Your position pretty much sounds like "you can't stop it so why try" thus making it a "bad idea" which is really doesn't make any sense. Right now, they are attempting to build data centers in the worst possible places with issues such as not enough water supply, not enough energy and forcing the everyone in those communities to suffer. Clearly "forcing buildout to another area" is not a bad idea.

Because proposing legislation to ban all technology after your vote to keep Flock was not in the majority is a totally normal response?

And yet science doesn't have an clear answer here. Just conjecture and theories like the ones you stated.

Remind me to never try your pie.

In regards to your choice to focus on the necklace, all you've done is shown yourself to be a prude.

Yeah thats not a thing.

It's very much a thing.

It's common for people to look down upon NIMBY protests concerning stuff others would have to put up with.

"I, myself would totally welcome it, see" - never mind that the things that they scold others for not accepting, are things planned for nowhere near their backyard, so their openess conveniently wont be put to the test.

Most of the talk down of NIMBY protesting comes from such types, not from people local to the projects/changes that do welcome them.

Couldn't agree more. It took me a few tries quitting cold turkey but I haven't smoked for 8 years now and have no desire to start again.

Congrats. This is hard especially with social pressure, like alcohol does or cannabis in some circles.

How did we get here? We're humans. Have you not be following along through out history?

You say you're not commenting whether it's good or bad but your whole comment reads as you applying moral judgement.

I'm saying we should have the concept of moral judgement. Your judgement could apply that of is okay but something else isn't. Or tricking lonely men into thinking they're talking to you is ok, or loot boxes are ok, etc. but we should have those conversations and not pretend just because it's legal (and I believe it should continue to be legal) that something like of is morally equivalent to being an accountant or something

This is not slightly more options. Log is a lot of extra data for post processing.

Most people won't notice the difference that is true but this is true even for real cinema. Most people don't notice or care about things such as shooting on real film, aspect ratio etc.

The why is that people who create care about these things. Color grading and post shot creative manipulation, these things benefit from extra data. If I can't recover shadows or pushing white balance results in banding, those things are going to still be visible on a phone by myself and the small amount of people who do care.

Log is just a curve that save image differently. Extra data are in chroma sample (4:2:2), bitrate and bit depth (10bit). For example log in 8bit is absolutely useless. You wont get higher dynamic range, that is what size of sensor does.

And that curve allows you to process colors/contrast with way less artifacts than a file saved with a more contrast/saturated colors especially if you compound your after effects.

Btw are you a photographer or a video editor?

It might in some situations, but generally you will deal with banding anyway (8bit). Log needs higher ISO which means lower dynamic range [1]. Flat footage lacks depth so you'll need edit it, which create a new space for error.

Yes, I do audiovisual production and postproduction for living.

[1] https://www.photonstophotos.net/Charts/PDR.htm