I’ve only had it in colder climates where gas is a prerequisite for heat (be it forced air or steam boiler). In warmer areas I’ve always had electric.

In a world where everyone owns their home I’d probably agree.

In markets where almost everyone is renting, pushing safety costs onto the owner makes sense to me, renters have no financial incentive to upgrade and usually aren’t allowed anyways.

EV charging faces some similar hurdles, and in both cases lawmakers seem skittish about imposing costs specifically onto landlords like this. If the property is owned explicitly for turning a profit, it seems reasonable to expect them to invest in stuff like this too.

e: and if those costs are too high… there’s a long line of people who’d love the landlords to fuck off and sell it back to the market.

One cool thing about decentralization is the higher costs incurred to copyright trolls. No longer can they comb through a single corp platform raising the alarm on violations, they’ll have to spend some effort searching wider, sometimes dealing with uncooperative admins, hydra effect within the same fed network, etc. I can see forces pulling in both directions, not sure where it’ll land.

Imho hosting costs, community moderation, federation politics are the larger elephants in the room. Copyright has always been just a suggestion, the huge platforms are the exception.

Some advertising restrictions that would’ve been a nightmare for many streams that bake ads into their video, eg events like agdq as well, not just individuals.

But did twitch not back down, or have I been bamboozled by lip service again?