you ignore it until you can't anymore
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Are people actually hurt by its usage or is it another case of "protecting" people who don't really mind?
I mean I know people hurt by it personally so I don't use it, to each their own I guess. Surprised that's a hot take though
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I modded r/collapse for a little under a year. Joined the sub back in 2012 or so. I still read it, though I no longer participate.
We are absolutely fucked. I have been through the stages of grief more times than I like to admit. My goal right now is to hurry my way through the stages when I bounce back and get to acceptance. Every once in a while something will trigger me and I will spiral for several days.
Once you get past the grief, the anger, the bargaining, the acceptance makes things clear. Our world is run by people who simply don't care. Their short life spans give them no ability to think long term for our planet or even our species. All they care about is the right now and fictional numbers going up.
Watching that sub collapse from the influx of people realising something was wrong with the world always amused me, I tried my best to stop people blowing up over Sam Carana posts, doomsday apocalypse predictions, the newest fad political posturing/doomsday devices.
There was a lot of great information there; it was pretty much the only reason I kept reddit around. Thanks for modding.
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Yeah, this battle is, unfortunately, lost. It is now too late to stop what is coming. Keep in mind that the effects we're witnessing are from emissions 10-20 years ago, and the global total continues to rise and will likely continue for the foreseeable future. If you haven't yet, don't procreate. If you have already, don't continue to.
That doesn't mean we should stop trying for a better world however.
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New England North South West seems confusingly named.
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We’re trapped on a burning planet with superstitious dictators committing holocausts in broad daylight and there are forum mods/admins who find it within themselves to stop you from advocating online to ixnay a few fascists or billionaires
wrote last edited by [email protected]Reddit is a dumping ground of hate generated by AI eating fuel to wreck the planet further
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Soooo many other words, just pick a better one.
Seriously why are you acting like using words is so frigging hard.
There’s so much worse shit going on in the world as is the entire point of the discussion and this is the hill your choosing to die on here? Mere inconvenience of learning to just use words?
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Consumer demand never makes a dent on emissions? So if everyone in your city became a vegan overnight, the grocery store would keep on buying the same amount of meat and letting it rot on the shelves?
Wow, I should start selling bridges to grocery store managers
wrote last edited by [email protected]One, that's not a realistic scenario. Two, companies make more money by selling to other companies, not us. This whole thing of blaming the regular people for excess waste and pollution was a ploy by companies to get away with it.
During the pandemic, even tho nobody was using their cars, the amount of pollution from fossil fuels didn't change at all. It was statistically insignificant. That's enough proof to me that blaming us for the sins of unregulated industries is stupid.
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I mean I know people hurt by it personally so I don't use it, to each their own I guess. Surprised that's a hot take though
speaking about hot takes…. So Why are you still going on about the inconvenience of just changing words? Just learn new words and be done with it. Can’t be that hard. Kids can learn new words every day. I believe in you.
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Bordeaux today: 43°C feel like: 49°C
As an American, I thought "49° isn't that bad... Wait WTF THAT'S IN CELSIUS?!?"
Never seen temps that high before. Holy shit.
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One, that's not a realistic scenario. Two, companies make more money by selling to other companies, not us. This whole thing of blaming the regular people for excess waste and pollution was a ploy by companies to get away with it.
During the pandemic, even tho nobody was using their cars, the amount of pollution from fossil fuels didn't change at all. It was statistically insignificant. That's enough proof to me that blaming us for the sins of unregulated industries is stupid.
I generally agree with your first point, but you are wrong about pandemic pollution levels.
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We better build a wall, summer is coming. We can staff it with convicts and keep all the illegals out who were unfortunate enough to buy land in the wrong states.
You want to wall off Victoria and Queensland?
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speaking about hot takes…. So Why are you still going on about the inconvenience of just changing words? Just learn new words and be done with it. Can’t be that hard. Kids can learn new words every day. I believe in you.
I mean, "nincompoop" is just waiting to make a resurgence.
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That doesn't mean we should stop trying for a better world however.
wrote last edited by [email protected]The Ministry of The Future is a great book.
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I always wonder how long they think they will survive after they make it through the apocalypse in their bunkers.
Plus their security team will NOT be loyal. They'll likely put them in shackles or just straight kill them
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speaking about hot takes…. So Why are you still going on about the inconvenience of just changing words? Just learn new words and be done with it. Can’t be that hard. Kids can learn new words every day. I believe in you.
Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying.
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It is just a common thing that it doesn't make interesting news. Same for how many traffic deaths there are.
I don't think so. The media could easily frame this as an alarming existential threat (because it is) and run with that vibe to generate views like they do with the "news" about scary group of "others", but they actively choose not to.
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Seriously why are you acting like using words is so frigging hard.
There’s so much worse shit going on in the world as is the entire point of the discussion and this is the hill your choosing to die on here? Mere inconvenience of learning to just use words?
There are many hills to die on, but I have standards and those standards are important. Just pick a better word next time and move on, it’s not that difficult.
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"yeah but if humans didn't cause it, it's not our fault so we don't have to do anything. it's natural"
That's where the argument has landed and where it will stick.
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I work with a lot of conservatives (the American kind that deny anthropological climate change and anti-vax/mask). They aren’t ignoring it anymore - though there are plenty that do because stupid. They’re just handwaving it away as some natural cycle of the sun and “there’s nothing we can do about it.”
They just engage in whatever mental gymnastics that avoids the thousands of years of collective scientific knowledge and analysis that says they’re wrong so they won’t a) get the stink of being a liberal tree-hugger on them, b) be inconvenienced by any required effort or sacrifice on their part to help mitigate it, c) have to pay a single cent for it.
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I modded r/collapse for a little under a year. Joined the sub back in 2012 or so. I still read it, though I no longer participate.
We are absolutely fucked. I have been through the stages of grief more times than I like to admit. My goal right now is to hurry my way through the stages when I bounce back and get to acceptance. Every once in a while something will trigger me and I will spiral for several days.
Once you get past the grief, the anger, the bargaining, the acceptance makes things clear. Our world is run by people who simply don't care. Their short life spans give them no ability to think long term for our planet or even our species. All they care about is the right now and fictional numbers going up.
I read collapse for a good while. Same story. Just spiraling into depression and fear for the present and future. The worst part is not really knowing how quickly it will all go. If it was quick I’d just prepare for a life not worth living as things implode into anarchy. Starving or being killed by marauding thieves isn’t a great place to be. If it were longer term maybe buying a piece of land and preparing for intermittent utilities and food supplies might be an option. The not knowing is the worst part, and yeah, the willful blindness to just “get mine” while they can and ignoring how worthless it will all be when it collapses is mind boggling. No good having a million dollars to buy an apple when there are mo apples to be had.
