Yes. Being exploited by greedy publishers and a failing academia system, while barely making a living for example.

What is intelligence?

The app can be bought with a one time purchase.

Service needs workforce performing the service. Workforce are usually human resources. Thereby, limited again. Or did I get it wrong?

That depends on where you live.

Yes, I know. That’s why I said:

However, not a simple solution for everyone in every country.

You can by creating more accounts.

They literally said:

Perpetual growth in a finite system is impossible

I don’t see how your comment applies to that.

Knowlegde growth may be sustainable, but it is also impossible to grow forever. (Supposing knowlegde is finite, which is, as far as I see it, the case as long as we make the definition of knowledge depend on characteristics like repition-free and new. For example, you could learn the number pi to even longer lenghts forever, but doing that is not necessarily something new to know as it’s just a manifestation of a repition which was already discovered.)

I’m intrigued how you would explain that economies could grow independently of resources. From my perspective, it looks a lot like each and every form of economy relies somehow on some form of resource or resources. As resources are finite, economies can’t grow forever.

Water? Over here it’s just a plethora of sugar pearls.

No one is preventing you from visiting a library, which would be a fesible alternative.

However, not a simple solution for everyone in every country. Knowlegde should be a free and shared common good.

It made me a better person.

If that is meant literally, how did it make you a better person?

Capitalism wherever it is found. Not just the USA.

Wolframalpha

Stress. ADHD. Low iron levels. Whatever. Multitude of reasons for this. Sillier things have happened.

Funny as long as no harm is done.

One of them is an asshole.

Okay, got it. Print the PDF, then scan it and save as PDF.

Or get some monks to get a handwritten copy, like the good old times.

If that’s fine for them, why not? But I’d rather like to have a taste of myself. Always wondered what I would taste like.

I assume they meant meat in general. Supposed lab-grown meat aims to be a similar experience, the given answer is self-explanatory.

Btw, you can get lab-grown meat in a reastaurant in Singapore iirc.

Ecosia did something similar.

Wow, quite an extensive list. Haven’t expected that. Thanks for sharing!

Yeah, I guess there is some truth to it.

Not just republicans / politically right-wing oriented folks. From my experience you encounter this everywhere where people haven’t learnt how to have a civilised discussion. An important part of this is the ability to self-reflect and distinguish emotions from opinions from facts. Humans are emotional beings in their core and therefore the most are fallible. It’s only natural to resort to an emotionally driven and often stubborn defence mode if one encounters a contrary opinion. Even more so if that opinion is expressed in an emotionally loaded manner. It’s unfortunately a very counter-productive human behaviour.

And we have that a lot on the internet. Sadly.