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How streaming music could be harming the planet
Once vinyl or a CD is purchased, it can be played over and over again, the only carbon cost coming from running the record player. However, if we listen to our streamed music using a hi-fi sound system it's estimated to use 107 kilowatt hours of electricity a year, costing about £15.00 to run. A CD player uses 34.7 kilowatt hours a year and costs £5 to run.
Solution: Use a smartphone or laptop with headphones unless you are playing music for guests. Download the songs you play repeatedly.
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by edIII on Monday February 18 2019, @07:14PM (6 children)
Some climate change deniers I speak with are skeptical of climate change because of the possible agendas of control behind the people pushing it. Meaning, one world government bullshit being forced down our throats in the form of controls to combat climate change.
You're not fucking helping. It's ridiculous and offensive to promote entire platforms of control (register, monitor, tax) that give preferential treatment to some just to push your agenda. Regardless of whether it may, or may not, be correct or beneficial.
I'm on the side of climate change, but fuck all if I'm going to give up my rights to privacy and peaceful enjoyment of music because you want to fucking regulate how much power I used to do it. Give discounts for materials you like, or worse, you meant propaganda that helps "educate" the others with goodthink?
Lemme guess, do you want to call this division the SS? (Streaming Security)
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 18 2019, @08:51PM (1 child)
Those 4 steps are so ridiculous that I can only imagine it is from a Libertrollian.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 18 2019, @09:01PM
The list hits all the important points that stakeholders require for an idea to save us from climate change to get off the ground:
Increase spying. Check.
Increase taxes. Check.
Increase propaganda/marketing opportunities. Check.
Create more of the problem supposedly being solved. Check.
Look at any "solution" to climate change that gains political traction and you will see it has at least half these qualities. Eg, nuclear power can only hit one at best (increase taxes) so that is a no-go.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 18 2019, @08:53PM (1 child)
Mathematical models have proven the earth is going to mend in 11 years if climate change is not stopped. But you people "on the side of climate change" would rather stream music then do anything to help I guess.
And fine, make the discount a rebate then. For every hour of noneducational material each device must play an hour of educational material to offset the emissions. Tax or rebate the difference, then people can get paid to learn if they only listen to educational streams.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 18 2019, @10:29PM
Maybe they can educate you not to fall for climate change hoaxes. Let me guess... you also don't want to vaccinate your child because of the autism.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 19 2019, @04:42PM (1 child)
>Some climate change deniers I speak with are skeptical of climate change because of the possible agendas of control behind the people pushing it. Meaning, one world government bullshit being forced down our throats in the form of controls to combat climate change.
The loonies who think that civilization and science are Marxist plots cannot be reasoned with. There's no point in coddling them either. The longer we coddle them, the longer they vote for the scumbags who feed their delusions.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 20 2019, @10:22AM
I think a major difference is that in the US many people have been waiting for the attempted mass murder purge of everyone who disagrees with some version of communism/socialism. It is not coming unexpectedly as it did in Nazi Germany, Soviet Union, and PRC. Everyone is very clear on what the next steps for you are going to be.