Oh, yeah… so if you do incriminating stuff, say… acting in a way that directly leads to people being hurt, maimed and / or traumatized, you should just get a pat on the back. I will just have to presume that this is what you are saying.

That is a bad take.

TL;DR: If you do incriminating stuff, you should be incriminated.

There are rules that every driver has to adhere to. The rules are there for protection of the drivers and the people that rely on the drivers driving safely. But the thing is: without consequences, some people show bad behaviour, one being ignoring the rules which are made to keep people safe. In order to suppress such behaviour, fines and punishment are used.

I have been driving cars for around 10 years and have gotten a fine three times. The amount I paid for it in total was roughly 10 Euros per year, which is less than 1 Euro per month. And I could have avoided having to pay this by just being mindful and acting according to the rules, which I did not.

If people feel like they should drive 120 kmh in a 50 kmh zone or even worse, without any proper justification, they do not belong behind the wheel of a car.

Yeah, what about mac and cheese? Come on people, how could this possible work when we all know that mac and cheese?! Discussion over!

If one would ask me personally, I would say this:

There are so many cracks showing, that I tend to doubt it. But it is hard to say. While some groups in a society may see bigger problems in the future, others may even see improvements. The factors that play a role are too complex for me to judge. I have no doubt though that the average quality of life will go down substantially. I am actually counting on a collapsing system until 2045. I would really be very much surprised to see a continuation of today’s ways until then. So much so that my retirement plans are not of great importance to me. I have them, but I do not expect to be able to use them.

You mean we as humanity or what? Or our current system of capitalism?

Yeah, no more words needed here.

If you have nothing to contribute, why comment at all? There are people here who care about this stuff. It is okay that you don’t.

Maybe someone was not happy that you did not provide the requested link. Whatever, you’re good.

It is a lot better where I live. I am in a smaller town in southern Germany. And recently I joined an official climate change group of said town that aims to bring awareness and change in the community. Everyone can participate and the discussion alone is helping everyone a lot.

Negativity against cars is not unreasonable. Also negativity against people blocking the path needlessly is not unreasonably.

RIP

On desktop at least, there is also the possibility to click on the user name in the top right corner and select “Settings”. There you can choose the tab “Blocks” and enter community names to block. Works pretty well for me. Blocked a bunch of communites and feel much more at home now.

The purpose of mods is to tell people like you to learn how to behave. Of course you won’t like it. But I do.

This is what people have been saying in the past. For example in 1985:

Source: https://youtu.be/1NOdTEIihFU?t=1295

For now it goes even further. Many people do not even know of the concept of running out of water. At least not for themselves.

Reporting from Germany. The last rainfall in my specific region of Baden-Württemberg (southern Germany) has been roughly 3 weeks ago, maybe a bit more. There is a lot of very dry vegetation and there have been multiple forest fires going.

Bright red is active fires, dark red is potential for fires.

The next rainfall is set to come this week, but it is not going to be that much, while the temperatures are steadily climbing and are at around 31°C peak now.

Meanwhile the CDU is stopping the addition of planned bike paths in Berlin and thus stops transition to a fossil fuel free infrastracture. Instead they want to improve car infrastracture.

There is more awareness for climate change in Germany now, but there is not nearly enough action._{___}