I use a similar heuristic, but I think what we "do" for leisure is still consumptive, albeit an active sort. Reading, for it's part, exercises cognition better than something like TV.

I rank listening to music way above audiobooks and podcasts. Music is a revelation.

you might find this interesting - https://untranslatedjp.substack.com/p/japans-book-scene-is-q...

Japan's libraries allow cafes and bookstores to operate, which can increase traffic.

I like the smaller scale. Once, I really cared about having qwerty, but now I don't care with the way touch has progressed (using Futo). It's the experience of the BB I miss. I'm not sure how far Linux phones have come but last I checked they were sluggish and unstable.

I miss my blackberry

It's not the same, it does not run BBOS10, and de-Googled LineageOS will have to do for now (for me).

But at least we can get updated internals for the Q20 (and soon the Passport). It'll be the closest we can get to carrying a BlackBerry for some time, if ever, and I'm happy enough with mine that I picked up a spare mainboard

https://zinwa.com/

While it's not exactly blackberry-alike, a hopefully soon-to-be-released option is the clicks communicator[0] phone. I just ordered their bluetooth keyboard attachment for androids/iphones with magsafe backs, but if it's any good, I may shell out for their phone as well.

I was also a backer for the Mecha Comet[1] earlier in the year, which I'm hopeful about, although that's a couple of steps away from a daily driver phone at this stage, I guess.

I never owned a blackberry, but for me, the ultimate winner would be for someone to copy or licence the layout and form of the dopod838pro[2] (a.k.a. HTC Hermes 100) and pop some newer internals in it... If I had 100 million dollars, that's what I'd be doing...

[0] https://www.clicks.tech/en

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mecha-systems/mecha-com...

[2] https://kaitech.hk/2006/10/dopod-838pro-htc-hermes/

Related: https://www.bensouthwood.co.uk/p/eight-architecture-myths-bu...

Modernist builds aren't really cheaper.

Since the topic is preference qua aesthetics, your "point" wasn't analogous.

It wasn’t meant to be analogous.

> These are some prominent Effect Altruism guys

https://www.chalmermagne.com/about

I don't see the link with Chalmers. I know Wiblin is.

> benefits like reducing pollution

Not over burying the waste, as mentioned in the article. And, it has the added externality of using more energy... leading to more pollution.

Littering is mostly cans, disposable cups and food-related containers; not bags straight from the grocery store.

How old are you?

I can remember when there would be drifts of these bags caught in fence lines, trees, sewer grates etc.

Before bag bans there were SO MANY of these things everywhere.

There’s a whole scene about the beauty of plastic shopping bags in “American Beauty” in 1996. The whole point was finding beauty in something that was so common that you walk by it every day.

The article goes over this. Plastic in oceans is from east asian countries without a good municipal waste system, not from developed countries.

Fixing the municipal waste system seems like the "add another system" school of engineering. As someone who works in poorly organized, poorly funded projects, I generally subscribe more to the "remove the problematic part of the existing system" school.

Getting rid of single-use wherever possible removes the broken part. I agree that we should also add more systems like proper waste disposal, but it's more complexity to count on.