Buying the music and selfhosting a streaming server is an option, though obviously not for everyone

Restricting the internet based on where you happen to live can only end badly.

YOU WOULDN’T DOWNLOAD A CAR

(but I would)

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A study from 1989 doesn’t apply to modern plants built 35 years later, it really doesn’t make sense to extrapolate it like this.

Also my first idea, but I think that’d only make sense if it’s a few centuries old and completely forgotten about creating weird superstitions. There’s nothing actually dangerous about long-term nuclear waste storage, all of these markings would exist mostly to prevent people from digging in the area and potentially uncovering the waste.

Not to mention that it’d have to be a very small area, nowhere near the size of a single city – nevermind a whole US state.

I do, actually

BG3 did everything well, no surprises there

…for a few hours, until you need water. And food. And shelter.

Please don’t tell me that you think people living in the woods by themselves because our extremely advanced modern society with practically limitless resources compared to nearly all of history can’t provide basic needs like that for everyone participating in it is a-okay.

Exactly, automation shouldn’t kick some people out of jobs and leave others just as overworked as before, it should automate things that don’t absolutely need humans and just decrease the workload of (currently) irreplaceable people so that more people can work as much as one did before and still get the same salary.

Hell, unemployment as a whole should not exist in the modern era. If there’s “too few jobs”, decrease working hours and increase wages accordingly so the total monthly/yearly/whatever pay is the same. And if there just physically aren’t enough resources to accomodate so many people having decent salaries (which is absolutely not the case right now), then we should start talking about overpopulation.

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Most modern international corps (can we just start calling them megacorps now?) would fit in there

I could be wrong but I don’t think there even is a way to fully prevent adblocking without something like the proposed web integrity API, since it’s all clientside and the browser can easily just choose not to render any ads.

Overall I do agree that less people using adblocks means less attention from corps and less adblock-blocks like youtube’s, but I’m conflicted on whether that’s a good enough reason to have most people suffer through so many ads.

Where did you get either of those statistics?

I don’t want them to know anything that isn’t completely necessary, and even that should be wiped as soon as it’s no longer relevant. Why should I be okay with corps recording all of my online behavior and preferences just so they can sell that info for a bit of extra profit?