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A Boring Dystopia

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I can't wait until they makes these no cost, low-maintenance, and self-replacing. Oh man, just think of how easy it would be to fix our climate issues!

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[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What would work better... Trees? Or a machine consisting of rare earth metals which need to be mined and processed and are only partially recyclable... A tree outlives a machine. Replacing old machines with new ones is good for the economy, so yeah, let's do that! Wait, what was our goal exactly?

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If trees did their god damned jobs, we wouldn't have this problem in the first place

[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago

Those lazy ass trees just standing thur.

[–] rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

Seriously, after we cleared out so much room for them, too