No worries. I’ll read up on that too, thanks for the additional reading material :)

That’s exactly my point, yep.

Nature naturally (pun intended) balances itself. If there’s no rabbits, the wolves die out. Allows for the rabbit population to recover. We play Gods with this. We overfarm, overforradge, deforest massive woods, that have existed in peace for eons. We simply don’t let nature recover, because we think we are masters of the universe.

I’m not a hippy - by no means. I consume, I raise children and (although electric) I drive a car. Still, I buy tyres, that are a huge pollutant, I consume electricity to charge it, which is not always renewable, etc etc. It goes on. But this means nothing. I am alone amongst my peers - in my extended circle of friends & colleagues (approx. 400 people), I can only think of 2-3 people that are like me - conscious about what they consume / throw away / reuse / recycle.

Then Jeff Bezos organises his wedding in Venice, and his guests all arrive with their personal plane, while I would not buy and drink coffee if it’s not made (at the very least) with the paper coffee pods…

Do I feel stupid? Sometimes. Am I ridiculed sometimes? Daily. But I stand by my principles.

desire for infinite growth in a finite system - results are obvious. the finite system will crash and burn. we are fucked, nature will recover when we make it not suitable for humans

My point was more in the tone of, the dialing on a smartphone is the tiniest problem that those devices have. Just kill social media. Yes, lemmy included. This human experiment failed and the repercussions are incalculable.

/s? Say /s please.

on a dedicated phone you had dedicated phone. No call history, no phonebook, no call log. So yes, it is technically more taps to get to the dialing stage. But it’s faster overall

I have, and I have advocated for it everywhere.

Plato wanted to bang all his students, he just didn’t because he believed that would ruin it. So as long as I just want someone but don’t act on it, is this platonism?

better consumer protection says what

Squid game is turning into a depression porn. I tried pushing through the last season and I can barely pay interest. They make everything so hopeless at all times and unnecessarily evil.

“Adolescence” I still discuss certain episodes with friends and the impact they had on our lives. Extremely powerful, exceptionally real, with very real characters whose behaviour is actually human. Also, the decision to make it one shot was genius.

i’m being an ass and i’m being generalistic as well

everything is subjective, if you are being generalistic about it. you might loudly say in public that you get a hard-on when you kill puppies, and subjectively it’s ok to share that in your dead puppies boner club, but expect a punch to the face if you say it in the streets. have decorum and leave your shitty opinion in the toilet

Conspiracy theory of mine - I’m European, so not sure if valid for the other side of the pond, but there was a massive campaign here to recycle the bottle caps by donating them for the creation of incubators for premature births. The local authorities placed massive donation boxes shaped like a heart and they were getting filled constantly.

Here’s the theory: When the campaign started getting up to speed, they started attaching the bottle caps to the bottle, because, I strongly believe, that out there, there is an absolute evil cunt who only feels something when a baby dies, so he wants fewer donated caps, because deep inside he knows people don’t care enough to snap the cap off.