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No, and Google closed the SMS API from future growth so RCS can't be added to third-party SMS apps.

Sure...but let's expand. Those trees then become paper towels and such. Processing would need to be done with electric stuff and not petrol based machines. There would be a cost to create said industrial equipment in pollution I'm sure.

Let's invent new ways to use the wood. It would likely be weak fibers if fast growing so they'd need to be processed and pressed. What is disposable products like paper towels get composted and used for (other vague processes) - any methane generation can be collected for the methane to then be burned (I know, but at least it's not fossil fuel extraction) for processes that still need burnable fuel.

Any compost that can be used for fertilizing new tree growth goes back into the cycle.

The Plants may still be beneficial to exist, but augment with the plants. Let's start reforestation? Especially on land with abundant fresh water.

As a side-note, an episode of an old TV show SeaQuest in the 1990s always stuck with me, I think it was the (mediocre) 2035 reboot where there were giant carbon scrubbing towers on the shoreline. It stuck with me way back then and I had hoped we'd never see it. But. Yay, here we are. /s

Lots of holes I'm sure, but, seems worth trying? Not an expert obv.

Hadn't considered the justification aspect. Ugh. Of course. Just like airlines all plugging algae jet fuel.

We need another flavor of the 1980s telecom antitrust. All phones should be sold 100% unlocked. All carriers should not be allowed to sell phones with custom software configurations (Verizon is the worst for this) or neutered basic band support that makes the phone difficult if not impossible to use on competing carriers. All phones should be as interchangeable as they are currently capable of. Predatory carrier financing deals should be heavily regulated. No more trapping people in multi-year financing pyramid schemes. Basic communications methods for voice, image, video, text, video call, data should be forcibly standardized on all brands.

These companies were given a long leash, and they just abused it.

The same group that will vote for pro-rich-person legislations because they think that some day they'll be rich too.

Not so sure, more and more people fed up with greedy price gouging seem to be cutting back on tipping. You see it in business rags trying to sell it as "are consumers getting more stingy?"

Tips go away, tipped workers go away, tip-model businesses then have to adapt or die. (While whining that nobody wants to work, I'm sure.)

We'll take our expensive luxury EVs with 2 miles a charge and like them...er I mean buy giant pickup trucks instead that use 20 gallons of gas / mile while the world burns.

So here's a dumb question. Why don't we just plant the fastest growing carbon eatingest trees...everywhere. Now? Seems simpler to use a plant instead of a Plant.

Each state is varying levels of stupid. One of the few times where the existence of the Federal government makes sense. They should ban the bans at the Federal level.

So glad my state banned the ability for HOAs to do that.

Oh man, totally. Local HVAC peeps try to claim heat pumps are super expensive and omg stay away...even though it's just an AC that goes both ways. Probably scared of the cut into their gas furnace maintenance revenue.

The compressors on full house-scale non-split heat pumps are same power draw as AC units, which is many amps more than the peanuts a furnace fan uses, but if OP has an AC unit, the heat pump also replaces it.

I get the complexity though. If I want to upgrade my home to have service for charging electric cars, and all electric heat/cool, the amperage draw is high enough that it would require an upgrade from "consumer"-level to "business"-level power input.