Your fingers are fine

Funny thing about humans is that they only really have their own life’s frame of reference for evaluating their experiences. I wouldn’t necessarily say that the decline of the American empire is unique, I am sure when other empires were experiencing similar levels of decline they had just as much douchebags to contend with. But the threat posed by increasing natural deterioration is a unique factor of our current era. Well that, and the specter of large scale nuclear war. Other than that, the culture wars have always been raging. Honestly, there’s no war but class war. I sound like a broken record now

Three?

Bunbeeee! Uuuuuuuaaaahh, so cute >.<

Interesting satellite design

Same, but I mainly drive the golden toilet a lot

I don’t think this means anything, a lot of stupid have money and can push for wishful thinking. How many times were they right in the past?

People need to vote, plain and simple. Democrats always win when people turn out. That’s not wishful thinking, those are cold hard facts

Shouldn’t anyone funding his lifestyle also be subject to lawsuits? This kind of lying can get people killed

The old dudes would still punch walls if their hands healed like they did when they were young

That’s a cool idea if Musk is trying to do that

Haha yeah, that’s like validating traffic engineers but I get the spirit of the message

Well, hobbies are another way to meet someone. Also via friends or family.

I think people should do whatever makes sense to them, theres no one best way. I was just sharing a different perspective, it’s not even necessarily my own 🤷‍♀️

Regarding what people like, yeah I guess the nicer way is to just accept that some people will have “bad” taste. Like a lot of people use MacOS instead of taking the time to learn and use Linux. Sometimes, under some circumstances there is an objectively better choice. Otherwise it’s all just what makes sense to the person at the time at hand.

If the Republicans are so worried about the Democrats looking good by helping people, then Republicans would be first in line showing they can put partisan politics aside to work together. Instead they’re using lies and misinformation, so it seems their agenda is something else. It almost seems the goal is to weaken and break the American people.

You’re right that bad consumer choices like choosing fast fashion or inefficient vehicles result in more harm than good. Though there are places where people don’t have a choice, like in what farms do to produce their meats and produce, and how it’s transported.

What energy sources we use and agriculture are bigger contributors to emissions than consumer goods. Even if people stop buying, manufacturing will happen for war and construction. Reducing emissions is a systems problem, it’s not about telling people to “be more green”. That’s a bandaid for a gushing wound.

I don’t think we should blame people if they buy an ICE car, but we should blame them if they don’t vote for progressive politicians who mandate better industry practices and invest in more green energy.

Here’s some data https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector

thinking she gonna meet a guy of her dreams at work, refuses to use dating app.

I don’t know about your friend, but someone may decide against dating apps if they’re looking for less superficial and more meaningful connections.

I also don’t think you should look down on her anime choices. People like what they like, they might not care if someone else considers it bad or someone else prefers “classics”.

Nothing sus, she’s just got a unique taste

Wine and cheese, classics

While I think it’s good to raise awareness about carbon footprints, the fact is that carbon footprints of individuals, regardless of their socioeconomic status, pales in comparison to that of corporations. Individuals should be last on the list for reducing carbon footprints when corporations and government inefficiency produces more damage than whole populations of people combined.

It’s just statistics, honestly. Greater population means greater number of dumb people. FYI, you can be rich and dumb, or college educated and dumb, too.

America also doesn’t implement strict control over information or discourse like other countries with greater populations, like China. The problem is that outside of gerrymandering America does have free and fair elections, which is why the greater swaths of “dumb” people can present an actual danger.

The Jewish people have the right to a home state as facing antisemitism has been a distinct reality of their cultural past. Of course, both Israel and Palestine deserve the right to self govern and their people the right to self determination. The civilized world shouldn’t accept genocide from allies either