Every page we visit has the same things to generate revenue littered all over their sites because it works—but what about the content? It’s becoming secondary to the littered advertising.

Ads used to be strategically similar to the content presented—but now things follow us around the Internet based on purchases in grocery stores etc. The pop ups want me to spend my time helping companies improve their products for free. Where’s the content going? Anything but the primary content on websites is litter in my opinion.

I suppose it’s the frequency of them too: a foresee pop ups on ten sites the frequency becomes like plastic bags following me to the park from the shopping centers, to the rivers, etc. You can’t escape them until they’re eliminated.

It really is unfortunate. The mining company should build out proper infrastructure but I’m guessing they just delegate to (corrupt) locals.

This is no different than all the global environmental issues we’re facing with large scale production facilities (bottled water, petroleum, etc. are a huge problem too). The indigenous populations are getting fucked over because they live in remote areas prime for exploitation. Then the factories close down and don’t clean anything up.

I should point out this is also happening in developed countries like Canada and the USA. For instance, what is the difference between children mining cobalt and children being exposed to mercury poisoning because their rivers upstream there’s a paper plant dumping toxic waste into the food supply in Ontario, or petrol industry in Texas poisoning neighboring schools with chemical fumes.

Meanwhile I submitted my DNA to ancestry and learned interesting things about my family.

Anything may be used for good or evil.

We’re all going to be left in a Wall-E universe though unless they help fight climate change.

We need something new, not the same old “add more cameras to the phone” kind of innovations.

It’s the engineers that will make those discoveries—the investors can shove it. All they do is freeload on innovation and cramp peoples style.

System package management systems do things just fine. Ask yourself, “when did I last properly package a Debian library? Do I even know how to do it properly?” Most people won’t be able to answer that because they didn’t.

But truth be told, having each programming language a unique package manager sucks. I’d rather have a consistent way of managing packages on a given system so that I can use various programming languages.