Alsjemenou

@Alsjemenou@lemy.nl

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  :p would be rude to call someone dumb otherwise.

  Look, you’re completely right about big poluters. Obviously.

  But them polluting doesn’t rid you from your responsibilities. Car manufacturers make cars go 150 but you still need to keep to the speed limit. And because everybody does that, at least to a fair degree, we can all drive safely.

  You can just toss your thrash on the side of the road.

  You can just exist on a red meat only diet.

  Its all the same. Have some common decency. Don’t consume polluting products when you know that it’s the worst option and there is much better available.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay. But as an individual we still have a choice. And knowing what clearly is worse, while having minimal impact on your life if not doing it. It doesn’t exactly feel like a smart decision, to have red meat/animal products in general. Can i at least call you dumb?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everybody talks about beliefs like they're this big important thing.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. And also explains why worldviews are so different between cultural, linguistical and geographically different groups of people.

  Even though we’re becoming more and more unified, through the internet, through logic systems like maths or science in general. This is not to be mistaken for truth. Western scientific ideology specifically has as unspoken ‘truth’ that when ideas ‘win’, they are more valuable. While English, our logical rules, our ideologies are winning not because they are true but because they are believed more, or over, other languages, logic systems and ideologies.

  Ofcourse these systems of beliefs create opportunities and knowledge for people. Don’t mistake my dismissal of truth for disaproval.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everybody talks about beliefs like they're this big important thing.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Because everything we can say about reality is through the human perspective and the construct of language. We believe that this can yield us truths. But its just a belief. Our human-ness might just as well blind us to what is actually true. And as such, most of everything we think we know is based on belief. There is no escaping this problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You learn something new everyday⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The numbers for 1993 werent in yet?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  People are idiots andll try to whack that seed full force with a blunt potato peeler.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you gotta go, you gotta go law.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Restcloset*

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If this is you your priorities are all screwed up⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh shut, thanks for the wake up call op.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, is the USA screwed?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In a sense it is done. That sense is being a beacon of progress. All presidents before Trump understood the relationship America had with the world as being a world power. While there always was a conservative voice in America, conservative presidents were always able to mask self interest under the flag of progress, bringing democracy, peace and free markets. Now ultraconservative fascist are no longer masking, Trump and Musk are literally not smart enough to understand. The USA played a very important role in the world order and the current administration is basically giving that up.

  Trump and Musk, because they really aren’t smart (i can’t stress this enough, they lack the mental capacity), are not considering the value of that role, the services the US provides. They only think about the value of things and of money. More rockets, tarifs on goods, expenditure… And see these as things along which progress is measured.

  While that does, to a small extent, captures progress. It forgets the foundations of progress, peace, education, financial security, social cohesion, to name a few. Sorry, i say forget… But really what i should be saying is dismantling. They are also clueless about the value of services and the service economy. Which is, or has become, another measure of progress.

  Anyway the point is, the US can’t maintain their position in the world order. They can’t maintain a government that understands their responsibility in that order. They abandoned their classic role without providing the world with a new/better one.

  The US has been degraded to a trade partner.