stewie3128 [he/him]

By the time they get their shit together, Russia is going to own the Donbas (source of neon and wheat, both of which China needs), and then China will own Taiwan.

TSMC better hurry up if they want to complete this while they're still a company.

No car or motorcycle should ever exceed 80db SPL at 2 meters. If they do, it's RPG time.

And that was before Pelosi made AOC fire her most visibly leftist staffers.

Communism is better than nothing, but it's going to have to be a global communism to make a difference, since any one of us on the planet can clearly consume 5x+++ their share of resources annually.

Even if we got 75% of the world population with the program, we could still have a consumption problem 5x that of America, because the greatest consumers will be the last to join the revolution.

Climate Stalin is the only thing that might, might improve the situation we're going to find ourselves in. Other than that, we're just going to pollute ourselves and everyone else to extinction, hence my belief that all non-human flora and fauna would be better off without us.

Garlic

He is a dipshit, but there is also precedence for people cropping themselves to get on the dole:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon%2C_Florida?wprov=sfla1

And you are going to magically manage energy demand through gentle suggestion?

Coffee tastes bad, coke zero is great first thing in the morning, and egg nog is better without any alcohol in it.

Who cares

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We have cameras to see if the mail has come yet, which of us moved the big broom, check in on things while we're out of town, etc. They can be useful even if you're not in a risky neighborhood.

ETA: We have no firearms, because we don't have any interest in maintaining the proficiency necessary to ensure that we don't accidentally kill each other. Even aside from that, we have no interest in hunting, and the likelihood that a gun would ever make a positive difference during some remotely-possible home invasion is basically unmeasurable.

This is why I don't read Nextdoor anymore. I live in a boring, safe suburban neighborhood, and all I read on there were people freaking out about nothing, propagandizing themselves and each other. Fascist hellscape, Nextdoor is.

The Psychologists in my family only refer to Myers-Briggs in an anecdote from grad school: it was used as the ideal example of how to design a terrible test.

They say that, if you're going to do a personality test, long-form MMPI is the best of them, but personality tests are just academic exercises that don't tell the therapist as much as they could learn by just talking to the patient.

He'll step down, next guy will come in and start passing legislation. It'll be another fight over legitimacy, but they'll pass some bill about funding Israel, the Senate will take that one up, Biden will sign it, then we'll effectively never need a speaker again. Israel gets its money, and the government will still shut down on November 15.

Fuck this stupid government, seriously.

I'd love to know under what conditions this proposal is constitutional.

The supreme court is a right wing sclerotic fistula providing passage to creeping fascism, but reinterpreting Article 3 Section 1 is a tall order. By only saying that justices shall "hold their offices during good behavior" the Constitution is traditionally read to mean that only impeachment, retirement, or death will end a term.

Xif

But by simply subtracting the number of kids I'd otherwise have by one, I'm preventing 21 tons of CO2 from entering the atmosphere every year.

https://www.pawprint.eco/eco-blog/average-carbon-footprint-globally

There is simply no way to make enough lifestyle changes to offset that. I'd have to live car-free for 55 years to offset just a single year of a theoretical child's existence... and that kid is going to live for 70-100 years.

Obviously those things are on a different scale, but there are 3.7 million children born in the US alone every year.

That means it would take 193 million people -per year - switching to an entirely car-free lifestyle to negate that.

Or 400 million people per year switching to a plant-based diet.

Billionaires and the military doing bad stuff doesn't justify the ecological harm of enlarging the human population.

Right here, in living color for you:

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The audience on Lemmy is self-evidently overwhelmingly from developed nations, where most of the ecological harm per-capita is done.