@aral But you are using an Iphone.

@franco_vazza If energy and time are simulated, how do you know there is any cost? Maybe energy and time don't exist outside our simulation.

@pluralistic The distributor ought to pay then, not the producer. Perhaps there was something in the contract.

@pluralistic How is Amazon able to charge someone for advertising their product if they didn't agree to sell it on Amazon?

@troublewithwords The trouble with similes and metaphors is they are like turning gold into plastic.

@troublewithwords It's not like that at all.

@Gustodon When we have become dependent on the machines, then they will replace the answers to questions with adverts.