Except the projects take decades, skyrocket in costs and get delayed for decades on top.

France is doing just fine with none of those issues.

My username is not my identity.

Get a life.

Do you not know how this site works

It is decentralized.

Do you also attack dictionaries for explaining offensive words?

If they use them in an obviously offensive way, yes.

The person who gave the explanation is the same person who initially used it to mean offense. You can check the usernames to see exactly this.

They’re an ass. There is no messenger.

Somehow I missed part of your comment, and thought you were saying silicone isn’t a petroleum product.

I’ll just… idk, seems a little late to take a break

hydrocarbons that are derived from either oil or natural gas.

…which makes it a petroleum product.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFhKVCaadzE

Governments don’t raise taxes to pay for things.

No. More people spending money doesn’t cause inflation.

They’re responding to the “Light Bulb Companies” part, not the “selling quality products” part. That video very clearly (10-15 mins too long) shows that Light Bulb Companies had legitimate reasons for limiting light bulb hours.

While the Phoebus Cartel may have artificially limited the lifespan of lightbulbs, there was a legitimate reason to do so, and it wasn’t just planned obsolescence so you buy more.

Get a lemmy app and put it there :P