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So just stop oil then. Who are they asking to “just stop oil”? The people getting rich from it? They’re not gonna stop because you ask nicely. You’re gonna have to make them.
These people don’t respond to public pressure. They only understand that the line is going up. If you want the line to go down, you’re going to have to increase costs. These industries have a lot of very expensive poorly guarded infrastructure so it really isn’t that hard to increase costs.
I’m sure most people know that, so again, why don’t you just stop oil then. I’m adverse to long prison sentences so if you’re so passionate for the cause, go nuts.
But they won’t. They’ll protest and make a fuss and then drive home in their cars like the rest of us. And that’s pretty annoying.
Now you’re just being hyperbolic 😅
And when their powers combine, they form megaorca, eater of cruise ships.
Then there would be fewer of them, which is objectively better for all life on this planet. Seems fine tbh.
It’s a combination of factors. That could be one of them. There’s also the onset of an El Nino climate pattern, the reversal of the aerosol cooling effect from changes to low sulphur shipping fuels, spiking methane emissions, some effect from the water vapour injected into the stratosphere by that underwater volcano a few years back, and we seem to be speed-running past tipping points. It’s a lovely potpourri of doom we have wrought.
“The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function” -Albert Barlett
Great update, as always 👍
So full economic collapse then…
No it can’t
Well just air drop them a good indica and we’ll have this whole thing sorted in a week.
I get your point, but I think the image you have in your head of rustic countryside life, hard work and an honest living isn’t the reality these child slaves are part of.
Seems a bit less terrible when you inherit the farm at some point, for one. Second, one would assume that parents would take steps to prioritize their child’s health and safety and wow do they not do that on industrial farms. And third, can’t be an honest living if you’re not actually being paid, you know, a living.
I don’t think both sides are experiencing cognitive dissonance. In practice, they both appear to be working against the interests of the working class.
Makes sense.
It temporarily boosts your empathy. In the right setting, this can result in deep introspection and amazing clarity–the defensive walls in your psyche are torn down and your ego is supressed. It’s difficult to lie to oneself in that state.
While the empathy may fade, the lesson it instills seems to stick.