HumanOnEarth
@HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca
- Comment on What's your favorite Steve Wood role? 2 weeks ago:
Sleep Paralysis Demons 2
- Comment on Has the scientific community ever reconciled with the fact global warming is going to happen and there is no stopping it? 2 weeks ago:
Respectfully, this is the sort of thinking and arguing that got us into this mess in the first place.
Even a cursory exploration of climate geoengineering leads to the conclusion that it’s impractical and inadequate.
The world really is dying. It will correct itself. We are just along for the ride now. This year will be the panic year (look at the arctic ice extent right now, look at the average sea temp, look at the average air temp, now realize we’re just exiting la nina and heading to el nino this year)
Sorry if I’m being blunt, but there really is no way to save ourselves other than using way less energy, and that’s not going to happen at this point.
Good luck out there! Live for today!
- Comment on That's how the world works. 2 weeks ago:
Definitely not going to be a primary source of calories… but that’s not the point. When you have no other options, are you going to wish you knew how to garden or not? What do you propose as a better way to prepare for food systems breaking down?
- Comment on Has the scientific community ever reconciled with the fact global warming is going to happen and there is no stopping it? 2 weeks ago:
You weren’t implying by saying that, that we could possibly have the magic technology to save ourselves 100 years from now? Sorry if I misunderstood.
- Comment on Has the scientific community ever reconciled with the fact global warming is going to happen and there is no stopping it? 2 weeks ago:
That’s an assumption that math and physics doesn’t support.
There is no infinite well of technology and efficiency for us to draw from.
That’s not to say we can’t find things that will help a lot, we should, but they won’t save us.
- Comment on Has the scientific community ever reconciled with the fact global warming is going to happen and there is no stopping it? 2 weeks ago:
It’s an energy problem, not a smarts problem.
Imagine the Hiroshima bomb.
How much energy that contains.
Now understand that, just from excess emissions alone, we are adding at least four of those nuclear explosions worth of energy into the atmosphere.
Per second.
That’s right, per second.
There is no solving this without technology that would be indistinguishable from magic, so not happening. We had our chance, capitalism won, and those at the top are hoarding and preparing for what’s coming next.
- Comment on That's how the world works. 2 weeks ago:
Individual prepping is only meant to bridge the gap between distaster and community or national assistance/cooperation.
So have some emergency food, water, but prepping properly is actually things like learning to garden well, save seeds, learn to preserve, learn how to forage, build community connections.
- Comment on Truth 2 weeks ago:
Lol this is a complete misunderstanding of how brands work.
People generally buy shirts with brands on it to say “look, I am an (insert brand here) type of person”.
You’re not advertising for the company. You’re paying to advertise yourself as one of their customers. It functionally acts as advertising for the brand, sure, but not in the way an actual advertisement does.
- Comment on Pretty much it. 3 weeks ago:
Very rarely, if ever, have I seen someone whip themselves up into a frenzy this hard. It’s actually jarring. I hope you find peace.
- Comment on Horrorposting 3 weeks ago:
Fair.
- Comment on Retro yet? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
No stranger than the old penis inspections in gym class
- Comment on Pissing in the shower is better in every way than pissing in the toilet. 5 weeks ago:
If you’ve ever pissed on a campfire after eating asparagus, no piss related vapors will ever faze you again.
Ask me how I know.
- Comment on Dangerous, but worth it? 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on commitment 5 weeks ago:
What the absolute forking fuck is this
- Comment on Prediction market trader 'Magamyman' made $553,000 on death of Iran's supreme leader 5 weeks ago:
That’s incredibly shortsighted and just wrong.
Are you saying Vegas odds do jack shit in predicting sports outcomes?
Same exact thing. Just more naked to insider manupulation. Which is the point.
- Comment on Prediction market trader 'Magamyman' made $553,000 on death of Iran's supreme leader 5 weeks ago:
I still think you’re missing the point here.
Yes, insiders swoop in especially when the odds are not “reflecting reality”… because the profit motive is there. Which means that spikes in prediction markets are valuable information.
I’m not looking at it as a participant, I’m looking at it as a source of information. Crooked money, straight money, when there is money to made someone with information and money is going to take advantage, tipping us off.
It can be a degenerate cesspool of gambling and insider manipulation and also the bleeding edge of predictive technology… no reason it can’t be both.
- Comment on Prediction market trader 'Magamyman' made $553,000 on death of Iran's supreme leader 5 weeks ago:
I think that’s sort of the point?
That by watching the money, you get the most current and accurate picture of the odds of something happening?
It’s almost irrelevant that there is insider trading. The more money involved, the more reflective of reality the odds are. Money’s gonna money, legal or otherwise.
- Comment on whatever tf this is 1 month ago:
My dude the other guy was being facetious…
- Comment on Liminal Space 1 month ago:
More qualified for the White House than anyone working there today.
- Comment on Meta Patented AI That Takes Over Your Account When You Die, Keeps Posting Forever 1 month ago:
"Gee there sure is a lot of mental illness these days. "
Billionaires: “Hold my longevity slurry.”
- Comment on Top of the world, ma 1 month ago:
I get it, I really do. I’ve read Peter Singer. I’ve gone through the arguments, the logic.
You’re not wrong…ish, in my opinion. The scope of harm is horrific. What is done to animals in industrial agriculure is indefensible.
That being said, I find a lot of things indefensible. It’s impossible to avoid being a hypocrite in any way at all times. So I’m a hypocrite. I eat meat, way way less than average but I do. I’m aware it makes me a hypocrite. But I’ll never buy that it makes me a monster.
And if it does make me a monster? Then Schindler was a monster for not saving every Jew? Or is a better way to look at it that he did the best he could and he saved a lot of lives, certainly more than the average person.
I appreciate that vegans feel extremely strongly about animal rights. That’s good, we need passionate people in lots of different areas, advocating for the right things. But you cannot expect everyone to apply the same weights to every part of the picture.
You, in your specific circumstances, your environment, your socioeconomic status, your childhood trauma or lack thereof…YOU have taken all of the information you’ve received in your life and run it through your circumstances and the result is a vegan.
Someone else gets more of certain types of information, less of others, different circumstances, and you get a Greenpeace activist. A black panther. A doctor without borders.
Throw all that away…at the end of the day, the cold hard logic your view relies on also makes something else clear: an individual aggressive/militant vegan likely causes more animal suffering than the average meat eater. By communicating in one dimensional extremes, you’re basically guaranteed to alienate more people than you successfully convert. How many more plant based meals might some people have eaten if the vegan stereotype wasn’t what it is?
Think it through.
- Comment on DVDs and public transit: Boycott drives people to ditch Big Tech to protest ICE 1 month ago:
Absolutely, and it’s about time.
- Comment on Top of the world, ma 1 month ago:
Have you tried not doing exactly what you’re accusing them of doing?
Everybody needs to move away from the extremes, both sides, all of us.
Not all vegans are militant. Not all meat eaters are blood lusting demons.
- Comment on YSK that radishes are fucking amazing. They improve heart health and are full of Sulforaphene, a powerful anti-cancer substance. They contain almost no calories 1 month ago:
Ok…
Qevlarr’s mama is so fat, when she jumped in the air she got stuck.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I knew this guy was one of them. How did he even get into this position? Jabs for all, they’re all the same
- Comment on Top of the world, ma 1 month ago:
Not vegan, but hate the idea that they’re made fun of for trying to spread awareness. I’m not including the militant vegans here. They do more damage than they fix.
I’m sure some people do it from a high horse but vegans are far from the only type of people that do that. And the message is absolutely important, besides the cruelty part, eating animals is a huge part of the climate change problem.
- Comment on Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company 2 months ago:
No one has said this is how Elysium starts?
This is how Elysium starts.
- Comment on Tesla's own Robotaxi data confirms crash rate 3x worse than humans even with monitor 2 months ago:
Stock up 4%
Totally legit stock market we have here
- Comment on List of predictions for autonomous Tesla vehicles by Elon Musk - Wikipedia 2 months ago:
Downvoted, who the fuck wants to hear anything that shit stain has to say
