When people started realising how bad smoking was in the 50's, the tobacco companies started manufacturing filtered cigarettes, which had the appearance of being less harmful. They even added extra chemicals to make used filters appear darker than they otherwise would, so that they appeared to be filtering more effectively [3].

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9241071/

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/6601565

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3088411/

Total cost is around $40k.

However, unless you're rural or somewhere with poor grid reliability it's probably not worth the expense of being off-grid. Generally speaking, due to generous feed-in tariffs you would be (financially) better off staying connected to the grid than spending the additional money required to handle periods of cloudy weather.

That was Lenin who wrote that, although it was originally from the Bible.

Look at the Billboard (or equivalent) charts for Germany, France, Argentina, or any other non-Anglo country; maybe 10% of the entries are English language or from American artists.

Now I assume most people aren't using firearms chambered in .303 or another full-size rifle cartridge, but there's obviously various combinations of calibre + azimuth where shooting into the air is dangerous.

[1] https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/F2017L00399 (Section 6.4)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Estate

[1] https://www.aonhumancapital.com.au/getmedia/9b5d9f13-294f-46...

The western equivalent would probably be Nokia, which was founded in 1865 as a paper manufacturer.

Lack of foresight isn't exclusive to capitalism. Would socialist data centres be built to handle temperatures several degrees above the highest ever recorded temperature?

Even in a socialist economy, building systems with an excessively high tolerances would be seen as a poor allocation of resources.

It could be equally argued that capitalism favours private companies like Google ensuring their DCs are as fault tolerant as possible, to ensure they have a competitive advantage. There's also plenty of cases where companies sell unnecessary and excessive goods and services to maximise their own profit.

> and being done with it potentially forever if its made to be repairable/upgradeable

DC cooling systems are repairable and upgradable. They're a far cry from a residential split system AC unit.

I'm a full time smoker, but I'll turn down a menthol if offered one. I'd rather suffer through nicotine cravings than subject myself to a Colgate coffin nail.