Those variables come with embedded assumptions they are essential and meaningful to discovery of life and civilization elsewhere in the universe.

For all we know civilization exists inside our car battery. Why assume it only exists on planets.

It's not explicit in it's assumption but implicit assumption the equation is meaningful.

I am all for letting low effort labor exploiters create low effort comics. Same as I am for my having no obligation to support them directly by reading their comics.

Entertainers are a kind of contemporary secular faith healer and tribal shaman, imo.

To mix metaphors, stopped clocks who can be right and worth listening to only in very specific situations.

Given what has been learned through neuroscience, how ossified and normalized for life most become, it feels like a good argument can be made much of the elder cohort is stuck in a pseudo religious and pseudoscience middle ground of thought.

Most > 50 were born into a more traditional and religion-centric life and only adopted technology. The first generation educated along vaguely scientific lines.

In the US at least, born after 1980 is roughly when opinions begin to veer into favor of empiricism and less "anything goes" new age woo and post world war extravagant capitalism due to being the only functioning manufacturing economy after the war.

Government will just hijack the domain as they have with torrents and other things they don't like

Am working on a mobile app that requires in person keygen/sharing via Bluetooth, syncs selected data between devices once keys exchanged and new local IP is shared (over something like Signal; discovery is hard/expensive so I am going with a low tech manual option to notify peers how to reconnect)

Flood the field with alternatives to keep The Man on his toes and distracted.

The main problem with hyper normalized and streamlined society is it just makes it easier for The Man to spot and squash dissent. What is dissent when the people are peacefully not following orders by making passive surveillance difficult.