About a year. I found it after cleaning up an event. Took it home, soaked it for 24 hours, and now it’s covered in stickers.

Well hopefully some people here will see it and subscribe and it’ll build.

such a good trick. Used it for years.

This would really light a fire under corporation’s asses to adapt for climate change…

Neurodivergent hell.

Diabolical.

This is one of the most creative ones so far

Is there a popular /c/trees anywhere yet?

um, it’s not supposed to hurt for either 😳

IBS be like

You this fun with every silly hypothetical?

I think I’d just charge it constantly at every chance.

That could be deafening in certain public spaces.

life in winter anyways

evil

This is probably not so bad an idea to some people

This would be an improvement.

Thematic w/ mine, I like it!

Removing the need for existing newspapers to rely on advertising to keep costs low enough for the consumer to be able to purchase an issue would go very far.

The problem has always been that the academic or “platonic” ideal of journalism as this “objective, 4th estate” that “speaks truth to power” has always been at odds with the costs of doing business. In fact, the first newspapers were owned by Political Parties and wore their affiliations on their sleeves. Switching to advertiser-supported models enabled more independence from political parties in the 1800s.

What’s also true is that most local newspapers (heck, papers in general) are at least on paper, objective in the sense that their journalists are free to pursue and write the stories they want using their professional judgment.

It doesn’t invalidate it. It’s accurate that for a time, privately owned, for-profit newspapers would (and did in the past) result in a multitude of viewpoints since the editorial stances will are inherently more diverse between 20 newspapers instead of 2.

Whether or not the current vertical and horizontally integrated media companies will be broken up is irrelevant to the fact that it would result in a more diverse and freer press.

A tax funded solution would most likely take the form of a single entity. If 4 entities dominating the press is wrong, then 1 is even worse.