Umm… whoah

Christians have an utter landslide of reasons to believe the most outlandish of complete nonsense, but I’ve always been a fan of science, facts, and reality.

So I thank you. <3

Yes, I found it well-written but not all that enlightening. I recognise that it made sense for SpaceGhost/CheapSkate to build his sites out by hand in the true spirit of DIY, but that doesn’t seem too practical or advisable for most folks.

The various federated software & networks may have their weak points and inconsistencies, but far as I can tell it’s still best for volunteer site runners to work within that framework so as to remain connected to something bigger than just their little personal corner of the internet. Is it really so expensive a thing to federate? I seem to recall that some instances can host for only ~US$20, which doesn’t seem bad at all. Images are arguably best stored at other sites like Imgur, anyway.

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Excellent; was going to post about the Cornella vibes.

I’d previously uploaded a collection to Imgur with a NSFW tag, but they deleted it.

lemmy alternative

As long as it federates, hey?

In case it helps you, I’ve found that the uMatrix extension has been a great way to auto-block all Javascripts while still being able to permit just the ones needed to work past a site or network’s limitations.

There’s a little bit of a learning curve at first, but nothing too bad. Using the extension also feels empowering, because it gives you much more control than just a flat ‘block everything’ anti-ad approach.

despite the propaganda

Yeah, what propaganda might that be…?

And then all they do is pay for the bare cost of the ingredients.

They could have tipped an extra $1000 and made a lot of people cheer. But no…

both choices suck

What puerile nonsense.

Trump already demonstrated that he was a complete disaster and Russian asset, and I hate linking to the evil empire, but:

r/WhatBidenHasDone

Also maybe do something with some teeth, not just empty words.

What about creating some kind of govt program designed to help shoppers out?

For examples-- help with coupons, help with identifying best stores to shop at, help with delivery perhaps, help give incentives to customer-friendly stores, help shoppers best plan for cost & nutrition, etc etc?

Well, matey, you’re certainly a bundle of fun, yourself… with deep respect to the power of projection.

In closing, may I ask what “game” you’re thinking of, and especially-- does it involve understanding what the body of worldwide science orgs have been saying for many decades now…?

Hah. Like I’m personally any kind of avatar on this stuff.

No, I’m not scolding anyone-- I’m pointing out how we could have responded effectively to the issue in the past tense, as it now appears we’re ruddy-well borked, and pretty much missed ~95% of our biggest opportunities to make effective change. And in case you’re wondering, these are hardly my unique thoughts, and in fact are attributable to much smarter, more aware people than I, across a range of science-based and sociological-based platforms & orgs. I’m merely a little canary who happened to be in the room, TBC.

Sure, any individual can say ‘well I had my own life, job, interests, etc to pursue and couldn’t be bothered with this shite,’ but we’re talking about the body of people across 40+ years. If they can’t understand the forest is on fire or the mountain is about to landslide, then despite whoever their leadership is, in the end it’s on them.

Indeed, we still have an absurdly high number of people in the States who don’t even understand what ACC actually is, and of course are deeply resentful of the idea that humans had anything to do with it(!)

So blame whatever specific components you like if it makes you feel better, but in the end, it’s a fundamental failing of our high-tech, freemarket-capitalism civilisation to address these crises in a reasonably prompt manner.

EDIT: I will of course say this-- if you’re late to the game, and if you’re late in absorbing and understanding this stuff, then yes… it’s indeed a heavy pill to swallow, and I completely understand not feeling like you’re personally responsible. And indeed, people in our relative class are barely responsible, compared to the reprehensible wealthy and exploitative corporations, especially those who promote real disinformation, such as the Koch Bros, right-wing extremists, bogus ‘think tanks’ and so forth.

I’m talking about group responsibility, not hoping for structural power to solve issues it was never designed to.

In the States, if you’re a voter who waits until the last step of the process to vote, then yes-- you get that limited menu of selection. As we’ve seen, this is a pretty great way to fail to address the real-world problems of unsustainability.

Unfortunately that’s a rather idealised view of the way American politics work. In reality, we already know from long experience that American politico-capitalism runs towards exploitation and greed when left to its own devices, as we saw with the monopolies, the robber barons, the horrific exploitation of immigrant labor as seen in the meatpacking industry and mining fields, etc, etc.

Yes, I do hear what you’re saying, but reality is reality. However the system was ‘supposed’ to work as an ideal, in fact it left us in a horrible situation, one in which the primary difference makers were ourselves. Let’s also not forget that if the system is ‘rigged’ the way it is, and we carelessly buy in to it ourselves as consumers, then not only are we failing to hold politicians accountable, but we’re also the ones cooperating in feeding the impending catastrophe of unsustainability… across a range of issues stacked on top of CC.

There’s also the fact that with America endorsing a pro-big business / wealthy scoundrel such as Nixon, leading to an even worse scoundrel in Reagan, and then failing to recognise the wheels in motion resultant from all that in the 50+yrs since, why then, there’s another way the body of American people have essentially failed to make a critical difference.

How are WE the fools???

We’re the fools because capitalism was never going to fix this issue on its own, therefore it came down to the voting populace to become better-educated on this stuff, spread that awareness as much as possible, vote every year for representatives that take CC seriously, and to contact our local / regional representatives as often as possible, asking them what their solutions were.

As the primary mechanism in terms of creating such vital change, we’ve done a fraction of that over the decades. Now here we are.

SCMP is an odd one, as they commonly publish articles critical of the CCP.

They seem to operate along the lines of ‘we can’t stop anti-CCP news, but at least we can soften the blow for select audiences.’ Or something like that. They’re definitely an interesting case, though.