my partner, her friend and I traveled to another city 4 hours away to go see a musical. my partner found the accomodation on booking.com
when we got to where the apartment should be, we couldn't find it. we looked around for ages to no avail. found a police station nearby. we asked them if they knew of the address. they pointed to the building across the street they said had been abandoned for 5 years. when we tried to call the host it went thru to an international phoneline in a different language.
I think it was in SuperFreakanomics where they explored the viability of releasing the equivalent to volcano smoke into the atmosphere to shade the earth. The research was based on earth cooling after certain types of volcano eruptions.
I think the scientist conclusion was that it was pretty viable but introduces way too many other issues. The biggest being, who gets to control the earth thermostat.
One time someone booked a European vacation using my debit card number. My bank didn’t catch it, but I called their fraud department and got it sorted out.
Another time the same bank blocked my card when I tried to make a purchase at Best Buy on Black Friday. They’re really bad at fraud detection.
Totally ideal? Green energy robots automate all the stuff humans need (food, water, shelter, sanitation, etc.) so that no one has to work and people can do whatever they want!
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