Why do you seem to lean into the ‘can’t comprehend’ angle? Someone could not be as worried about something as you are without being incapable of comprehending it.

Absolute bullshit seems a little harsh. Are you referring to evidence that this is actually a thing, or is this just something that someone realized could technically happen and decided it was worth spreading fear and credit for the attention?

Of course stuff could spill on a pallet, but the number/percent of pallets that actually get reused like this as a cross section of pallet loads of stuff that are damaged, with a further cross section of things that are damaged and dangerously poisonous and don’t make the wood look or smell odd has got to be in the ballpark of odds of getting hit by a bus.

Just because something is plausible doesn’t mean everyone should take the risk as a certainly, just like the possibility of getting hit by a bus should keep everyone on their side of the street.

You just mean they would have different standards. Dogs will happily eat shit and we happily chew mint which supposedly will keep entire species away from an area. If they were sentient robots would obviously be attracted and deterred by different things than we would.

Kind of, though with rules. I think I’m describing something closer to structured, encrypted torrents.

Not sure where you get that, just saying things aren’t black and white at scale

Probably because they have a billion months to feed and a ridiculously inefficient incentive mechanism for progress in general. Kind of amazing that they put emphasis on green tech at all, except for the fact that they have the bodies to through at it and it’s something the rest of the world values as well.

On a related note, it would be nice if there was a shared storage option for self hosting. It wouldn’t be the same as self hosting, but more like distributed hosting where everyone pools storage they have available and we could have an encrypted sharing option.

I think the issue still becomes the fact that you hear the metal through it’s entire mass and not focused on the ends, so you might end up with problems with the filament where they go into the contraption

Basically nothing

Well ‘no benefits’ is a bit of a stretch.