down investment in first world labor productivity.

bioemerl, to upliftingnews in Solar installations are set to break global, US records in 2023

Seems like those projected numbers are wildly out of line with the trend.

bioemerl, to upliftingnews in Because of innovations in LED technology, the amount of electricity used for lighting is down drastically

Yeah, if you take like 15 pills on one day or something stupid like that.

But unlike the risk of taking 15 vitamin d pills, literally all the potential of giving you skin cancer.

This doesn't mean you have to be stupid and never go outside at all because "oh my goodness it's going to give me cancer". It just means that installing UVB emitters in our fucking light bulbs is a bad idea, and if you have vitamin d deficiency you can take a pill every day.

bioemerl, to upliftingnews in Because of innovations in LED technology, the amount of electricity used for lighting is down drastically

We’ve evolved while being irradiated by the sun for literally billions of years. Your body has mechanisms to repair damaged DNA and kill+replace cells that are too damaged

We evolved for lots of things that are harmful overall. Unless there is evidence that sun exposure gives some non vitamin d advantage the fact it literally causes cancer means you should avoid it in general.

I like how your rebuttals both say that supplements are both not able to give you vitamin D but also simultaneously a risk of overdose.

Avoid the cancer causing radiation. Just take a pill every day and get your blood work done to see how much you should take.

But at least with infrared people won’t spread misinformation about how there’s no safe levels.

That's because infrared light doesn't cause cancer. Although your support for infrared light exposure does identify you as a bit of a quack.

bioemerl, to upliftingnews in Because of innovations in LED technology, the amount of electricity used for lighting is down drastically

a safe dose of UV-B

  1. The safe dose is zero and you can take a pill for vit d
bioemerl, to upliftingnews in Texas bans homeowners’ associations from discriminating against renters who receive federal housing aid

Anyone who has lived next to someone who positively trashed their home or played loud ass music all day will enthusiastically disagree.

HOAs are very common and they do a lot more than regulate fence color.

bioemerl, to upliftingnews in Texas bans homeowners’ associations from discriminating against renters who receive federal housing aid

Despite their hatred, HOAs do serve a valuable purpose and being mandatory is an important part of that.

There should be a limit on how many homes can be a mandatory HOA by city, IMO, but not a total ban.

bioemerl, to upliftingnews in Texas bans homeowners’ associations from discriminating against renters who receive federal housing aid

That this would be done in the first place is a case of the hilariously evil.

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